Doctor Gets Floaty Sensation @ Work
July 1st, 2009 by Rick
A doctor, Jonathan Chahal, was up before the General Medical Council, a group that registers and regulates doctors in the UK. The counsel to GMC, Craig Sephton QC, told the board that Chahal had told him that while at work, he would inhale a mixture of air and the anesthetic Entonox, because it left him with a “floaty” sensation.
Four female nurses were also said to have participated in the Benny Hill-like shenanigans. As a result the Council is under the conclusion that Chahal is not going to be able to practice because of his “mental health”.
Hacker Halts Access to Prescription Pills
June 30th, 2009 by Rick
Blowback from the activities of a hacker that infiltrated the computers connected to VA state prescription database is now being felt as pain-stricken people do not have access to their medication. Over 35 million prescription records were compromised.
Pharmacists only have limited access to the database and apparently will not prescribe medication without history and information. A House panel in the Virginia Legislature learned Monday, that patients were not receiving the following drugs:
- Oxycontin
- Valium
- Vicodin
- Ritalin
Two Virginia legislative panels looked into the Northrop Grumman Corporation, a technology company that ran the program that has a $2b, 10-year contract with Virginia. Oddly enough, Northrop Grumman Corporation is also the 4th largest defense contractor in the world. What this has to do with pill prescriptions leaves one’s mind to wonder.
Nas & Damian Marley: Distant Relatives
June 30th, 2009 by Erin
There’s nothing I love more than a collaboration. Hrm, actually, let me rephrase that: a good collaboration.
In my opinion Nas and Damian Marley could not bring us their new album, Distant Relatives, any sooner. Although a release date has not been set, my anticipation is currently taking orbit ever since their collaboration on the song “Road to Zion” on Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley’s album Welcome to Jamrock.
In the Distant Relatives preview, Marley says:
This project is to come together and do some music on behalf of Africa. That is really what the whole thing’s about; to bring awareness.
This album will be heavily focused on the duo’s shared African roots and the hip-hop/reggae sound will be backed with samples from African music.
Review’s coming as soon as we get our anxious little hands on it.
The Meth Raid That Wasn’t
June 30th, 2009 by Russ
A few weeks ago we reported a story that had reached the national papers about a meth “superlab” discovered on a rental property owned by Bell, California mayor, Oscar Hernandez. Los Angeles Fire Department and Hazardous Materials spokespeople are now amending that story.
So, let’s revisit some of the salient details of the original story and see what’s left:
Investigators found a methamphetamine “super lab” during a raid Saturday on a property owned by the mayor of a Los Angeles suburb.
Well, as it turns out, no lab was found. No traces of chemicals that would be produced by such a lab were found. No one nearby smelled or had otherwise heard of any such lab.
The original story also claimed:
Police also found two children on the premises who were put in the custody of welfare officials.
According to LA Child Protective Services, no children were taken from the home. And finally, according to the LA sheriff’s department:
Investigators said the lab would be able to produce as much as 20 pounds of methamphetamine at once.
The Sheriff’s Department now confirms that they seized not 20 pounds, not one pound, but one ounce of meth from the site. And the two superlab masterminds initially arrested? They have now been released without charge.
Wow. Seemingly, someone has laid an incredible whopper on the national press. This entire story has a very ‘Roswell’ feel to it. It makes one wonder what that drug task-force actually did find in that apartment: Jimmy Hoffa? The safehouse where Michael Jackson faked his own death? Dr. Venture’s super-secret child cloning facility?
Only one thing is certain. The LA Sheriff’s Department is at the center of this. The truth is out there.
NORML-y Crooks
June 30th, 2009 by Alex
There are only so many original names, acronyms and phrases out there in the world. If you read this blog and see the letters ‘NORML’ next to one another, 99 times out of 100 we’re referring to The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Welcome to the 1 in 100 mention – a shirt collabo between LA-based Crooks & Castles and Canada-based NORML.
The drop takes color palette inspiration from the fixtures of the upper crust fashion world; Gucci and Versace for instance. The use Crooks’ iconic medusa head design and come in 3 different colorways. No word on if they’ll be available online, but there are available in-store at the NORML shop.
Cop ‘em while you can.
Daycare Center Also Secret Stash House
June 30th, 2009 by Rick
The Special Moments Daycare Center in East Flatbush was the scene of an attempted robbery on Friday, around twenty minutes after noon. Three suspects busted into the building where napping kids had been dreaming in quiet slumber. After responding via a 911 call, cops arrived at the scene and shot one suspect, 32-year-old Brooklyn native, Gavin Nugent, when he raised his loaded 9mm pistol at them.
After being admitted into the Kings County Hospital Center for gunshot wounds to the torso and wrist, Nugent was charged with burglary, robbery and weapons possession along with his two other accomplices, 35-year-old Dwayne Jackson and 39-year-old Carl Grierson. The reason for the attempted break-in wasn’t apparent until one of them told the police just why exactly they were trying to rob a daycare center.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly commented:
It now appears the day care center was a drug haven, or where drugs in significant quantities were kept, primarily marijuana. [...] Marijuana was located at the scene, along with at least $100,000 in cash. It appears to be what the robbers were looking for.
Police then arrested 37-year old Donna Rogers, the operator of the daycare center, and her husband, 36-year-old Sherwin Rogers and charged them with possession of marijuana. Not sure what to say about this one, other than kids & drugs generally don’t mix. Now go do some coloring.
Chong Waxes Poetically About Michael Jackson
June 29th, 2009 by Russ
In a short piece written for CelebStoner, stoner patriarch, Tommy Chong relives and rewrites a little Jackson 5 history, as well as offering up some mighty strange nuggets of advice for the now deceased pop-star.
The Chonger jovially reflects on a time when the Jackson 5 opened for Chong’s group, Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers. As the tale goes, Bobby Taylor initiated the meeting between the Jackson family and Motown record label founder, Berry Gordy. Once offered a contract by Gordy, Joe Jackson brought it back to Chong for an unusually sober perusal. Chong recalls:
When Joe Jackson brought me the contract, there was a window of opportunity where I could have become their manager, but the thought didn’t cross my mind until decades later.
And so a pairing for the ages was missed by just that much. One can only imagine how far little Michael Jackson would have gone in a parallel universe where his raw music talents were guided by the subtle genius of the Up in Smoke star. We may have been blessed with such pop-mega hits as: You Wanna Be Starting Something (Because My Joint is Kicked), The Doob is Mine, and Black or White (Cookies are Groovy When You’ve Got the Munchies).
Leave the weird shit alone. Sing and dance, Michael – that’s all we wanted you to do… Have a safe and interesting journey, Michael. We will see you when you reappear in another body. We will know it’s you when you open your mouth and the “magic” comes out. We will know.
Don’t try to translate that last bit into English. Just blaze one up and absorb.
U.S. Reverses Afghanistan Opium Policy
June 29th, 2009 by Rick
The U.S. has changed it’s policy when it comes to eradicating poppy fields in Afghanistan, that’s done nothing but put Afghani farmers out of work.
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan said at the G8 conference in Trieste, Italy on Saturday:
The Western policies against the opium crop, the poppy crop, have been a failure. They did not result in any damage to the Taliban, but they put farmers out of work. [...] We are not going to support crop eradication. We’re going to phase it out.
The new plan, being all about bringing the fight to the drug lords and drug suppliers, seems more like an old plan, seeing how the drug lords in these regions are also the Taliban. The U.S. has been in that region fighting the Taliban since the invasion in 2001, yet according to the U.N., Afghanistan’s opium production has risen 40-fold.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime said the effort has been a “sad” joke and:
Sad because many, many Afghan policemen and soldiers … have been killed and only about 5,000 hectares were eradicated, about 3 percent of the volume.
The U.S. plans on reducing the budget it allocates for crop eradication in Afghanistan and spending several hundred million dollars on supporting legal crops.
