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37-52	March 2006 Article Out of control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science By Celia Farber SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Appropriations and expenditures; Career as whistleblower; Career in retrovirology; Case studies; Drugs; Etiology; HIV-positive women; Fishbein, Jonathan; Kampala; Medical misconceptions; Duesberg, Peter; Toxicology; Uganda; Whistle blowing PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
16-17	July 2005 Readings/Article A spoonful of sugar SEE ALSO: Drugs; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Merck & Co.; Pharmaceutical industry; Sales personnel; Selling PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
83-84	September 2004 Article Risk management: The FDA's deference to drug companies is bad for America's health By Alicia Mundy SEE ALSO: Drugs; 2004; Pharmaceutical industry; Testing; United States. Food and Drug Administration; Whistle blowing PDF IMAGES
21-26	May 2003 Readings/Article I told u I was hardcore SEE ALSO: Arizona; Vedas, Brandon; Drug use; Drugs; Online chat groups; Overdosage; Phoenix; Self-destructive behavior PDF IMAGES
16	May 1995 Readings/Article The drug industry's bogus science By David A. Kessler SEE ALSO: Drugs; Pharmaceutical industry; Testing PDF IMAGES
24-26	April 1990 Readings/Article The war on (some) drugs By Stephen Jay Gould SEE ALSO: Drug legalization; Drugs; Narcotics, Control of PDF IMAGES
20-21	December 1982 Harper's journal/Article Headaches By M.E. K. SEE ALSO: Drugs PDF IMAGES
32-46	September 1982 Article Waiting for interferon: What happens when people's hopes run ahead of the scientific method By Charles Fox SEE ALSO: Drugs; Testing PDF IMAGES
10	June 1973 Wraparound/Article Reports By Judith Appelbaum SEE ALSO: Aged; Diseases; Drugs; Treatment PDF IMAGES
71	November 1967 Status report/Article Death and LSD SEE ALSO: Drugs; LSD (Drug); Physiological effect; Terminally ill; Testing PDF IMAGES
42	July 1967 Article Uncharted terrain By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Apomorphine; Drugs; Heroin habit; Testing; Treatment PDF IMAGES
23-28	December 1965 The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Adultery; Advertising, Magazine; American books abroad; American Medical Association; Adams, Ansel Easton; Automobile parking; Backache; Backache, stress and tension (Book); Bass, Bob; Career as Journal of the American Medical Association editor; Career as Nassau County (New York) election worker; Career as Texas legislator; Career in philanthropy; Brower, David Ross; Drugs; Kraus, Hans; Rudnytsky, Ivan L. (Ivan Lysiak); Morehead, John Motley; Davis, Laura; Legal status, laws, etc.; King, Lester S. (Lester Snow); Lobbyists; Married women; Mayer, Milton Sanford; 1951-; Nassau County; Nonprofit organizations; Not man apart (Book); Pacifists; Philanthropists; Photography, Artistic; Jeffers, Robinson; Rye; Rye (New York); Thomas; Trials, litigation, etc.; Views on women automobile drivers; What can a man do? (Book); Women automobile drivers PDF IMAGES
75-77	January 1962 Article Prescriptions anonymous By Harold Jerome Harris SEE ALSO: Complications; Drugs; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medication abuse; Medicine; Physician and patient; Prescribing; Prescription writing PDF IMAGES
73-84	May 1960 Article The strange ethics of the ethical drug industry By Alek Aron Rozental SEE ALSO: Drugs; Legislative hearings; Pharmaceutical industry; Prices PDF IMAGES
29-30	August 1959 Article No fun to be sick any more By Elaine Kendall SEE ALSO: Care of the sick; Drugs; Influenza; Physician and patient; Sick; Side effects PDF IMAGES
60-63	February 1958 Article Antibiotics: Too much of a good thing? By Vernon Knight SEE ALSO: Drugs; Physician and patient; Testing PDF IMAGES
687-696	April 1907 Article The making of medicines. Chemistry of commerce (VII) By Robert Kennedy Duncan SEE ALSO: Drugs; Pharmaceutical industry PDF IMAGES
481-482	February 1898 Editor's study/Article — (III) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Drugs PDF IMAGES
799	October 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Prescribing; Veterinarians PDF IMAGES
478	August 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Prescribing; Rheumatism PDF IMAGES
478	August 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Prescribing; Terre Haute PDF IMAGES
636	March 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Mottoes; Owego PDF IMAGES
320	January 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bucyrus; Drugs; Prescribing; Writing PDF IMAGES
283-284	July 1859 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Dutch Americans; Prescribing PDF IMAGES
423	August 1855 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Administration; Drugs PDF IMAGES
563	March 1855 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Drugs; Opium habit; Side effects PDF IMAGES

Oct 2006	Percentage of volunteers in a four-year psychedelic-mushroom study who said they experienced “strong or extreme fear”: 31 Percentage who described the experience as “among the five most meaningful” in their lives: 67	Harper's Index Source: Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)
Dec 2005	Average hourly wage made by drug-dealing foot soldiers in Chicago, according to a Columbia University study: $3.41	Harper's Index Source: Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University (N.Y.C.)
Oct 2005	Total U.S. spending on poppy eradication and other antidrug efforts in Afghanistan last year: $780,000,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
Oct 2005	Number of toilet seats at the EU Parliament building in Brussels that a TV station had tested for cocaine: 46	Harper's Index Source: Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (Nuremberg)
Oct 2005	Number of toilet seats at the EU Parliament building in Brussels that a TV station had tested for cocaine that tested positive: 41	Harper's Index Source: Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (Nuremberg)
Aug 2005	Average amount of sugar consumed each year by a U.S. preschooler, expressed as a percentage of body weight : 149	Harper's Index Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/U.S. Department of Agriculture
Aug 2005	Number of Viagra users who have reported becoming blind from the drug : 38	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)
Feb 2005	Rank of the United States among the largest world exporters of cigarettes: 1	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Nov 2004	Number of restaurants in Guizhou, China, closed in April for adding opium to their dishes : 215	Harper's Index Source: Guizhou Provincial Bureau of Public Security (Guiyang, China)
Nov 2004	Rank of antidepressants and anti-ulcer drugs among the best-selling prescription drugs worldwide last year : 3,2	Harper's Index Source: IMS Health (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)
Nov 2004	Rank of cholesterol-lowering drugs : 1	Harper's Index Source: IMS Health (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)
Oct 2004	Days a House committee postponed July hearings on antidepressants while its chair considered a pharmaceutical-lobbyist job : 50	Harper's Index Source: Congressman Jim Greenwood’s Office (Washington)
Aug 2004	Number of years a judge ordered a man convicted of cocaine possession last spring to keep a coffin in his home : 6.5	Harper's Index Source: Rockdale County Court (Conyers, Ga.)
Jul 2004	Percentage of his salary Minnesota senator Mark Dayton spends on bus trips for seniors buying drugs in Canada : 100	Harper's Index Source: Minnesota Senior Federation (St. Paul)
Jul 2004	Ratio of U.S. and Canadian spending on pharmaceuticals last year to the amount the rest of the world spent : 31:32	Harper's Index Source: IMS Health (London)
Jul 2004	Average amount an American spent on pharmaceuticals in 2002 : $202.81	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jun 2004	Street value of a rock of crack cocaine the size of the sun : $5.6 x 1034	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (N.Y.C.)/Harper's research
Apr 2004	Number of Danes who died from heroin or morphine in 2002 for every Dane who died from methadone that year : 1.06	Harper's Index Source: Institute of Forensic Medicine (Copenhagen)
Mar 2004	Percentage by which health-care spending by a daily smoker exceeds that by a nonsmoker : 21	Harper's Index Source: Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Mar 2004	Number of a Texas toddler's burned fingers amputated in 1992 after she was left in a car with her mother's lit cigarette : 9.5	Harper's Index Source: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Jan 2004	Months after a data firm was hired to run MATRIX that its CEO resigned, admitting to past drug smuggling : 18	Harper's Index Source: Seisint, Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.)/Qorvis Communications (McLean, Va.)
Jan 2004	Estimated percentage of Afghanistan's GDP last year accounted for by opium exports : 39	Harper's Index Source: International Monetary Fund (Washington)
Sep 2003	Number of Canadian prison inmates who overdosed in March on fellow prisoners' methadone-laced vomit: 2	Harper's Index Source: Saskatchewan Department of Corrections (Regina, Canada)
Aug 2003	Percentage by which the amount of drugs stolen by Guatemalan police last year exceeded the amount officially seized: 100	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (Washington)
Jul 2003	Ratio of New York City's minimum fine for smoking tobacco in a bar to its minimum fine for possessing marijuana: 2:1	Harper's Index Source: Office of the Mayor (N.Y.C.)/New York County District Attorney's Office (N.Y.C.)
Dec 2002	Minimum percentage change since last year in Afghanistan's opium production: +1,000	Harper's Index Source: United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (N.Y.C.)
Apr 2002	Months that a Denver bookstore has been refusing court orders to identify a buyer of a book about making illegal drugs: 22	Harper's Index Source: Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver)
Mar 2002	Chance that a U.S. case of HIV is resistant to at least one of the 16 anti-AIDS drugs in use: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: Center for AIDS Research (La Jolla, Calif.)/AIDS Action Committee (Boston)
Feb 2002	Amount a nonprofit U.S. conservative group pays drug-addicted women to undergo sterilization: $200	Harper's Index Source: CRACK (Garden Grove, Calif.)
Sep 2001	Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device: 3	Harper's Index Source: American Lung Association (Grand Junction, Colo.)
Sep 2001	Hours that Amherst College agreed to ban coffee last term as part of a student's performance piece about the drug war: 24	Harper's Index Source: Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)
Sep 2001	Number of U.S. college students who were denied federal financial aid last year because of a prior drug conviction: 9,605	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Education
Aug 2001	Percentage of the working residents of Del Rio, Texas, who are directly employed in the war on drugs: 20	Harper's Index Source: Texas Observer (Austin)
Aug 2001	Estimated percentage of Colombia's cocaine exports controlled by right-wing paramilitary leaders: 40	Harper's Index Source: Colombian National Police (Bogot‡)
Jul 2001	Percentage change in the size of Colombia's coca crop since its "Plan Colombia" coca-eradication campaign began in 1999: +11	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
Jul 2001	Ratio of the total amount the U.S. spent on the Gulf War to the amount it spent last year on the drug war: 2:5	Harper's Index Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy/U.S. Department of Defense
Mar 2001	Percentage change since 1995 in new drug applications filed with the FDA that include test results from abroad: +300	Harper's Index Source: Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)
Mar 2001	Pounds of marijuana that a private company has been contracted to grow for Canada's health ministry next year: 407	Harper's Index Source: Public Works and Government Services Canada (Ottawa)
Mar 2001	Pounds of marijuana seized in Chicago last December from a 22-year-old's bedroom: 700	Harper's Index Source: Chicago Police Department
Feb 2001	Estimated amount of Colombian drug money laundered each year via purchases of U.S. goods and services: $3,000,000,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nov 2000	Days by which a Texan's prison sentence for candy-bar theft this year exceeded his sentence for marijuana possession: 550	Harper's Index Source: Smith County District Attorney's Office (Tyler, Tex.)
Nov 2000	Number of families in a Texas town who have sued the school district over its adoption of random drug testing: 1	Harper's Index Source: American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (Austin)
Nov 2000	Percentage change since 1979 in the number of cocaine users in the United States: -62	Harper's Index Source: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (Rockville, Md.)
Oct 2000	Factor by which cocaine production in Colombia has increased since 1995: 2	Harper's Index Source: Center for International Policy (Washington)/ U.S. Department of State
Aug 2000	Bounty placed on the head of any U.S. DEA agent last January by Mexico's Juárez drug cartel: $200,000	Harper's Index Source: Drug Enforcement Administration (El Paso, Tex.)
Jul 2000	Chances that a drug offense by a black U.S. juvenile with no prior jail time will result in imprisonment: 48 in 100,000	Harper's Index Source: National Council on Crime and Delinquency (Oakland, Calif.)
Jul 2000	Chance that a drug offense by a white juvenile with no prior jail time will result in imprisonment: 1 in 100,000	Harper's Index Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Rockville, Md.)
Jul 2000	Amount the U.S. government spent on drug testing per employee who tested positive between 1997 and 1998: $35,222	Harper's Index Source: Mannvernd, Organisation of Icelanders for Ethics in Science and Medicine (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Jun 2000	Chances that a 19th century “opium-eater” in Albany, New York, was a woman: 4 in 5	Harper's Index Source: David T. Courtwright, Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America before 1940, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
May 2000	Points by which the percentage of U.S. college students who are “frequent binge drinkers” has changed since 1993: +3	Harper's Index Source: Harvard School of Public Health (Cambridge, Mass.)
Feb 2000	Percentage change in the number of marijuana arrests since Bill Clinton became president: +56	Harper's Index Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (Clarksburg, W.Va.)
Feb 2000	Percentage change in Colombia's estimated cocaine production since 1990: +154	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State (Washington)
Feb 2000	Chance that a drug user holds a full-time job, according to a federal study released last year: 7 in 10	Harper's Index Source: Department of Health and Human Services (Washington)
Feb 2000	Months after George W. Bush became a candidate last year that the study finding that 7 in 10 drug users hold a full-time job was released: 3	Harper's Index Source: Department of Health and Human Services (Washington)
Oct 1999	Number of Vietnam-era helicopters that the U.S. donated to Mexico for drug control between 1996 and 1997: 73	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Oct 1999	Factor by which the 123,500 acres of coca that Colombia reports eradicating last year exceeds CIA estimates: 4	Harper's Index Source: CIA (McLean, Va.)/U.N. Drug Control and Crime Prevention Committee (Vienna)
Sep 1999	Number of U.S. high schools that have hired a Massachusetts firm to test students' hair for evidence of drug use: 80	Harper's Index Source: Psychemedics Corporation (Cambridge, Mass.)
Sep 1999	Chance that a Wyoming inmate under the age of 18 has used crystal meth more than once: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: Wyoming Methamphetamine Initiative (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Sep 1999	Percentage change since 1995 in the number of heroin overdoses in greater Orlando, Florida: +107	Harper's Index Source: Orange County District Nine Medical Examiner's Office (Orlando, Fla.)
Jun 1999	Percentage change since 1991 in the number of U.S. inmates who were illegal-drug users at the time of their arrest: +68	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Jun 1999	Chance that a legal antidepressant will alleviate severe depression: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Md.)
Jun 1999	Fee charged by a Pennsylvania cyberpsychologist for online treatment of Internet addiction, per minute: $1.50	Harper's Index Source: Center for On-Line Addiction (Bradford, Pa.)
May 1999	Estimated number of drug-related U.S. extradition requests to Mexico that are pending: 40	Harper's Index Source: U.S. State Department
May 1999	Average duration in hours of the stupor induced in Japanese beetles by the consumption of geraniums: 8	Harper's Index Source: Dr. Daniel A. Potter (Lexington, Ky.)
Nov 1998	Estimated number of American women arrested for child abuse since 1977 after using drugs or alcohol while pregnant: 200	Harper's Index Source: Women's Law Project (Philadelphia)
Nov 1998	Years in prison to which a South Carolina woman was sentenced for using drugs or alcohol while pregnant in 1992: 8	Harper's Index Source: Women's Law Project (Philadelphia)
Sep 1998	Estimated amount Americans spent on marijuana last year, according to the federal government: $7,000,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy (Washington)
Sep 1998	Minimum amount federal, state, and local governments spent combatting marijuana, according to NORML: $7,500,000,000	Harper's Index Source: National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Washington)
Sep 1998	Days a Denver school principal was put on leave last May for allowing students a sip of wine on a trip to Paris: 13	Harper's Index Source: Student Achievement Services, Cherry Creek School District (Greenwood, Colo.)
May 1998	Number of Americans sentenced to federal prison for marijuana convictions since 1992: 21,424	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission (Washington)

September 4, 2008	Xiguang, an elephant undergoing treatment on the Chinese island of Hainan, was off heroin and headed home.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: MSNBC
September 3, 2008	Tens of thousands of copies of a Swedish food magazine were recalled after an error in a recipe for apple cake sent four readers to hospitals with nutmeg poisoning.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: New York Times
September 2, 2008	It emerged that McCain did not properly vet Alaska governor Sarah Palin in selecting her as his running mate, and that he interviewed her in person only on the same day he offered her the position. Despite McCain's opposition to earmarks, Palin, when mayor of the 6,700-resident town of Wasilla (known to state troopers as Alaska's “meth capital”), hired lobbyist Steven Silver to help win federal earmarks totaling $27 million. It also emerged that Palin, 44, received her first passport in 2006.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source 1: Washington Post Source 2: Boston Globe Source 3: Juneau Empire Source 4: Talking Points Memo
August 31, 2008	A man concerned that he had injected air into his veins while shooting cocaine tried to amputate his own arm with a butter knife, and then a butcher knife, at a Denny's Restaurant in California,.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: CBS
July 5, 2007	Experts claimed that prescription pills were becoming the new marijuana on college campuses.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: CNN.com
May 10, 2007	The makers of OxyContin admitted that they had misled consumers about the risks of addiction.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: WP
April 9, 2007	A Ukrainian woman was arrested after customs officials found hashish inside the battery compartment of her vibrator.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: Toronto Sun
March 25, 2007	In the United States, crystal meth was now available in candy flavors.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: USA TODAY
February 1, 2007	In Texas, elementary school children were increasingly becoming addicted to “cheese,” a potentially lethal combination of heroin and Tylenol PM. “Any child anywhere can afford a hit of cheese,” said a detective. “It's just horrific.”	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: ABC News
January 26, 2007	A molecular scientist who owns a café announced that he had found a way to put caffeine in a donut.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: AP via NY Post
December 7, 2006	Democrats in Congress announced that beginning in January members of the House would work five days a week. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Georgia), who spends more than half his week at home. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families--that's what this says.” The Democrats were also trying to stop smoking on the Hill, and attempting to block a $3,300 congressional raise.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source 1: Washington Post Source 2: Washington Post Source 3: Washington Post
November 30, 2006	Sheriff's deputies in Polk County, Florida, rescued a naked, drug-addled man from the jaws of an attacking alligator.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: CNN
October 31, 2006	Due to the Lebanon war, Israel was facing an eight-fold increase in the cost of marijuana.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
October 12, 2006	Canadian troops in Afghanistan were finding it difficult to destroy forests of ten-foot-tall marijuana plants where the Taliban hide. “That damn marijuana,” said one soldier.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters via CNN.com
September 25, 2006	An appeals court ruled that a Montana mother who gave bong hits to her baby daughter should not have to spend five years in jail.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
September 8, 2006	Dapoxetine, a pharmaceutical believed to prevent premature ejaculation in men, remained in “regulatory limbo.”	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Medpagetoday.com via Google News
September 2, 2006	Afghanistan's opium production was expected to increase by 59 percent this year, making the country the source of 92 percent of the world's supply.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: BBC
September 1, 2006	In a courtroom in Duluth, Minnesota, a cocaine trafficker ate his own feces.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Duluth News Tribune
August 27, 2006	Taiwanese apartment-dwellers were upset to discover that their water supply contained the corpse of a 27-year-old drug addict named Kuo.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: China Post
August 14, 2006	An empty submarine suspected of cocaine smuggling was found floating off the coast of Spain.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: BBC
August 2, 2006	Bungs, drugs, and wholesale cheating were declared to be the norm in all major sports.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Observer UK
July 25, 2006	In Maryland one U.S. Senate candidate said he did not knowingly pay for 20 heroin addicts to come to his campaign rally, while another was arrested for raping his 19-year-old mail-order bride.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Washington Times
July 10, 2006	Scientists in Maryland found that two thirds of people who consumed the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin had extremely meaningful experiences.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2006	It was reported that Senator Orrin Hatch intervened to get a record producer out of a Dubai jail after he was sentenced to four years for possession of cocaine.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
July 7, 2006	Three people were arrested for plotting to sell Coca-Cola secrets to PepsiCo.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Voice of America
June 29, 2006	A Vermont teenager was convicted of stealing the bowtie and eyeglasses from a corpse and cutting off its head to make a bong.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: NBC5.com
June 27, 2006	Rush Limbaugh was detained at an airport when authorities found Viagra in his luggage.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source 1: Hamilton Spectator Source 2: local6.com
May 30, 2006	A potent drug cocktail killed at least 48 people in Detroit.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Detroit Free Press
May 23, 2006	In Australia, a psychiatrist named Stephen Allnutt testified that financier Brendan Francis McMahon had believed he was helping animals when he mutilated 17 rabbits and a guinea pig while under the influence of methamphetamine. "I wonder," McMahon reportedly said, "if I made a mistake because I never asked the rabbits?"	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
April 29, 2006	The Mexican senate passed a bill legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, opium, cocaine, and heroin; President Vicente Fox was expected to approve the bill.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
April 24, 2006	Twenty percent of U.S. teenagers admitted to huffing household products in order to get high.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
April 20, 2006	A woman in El Salvador was in trouble for allegedly attempting to smuggle a live grenade and marijuana into a prison via a container stuffed into her vagina.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: NewsNet5.com
April 19, 2006	Scientists reported that ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes--such as mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels, and rabbitfish--could produce LSD-like hallucinations in those who ate them.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Practical Fishkeepingg
April 14, 2006	In London, a woman's skeletal remains were found two years after her death, propped in front of a still-on TV. “I did notice a kind of rotten smell,” said a neighbor, “but the bins downstairs are strong and the stairwells smell with junkies.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
April 4, 2006	Doctors in London reported that a man who has taken 40,000 doses of Ecstasy was having trouble with his short-term memory.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Guardian
February 16, 2006	Scientists in Italy found that the effects of Ecstasy on rats were intensified when the rats were made to listen to loud music.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
January 30, 2006	In Gary, Indiana, an Iraq war veteran killed a 79-year-old man when the man refused to give him money for crack.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: IndyStar.com
January 29, 2006	Marine James Blake Miller, whose face became emblematic of the Iraq war after he was photographed smoking a cigarette during the November 2004 attack on Fallujah, was at home in Kentucky, where he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and had cut back to a pack and a half a day.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: SFGate.com
December 19, 2005	Evo Morales appeared to have won the presidency of Bolivia; he plans to legalize coca farming. Morales, who admires Fidel Castro, said that he wanted to maintain Bolivia's ties to the United States but did not want “a relationship of submission.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
December 19, 2005	An Ohio man named Wayne Green was suing a police drug dog for illegal search. “They've got a mean ol' dog,” he explained. “You know what I'm saying?” The dog, Andi, signed with a paw print when served with the complaint.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CourtTV.com
December 15, 2005	A Florida owl was found to be high on marijuana.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: 9News.com
December 6, 2005	A Memphis, Tennessee, woman was arrested after she hired a hit man to kill four other men and take their cocaine; the hit man turned out to be an undercover police officer, and the cocaine turned out to be queso fresco cheese.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Washington Post
December 1, 2005	It was reported that Iraqi militants, before they carried out raids or suicide bombings, were taking a methamphetamine-based drug called “pinky” that made them feel superhuman.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Daily Mirror
October 14, 2005	More details emerged in the case of the New Zealand financier arrested in Australia for bestiality with rabbits. Police said that when they arrested the man he had scratches on his hands and face; the man's lawyer said he molested the rabbits under the influence of methamphetamine. The head of the Australian Companion Rabbit Society pointed out that prostitutes were once called “bunnies.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Advertiser
October 14, 2005	A study by scientists at the University of Saskatchewan found that injecting rats with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, stimulated the growth of new brain cells.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CTV.ca
October 10, 2005	The FBI was thinking it might start hiring people who have admitted to using illegal drugs.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Chicago Sun-Times
October 10, 2005	Londoners were concerned about crack-addicted squirrels.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Register
September 11, 2005	Doctors in New Orleans admitted that they had euthanized critically ill patients rather than leaving them to sufferin the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Those who had no chance of making it," said an emergency official, "were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Daily Mail
September 8, 2005	Emergency officials in Louisiana requested 25,000 body bags for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and a total evacuation of New Orleans was ordered. Much of the city was still underwater, though several people who lived on high ground objected to the evacuation. "I haven't even run out of weed yet," said one woman.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: The Guardian Source 2: The New York Times
August 13, 2005	In Victoria, Canada, methamphetamine addicts were stealing large numbers of bicycles because disassembling the bikes soothes them while they tweak.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Canada.com
August 8, 2005	Pfizer patented a drug that cures premature female orgasm.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: All Headline News
August 5, 2005	An estimated $400,000-worth of cocaine was flowing through the Italian River Po every day.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Yahoo! News
August 4, 2005	In Los Angeles, cocaine was found in the bloodstream of a toddler who died when her father used her as a shield in a shootout with police.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AZCentral.com
July 12, 2005	A thirteen-year-old boy in Kalamazoo accidentally burned down the family meth lab.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: WWMT.com
July 12, 2005	An eating-disorder and female-self-esteem expert collapsed in a Connecticut supermarket after huffing nitrous oxide from whipped cream canisters.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Boston.com
June 15, 2005	In Bullskin Township, Pennsylvania, four men were accused of butchering a pet pygmy goat so that they could trade its meat for either money or crack cocaine.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Post Gazette
June 6, 2005	The Supreme Court made it impossible to obtain medical marijuana.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Bloomberg.com
April 28, 2005	A Colorado high school student decided to test Army recruitment policies by telling a recruiter that he had dropped out of high school and was addicted to marijuana. The recruiter told the student how to get a fake diploma over the Internet and instructed him to take a detoxification formula so that he could pass the Army's drug test.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CBS 4 Colorado
April 14, 2005	U.S. marshals arrested more than 10,000 people on outstanding warrants, nearly half of them for minor drug offenses.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: KRT Wire
April 14, 2005	A Vermont teenager was accused of breaking into a tomb and beheading a corpse. He apparently wanted to use the skull as a bong.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
April 1, 2005	Five American soldiers were arrested for trying to use military aircraft to smuggle cocaine from Colombia into the United States.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
March 11, 2005	A Georgia man was arrested for setting up a methamphetamine lab in a Kmart bathroom.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: News4Jax.com
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