Marijuana Inc.: Inside America's Pot Industry [film]

I came across this documentary on the medical marijuana industry in my reader today, and it is worth checking out.

Head over to Top Documentary Films for more free documentaries online. They have thousands of documentaries on countless subjects including drugs, sexuality, history, society, nature, technology, health, etc.

Let Timmy Smoke! [pot, culture]

Tim Lincecum seems like a pretty cool dude. His minor pot bust was way overexposed in the media, but hey, at least it sparked some pretty cool t-shirts.

I saw the "Let Timmy Smoke!" t-shirts being sold all around SF right after the Giants won the World Series; I should have grabbed one then!

Kudos to Tim for appearing on the cover of High Times magazine!

Senator Feinsten & Meth [drugs, politics]

San Francisco's own Dianne Feinstein has been active for the LAST decade and a half combating the meth epidemic.

In the mid-nineties California was declared a "source country" for methamphetamine by the DEA; Feinstein introduced the Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996, signed into law by President Clinton in October of 1996 to help curb the spread of the drug.

Feinstein and Jim Talent authored this article that appeared on April 30. 2005 in the Washington Post entitled, "A Remedy for the Meth Epidemic." On September 9, 2005, the Senate approved the Feinstein-Talent Anti-Meth Bill.

On October 12, 2010, President Obama signed the Combat Methamphetamine Enhancement Act, adding to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2006, which was authored by Feinstein as well.

More:

Senate votes to double fines and jail time for cannabis candy & "candy-flavored" meth.

The twin epidemics: HIV and methamphetamine.

Oregon's solution to the meth problem here.

Methamphetamine [drugs, society]

Watched Meth: A County in Crisis earlier, and now watching "Meth's Deadly High" on Lifetime.

The first show detailed the meth problem in Missouri, and focuses on the epidemic in Franklin County, but meth is a plague rampant everywhere in the United States.

The Bay area is no stranger to the meth problem either but has launched rigorous campaigns to combat the meth crisis and according to Life or Meth, meth usage has almost halved in three years here in San Francisco.

Meth is also a huge problem in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California; the photo below details the admissions into drug and alcohol rehab centers over a four year time in California.

One can clearly see meth usage has spread like wild fire in California in just several years.

The San Diego area is also known for its numerous bizarre crimes involving meth; below is a video of the infamous incident in San Diego on May 17, 1995, when meth-addicted Shawn Timothy Nelson stole a tank from the National Guard Armory near Mesa College and went on a rampage through a city, only stopping when he ran into a median on the highway.

Ozzy Osbourne is a Mutant [weird science]

Scientists mapped out Ozzy Osbourne's DNA and found several genetic mutations "which may explain how he's lived so long."

Also, a recent British study finds alcohol to be more harmful than heroine.

Marijuana Economics: Prop 19 [SF events]

Tonight at the Commonwealth Club, 7:30pm.

via SF Weekly:

From where we sit, it looks like a done deal. Marijuana will be legalized sometime within the next ten years. Certainly, the industry as it stands is preparing itself for change. Uh, not that we would know anything about it. Tonight at "Marijuana Economics: Prop 19," the heavy hitters of the current bid for legalization sit down and discuss the actual facts of the matter. Richard Lee, the author of Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, is in the "pro" seat. Tim Rosales, the campaign manager of the No on Prop 19 outfit, is in the "anti." And somehow, somehow, Beau Kilmer of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center is thought not to have a position, but rather a lot of information.

Georgetown Students Run Drug Lab.

Police raided a freshman dorm building at Georgetown University where they suspected several students were running a meth lab. It turns out the students were actually producing the hallucinogenic drug Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).