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FLORIDA: Gov. Rick Scott Signs Bill Requiring Drug Test To Receive Welfare

Tea Party hero FL Gov. Rick “Medicare Fraud” Scott has signed a bill requiring welfare recipients to pass a drug test before receiving any checks. Applicants must pay for their own tests. The ACLU isn’t having it. “The wasteful program created by this law subjects Floridians who are impacted by the economic downturn, as well as their families, to a …

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Actor Jeff Conaway Dies At Age 60

The New York Times reports: Jeff Conaway, the personable actor who won television fame on the sitcom “Taxi” and movie success in the musical “Grease” three decades ago and who later publicly struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 60. He died of complications of pneumonia at Encino Tarzana Medical Center after being …

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A Short Film By Charlie Sheen

Wow. Just wow.

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LEAKED: Two & A Half Men Finale

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MIAMI: Anti-Gay Murder Music Star Buju Banton Found Guilty Of Drug Trafficking

Grammy winning reggae star Buju Banton, whose work has been called “murder music” for its calls for the executions of gay men, has been found guilty of three federal counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Via the Jamaican Observer: The artiste was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilogrammes of cocaine, attempted possession …

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Narnia Producer Dead Of Overdose

Perry Moore, 39, the openly gay executive producer of the wildly successful Chronicle Of Narnia movies, has been found dead in his Manhattan home of a suspected Oxycontin overdose. Moore was found unconscious in the bathroom at about 9:30 a.m. by his partner, Hunter Hill, inside the W. Houston St. home they shared, the sources said. “We’re in shock,” said …

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Murder Music Star Buju Banton Wins Grammy, Begins Drug Trafficking Trial

Last night reggae star Buju Banton, whose “murder music” calls for the executions of gay men, won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. Banton’s win came as a shocker to LGBT activists who last year took out full-page music industry ads denouncing his nomination. Today his cocaine trafficking retrial begins in Miami after a previous trial resulted in a hung …

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Quote Of The Day – Ted Haggard

“The word marriage is a big deal to people of faith. We’ve made it sacred. That’s why I believe that churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples should have total freedom to have whatever types of unions they believe as godly. But I think that we as a democratic society, as a constitutional republic — if we don’t respect individual civil liberties, …

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Ted Haggard’s Awkward Family Photo

This awkward photo is from the current issue of GQ Magazine, where Haggard declared himself to be bisexual and confessed to snorting all that crystal meth he’d previously claimed to have purchased to throw away.

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IsCharlieSheenDead.com

The internet is a cold cruel place sometimes.

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Ted Haggard: I’m Bisexual And I Totally Used That Crystal Meth I Bought

In a profile published by GQ Magazine, disgraced televangelist Ted Haggard announces that he’s bisexual. And that he and escort Mike Jones didn’t have sex, Jones just jerked him off. Which somehow isn’t sex in Haggard’s world. But about that crystal meth that Haggard famously claimed he bought to “throw away”? Yeah, he totally snorted it. “I think that probably, …

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A Cocaine Vaccine?

Scientists are testing a vaccine that causes the body to treat cocaine like an attacking virus and thereby keep it away from the brain. So far, the vaccine has only been tested on mice, but the results are extraordinary. Mice given the vaccine no longer exhibited any of the hyperactive signs of a cocaine high when they were next given …

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Pat Robertson: It’s Time To Legalize Pot

Wait, WHAT?

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Poppers May Damage Your Eyes

From a little-noticed October story in the New York Times: In a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, the ophthalmologists describe four cases over three months in which patients’ vision was affected after they used poppers at parties. Several complained of seeing bright dots of light, and retinal imaging revealed damage to the photoreceptors in the fovea, part …

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NEW YORK CITY: Cops Bust Heroin Dealers Via Google Street View

Brooklyn detectives were able to identify some local heroin dealers thanks to images captured on Google Street View, where multiple photos showed the group working the corner. Also, do dealers really still use that hanging shoes bit?

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CALIFORNIA: Legalized Pot Bill Fails

California’s Prop 19, which would have decriminalized the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, has failed by a wide margin. The initiative would have eliminated all criminal penalties for adults 21 and older who planted marijuana in a plot of up to 25 square feet or possessed up to an ounce for personal use. It also would have …

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UK Study: Alcohol Is The Worst Drug

It seems self-apparent to me, but a new study out of the UK declares that alcohol is the worst drug for society, based on the number of people whose lives it affects adversely. According to the study’s authors, governments should be focusing more on alcohol abuse than the war on drugs. The study involved 16 criteria, including a drug’s affects …

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Charlie Sheen: The Taiwan News Version

“One And A Half Men”?

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Marijuana Laws By State

As California prepares to vote on Proposition 19, which would decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana to the level of a parking ticket, NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) provides this snapshot of pot laws around the country. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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CALIFORNIA: Polling Favors Legal Pot

Dominic Holden assesses the bill’s supporters: That’s 48 percent yes, 41 percent no, and 11 percent undecided—which is pretty good. The crosstabs are over here. Groups with over 50 percent support for Prop 19 are men, people under 50, white, moderate to liberal, dislike the Tea Party, make over $80,000, and live in the Bay Area. In other words, rich …

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