Tag: Drugs
The artist who calls himself Chemical X is exhibiting two new panels which he says are made of 10,000 dyed ecstasy tablets. The stained glass motif shows happy smiling faces, doves and rainbows, all in theme with the vintage-styled inscription “MDMA.” The artist, who has once designed the logo for Ministry Of Sound, is trying to keep a low-profile […]
A woman was arrested at JFK airport for smuggling 3.7 pounds of cocaine inside her platform shoes and pocketbook. Janisha Atkins, 33, was flying in from Montego Bay with a pink and purple suitcase in her luggage when “officers noticed a strong odor coming from her pocketbook and two pairs of platform shoes, which also seemed unusually heavy,” reports the Daily News. U.S. […]
Absinthe is a pale green (sometimes clear) highly alcoholic anise-flavored liquor distilled from wormwood and herbs, famous for its purported mind-altering effects for artists such as Oscar Wilde and Van Gogh. It was banned, but lately has experienced a revival, and a century’s worth of lies and distortion has returned. Absinthe, even of the “ordinare” […]
Here are some kids in Straus Square, Chinatown hugging trashcans, swinging chains, hopping, and being in awe of large things on a Monday morning. You know? You know! You know. (Video: Bowery Boogie) […]
A school in Dallas County, Missouri is very, very committed to their “drug-related and alcohol-related zero tolerance policy.” To them, just writing about weed in a personal notebook constitutes “possession of a controlled substance,” punishable by suspension. The high school girl accidentally left her notebook at school last year, when it was discovered and read by school […]
The scientific community continues to embrace tentatively hug psychedelic therapy, and with good cause. In a new Johns Hopkins University study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, “just two or three experiences” tripping on mushrooms helped a dozen volunteers struggling with a long-term smoking addiction quit. The success rate is twice that of “the gold standard medication”/Big Pharma cessation aids like Pfizer Inc.’s Chantix. […]
According to a study by the National Transportation Safety Board, pilots killed in airplane crashes in 2012 did more drugs than pilots killed in airplane crashes in 1990, the New York Times reports. It’s a little complicated. Factoring in all drug use — “prescription, over-the-counter and illicit” — the board thinks the biggest problem is sedating antihistamines (tested for in 9.9% of pilots who […]
Upstate New York’s very own Gregory Bolognese, 22, was arrested Monday at the Greyhound bus station in his town of Plattsburgh with cocaine, LSD and weed hidden inside a stuffed lion. The toy was wearing a “D.A.R.E. to resist drugs and violence t-shirt.” Plattsburgh police did not say how they found out about Bolognese’s special hiding place. Just […]
To tackle the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Monday that it will allow consumers to return prescription drugs — like opioid painkillers — to the pharmacy for disposal. Prior to this, the only legal options you had at home were flushing them or mixing them with cat litter or […]
Opponents of cannabis legalization are turning to academics with impressive resumes and titles to push the line that cannabis — the drug with not a single known case of deadly overdose — is unsafe and dangerous. Vice has dug into the open secret of conflict of interest and financial disclosures and found that many of […]
