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PARIS | Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:54pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts. The 14-year old girls were taken to the Paris prosecutor's office to face charges while a 12 year-old accomplice was placed in a home, police said. The girls first struck last week when they approached a man withdrawing cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) in the sixth district of Paris. One of the girls tried to distract him by sticking a newspaper under his nose. When that failed, she opened her shirt and grabbed his crotch, while the…
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cant seem to be finding a link to a site containing the writing.. so im going to type it up reading it off the newspaper.. LSD could be used to lift depression and treat cancer, doctors claimed today. Magic mushrooms and ketamine, a horse tranquiliser turned "party drug", could also feature in the 'psychedelic psychotherapy' cabinet. Swiss experts said advances in our understanding of the brain and of the drugs themselves made it time to look past their negative effects and investigate how they could benefit people with hard-to-treat conditions. The drugs could be used as a kind of catalyst, the University of Zurich researchers said, helping patients to alter th…
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Hey ppl, They are filming part of the new movie called Snowtown around my house and next door. For the last week or more, I have had movie people crawling all over my front and back yard, and also utilizing my shed. I can't reveal any more specifics, because it could allow the identification of my property! Often the movie people are only metres away from me outside, while I am packing bongs and smoking joints inside I got a bit spooked when one of the friendly members of the filmcrew suggested I had a rather pleasant smelling smoke emitting from my house:) I was more cautious after that Yet last night they were filming a scene where a bong is involved. I aske…
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Author: Faith Karimi Date: 21/06/2010 Source: CNN Inside Africa Copyright: CNN © 2010
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What are they really looking for if you give blood and urine tests? Okay, Cannabis isn't mentioned here but how long will it be before governments go looking? Daily fine for refusing to take part in national health survey • By Sue Dunlevy • From: The Daily Telegraph • May 19, 2010 12:00AM UP TO 50,000 people face a fine of $110 a day if they refuse to divulge information on their health and lifestyle to Australian Bureau of Statistics researchers. The Australian Health Survey announced in last week's Budget will be the most comprehensive research on the health of Australians ever undertaken and will be jointly funded by the National Heart Foundation. But the 50,…
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Anyway to be negative about Cannabis http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...abis-lamps.html R.I.P Luke Holmes
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My Mind is Melting, Man, but in a Good Way Chris Ayres From: The Australian May 01, 2010 12:00AM It can only be a good thing if they research these drugs more , maybe the medical 'proffession' will get a better insight on what so many have known for millenia. ... AND THEN they may be able to elaborate a more concise list of 'noted' descriptions of these drugs ... rather than as above... ^ ... Sheesh! Anyhoo , I thought this may be of interest ... Cheerz ... Budman P.S. Hmm , I've been noticing bugz in the system ... and what's with this formatting!? oh well , no worries…
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Cops chase drunken fool straight to his illegal marijuana operation By Greg Campbell l Published: Tuesday, April 27 2010 07:03 In a spectacular illustration of what NOT to do when confronted by law enforcement while driving home from the local tavern in the middle of the night, 23-year-old Charles Byrd drunkenly fled police officers who witnessed him break numerous traffic laws in Gwinnett County, Ga. His choice of hideout? His totally illegal marijuana grow house, where there were 69 plants, 3.2 pounds of manicured pot and his none-too-amused partner in crime, 25-year-old Timothy Donahue. At most, Byrd faced a DUI and a few traffic citations for driving with his lig…
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Source: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/20...ot_sentence.php ;) See the (currently) 247 comments there and another 333 (currently) on Digg : http://digg.com/world_news/Man_Gets_35_Yea...sion?OTC-widget (which is where I saw it first and read the comments , so it gets a mention ... inbetween all the useless (but often funny) one-liners are a few pearlers heheheh) Anyhoo , that's the story Cheerz Budman
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Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/loc...o-14770007.html Heheheh , Um ... you could blame that on the movies as much as anything else Was an Unloaded (I hope) replica rifle and they used the extended 'tubular' length of the rifle barrel to inhale smoke from a Cannabis Joint ... If it was a Tobacco cigarette , would anybody say anything? Anyhoo , that's the story Cheerz Budman
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I don't really know what to make of this but Mike Straumatis, the owner of AN, is basically grassing his competition on a public video cast. The whole thing is strange because the allegations are based on the hearsay of an ex employee of the people he is trying to grass.????? WTF http://www.growersunderground.com/bellyofthebeast/
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SOURCE: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1030626/son-kicked-parents-to-death-court-told
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