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Deadly drug stolen from vet clinic

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll...NEWS11/70905014 ‘Police are putting out an urgent warning to the public to avoid vials of a deadly drug that were stolen from a veterinary office overnight. Several 100-milliliter vials of Euthasol, used to euthanize animals, were stolen from a veterinary clinic, according to Bourne Police Sgt. Christopher Farrell. Police declined to name the clinic, but said it was on the Cape side of the canal. The break-in was reported when employees opened up t

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/new...7/09/pfizerspam ‘Computers inside pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s network are spamming the internet with e-mails touting the company’s flagship erectile-enhancement drug Viagra, along with ads for knockoff Rolexes and shady junk stocks. But the e-mails are not part of Pfizer’s official marketing efforts. Pfizer’s computers appear to have been infected with malware that has transformed them into zombie computers sending spam at the behest of a hacker.

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Anybody here have a "MySpace" page?

Greetings all, Just trying to close my computer world a little, and wondering, does anybody reading this have a "MySpace" page? If so, that would be cool-"You can't have too many friends"-Me. So if you do, just add me at http://www.myspace.com/shamanicsounds and let me know where your from! (i.e: The Corroboree) Just trying to get all my "chat buddies" in the one place. Dave.

Shroomie the Shaman

Shroomie the Shaman

Happy Little Rabbit

http://humour.200ok.com.au/happy_rabbit.html ‘A little rabbit is happily running through the forest when he stumbles upon a giraffe rolling a joint. The rabbit looks at her and says, “Giraffe my friend, why do you do this? Come with me running through the forest, you’ll see, you’ll feel so much better!” The giraffe looks at him, looks at the joint, tosses it and goes off running with the rabbit. [..]’

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Prison-yard pot plagues Japanese lockup

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007...4455551-ap.html ‘A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said Tuesday. The marijuana plants started sprouting at Abashiri Prison on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido about a year ago, said prison official Takeshi Okamura. He said officials plucked out as many as 300 marijuana plants and treated the ground last year, but several more sprouted again this year. Prison

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Himalayan high for cat who cleaned up at party

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/double...8067367839.html ‘A Double Bay man got more than he bargained for when he took his highly agitated kitten to a veterinary clinic after it had been accidentally locked in a cupboard overnight - only to discover it was high on cocaine and benzodiazepines from a wild weekend dinner party. [..] The eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at the Double Bay clinic on a Monday morning with dilated pupils and a racing heart. The owner said it had trouble walki

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Elephant recovers from heroin addiction

http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=364 ‘The China Daily is reporting that a bull elephant from Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan has recovered from a serious heroin addiction it picked up as a victim of illegal elephant trading. The elephant, nicknamed “Big Brother”, was fed heroin-laced bananas in order to make it easier to control him and his herd, which they led westward to Dehong, near China’s border with Myanmar. According to the article, Big Brother developed a strong need

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Teaspoon of urine can drug test an entire city

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20380094/wid/11915773?gt1=10316 ‘Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city’s sewer plant. The test wouldn’t be used to finger any single person as a drug user. But it would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of dangerous drugs, like methamphetamines, across the country. Oregon State University scientists tested 10 unnamed American cities for remnants of drug

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Discovery of bong delays ferry service

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washin...st=orwashington ‘This bong threat was legitimate. The FBI has confirmed that a suspicious package that idled one of the largest ferries in the Washington state fleet for about an hour Wednesday morning was actually a water-pipe typically used for smoking marijuana. “Someone found a bong,” said David Gomez, FBI assistant special agent in charge. [..] State Patrol Sgt. Craig H. Johnson would only say the device was a “nonhazardous, nonexplosive item

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Scopolamine, burandanga and the borrachero tree

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/scopolamine/borrachero.html ‘The last thing Andrea Fernandez recalls before being drugged is holding her newborn baby on a Bogota city bus. Police found her three days later, muttering to herself and wandering topless along the median strip of a busy highway. Her face was badly beaten and her son was gone. Fernandez is just one of hundreds of victims every month who, according to Colombian hospitals, are temporarily turned into zombies by a home-grown drug called

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

U.S. Customs seizes cocaine-laden semisubmarine

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/...b.ap/index.html ‘A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said. Four suspected smugglers were operating the self-propelled, semisubmersible vessel when it was located and seized on Sunday evening by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, the Border Patrol said in a news release Wednesday. When the suspects

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Seepage Of Drugs From Hog Farms Not An Environmental Problem, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/...70901113342.htm 'Environmental activists have long criticized pharmaceutical use by hog farmers and veterinarians in treating swine disease, saying pharmaceuticals are being overused and errantly contaminating the environment. But new research from the University of Guelph has shown that environmental contamination from antibiotics does not pose appreciable risks to soil and aquatic organisms. Prof. Paul Sibley of the Department of Environmental Bio

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Spring is here!!!

I've been waiting for this all winter, and here it comes...SPRING! The best time of year as your days get more sunny and alive, so does your garden. I just grafted a few more cacti and aloe, but I will take some photos near the end of spring, it'll look good then...until then, HAPPY GARDENING!!!

Shroomie the Shaman

Shroomie the Shaman

Tarred, feathered and tied to a lamppost: Justice for a drug dealer on the streets of Ulster

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article...ster/article.do ‘Tied to a lamppost, he stands with his head and upper body covered in tar and feathers. A makeshift placard hung around his neck with a piece of string announces the reason for his treatment. It is a very public humiliation, and a medieval one. Almost ten years since Northern Ireland’s Troubles officially ended, this remains the crude face of justice on the streets of south Belfast. [..] Locals had accused the victim, who is in his

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Tattoos Gave Drug Dealer Away

http://www.wmur.com/news/13949387/detail.html ‘It didn’t take the sleuthing skills of a Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes to figure out who was peddling marijuana to teenagers in Market Square. Police said 28-year-old Eric Hardcastle’s tattooed eyebrows, head and cheeks made him easy to identify. Late Monday night, a teenager reported being approached by a man with a heavily tattooed face with three baggies of marijuana for sale. Officers said they found Hardcastle — who has a row of arrows over

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

Snatched sniffer dog found in park

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnough...oddlyEnoughNews 'An elite Mexican sniffer dog kidnapped five days ago was found abandoned in a Mexico City park on Monday and reunited with its police handlers. Working on a tip, federal police found Rex IV -- a highly trained Belgian Malinois sheepdog with a string of drug hauls to its name -- tied to a tree in a park in the gritty Iztapalapa neighborhood, a Public Security Ministry spokesman said. "When they realized the police were onto them, th

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

How Does Children's Mental Health Relate To Problems With Alcohol, Nicotine And Illegal Drugs?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/...70815141449.htm 'Research underway at Rutgers University—Camden seeks to examine links between children’s mental health problems and alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drug use over time. The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the Career Development Award to Naomi Marmorstein, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers-Camden, who will use the $649,503 grant to further her intensive research on h

Ed Dunkel

Ed Dunkel

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