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Learn Something, Issue II

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Who says learning can’t be fun? Last time we learned about which US presidents have directly killed other humans, but today we’re learning something new!

Important Dates In Illegal Drug History

  • 1855 – German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke isolates the cocaine alkaloid, making the manufacture of cocaine possible. Horray!

  • 1874 – Felix Hoffmann, working for Bayer Pharmecuticals, invents a great new cough medicine…Heroin.

  • 1906 – Albert Hofmann is born in Baden Switzerland. 32 years later he will invent LSD. 100 years later (a.k.a. today) he will still be alive.

  • 1937 – The first American is arrested for selling marijuana. Congratulations, Samuel R. Caldwell!

  • 1954 – Pot Brownie recipe appears in the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

  • 1970 – Dock Ellis, pitcher for the Pittsburg Pirates, pitches a no hitter while tripping on LSD.

  • 1971 – A group of enterprising students at San Rafael High School in California agreed to meet up after school and smoke weed. The time they chose? You guessed it, 4:20!

  • 1982 – A new drug called crack appears in Miami. This is also the year that I am born, which is way better than crack when it comes to not destroying America’s inner cities.

  • 1990 – This dude named Cody is born. In 2013 he will invent a new drug called Whap by mixing cocaine, marijuana, bleach and pressure boiling the whole mixture. By 2016 Whap will be the most abused and harmful drug in the nation.Thanks Cody!…or maybe not, I can’t tell the future.

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    When I was 16, I was walking home one night from my girlfriend's (at the time) like any other night. Now, as a teen, I had a shaved head, but that's as far as it goes for me looking like "a bad ass". I was super straight edge. I got to the corner across the street from my apartment, and I was waiting patiently at the light to cross, when all of a sudden I hear the... Read More » wailers and see flashing lights coming in my direction. Two cops get out of their car, tell me to come over and proceed to start hassling me. Given where I lived (tantamount to gang territory) and the fact that I was a teen out past 11PM, this was annoying, but not a huge surprise. The first question they asked me was "where am I going?" I said home. They asked where home is, and I could point to my window from where I was standing. That wasn't good enough. They decided they were going to demand that I "empty my pockets on the hood of the car". I refused, at which point they accused me of having something to hide. But what they didn't know was that I was taking classes in Canadian law at my high school, and had already covered the section on statutes on search and seizure and probable cause. So I told them flat out: "Give me your badge number, and I'll empty my pockets. And, when you find nothing there, I'll be down at your station tomorrow with a lawyer and I won't leave until I have your job because I gave you no probable cause to stop me, let alone undergo a search and seizure of my personal belongings. And if you don't like it, fuck off". Needless to say, they got back in their car and told me to go home. And I did, smiling.