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AUSTRALIA: Gay Club Issues Lifetime Ban On Patrons Found Using (Some) Drugs

Saying they are fed up with problems caused by patrons using GHB and crystal meth, the popular Melbourne gay nightclub Poof Doof has announced a lifetime ban for any customer caught using those substances. These bans will be shared with more than 100 nightclubs across Australia, who jointly use a system called Scantek to record the identities of problem customers. …

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Barney Frank: Pot Will Be Legalized

“Former US House Representative Barney Frank argues that the ignorance underlying resistance to same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization is similar. In both cases, he says, reality will overcome prejudice and ultimately be adopted as the law of the land.”

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Toronto Faces Used Ford Trade-In

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ASAP Science: Your Brain On Coffee

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NEW YORK CITY: Anti-Drug PSA To Air During Electric Zoo EDM Festival

Last year Mayor Bloomberg’s office canceled the final day of New York City’s Electric Zoo EDM festival on Randall’s Island after two drug-related deaths and numerous overdoses took place despite repeated cautions to the 100,000+ attendees made by the promoters over the event’s sound system. This year the organizers are stepping up their warnings with an anti-drug video that will …

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New York Times: Legalize Marijuana

From the editorial board of the New York Times: It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished. It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great …

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Poppers Linked To Eye Damage

Via Reuters: A club drug and aphrodisiac since the 1970s, inhaled “poppers” are increasingly linked to eye damage – possibly due to a new formulation – according to a short report from the UK. The case study describes a 30-year-old white male who developed vision loss in both eyes after inhaling poppers. The researchers noticed subtle changes in the form …

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REPORT: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Was Kicked Out Of Rehab For Being Disruptive

According to a report published by the Toronto Star, embattled Mayor Rob Ford’s claims of a successful stint in crack rehab are untrue. Mayor Rob Ford pushed and scuffled with fellow rehab residents and was so verbally abusive that he was kicked out of his group therapy program, according to people who have knowledge of his two month stay at …

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Maureen Dowd Tries Pot-Laced Candy

“For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand. But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the …

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TORONTO: Mayor Rob Ford Takes Rehab Leave As New Crack Video Surfaces

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced yesterday that he is taking a leave from his duties and will seek help after the Globe & Mail revealed that its reporters had viewed a new video which allegedly shows Ford smoking crack. The footage comes to light weeks after Mr. Ford embarked on a re-election campaign styled on the importance of second chances …

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Limbaugh Gets Second Cochlear Implant

Rush Limbaugh is off the air this week while he gets a second cochlear implant. He received surgery for the first implant for his left ear about 13 years ago, he said, and doctors at the time advised him against getting the second implant in case a cure was developed for his deteriorated hearing. On his show Limbaugh said he …

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UK: Tory MP Resigns In Rent Boy Scandal

Conservative MP Mark Menzies resigned his position as a ministerial aide last night after a 19 year-old Brazilian male prostitute alleged that Menzies hired him for sex and asked him to procure drugs. Via the Independent: Menzies, 42, the MP for Fylde in Lancashire, resigned his position as the parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the international development minister Alan Duncan, …

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NEW YORK CITY: Police Report Three GHB-Related Deaths In One Day

According to the NYPD, three apparently GHB-related deaths took place in downtown Manhattan on Sunday. The New York Post reports: The handsome scion of a Manhattan hotel conglomerate was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his posh Union Square pad, law-enforcement sources said Monday. Charlie Denihan — a 29-year-old Ivy League grad whose father runs the Denihan Hospitality …

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Cops Find 50 Bags Of Heroin In Home Of Late Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

New York City investigators today reported finding “large quantities” of heroin in the Manhattan home of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead yesterday in his bathroom with a syringe still in his arm. Authorities investigating the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman found close to 50 bags containing what is believed to be heroin in his apartment, …

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead At 46

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead today in his Manhattan apartment of an apparent drug overdose. A personal assistant found Hoffman’s body in an apartment at 35 Bethune St. and called 911 around 11:30 a.m, sources said. Cops are at the scene and are investigating, sources said. In 2006, Hoffman publicly admitted that he nearly succumbed to …

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GOP Rep. Trey Redel To Resign Today In Wake Of Bust For Cocaine Possession

Freshman US House Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), who billed himself as a “hip-hop conservative,” will resign today. Radel was busted for cocaine possession in November. Radel’s decision to step down was confirmed by his chief of staff, Dave Natonski. Radel, a freshman who represents a Fort Myers-based district, returned to work in Washington earlier this month after taking a leave …

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Liberace’s Ex Sentenced To Prison

Scott Thorson, who was played by Matt Damon in HBO’s Liberace biopic  Behind The Candelabra, has been sentenced to 8-20 years in prison for failing drug tests while on probation for identity theft. Washoe District Judge Patrick Flanagan sentenced Scott Thorson on Wednesday after a string of bad drug tests capped by his failure to show up at a court-ordered …

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