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• What I found on YouTube today – Magic Beer Bottle!

  
  iWorld — Authority: 144
  Alakazapps today is proud to announce Magic Beer Bottle 1.0, a beer simulator that literally comes off the screen. After demonstrating what looks like a normal iPhone(R) ‘beer app’ , the performer of the trick can literally pluck the top off the bottle – it becomes real in their fingertips. Beer simulators have ...
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• Organization of American States And the U.S. Government Announce Renewed Efforts to Fight Illegal Drugs

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of the United States have announced renewed efforts to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in the hemisphere and to provide treatment to persons with drug addictions, two subjects that are expected to dominate next week’s Forty-Sixth Regular Session of the ...
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• Saturdays Catch-All

  
  Success Warrior: Alan B. Rowley II - Fitness Coach, Beachbody.com, P90X, Insanity — Authority: 425
  Saturdays on this blog will likely be aimed at catching up on all the small thoughts that occur to me through the week that arent necessarily big enough for their own post.  That means that Ill have to keep better track during the week because my brains RAM is very limited and stuff is ejected almost as quickly as ...
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• The Prohibition Era in American History

  
  Suzanne Lieurance - Writing Coach and Freelance Writer — Authority: 119
  This book is part of Enslow Publishers’ In American History series.
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• Cheaper And Easier To Find

  
  Power and Control — Authority: 541
  The Charlotte Observer has a story about a new way to herd junkies. Interesting in and of itself. But this bit really caught my eye: When officers knocked on Ross door Thursday afternoon, dogs started barking before the door opened. "Are you a heroin user, sir?" an officer asked. "I used to be," said Ross. ...
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• Cannabis Cultuurprijs (cannabis culture award)

  
  Marijuana & Cannabis Blog — Authority: 413
  The Cannabis Cultuurprijs 2009, now in its sixth year, is presented to individuals who have made significant contributions towards the acceptance of cannabis in all its forms and to the reintegration of marihuana and hemp culture into modern society. At a time when ‘zero tolerance’ is replacing the ‘tolerance ...
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• "If California’s hippies long for legalisation, the bullet-weary citizens of Mexico’s poorest barrios..."

  
  homo superior curates the Web — Authority: 437
  “If California’s hippies long for legalisation, the bullet-weary citizens of Mexico’s poorest barrios are even keener.” - Drugs: Virtually legal | The Economist
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• Chicago Mayor Daley Slammed By Gun Rights Group

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 515
  Jim sent this in: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a loyal Democrat and liberal-left ideologue, blamed the Fort Hood massacre –perpetrated last Thursday by a radical Muslim soldier –on firearms. “Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda,” said Alan ...
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• United Air Pilot Charged in London After Failing Alcohol Test

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 156
  Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid;=axBmi6RY3iRM By Mary Jane Credeur and Mary Schlangenstein A United Airlines pilot was charged with operating an aircraft while under the influence of alcohol after failing a breath test at London’s Heathrow airport in the second case there this ...
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• Canadian brewers response to prohibition, 1874-1920 (article)

  
  Alcohol and Drugs History Society — Authority: 123
  M.J. Bellamy, "The Canadian Brewing Industrys Response to Prohibition, 1874-1920," Brewery History 132 (2009): 2-17.
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• Is Marijuana Prohibition America’s ‘Berlin Wall’?

  
  NORML Blog — Authority: 548
  by George Rohrbacher , Member, NORML board of directors; medical cannabis patient [ Editors Note : This essay was originally published on March 1st, 2009. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Walls deconstruction and the fall of Communism being recognized around the world this week, and with the ...
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• School rule: 1,000 feet add felony drug charge

  
  The Hook News Blog — Authority: 509
  Charlottesville resident Carlos Wilfredo Garcia Sanchez, 38, already is trouble for allegedly possessing a half-kilo of cocaine, but getting busted within 1,000 feet of UVA property tacks on another felony charge. MUGSHOT FROM JADE Of the eight alleged drug dealers arrested by the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement ...
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• $2 Million Wine and Spirit Auction at Christie’s

  
  Exotic Excess — Authority: 435
  For the first time since 1920, when Prohibition began, fine and rare spirits are going to be auctioned off in New York at Christie’s. An impeccable selection of fine wines and spirits is going on at Christie’s on November 14. Some $2 million worth will cross the auction block, including over 40 lots of ...
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• Celebrate 76 Years Of Legal Drinking December 5.

  
  The Chuck Cowdery Blog — Authority: 121
  Repeal Day is Saturday, December 5, and if you are going to be anywhere near Louisville, Kentucky, you might want to consider the Bourbon Societys Repeal Day Party. Special guests include Chris Morris from Woodford Reserve, Al Young from Four Roses, and Mike Veach from the Filson Historical Society. Somebody (they ...
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• The American War on Pot Rolls On -By Sherwood Ross

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  "Editor’s Note: At a time when American prisons are overflowing and government budgets are busting, authorities across the United States continue to arrest and prosecute hundreds of thousands of people for marijuana possession, sometimes even for small amounts. In this guest essay, journalist Sherwood Ross examines ...
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• Temperance in America: The Basics of an Enduring Philosophy

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  Temperance may be defined as: moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful. On November 10, 1891, the first meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was held in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting signaled a new era of social responsibility and the beginning of ...
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• FIJA Demonstration of November 9, 2009 by Julian Heicklen

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 121
  I arrived at he U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan at 11:45 am on Monday, November 9, 2009.  The weather was perfect: warm and sunny.  I stood in the middle of the plaza in front of the courthouse. I started to pass out the FIJA pamphlet entitled “A Primer ...
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• “TINKLE TIME,” EXPLAINED

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 135
  Readers may recall my post about this Harry Woods song — the sheet music a recent eBay purchase whose cover has Bobby Hackett looking solemn.  The music itself came today (the melody is truly dumb) and I now understand Hackett’s expression, the face of a man wishing to be far from this song.  ...
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• Former Gov. Gary Johnson to speak at UNM

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 598
  Former Governor Gary Johnson will be speaking at UNM this week according to Santa Fe New Mexican reporter Steve Terrell. Terrell, writing on his blog , notes it will be at an event put on by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). The event, scheduled at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Lobo Rooms A & B, in the ...
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• Germany: Seven-year-old found on Berlin sidewalk with alcohol poisoning

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 156
  Link: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091109-23119.html A seven-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was found on a Berlin sidewalk with dangerously high amounts of alcohol in his system on Sunday evening, police reported. Residents in the city’s Spandau district alarmed emergency rescuers ...
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