What have YOU been smoking?

5 Things the corporate media dont want you to know about cannabis

Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:11 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

1. Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With a Rise in Incidences of Schizophrenia 2. Marijuana Smoke Doesn't Damage the Lungs Like Tobacco 3. Cannabis Use Potentially Protects, Rather Than Harms, the Brain 4. Marijuana Is a Terminus, Not a 'Gateway,' to Hard Drug Use

education, marijuana, smoking, cannabis, facts, corporate-media, gateway, drug-use, disregarded-information, phsychosis

BLM to cancel 77 oil and gas leases in Utah

Seeded on Wed Feb 4, 2009 2:18 PM EST (ksl.com - Utah News, Sports, Weather and Classifieds)

Im happy to see that at least some of it is being repealed

politics, national-parks, oil-and-gas, blm

Artist in thailand paints with beard!

Seeded on Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:52 PM EST (Rueters + various)

Marco is the only known beard painter, creating works of art with his beard on the beaches of Pattaya. His latest works are now on display at the JND Gallery in the Soi Day & Night in South Pattaya.

art, odd-news, creativity, painting, artistic-beardism, thailand-beard-painter

Ugly Beard Contest ends Monday at Jordan-Elbridge

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:21 PM EST (Syracuse.com)

Twenty-four male teachers, administrators and staff members at Jordan-Elbridge High School are participating in the school's second annual Ugly Beard Contest.

charity, education, ugly-beard-contest, school-charity-contest, teacherbeards

The end of India's love affair with facial hair

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:15 PM EST (Google)

NEW DELHI (AFP) — The extravagant beards and moustaches proudly sported by generations of Indian men are under threat, according to a new book that celebrates the country's finest facial hair.

india, world-news, shaving, mustache, beards, facial-hair, holy-hair

Bookies taking bets on Prince William shaving beard

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:59 PM EST (Telegraph)

Ladbrokes is offering odds of 3/1 that the 26-year-old will be clean-shaven by December 25. Keeping the beard would mean plucking up the courage to sport it for the Royals' Christmas Day service at Sandringham, which will be broadcast on television.

odd-news, prince-william, beard, bets, shaving, bookeepers

Sumos convicted of murdering team mate

Seeded on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:07 PM EST (www.otd.co.nz)

A Japanese court has convicted three sumo wrestlers for killing a younger stable-mate during training last year in a case that damaged the image of the country's ancient national sport.

japan, sumo, world-news, training-murder, over-exhaustion

Putin's Tips for What to Do When Negotiations Collapse

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:00 PM EST (The New York Times)

Just weeks after Russia's state-run media reported that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin had saved a news crew from a wild tiger, he is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video.

sports, putin, judo, martial-arts

Former Martial Arts World Champion/Film Star Will Bring 10,000 Children To NY

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:48 PM EST (newsblaze.com)

Former Martial Arts World Champion and Film Star Lou Neglia is bringing 10,000 Karate Kids to protest Governor David Patterson's chop of Children's Programs, that are going to be cut because of the 14 billion dollar deficit.

protest, us-news, mma, karate, mixed-martial-arts, childrens-programs, billion-dollar-deficit

Schizophrenics Report Subjective Relief From Cannabis, Study Says

Seeded on Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:04 PM EDT (Marijuana Law Reform - NORML)

Adelaide, Australia: Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia report obtaining subjective relief from cannabis to control various symptoms associated with the disease, according to survey data published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. ....

health, medical-marijuana, schizophrenia, legalization, medical-study

Drug-related deaths hit new high in Utah

Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:39 PM EDT (Salt Lake Tribune)

Even as the state is trying to reduce the number of drug-related deaths, Utah has set another record for people killed by pills, powders and needles.

politics, drug-addiction, drug-abuse, war-on-drugs, prescription-drug-deaths

Where's the (Criminal) Justice? An issue conspicuously absent from the presidential campaign

Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:36 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)

In recent years, DNA testing has shown that our criminal justice system is troublingly fallible. Some 218 people have been exonerated in recent years, and we're discovering a new case of wrongful conviction every couple of weeks. The U.S.

politics, criminal-justice, justice-system, election-campaign, prison-overpopulation, highest-incarceration-rate

Church of the Universe disbanded by government

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:54 PM EDT (thespec.com / hightimes magazine)

The Church of the Universe founded in 1969 wich uses marijuana as sacrament is having its land forfit and the founders (both elderly men ages 58 and 75) put in jail. wait for it all for 70$ worth of pot sold to an under cover cop.

religion, religious-freedom, war-on-drugs, churche-of-the-universe, marijuana-sacrament, canadian-war-on-drugs, canadian-constitution