Drugas
9 Spanish anti-drug ads
9 ads from Ramón Rubial – Fundación Españoles en el Mundo, the Foundation for Spanish people all over the world. The campaign warns Spanish tourists about the dangers of doing (and getting busted for) drugs abroad. Beautiful work. Links to higher rez versions can be found here. Cuba Denmark […]
Texas cops mistake actual weeds for marijuana, spend hours doing yard work
From The Raw Story: Like the old song goes, one of these things is not like the other… However, remind a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas of those famed Cookie Monster lyrics and they’re likely to give you an annoyed look. That’s because a recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by […]
Creative Food Sculptures
More here See also: Carved Vegetable Bikinis — Print Campaign Food artists create colorful animals from vegetables
Barney Frank Files Bill To Decriminalize Pot
A controversial law in Massachusetts could go national if Congressman Barney Frank gets his way. Frank has filed a bill that would eliminate federal penalties for personal possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana. It would also make the penalty for using marijuana in public just $100. “I think […]
Glastonbury 2009
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More good news about mushrooms…
A Swiss researcher said Thursday he had hit on an unlikely way of recreating the unique sound of a Stradivarius violin — by treating the wood of a replica instrument with mushrooms. Francis Schwarze of the Zurich-based Federal Materials, Science and Technology Institute (EMPA), made a replica of a violin […]
Photo Essay — Weed growing on window sills in Geneva
So it’s been about a week that I landed in my birth place of Geneva Switzerland. I realized something funny popping out of a lot of windows and balconies: WEED. A lot of it. Indeed the law are pretty sweet in Switzerland as far as weed. You can’t go to […]