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My opine on marijuana redux

Before I share my opinion, I would like to first say that I do not condone the use of marijuana.  Its illegal.  That said, I do think the legality of the drug should be reconsidered.  Marijuana law was created in an attempt to criminalize Mexican immigrants.  It worked.   Propaganda was used to help convince the people of the drugs dangerous effects.  A lot of federal money was put into that shit basically.

In the sixties or seventies, Nixon made it a class 1 drug equal in weight to PCP and heroin.   Possesion of some amounts might mean life.  Life for the only natural occurring drug that you don’t need to alter to enjoy (maybe?).   All I do know is the number one killer of people ain’t weed.  Its behind heroin and cocaine.  Its behind alcohol and cigarettes.  Hell, its even behind prescription pills.  Today I took 1000 grams of hydrocodone for a migraine and the effect lasted for 12 hours, and my stomach became nauseous.  When chemotherapy weakens terminally ill patients, marijuana calms the nervous stomach and strengthens the appetite for food, and in turn for life.  There are many people who are prosecuted for growing plants that have no intentions of dealing, yet still can be prosecuted with exuberant fines and sentences.   And in the end it seems that it is always about the money.

When there is money on the table nobody wants to get up and walk away from the game.  Sometimes the players are in so deep that they can’t see the game is already over.  Its time that people start thinking logically about pot.  The number of people in prison for marijuana IS criminal.  Currently the number of dollars spent on illegal marijuana nearly triples any other domestic crop and in Northern California, where state law is more lax, the economies has survived because of its trade.  Furthermore, the Mexican border is trife with warring cartels trying to own the illegal trade into the states.  There are already pockets of illegal colonist growing gardens in the wilderness of the United States.  Violence has already struck suburban neighborhoods, and we know how America loves it suburbs. The industry is in the billions.

How do you gain control of the madness? Be reasonable and think logically.   Unlike other illicit drugs, marijuana is fortunate enough to have been ingested at one time or another by a majority of Americans.  Its effects can be documented consistently.  Unfortunately, the past decade has used no scientific research to help ascertain what role marijuana should play in American society.  You can’t ignore it.   I for one think the decriminalization of marijiuana is a mandatory action that must be considered.  Its medicinal purposes cannot be understated and therefore must be evaluated by the FDA.  The feds must behave logically.  It should be prescribed and taxed like any other drug.  Cigarette campaigns back Drug Free America ads in an effort to distract the public from the truth.  Somewhere somebody must speak the truth.  Resources are being wasted on marijuana.  The only true way to win a war on drugs is to take on each drug one at a time and either demolish it or contain it.  Its time that the feds contain this sticky icky icky situation before the entire thing burns.

In closing, I ask that you give thought to the words I have shared with you.  Remember that we are in the year 2010 and not 1920.   If you consider marijuana to be a class one stimulant and that is worth this much fighting for then tell me, whom do you know that has died from smoking it.

opium wars…

Over 2 tons of drugs seized in Afghanistan

www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-21 13:53:47

KABUL, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Afghan forces backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces discovered and destroyed over two tons of drugs in a local school in southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Friday, said a Coalition statement released here on Sunday.

The combined forces were conducting a foot patrol and searching a school in Arghestan district where an estimated two-and-a-half tons of marijuana and a large room filled with marijuana seeds were found, the statement said.

With the help of local villagers, the drugs were taken outside of the school and destroyed, it said. Neither students nor school faculty were on the spot when the operation was going on, it added. “The combined forces also destroyed an improvised explosive device(IED) and an unexploded mortar round, both located approximately 100 meters from the school.”

According to recent UN report, Afghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world’s opium as Taliban militants will benefit nearly 500 million U.S. dollars from opium trade in 2008.

love and crack

http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/amy-winehouse-hubby-blake-dont-love-each-other/#more-1675

…They just share a love for drugs.

Its not like this comes as a surprise, but I’m still shocked to hear Amy Winehouse’s estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil come out and take the blame for addicting his wife on crack and heroin.

“…because of drugs we can’t have a normal life together. That’s why I have to let her go.”

This comes on the heels of Blake’s decision to divorce Amy “for her own sake.” Is this a case of an “it’s not you, it’s me” excuse? Or has his stint in jail and now court-mandated rehab, opened Blake’s eyes and given him clarity on he and Amy’s toxic relationship. She seemed like a boozer before their whirlwind romance but definitely his era in her life has been nothing short of a freefall.

(I wonder what Bobby would say or what Rohan would say if they were in a relationship confessional booth.)

CLICK TO LISTEN TO BLAKE’S CONFESSION

More quotes after the jump…

From UK’s News of the World:

In an explosive interview Blake revealed how Amy, 25:

ASKED him to let her try crack cocaine as she watched him taking it.

CUT her arms after she saw him self harm.

COLLAPSED with a seizure after an all-day drug binge.

CHEATED on him with her manager’s assistant.

“I introduced her to heroin, crack cocaine and self-harming. I feel more than guilty.”

Blake, 26, described himself as a “recreational drug user” until he started taking heroin at the age of 22.

“I was old enough to know better. Heroin and crack took hold of me and f***** me up,” he said.

“It made me not look out for the woman that I love more than anyone else in the world.”

Blake confessed: “The first time Amy took crack she asked me, ‘Can I try a bit of that’.

“Crack is the nastiest drug. It makes you paranoid, unreasonable, edgy and totally suspicious of everyone. “And you can get hooked on it straight away. But I was weak and an addict and I let Amy take some.“I didn’t stop it from happening. For that I take full responsibility. It became something we did as well as heroin.

“And then our lives fell apart.”

They hit rock bottom in the summer of 2007, when Amy almost died in front of him.

Blake said: “I was there when Amy suffered her first seizure. I still break down thinking about it. We had been taking drugs all day long — heroin and crack.

“It was heartbreaking, seeing someone you love more than yourself, someone you would die for, someone you would kill for on the floor shaking.”

When Amy came round she “went hysterical and mad” not even recognising her husband.

Blake grimaced: “I will go to my grave with that picture of Amy asking me, ‘Who are you? Who are you?’

He and Amy started to self-harm as he faced up to the prospect of going to jail for GBH and perverting the course of justice.
JANUARY 2007: Wild child leaves court at Blake’s trial
JANUARY 2007: Wild child leaves court at Blake’s trial

“I knew that I was going to jail. I thought I would go away for four or five years,” said Blake, who was actually sentenced to 27 months, going free on November 5.

“I just couldn’t believe that after our wonderful marriage — the happiest day of my life — we were going to be torn apart.

“I felt inadequate. I felt unworthy of Amy. I felt that she should be with some other pop star or film star. Not be with some little chav from Camden.

“I cut my arms after we fell out over doing too much drugs and losing sight of ourselves.

“Amy got really upset about seeing me bleeding. And because she’s loyal and f****d up over our love — like Romeo and Juliet — she cut her arms too.

Blake insists he is now free from the grip of drugs.“Yes I’m clean. Yes I’m off drugs. But I don’t deserve to be clean.

“I don’t deserve to be the one in rehab. Amy does. Amy deserves to be in here, getting clean, getting ready for a fresh start in life.

“I do not deserve to be in here when someone I love is suffering. I deserve to be in the f****** gutter.”

Although he’s clean now, he fears if he gets back together with Amy he’ll soon be hooked again.
JULY 2008: Looking a state as she goes out in Camden
JULY 2008: Looking a state as she goes out in Camden

Blake adds: “There are still reasons that Amy and I don’t like to be sober and if I go back to her I am basically saying, ‘It’s all right to kill yourself Amy’.

“Even if I was strong enough to resist drugs — and I’m not — it’s a ticking timebomb.”

“I accept that there is every horrible, horrible chance that I could be tempted to take drugs again if I went back to Amy.

“I’m distraught and can’t stop crying. I can’t believe that because of drugs I’m going to lose my soulmate.

“Without crack and heroin Amy would be making beautiful music and I would be doing my video production job and we’d both be so happy. But because of drugs it’s all gone….”

He says wistfully: “My fantasy is that one day fate might bring us back together when Amy is clean. In an ideal world me and Amy would live together in a nice house with our two kids and all of this would be a distant f****** memory.

“That would be my dream.

“What people don’t realise is that Amy is an amazing wife, an amazing home-maker and a beautiful figure in the home.

“You would be surprised the domestic bliss you can have with Amy just doing the cooking and caring for you.

“But because of drugs we can’t have a normal life together. That’s why I have to let her go.”

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Barack Obama wins the Democratic Nom.

I hope this is a road toward the improvement of my finances. Money is a major issue.

So now we wait for the nom for v.p. The lengthy campaign has probably exhausted some within Obama’s camp so a good vaca is definitely needed before going hard thru august. i think that Obama better stay his ass away from barbecues this 4th that’s all I’m saying. He don’t need nobody taking shots at him over a privacy fence in the back of some assholes lake house. Or some dumb fuck from the hood blowing weed in the garage and getting caught within 5,284 feet of Obama.  I hope that I can finally get to hear some of his ideas for changing the broken welfare warfare state that I think is holding me back from achieving my altruistic destiny.  Its time brother. Its time (c) Minister in Belly.

man of the moment: Roger Clemens

disclaimer: I have always been neutral towards Clemens (unless he was throwing against the cubs). I’m more a Big Unit fan.

So as you know Clemens is running off at the mouth right about now trying to cover his ass from the senate hearings that took place months ago. As a result of losing face he decided to sue the former trainer who outed him, but its not quite working out as planned. You see Clemens has got some skeletons. One of which came to light this past sunday or monday when it was outed that he and country singer Mindy McCready (notorious on the Nashville news for drugs scams and probation violations) began an affair when she was 15. Way to go Rog. If its grass on the field play ball right? I’m still waiting to hear Mindy McCready’s side to see if they did get it on right away. So this morning i’m watching, but really listening to the HOT SEAT on the deuce, and they are running down Roger. It turns out Clemens was fucking fat golfer John Dalys wife too. Way to go Rog. This shit is getting good, and if i know athletes like i know them, there will be more to come.

Roger Clemens isn’t a great man at this moment. He’s just the sexdrugsmoney man of the moment.

Thanks Roger for all the denial.

p.s. if Roger was Barry Bonds this shit would be so different.

as reposted from viceland.com

I bought cocaine, heroin, crack, weed, and ecstasy and had them forensically analyzed by a chemist at MIT because I thought they would all turn out to be poison. Guess what? Drug dealers don’t cut drugs with cement and ground glass. They barely even cut drugs at all, because they don’t need to. Relax, I’ll explain later.

The samples were analyzed by a PhD chemist at MIT (we can’t say his name or he’ll get fired) using acid/base extraction, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, and thin-layer chromatography. Acid-base extraction is the method used to isolate the chemicals. Once they’re isolated, the nuclear magnetic resonance machine is what you use to analyze and identify stuff. Basically, the kind of NMR done here tells you about the hydrogen atoms in the molecules in the drugs. So it’s like, the spectrum of heroin has 20 lines in it, all at different positions and heights, and you basically look for that particular set of lines. If you see another set of lines, you go, “Oops, there’s something else besides heroin in here.” Finally, thin-layer chromatography is a quick method that tells you how many components there are in a mixture. MIT guy says it’s “like that experiment you did when you were a kid (if you were a geek) where you put ink on a paper towel and, when the water diffused up the paper towel, all the colors separated.” It tells you how many components are in a mixture but not what they are. That’s what the NMR is for. Still confused? Show this to a smart guy and have him explain it more.

COCAINE
The cocaine was the first sample to come back from the lab. It was 98 percent pure. When everyone was done high-fiving, we started to wonder what was going on. According to the movies and NYPD Blue, you can only get cocaine like that from pharmacies. Street cocaine is basically poison, right? It’s all strychnine and gasoline and nail polish remover or something.

I was not going to go buy 50 more samples of coke, because that would be a waste of money and drugs, but there’s this guy named Peter Cohen who did his thesis on just that. Actually, his work is even better than that, because he not only analyzed 50 samples of cocaine, he also interviewed the 50 cokeheads who had bought the samples. So he got the perception and the reality, see. He asked the cokeheads whether they thought their coke was pure, and 80 percent of them said no. Of those, 75 percent thought their stuff was adulterated with speed. They also commonly figured their drugs were diluted with ground glass, Drano, laxatives, and dirt. Cohen took samples from these cokeheads to the lab. The average purity was 65.1 percent. Second of all, the coke samples Cohen had were cut with speed, Daro, vitamin C, caffeine, sugar, nicotinamide, lidocaine, mannitol, and sodium bicarbonate. Daro is an anti-headache powder. Nicotinamide is vitamin B. Lidocaine is a topical anaesthetic. Mannitol is the sugar they put in diabetic candy. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda. These are all innocuous things that bulk the drug out— most evidence of dangerous cutting agents is anecdotal. There’s no glass in your coke, you fucking psycho.

I guess that doesn’t mean that drugs are never cut with poison. The Drug Prevention Network of the Americas reports on a gang in Dublin that cuts coke with Phenacetin, a carcinogen that causes cancerous tumors in urinary tracts and nasal passages. Of male rats. There are a hundred million stories like that, and they get picked up eagerly by anti-drug sites, druggies, and editors who want sensational copy because that is the world we live in.

Findings: Most coke is way over 60 percent pure, and our coke is especially good. Thank you, Rico.

HEROIN
Our sample was 60 percent heroin, 20 percent acetaminophen, 10 percent caffeine, and 10 percent unidentifiable chemicals. Even though that sounds like a lot of additives, it’s about right. New York heroin is 63.3 percent pure on average. Oh, forget the whole idea about heroin being cut with Drano. Heroin is most often cut with acetaminophen, caffeine, malitol, diazepam, methaqualone, or phenobarbital. Diazepam is a sedative hypnotic. Methaqualone is Quaaludes. Phenobarbital is a sedative used to stop seizures and treat insomnia. See, they just cut it with stuff that makes you sleepy but doesn’t cost as much or cause as much hassle to get as dope. That’s all. If you want some better shit, move to that shithole London. Ross Coomber of the University of Greenwich, London, analyzed 228 samples of heroin and found that 44 percent of them weren’t cut with anything at all. The rest were cut with the same stuff as above. Coomber did another study where he gathered information from 17 heroin dealers at varying points in the chain of distribution. He asked them if they adulterated (that is the word for adding other drugs to) or diluted (that is the word for adding inert substances to) the drugs they sold. Eleven said that they never adulterated/diluted at all, four adulterated/diluted only sometimes, and only one (dealing four to five ounces a month) said he always diluted the heroin (with glucose, by around 10 to 20 percent). Asshole.

Findings: Heroin is a little more cut than coke, but ours is average. And dealers don’t want to poison their customers. It’s bad business, and if you’re dead you can’t buy any more smack from them. The most important finding to us in this section was this great new dealer who got us a bundle of smack, delivered to our door in 20 minutes in the middle of the workday. Too bad we’re in recovery.

CRACK
Our crack, purchased from some human garbage in Bushwick, was about 95 percent pure, and the impurities were likely by-products of the synthesis, not contaminants. That means they weren’t added after the crack became crack. Rather, they were a part of how the crack came to be. Crack is actually one of the purest drugs you can buy, usually about 85 to 95 percent, because it gets washed with solvent before or after heating. Just because of the way it’s made (by “freebasing” it—or removing the active chemicals from cocaine from their base), you can get high-purity crack from only moderately pure coke.

Findings: Crack is a good bet. If you think your coke guy is stomping on your shit at all, cook it up and you’ll take out all the dirt.

WEED
So according to an article published in the New York Times in April 2004, “Law enforcement officials said they are also seeing more examples of marijuana laced with other drugs, like cocaine, a narcotic; LSD, a hallucinogen; and PCP, a hallucinogen also known as angel dust.” Our sample didn’t have coke or heroin or PCP or anything in it. It was just normal. Sucks.

Now read that New York Times quote again. “Law enforcement officials”? I like cops and I trust them to protect me from getting raped. Journalists are liars though. Why would police give quotes about drugs and not give their names? Is this a top-secret thing that the “law enforcement officials” are afraid to go on record about? Seriously, there are a million alarmist accounts of PCP-dipped weed being sold as regular weed (just google it), but not one systematic analysis to back up the claim. Just look at the slang terms for weed laced with other drugs and the whole thing starts to seem like a priest dreamed it up: “Boat, Loveboat, Chips, Donk, Lovelies, Love Leaf, Woolies, Zoom, Boat, Caviar, Champagne, Cocoa Puff, Gremmies.” What? Reporters are pussies that barely know what drugs are so if they talk about the pervasiveness of embalming-fluid-dipped pot you’re not going to ever find any evidence of them actually finding some. Hence quotes like, “Finding embalming fluid to buy on the street is not easy because most street drug dealers make more money selling individual joints soaked with embalming fluid for about $10 to $20. However, if found on the street to purchase, a two-ounce sample of embalming fluid costs about $50.” Oh really?

Findings: PCP-soaked marijuana that is sold as PCP-soaked marijuana doesn’t actually have PCP in it most of the time. There is no evidence at all I can find that marijuana sold as marijuana is soaked in PCP. However, if you want to deck your weed out, sprinkle some coke on it. It’s called a snowcap and it gets you laced.Our sample was pure MDMA. Once again, that’s because we have good dealers. We all know that E is often cut with dope, because we’ve all seen those little brown freckles in pills that we’ve taken. That’s heroin, stupid. So while E can be dirty, it is not as dirty as a 1993 Time Out magazine article, “Bitter Pills,” made it out to be. In that article, it was reported that E dealers spike tablets and capsules with heroin, LSD, rat poison, and crushed glass. That story was repeated all over. Stephen Beard of the Newham Drugs Advice Project was the source for all this, and he said he got his info from a single dealer. This single supposed dealer said he made fake ecstasy by crushing light bulbs. The word for that is “hearsay.” There was no supporting evidence such as lab tests or reports from doctors who had treated users. Oh, but again, it does happen that there is poison. In London, in 2000, there was an unmarked, half-scored, yellow-flecked tablet that was 8 mg of strychnine. The lethal dose of strychnine is 10 mg.

ECSTASY

The verdict: It’s not hard to get good shit. Drug dealers figure, I can sit here trying to figure out how to dilute this shit or I can get it on the street and paid for as soon as possible. If my shit is too pure—great. All that means is I’ll have a reputation as Bobby PurePants and more people will want to buy from me.

ANN HIGGINS
Additional reporting by Gideon Yago

http://www.viceland.com/issues/v12n4/htdocs/cut.php

the makings of a sexdrugmoney chick

1. Foxy Brown- This Brooklyn bitch started killing the mic lyrically back when she was 15. She was in the clubs rapping bout her nana since then too. I think its safe to say that she is a sexdrugmoney chick.

2.  Paris Hilton- Definitely a sexdrugsmoney chick. You know this rich nympho is on x and pills all day. How else do you explain the gumption to do a night vision porn. And she has a great figure.  Thats not diet coke- thats try it coke.

3. Lindsey Lohan- Of course nobody does it better than LL Cool Yay, actually being caught high with the shit on you. Just can’t get enough. I didn’t mind the coke shit, but why did she have to drive drunk too. My kind of chick, sexdrugsmoney.

Honorable Mention: Marilyn Monroe; Dorothy Dandrige.

 

Just a couple of examples of what makes a woman a woman around here, amongst other qualities (anatomy being one that comes to mind). They don’t have to be famous though, or rich, or even really hardcore on drugs. As long as she is independent and knows the difference between the drug weed and the drug meth. She gotta be sexy. Think Heidi Fleiss like attitude with a habit like Elviry from Scarface. Now thats a bad bitch. Thats Sienna Miller with a cigarette in her mouth bad. 

Watch out if you date a sexdrugsmoney chick yourself. They are borderline crazy!

 

the struggle- t.m.o.l.a.s. part II

If life is a test, who’s got the answers? And if you find them ask if we’re grading on a curve. Real talk, the bible says something akin to only 144,000 people actually making it in to heaven. Look to your left. Look to your right. Odds are theres no room in heaven for both of these people, even if they were Oprah and Mother Theresa, You know Saint Paul and them have got some favors and lobbyists to fulfill first – its political. That means that mathematically none of you fuckers will make it. No i didn’t forget you, but god will.

But seriously folks. If we have no real idea that there even exists a heaven, or fathom that we might live a discplined god fearing life, its all still a crapshoot. Considering faith, a sane man must always give reason to this possibility. 

That doesn’t mean free reign to be a big gay child molester, so don’t. On the contrary, because we don’t know what we will encounter upon death, we should do what wet can to ensure that we live the best life possible here on earth.  Not best in terms of luxuries or materials and shit, but to the degree that one can actualize and fulfill his dream while maintaining a peaceful mind. A free mind and inflated spirit is the best faith we have in death for ascenion to heaven.

I grasped this concept and embraced this philosophy as my own as a teenager.  It came amid confusion over religion when it was hard for me choose between Islam and Christianity. I narrowed the commonalities of the two religions and adapted a sort of bastard hybrid offspring. Two bibles, one Qu’ran. I deduce that

‘ for just as the body without the spirit is dead, As is faith without works’.

                                                                James 2:26

meaning i’m unsure of eternity, but i am sure of now. And i am faithful that my works on earth grant me entrance to heaven. I have no control over anything else in this eternity paradigm we are all in. So i work my ass off. Like mother theresa and oprah. I’m not sure if i’m going to make it, but i’ve got faith that i’ll get it right before i’m called. I’m trying. My soul, my fitrah is keeping score letting me know that i am in danger, when my mind is caged and my spirit is dragging. Cuz you never know when that report card is going to be pulled. Amen.

What’s IN store?

So when you have a blog called SexDrugsMoney its pretty point blank as to what the page content is going to be. But don’t underestimate the ability to expund on these three topics for hours, or days, and hopefully years on end.  Since this is sort of the intro i’ll pretty much just introduce myself and the site for the first couple of entries. I might have some links to some cool sites for more information and you’ll be able to soak up shit that i skim. Its authentic for the most part and live when it can be but always on point. Its the newest internet joint to blaze to.