Besides just turning you into a complete douche, cocaine it turns out, is also very eco-unfriendly:

A panel of scientists meeting at the Natural History Museum in London last week detailed how the production of the drug and its trafficking affect biodiversity and contribute to climate change. The production of a gram of cocaine means the destruction of four square metres of Colombian forest, they said, raising the question of which supermodels, popstars and city types should be lined up with hummer drivers and big game hunters in the environmental most-wanted stakes. Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the planet, and also the biggest cocaine producer. Bad combination.

Cocaine production is a threat to environment is all its stages, said Liliana Davalos, lecturer in Molecular Ecology at the Open University, UK. The first step of the cycle is the destruction of forest to plant coca. Every year, 100 thousand hectares of Colombian forest is destroyed for this end. The plantations also use tons of herbicides that are forbidden in many other countries. Since the UK is one of the world’s largest consumption markets for cocaine, it makes concerns about organic tomatoes and pesticides seem futile.

The more eco-friendly stimluant choice, said the scientists is coffee:

Coffee from shade trees cultivation farms, where the bushes are grown in the shadow of native taller trees, is a much more eco-friendly option. “Biodiversity in these plantations is almost as high as in primary forests,” said botanist Sandy Knapp from the Natural History Museum.

Besides, research has shown that coffee and cocaine act on your body in basically the same way. Guess you just have to drink a lot more of it.

Daisy De La Hoya, recently famed for her role on VH1’s Rock Of Love, has found her way into tabloid news with a recent Myspace picture. And although I never would have guessed it, it seems that Daisy enjoys an occasional whiff of the old coca leaf. But hey, “ITS JUST FLOUR!!! LOL.” Well thank goodness for that, because I was ready to be offended. Have a look at some of the banter from this particular shot. There’s some really astute commentary, such as, “Great pic!! Love all the elements about it.”

While you’re taking in Daisy’s personal page, I dare you to have a listen to some of her music. The songs are so bad that they are in fact enjoyable. I would love to have a window into the recording session… Daisy, scantily clad, sings off-key amidst a sea of silk shirt wearing leeches yayed out of their minds; dudes with 12-inch surgically enhanced schlongs hang around just waiting to bone down, all the while a millet-brained producer head-bangs, truly believing that the music rocks.

Funny…it almost doesn’t seem real that songs like “Pretty Messed Up,” “Save Me,” and “Welcome To Heaven Daisy” can actually exist. But then again, Rock Of Love is in its second season. I suppose it’s only a matter of time before a Bret Michaels/Daisy sex tape surfaces. Depressing, maybe?

Valerie Bertinelli is currently drinking Eddie Van Halen’s Milkshake. Bertinelli recently broke her silence regarding the couple’s divorce and admitted that they split because they were both somewhat busy cheating on each other.

The Van Halen / Bertinelli divorce was finalized in December (just in time for Xmas) after 26 years of marriage.
“I cheated — He claims to this day that I cheated first, but I don’t know. I don’t know about the timing.” She’ll be detailing guitar solos, cheating, cocaine usage, hooking up with Steven Spielberg, being super hot back in the day, that other chick from One Day at a Time and Oprah (and her continued quest from world wide domination).

When asked she choose to divulge such personal details at this stage of her life Bertinelli said “I just figured, if they’re going to watch me lose 40 pounds and I’m going to be embarrassed that way, and there’s going to be fat-ass pictures of me with my butt hanging out in Hawaii, I thought, ‘Why not let the inner me out, too?’ Because the inner me is, I hope, prettier than the outer me.”

Did I mention she wrote a book too? I’m sure she’ll be plugging that as well…

Maybe the news of the Oprah appearance is why that show at the John Paul Jones Arena got cancelled… fuck it - might as well Jump:

Proving there’s no such thing as bad press and that face and neck tattoos make for a killer mug shot, rapper Lil’ Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter) was arrested by border patrol at a US Border checkpoint on Interstate 8 in Dateland, AZ, on Tuesday night around 11:30 PM. Drug-sniffing dogs alerted officers that something might be afoot and Wayne’s bus, which was transporting 11 other people, was pulled aside for a consensual search.

Officers found:

Carter faces local possession charges (the feds passed on this one), and two other passengers are looking at narcotics charges. Wayne was released on bail, but has a court date set for Friday morning. In other news, his new album, The Carter III is due out in February.

 So its pretty much old news, to anyone who actually pays attention to shit, that Barack Obama did cocaine back in the day. But surprise surprise, suddenly it’s becoming an issue. But who knows, maybe this will play into Obama’s favor. After all, politicians are always talking about trying to get the “youth vote” and I couldn’t think of any better way than chopping it up about doing blow on the weekends. If he would just admit taking some epic bong loads, playing Halo for hours on end and jerking off to Internet Porn he would kick the fuck out of everyone in the primaries. I won’t hold my breath though… 

From Daily Kos:

This Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo’s infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005.

Question, so now that it is out in the open that the war in drugs is nothing but a sham (and has been, um, since the beginning). Who is going to go to jail for this incident? And when are they going to let out the hundreds of thousands of people who fill our prisons for selling drugs? In reality, good ole USA street slangin’ wouldn’t haven’t been possible without the CIA’s successful attempts to flood our country full of mind numbing narcotics and create a generation of addicts.

Another question, why do we pay our taxes? was our tax money used to fly this jet?

I’m not guilty. *You’re* the one that’s guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You’re the one who’s guilty. I mean, c’mon, let’s kick the ballistics here: Ain’t no Uzi’s made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.
- New Jack City

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-Adolf Hitler

Wake up!