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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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The Arizona Republic reported last week that once again a case of drunken air-rage led to a flight being diverted for an emergency landing. Two drunken British women went on a rampage on a charter plane, hitting
one flight attendant with a bottle of vodka and trying to open a cabin
door as the aircraft was cruising over Austria at 32,800 feet... The rampage occurred when a flight attendant denied the women
alcohol because they were visibly intoxicated, police said. The
26-year-old took a swipe at a cabin attendant with a bottle of vodka,
then attempted to open a cabin door.
This story raises a number of questions. First, was it one of those little mini-bottles of vodka? Second, when will our government and air travel officials learn? Last month, SAFER called for marijuana lounges in airports nationwide after federal prosecutors expressed concern over the growing number of alcohol-related incident taking place on commercial flights. Government officials shrugged off the suggestion, though, and it appears as if these incidents will just keep occurring with no end in sight. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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From the The Hill's "Briefing Room" blog: Explaining the current economic downturn to a closed-door fundraiser last week, President Bush said, "Wall Street got drunk."
"There's no question about it," Bush said. "Wall Street got drunk,
that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It
got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it
sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments."
Of course we're all pulling for Wall Street to sober up and get high again...
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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Written by SAFER
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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A recent piece in Time Magazine suggested that the prevalence of marijuana use in the United States may be associated with more and more Americans realizing that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Another factor may be an increasing awareness that marijuana may be less toxic than other drugs, such as tobacco or alcohol. Although it's kind of lame that they felt the need to say "may" -- there has NEVER been a single marijuana overdose death in history, compared to 300+ alcohol overdose deats per year -- it's a start.
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