Reefer

Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault.

I love it when newspapers try to sound like two guys talking on the corner.

Love is in the Air

The love of nose candy

Waste of Time and Money

Watch the Texas-Mexican Border! Prevent immigrants and drugs from coming to America! Be a Hero!

And if you're wondering, the cost of this system is approximately $500,000 per arrest made and $1,000 per pound of reefer confiscated. Money well spent!

A Post By the Baron

Smoking pot will ruin your life, or won't

And you can smoke pot in Michigan, if you need it to live a life that the smoking pot will ruin

Bong-bing-bong

So I was reading this article entitled "Bong-bing-booong". I think I was mislead about the subject matter of the actual article by the headline. So on to related items:

Next time you're at the Grateful Dead SATs, drop the word hubble bubble which is the sound that a water pipe makes. It also refers to the water pipe itself. Which is some slang we should be busting out.

Unsafe sex.

Safe sex.

Sound advice.

Wolf Blitzer, you're my only hope

You're a little short for a storm trooper (NSFW)

Zorses

An Actor from Pineapple Express Got Arrested For Drugs

Who'd've thunk it?

Prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Craig Phillip Robinson, an actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on NBC's "The Office."

I'm Gonna Sell This For Drugs!

Cancer got you down?

if and when you get cancer, shrooms are free! Too bad you don't get anything if you get hit by a truck.

(From Baron von D)

An American Pastime: Smoking Pot

Seriously, that's the title of the article

Dosing the Po'

Some kid dropped off cookies laced with LSD to 13 police departments in Texas. 3 cops got "sick" (2:00 is the best part). So said a cop: "'Our officers took a good whiff and thought they smelled like marijuana,' McGuire said, adding that preliminary tests instead detected traces of LSD." Which is totally understandable as reefer has a fairly pungent odor and LSD is odorless.

(2 good things about that last link: 1) The page is entitled "Neuroscience for Kids) and 2) The tripped out star man that makes LSD look like a lot of fun)

Best Quote Ever

Let me just sum up what the article is about: Nebraska's Supreme Court held that the electric chair was cruel and unusual (i.e. an unconstitutional and thus illegal form of capital punishment). Nebraska law only provides for a person to be sentenced to death by electrocution which it can't do now because of the Supreme Court holding. So the big question is what to do with all the inmates sentenced to death? Right now there's no law on the books in Nebraska allowing for an alternate form of execution and even if there were, some of the inmates were specifically sentenced to "death by electrocution". And now the best quote ever:

"If someone tells you with confidence that they know how this will come out, you should get an ounce of what they're smoking," said Bob Schopp, a law professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who specializes in criminal law and capital punishment.

Outcome: Nebraska kills them with lethal injection. Now who wants a lid for $450?

And apparently Bush is totally down with sex tourism:

Because Driznastic is Busy This Weekend

I'll take over his role as provider of pretty pictures:
(There's a whole lot of old handbills and the like on that website)

CNN News Nuggets

Jungle Fever

Dead hookers

Dead ducks

Hawaii for Hawaiians

'Very excitable virgins' dominate town (That's the real headline, for realsy)

Cafferty: How can the GOP attract young voters? (Ask Congressman Foley, though what do you expect from the party who had Jack A. Boehner as their House Majority Leader)

Not even LSD can make this pig fly

And speaking of LSD

I am the Walrus (who wants to dose Nixon)

Oh, Benny

Benny the Bull will bust you up!

He'll bust you up even if you're a cop!

His related blotter list includes reefer possession, shooting a t-shirt gun at the Celtics, and even appeared on Jerry Springer!

Google Crime

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but there are drugs in Chicago

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK

Don't call it a comeback

I been
here for years

Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear

Makin the tears rain down like a MONSOON

Listen to the bass go BOOM

Explosion, overpowerin

Over the competition, I'm towerin

Wreckin shop, when I drop these lyrics that'll make you call the cops

Don't you dare stare, you betta move

Don't ever compare

Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced

Competition's payin the price

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

They Got Everything in Cali

L.A. is now home to two 24-hour pot AVMs . . . But keep in mind: in California, just because you can get most any hokey doctor to say it's fine for you to smoke your sickness away doesn't mean you can't be fired for it. You gotta love a newspaper that sites Futurama.

things i learned from pimpernels post

betty boop is italian
or maybe jewish
that when skeletons drink, they turn black
that when skeletons drink, they die
that when skeletons die, their spirit leaves their body
ghosts are usually rotund
capital punishment is fairly ineffective against ghosts
when mammals breastfeed their bodies are consumed in the process
that when scared, some people invert their colors
giant witch tonsils have faces
ghosts reproduce asexually

great! but what's the song all about?

well, first off it was written by cab calloway (duh), but based on a song written by frankie "half pint" jaxon titled "willie the weeper" (recorded in chicago in 1927) ... don't believe me?
check out the lyrics

Have you heard the story, folks, of Willie the Weeper?
Willie's occupation was a chimney sweeper,
He had a dreamin' habit, he had it kind of bad,
Listen, let me tell you 'bout the dream he had:

listen to it here

as you can hear, minnie and willie have quite a different melody, but the words are quite similair in their structure ... to my ear, minnie sounds an awful lot like "st john infirmary blues", but anyway ...

all still pretty innocent, however, i found these lyrics ... sung, and possibly written by ernest rodgers .... also recorded in 1927 (presumably in atlanta georgia as that was rodgers home)

Have you ever heard of willie the weeper
had a job as a chimney sweeper
Had the hop habit and had it bad
Listen and I will tell you about a dream he had

listen to it here

hop habit=opium

so the original version of "willie the weeper" is all about an opium addicts hallucination and the jaxton version is all about a guy who just dreams alot ...

as should be obvious, calloways's version is all about a a gal named minnie and her druggie boy friend smoky joe ... who was awful "cokie" (cocaine) and took her down to china town for some "kicking the gong around" (opium) and while on an opium high, minnie has a dream about the king of sweden who gave her a million in "nickels and dimes" (nickel/dime bag usually of marijuana)

bottomline

drugs. in your music since 1927.