smoke pot, lose weight: the best of all possible worlds

Pot Chef, dude!Well actually, as a not-potter myself the best of all possible worlds would be one where the stuff didn’t stink like candy made from filthy socks, rolled in skunk cabbage, but that’s just me.

From CNN via Fark comes news that Big Pharma, our beloved overlords, renowned for bypassing the chance to make a quick buck in order to spend their days and nights hard at work finding a cure for cancer, is developing a new kind of pot that will help stoners toke away the pounds.

The most telling thing in the article is the fact that it was posted in the Money section of CNN, not the Science section.

Or the Altruism section…oh wait, the what?

“The cannabis plant has 70 different cannabinoids in it, and each has a different effect on the body,” GW Managing Director Justin Gover told Reuters.

“Some can stimulate your appetite, and some in the same plant can suppress your appetite. It is amazing both scientifically and commercially,” he said in a telephone interview.

GW said it plans to start clinical trials of the new drug in the second half of this year.

Volunteers?

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PSA: Got Coke?

A Columbian public service announcement; some claim it was banned, but if it was produced by the government it seems unlikely to have been banned. Okay, so perhaps the director, crew and cast were taken into the jungle and shot, but no: it wasn’t banned.

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one more reason to drink gin

St. Mary MartiniAll the Polonium 210 in tea.

”This is all lies, provocation and government propaganda by the United Kingdom,” he said. ”They are trying to make up for their weak hand…”

Investigators have identified the teapot believed to have contained the radioactive tea, which eventually killed Litvinenko in November, Sky News said, citing unnamed Scotland Yard officials. ABC News had a similar report, citing an unidentified official…

ABC News said the teapot, found at the Millennium Hotel, remained in use for several weeks after the poisoning, adding that its radiation readings were extremely high.

Of the 13 people who tested positive for contamination with Polonium-210 since Litvinenko was poisoned, eight worked at the hotel. Two others who tested positive for the rare radioactive material also visited the hotel’s bar.

Litvinenko, 43, died on Nov. 23. The former KGB agent fled to Britain after leaving Russia and was granted asylum. In exile, he became a vocal opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him in a deathbed statement of masterminding his death…

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California

Sure, the singer is from Montreal by way of Paris, but I defy you to tell me that she didn’t absolutely nail SoCal with this song. This video, by the way, cost three-quarters of a million dollars to make, and was directed by the relatively insane Abel Ferrara, whose habits may perhaps explain why so much of that money ultimately ended up in Columbia.

Lyrics and translation are after the jump.

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quotes o’ the day

Let no man accuse me of being narrow. Check out this microroundup:

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo

“No one suspects the butterfly.”
Bart Simpson