pretty interesting article:
The world’s first cocaine bar
Route 36 has turned La Paz, Bolivia into a hotspot for drug tourism, tempting backpackers from all over the world
Though cocaine is illegal in Bolivia, Route 36 is fast becoming an essential stop for thousands of tourists who come here every year and happily sample the country’s cocaine, which is famous for both its availability, price (around €15 a gram) and purity.
Jan 13
after it fell off due to an allergic reaction to medicine:
kinda crazy how drastically this affected her, and even more amazing the recovery she made, as you can see in the picture above…here is the story in its entirety:
Miraculous recovery of teenager who grew back her face after suffering ‘one-in-a-million’ allergic reaction to paracetamol
Jan 2
to stop MRSA, stop over-prescribing antibiotics: Solution to killer superbug found in Norway
i remember when i was in undergrad, i went to student health when i was feeling sick…after a few tests, i was diagnosed with mono, a VIRAL infection…yet they still sent me home with some penicillin, which is useless against viruses…its a little harder for bacteria to evolve resistance to antibiotics if we limit their use somewhat
Aug 17
Bills turned up positive for cocaine in these percentages in certain cities:
100 percent: Detroit, Michigan; Boston, Massachusetts; Orlando, Florida; Miami, Florida; Los Angeles, California
88 percent: Toronto, Canada
77 percent: Salt Lake City, Utah
75 percent: Brasilia, Brazil
20 percent: Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China
0 percent: Zhuzhou, China
Jul 22
weird
Stoned wallabies make crop circles
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said.
Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.
She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.
Australia supplies about 50% of the world’s legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.
“The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Lara Giddings told the hearing.
“Then they crash,” she added. “We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”
Rick Rockliff, a spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but other animals had also been spotted in the poppy fields acting unusually.
“There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles,” he added.
Retired Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his fields.
“They would just come and eat some poppies and they would go away,” he told ABC News.
“They’d come back again and they would do their circle work in the paddock.”
Some people believe the mysterious circles that appear in fields in a number of countries are created by aliens. Others put them down to a human hoax.
