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Weird Adults - Felicia Michaels

Weird Adults presents Felicia Michael's who explains her childhood army stories along with her tales of going from a strip club to an open mic. You can listen to Felicia & Joey Diaz podcast at http://www.beautyanddabeast.com

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Higgs Boson

Explained for anyone that's still under the radar about this matter.

L.A City Council votes 14-0 to ban medical marijuana shops

 In the latest attempt to regulate what many say is an out-of-control proliferation of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, the City Counted voted 14-0 Tuesday to ban pot shops. Under the ban, each of the 762 dispensaries that have registered with the city will be sent a letter ordering them to shut down immediately. Those that don’t comply may face legal action from the city. Medical marijuana activists who had packed the council chambers jeered when the vote came down. More than a dozen Los Angeles Police Department officers were called in to quell them. Under the ban, medical patients and their caregivers will be able to grow and share the drug in small groups of three people or less. But the activists say most patients don’t have the time or skills to cultivate marijuana. One dispensary owner told the council that it would cost patients a minimum of $5,000 to grow marijuana at home. In a seemingly contradictory move, the council also voted to instruct city staff to draw up an ordinance that would allow a group of about 170 dispensaries that registered with the city several years ago to remain open. Councilman Jose Huizar, who voted against that motion, said it might give the public “false hope” that the ban wound not be enforced. He said the ban would be enforced, especially against problem dispensaries that have drawn complaints from neighbors. “Relief is on its way,” he said. But he acknowledged that the city may not have the resources to shut down every dispensary in the city. Councilman Paul Koretz, who initially voted against the ban, and who supported the motion to allow the oldest dispensaries to stay open, said he hoped the city would come up with a more compassionate law in the future. “We have shut off almost every way that a normal person can get access to marijuana,” he said. “It will be a ban until otherwise noted,” he said.

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Sewage reveals Europe's drug habits

Researchers sifting through raw sewage in 19 European cities have found the highest cocaine use in Antwerp, while the Nordics prefer methamphetamines and Amsterdam unsurprisingly lead in cannabis use.

 From the biggest-ever drug analysis of samples taken from Europe's sewers, the research team deduced that the continent uses about 350kg of cocaine every day while marijuana remains the most popular illicit drug. "Through research into the sewer, we can determine how big the drug market in a city is," co-ordinator Kevin Thomas of the Norwegian Institute for Water Research said of the study covering cities in 11 European countries. 

 The team took samples from the inlets of 21 sewage treatment plants servicing a combined population of about 15 million people on seven consecutive days from March 9, 2011 and analysed them in the lab. 

 The results, published in the journal Science in the Total Environment, revealed the highest average cocaine use in the Belgian port city of Antwerp followed by Amsterdam (Netherlands), Valencia (Spain), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Castellon (Spain) and Utrecht (Netherlands). The Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven showed the highest sewage loads of ecstasy, though the authors said Utrecht's figures were probably spiked by drug dumping in a police raid on an ecstasy factory two days prior to the study. 

 Antwerp and London also had high levels of ecstasy use, but none was detected in Castellon, Umea (Sweden) or Stockholm (Sweden).

 The study said the highest levels of methamphetamine use were measured in Helsinki and Turku in Finland, Oslo (Norway) and Budweis in the Czech Republic.

 Amphetamine use was highest in Eindhoven and Antwerp. For cannabis, the highest levels were by far measured in the Dutch capital, which is a popular soft-drug tourist destination. 

 blast to tha' source :  http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lif...s-drug-habits/

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