In a national first, the people of Denver voted to decriminalize psilocybin-containing mushrooms last week. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms, also known as “shrooms” or “magic mushrooms,” have been illegal in the United States since President Nixon’s Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which considers the psychedelic fungi and its mindbending chemicals (psilocybin and psilocin) … [Read more...] about Denver Leads Drug Policy Reform, Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms
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NOTW: 42 pounds of missing grenades, a planned naked cartwheel and the worst way to get out of police trouble
OOPS! On May 1, as airmen of the 91st Missile Wing Security Forces traversed the gravel back roads of North Dakota between two of the nuclear missile launch sites they are charged with protecting, the back hatch of their truck fell open, allowing a 42-pound metal box of explosive grenade rounds to fall out. Despite deploying more than 100 airmen to walk the entire 6-mile … [Read more...] about NOTW: 42 pounds of missing grenades, a planned naked cartwheel and the worst way to get out of police trouble
NOTW: Rhino dung science, rogue brain cells and the Krispy Kreme black market
WORK OF A RESEARCHER “Field work is always challenging,” explained Courtney Marneweck of South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal in a recent journal article, but studying the sociology of a white rhino’s dung meant developing a “pattern-recognition algorithm” to figure out “smell profiles” of 150 animals’ feces–after tracking them individually to observe them in the act. … [Read more...] about NOTW: Rhino dung science, rogue brain cells and the Krispy Kreme black market
NOTW: TSA revenue, the power of prayer and one really big telemarketing fine
THE POWER OF PRAYER A 28-year-old woman, unnamed in news reports, veered off the road and into a house in the Florida panhandle town of Mary Esther on July 7. She apparently was free of drug or alcohol influence, but readily explained to police that she must have gone through a stop sign and left the road when she closed her eyes to pray as she drove. (The house was damaged, … [Read more...] about NOTW: TSA revenue, the power of prayer and one really big telemarketing fine
NOTW: ‘Hungry Monk Yoga,’ restaurant hedgehogs and insane weed-killing
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! One notably successful YouTube channel (700,000 subscribers) features Mr. Lauri Vuohensilta of Finland pulverizing various objects (such as a bowling ball) in a 100-ton hydraulic press. (Said Vuohensilta, “I think it’s built into every person–the need to destroy something.”) That channel is free of charge, but other entrepreneurs have created 24-hour … [Read more...] about NOTW: ‘Hungry Monk Yoga,’ restaurant hedgehogs and insane weed-killing