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450 pounds of marijuana delivered to youth center March 17, 2004 — A surprising delivery to a Chicago youth center Wednesday-- 450 pounds of marijuana. The deliveryman found the drugs in a box marked "auto parts" at the El Centro De La Causa School in city's Pilsen community. He couldn't lift it, so opened the box to see if he could carry the various pieces. That's when police say he found the drugs. Investigators aren't sure if the delivery was sent to the wrong address or if the school was expecting a package and got the wrong one. dont know the source for this. found it on another site.
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Richard Stratton knows what it's like to run a magazine with unconventional demographics. Before he took over as publisher and editor-in-chief of High Times, he ran Prison Life, a beloved but now dead journal for men and women behind bars. A fascinating subject, for sure - but not exactly the upscale population that most advertisers seek. "The readers didn't have much money to spend," Stratton conceded with a smile. "And they couldn't get out to the store." Well, compared to that captive audience, how hard can the just-say-yes crowd be? So Stratton, who himself did eight years in prison on a marijuana-smuggling conviction, has now turned his attention to the venerab…
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What has the environmental impact of both an SUV and a fridge? Here's a clue: You're using it right now. It turns out your computer is a much bigger material and energy hog than previously believed. The most effective way to reduce its oversized environmental footprint is to increase its useful lifespan, according to a new book released Monday, Computers and the Environment, by the United Nations University in Tokyo. The average desktop PC and 17-inch CRT monitor takes an SUV-sized 1.8 tons of water, fossil fuels and chemicals to make, the book reports. As for energy use, a computer's lifetime energy impact is about the same as a refrigerator, they report. Whi…
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MUSICIAN David Crosby has been arrested on marijuana and gun possession charges at a Times Square hotel, police said. Crosby, 62, a two-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had checked out of the hotel but left a piece of luggage behind, police said. A hotel worker found the bag and went through it looking for identification, and called police after finding marijuana, a .45-calibre handgun and two knives, authorities said. Crosby was met by police when he returned to pick up the bag, investigators said. Crosby, a founding member of both The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, had been performing at the B.B. King Blues Club off Times Square and a…
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Mick Jagger was at the height of his fame and king of the sex, drugs and rock'n' roll lifestyle. But when cannabis was found in a famous raid on his Chelsea flat in 1969, he was anything but blasé. Files released today reveal that the Rolling Stones frontman believed he had been framed by a police officer who then demanded a £1,000 bribe to get him off the charges. The papers from the Director of Public Prosecutions show a full internal inquiry was launched at Scotland Yard - but only after Jagger's partner, actress Marianne Faithfull, declared that she "hated coppers" because the couple had been set up. The DPP file, released this month at the National Archives,…
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CHILDREN as young as 10 are being caught by police with amphetamines and other designer drugs in South Australia. Hospitals and clinics are also reporting an increase in the number of young people treated for overdoses or addiction. As the use of amphetamines continues to grow at an alarming rate in SA, police figures reveal 67 youths aged between 10 and 17 have been caught with illicit drugs – including amphetamines, ecstasy, methylamphetamines, also known as Ice, and heroin – since September, 2001. The youths were placed in the police drug diversion scheme and referred to health services for assessment and treatment. Another 1910 youths have been caught with can…
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Drug Companies Pay Off Government to Sell More Anti-Psychotic Drugs Ill post it here for ppl that get lazy like me an dont feel like clickin the ling The drug industry knows how to market their drugs. For the big named drugs they spend billions of dollars on consumer advertising, but to sell medicines that treat schizophrenia the companies focus on a smaller group of customers, the state officials who oversee treatment for patients with mental illness. These patients make states among the largest buyers of antipsychotic drugs. Past evidence has shown, since the mid-1990s a group of major drug companies had campaigned to convince state officials that a new gener…
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Police bust pedophile ring By Ainsley Pavey February 13, 2004 The arrests came as the first man to be charged under new Queensland laws targeting internet paedophiles was sentenced to nine months' jail. Matthew William Ross Kennings pleaded guilty to using the internet to procure a police officer who was posing as a 13-year-old girl in a chatroom. AAP Who are you telling about your grow on the internet ??
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How do once-wild teens cope with wild ones of their own? Debra Jopson reports. In his youth, that rock bad boy Ozzy Osbourne might have bitten the heads off bats and doves. And maybe he looks like the worst of baby boomers who has turned into a dysfunctional Dad stumbling about at home, swearing enthusiastically as he, his wife Sharon and their teenagers Kelly and Jack indulge in shouting matches on that fly-on-the-wall TV show The Osbournes. The news is that some think he is getting a lot right in his child-rearing practice. Ozzy might have his faults as a father. But two psychologists, whom the American ABC TV presenter John Stossel asked to evaluate the Osbourne fa…
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Advertising Slogans Gone Wrong... Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave," in Chinese. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I saw the potato" (la papa). The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty." When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket a…
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Wednesday May 7, 9:34 AM 2003 Marijuana cell phone cover causes buzz in Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) - Marijuana-scented cell phone covers caused such a buzz in Australia that the company selling them had to pull them out of a technology fair in Sydney on Wednesday. Local authorities and New South Wales state Premier, Bob Carr, slammed the green, marijuana-motif covers as promoting drug use to young people. "A big over-reaction," said Robert Punch, owner, chief executive and founder of Corporate Phone Covers. "It's a novelty. You wouldn't go and buy a big block of chocolate after smelling the chocolate one," he told Reuters. Made in China and arrayed nex…
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OldmanMozz When this opens could you find out what i get for a $1000 high class whore, im not getting any younger and dont want to die wondering?. $1m sex club plan By RAJIV MAHARAJ January 25, 2004 A TERRITORY businesswoman plans to open a $1 million exclusive "gentlemen's club" in Darwin before the end of the year. Therese Miller, 30, said the club would not be a brothel but a "licensed retreat where men can come after work, relax and have a few drinks in the company of beautiful women". She said sex workers from Sydney would be available for $170 an hour or $150 for 30 minutes. Locations at Winnellie have been earmarked for the new venue which by law has t…
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Tired of feeling like Aragorn, Gandalf or Eowyn and want to prove it? Try this link http://www.lotrspoofs.com sorry, don't know how to underline it. I think they are upgrading their site at the moment, so some of the links were a little dodgy but most of them work. Tell us who you are deep down - or try one of the more legite ones for a more accurate answer.
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Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy 2 hours, 40 minutes ago By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia - The "Crocodile Hunter" has become the hunted. Following a weekend of bad publicity, Steve Irwin and his family retreated from the media spotlight and the public outrage he provoked by hand-feeding a crocodile Friday while holding his infant son, a spokesman for his production company said Monday. Canadian Press Slideshow: 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin Crocodile-Infant Stunt Draws Ire (AP Video) "Steve's gathering his thoughts at the moment, he's not available for comment," John Harrison from Best Picture Show told The …
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Source: The Australian Bureau of Statistics:- A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket. 3 Australians die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their tongue. 142 Australians were injured in 1998 by not removing all the pins from new shirts. 58 Australians are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Australians have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Australians have died in the last 3 years by eating Christmas decorations they believed were chocolate. Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last y…
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