The owner of the Netherlands' biggest coffeeshop should be fined 28 million euros and serve 18 months in jail, the prosecution in his drug trafficking trial said. Before shutting its doors in May 2008, coffeeshop Checkpoint at Terneuzen near the Belgium border counted up to 3,000 customers a day, mainly French and Belgian...
Serious business...

Magazine Men's Health has put up a list of the 100 'most drunkest cities' in the US. They drew this list upon such data as death rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests, and severity of DUI penalties. Fresno is #1, Boston is #100. Somebody around who has the time to make such a list for cannabis? O wait, you don't have to, cannabis doesn't kill...

"Between propaganda and the four-decade “war on drugs” campaign, most people have been led to believe that marijuana is bad, illegal and a “gateway drug.” Some think it has always been illegal. Others’ knowledge dates to the hippie counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s. Unknown to many, European and American medical journals published numerous articles on the medicinal uses of marijuana from 1840 and 1900."
Full article

Who would have thought: the sperm of a stoner is too slow. Actually, the sperm of a stoner just activates too quick and then gets "burnt out" before it gets there. I don't make that up, some researchers say so. Don't panic, they're not sure.

"The police had little difficulty pinpointing a man accused of selling drugs in a city centre pub, a court heard. When officers attended the Angel, in Crossgate, Durham, on June 21 last year, they soon spotted Daniel Eric Robert Wright, as he was sporting a green beard, in keeping with reports made to police."
LOL, dealers always make me laugh, especially the stupid ones. Makes me wonder though what the hell they're gonna do once it's legalized...

A golden oldie, but still a good one when suffering from a hangover at Sunday morning. Lady Gaga, eat your heart out...

"Because of a mere stick of weed and two grams of dried marijuana leaves, a retired Philippine Navy serviceman will lose 13 years of freedom after he was found guilty of possessing such illegal substances."
Just a reminder that Reefer Madness still exists in a lot of places. Damn, 13 years for 2 g! I have about 3+ grams lying on my desk right now; that would put me away for decades over there. Hail Amsterdam!