Cheap drugs! Running spiritually! Whining patients! Catching lung cancer! Electro-trainers! Peanut allergy babies! Animal diseases! Outliving Brits! And the flu shot conspiracy! It's your Thursday Health Watch, where we watch your health—while munching on whatever catches our fancy!
The L.A. Coliseum was barred from holding raves after a 15-year-old died of a drug overdose there earlier this year. The ban was overturned by a commission yesterday because no one died at the last two raves held there.
[A federal agent crawls through the 600 yard tunnel found in a warehouse on the U.S.-Mexico border. It contained a complex ventilation and railway system, and 30 tons of pot. Image via AP]
California authorities found a 600-yard drug tunnel with a railway system and 30 tons of pot.
According to a new study from a former UK chief drugs adviser, alcohol is more harmful to users and to wider society than heroin or crack, and all three are far more harmful than cannabis, ecstasy, or magic mushrooms.
Southern California parents be warned! This Halloween there's an increased risk of finding pot-laced candy in your kids' trick-or-treat bags, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The candy is produced in L.A. area "clandestine labs and residential kitchens." Yum!
Forget Stewart and Colbert's rallies — the hero of the day just might be Zach Galifianakis. During last night's Real Time With Bill Maher, the funnyman lit up a joint, took a puff, and passed it around to the panel.
Once-promising diet drug Qnexa was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration yesterday because its side effects can include "suicidal thoughts, heart palpitations, memory lapses and birth defects." Well, that sounds like every other drug commercial on TV, doesn't it?
Dallas NBC sports reporter Newy Scruggs is in San Francisco to cover the World Series. Beyond the excitement of the event, he comes to a conclusion about the Bay Area: Everyone there is a pothead. Watch the video below.
In this clip we are shown how spiders are affected by various drugs. California better watch out before it's doing nothing but building hammocks and resorting to being someone's b*tch during the Winter months for warmth! Watch inside.
It's true that we'll never see actual video from inside the Plaza Hotel suite that Charlie Sheen trashed while on a cocaine and alcohol-fueled naked rampage, but this animated reenactment—from Taiwanese company NMA—is a great consolation. Watch inside.
Today on The Doctors, the world was introduced to InstyMeds, a prescription vending machine. A little information, and out come your drugs! Citizens and luddites beware, this machine controls your health and well being. And it will control you, too.
This is just unbelievable: A new study in the medical journal Pediatrics found that 52 percent of teens were more likely to test positive for cocaine than they were to admit they use it. Kids lie about using drugs?! [CNN]
Police say a Georgetown University freshman dorm room was doubling as a meth lab.
A new installation at Berlin's Museum for Contemporary Art, by Carsten Höller, will soon offer vistiors a chance to pay 1,000 euros to eat shrooms and sleep in a "floating hotel room on a platform shaped like a mushroom."
Hey, parents! What's the best way to stop your kids from doing drugs? What's that you say? A conversation? Ha! Nice try, hippie. The best way to stop your kids from doing drugs is to search your home with a drug-sniffing dog once a week, rented from Maryland's very own nonprofit organization, Dogs Finding Drugs:
Polls show California's Proposition 19 losing support and possibly failing. But dweeb hero Nate Silver says pollsters might be rashly excluding stoners as "likely voters" for the pot legalization measure. They'll get around to voting. Like, almost definitely.
Mexican authorities yesterday flew in journalists, dignitaries and college kids to watch the burning of 134 tons of marijuana — much of which was seized earlier this week near Tijuana. It was a statement to drug cartels, or something.
