Specialization is for Insects.
Prescription medication often comes with a hefty price tag and a built in bonus on the back end for the pharmaceutical company in the form of an overly aggressive expiration date.
A program called SLEP, the Shelf Life Extension Program, which has been administered by the Food and Drug Administration for the Department of Defense for 20 years has proven that 90% of medications maintain their potency even 15 years later.
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As a follow up to my previous post regarding the manufacture of cocaine, I came across the attached image documenting the process of transforming normal cocaine to crack cocaine.
I actually struggled with myself as to whether or not to actually share this information, but ultimately I decided to post it for the following reasons:
Last Saturday Police in Jacksonville, Florida were working under cover, selling drugs and busting users. When they went over to 81 year old Issac Singletary’s front yard and started up he tried to run them off his property, apparantly threatening them with his .38 revolver.
Problem is, rather than the police getting the hell off his property, they pulled their weapons and killed him.
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This is an AWESOME story of a mother not just talking – but actually doing everything she can to ensure that her child turned out right.
Chou Sa-Ngoun was desperate.
Her teenage son was skipping school for weeks at a time, using drugs, getting arrested, staying out all night, hanging out with the wrong kids.
Nothing she did seemed to make any difference. Grounding didn’t work. Neither did yelling, crying, taking away privileges, counseling, switching schools, probation or stints in juvenile hall.
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This is a fascinating video, created by a reporter living in Colombia named Matthew Bristow, documenting the process that cocaine goes through from the point at which it is a plant growing in the ground until it is refined enough to actually use as a drug.
They stop just short of the point that it gets sold to a drug trafficker or guerrilla – who further refine the drug.
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Google has a cool little item in the Google Labs which allows you to compare the frequency of different search terms. For example, if you want to see which term is more frequently searched for between Sex and Drugs, you can.
Or, if you want to find out who is more popular, Pamela Anderson or George Bush, you can do that too.
Also of note, the results tell you where in the world those terms are most searched for.
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