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For everyone who says "you're a pussy who doesn't know how to handle your high" of you have a bad trip is straight trippin themselves! I have smoked weed everyday for about a year and tried many different types of incense. I've experienced slightly bad trips on a product called Head Trip but nothing like I experienced with Spike Silver. Me and my boyfriend smoked about three hits out of the bong and it was the single most terrifying and horrible experience of my life. I literally felt like I was in Hell. Everything was on repeat and and I didn't even feel human. I also felt like I was NEVER going to come down. I could barely walk and I ended up screaming at my bf at the top of my lungs and ripping things off the walls in his bathroom. After he calmed down and I thought it was over, he left the room and it allllllll started again. This time I felt like I was in a completely different dimension. There were four of everything and I could hear my bf talking, but his mouth wasn't moving. Nothing felt real and I honesty thought I was insane and I would never be normal again. I've smoked alot of things and I hve never experienced anything like this before. I would even say it was worse than shrooms. I commented on this for the sole purpose to warn people. I will never touch that stuff again and I would STRONGLY advise not doing it. I wouldn't wish why happened to me on my worst enemies. Worst experience I've ever had in my life, hands down.

Dr. Mate is correct. I have watched this happen to my son over a 15 year period. Severe stress as his brain was developing led to his severe alcohol addiction. Most addicts with whom I have worked have been abused. People are not honest about the abuse, especially at the higher levels of society.

With all of this sensation over Spice related Suicide, I am very surprised that everybody is blaming the drug for the teens death and not the tool itself that he used. WHY THE IN THE WORLD IS NOBODY ASKING HOW HE WAS ABLE TO GET A GUN????

I'll make a guest appearance with the fungal friends.

But the question is what do you do when you're up in the billows of hyperspace and light scapes all about?

Use WILLL?!! seek contact. talk, find, express, be, become, enter, go beyond, stand up, fly, see, know.

What environmentment? Urban or Jungle? Spirits everywhere? What to do, where to go.....

HOW about this. We all be the documentary of testing the medicinal magickal brews of this fine spinning globe of life.

.....And light, ---- questioning, seeking, challenging ourselves to step into our SEEELLVVESSS...)))) as Aware Beings and Powerful Shamans of MoveMent Between thru beyond and without dimensions.

No boundaries....???? !!!!>>>??? hmmm.... well, NO NONe. WEll, for safety's sake I choose a few. No jumping off ridiculously enormous cliffs or bridges.

Unless I have at least one parachute, or 10 square meters of wingspace to set sail for the pacific and rip down an icy slope in Alaska on the way.

Read the report. Many important people made these recommendations including current Greek prime minister George Papandreou, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, British businessman Richard Branson, former US secretary of state George Shultz, former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, former Swiss president Ruth Dreifuss, former EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and former US Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker.

I've seen it reported that TOR was developed by the u.s. government. So it may contain a backdoor for them. I find these ideas of crypto-currency very provocative but my mind can't get around how it differs from a credit card transaction, if only more difficult to trace. It will be interesting to see what the advent of quantum computers will add to this discussion, particularly the poster here calling himself Anonymous. Is it just a matter of a tech upgrade in cryptography?

Bitcoins aside - at 15 bucks a tab, it better be some ass-kickin-cid!

OK I think I figured out the algorithm for the OK Go video. They're shooting in front of a green screen or some other chromakey; the algorithm is "any pixel that contains the chromakey in the input image gets reverted to the value of that pixel from the previous frame". So simple!

Keep it goin louder is sooo stuck in my head now. Godawful! Catchy!

Anonymous, you're splitting my sides.

@Anonymous

The name of the group isn't what carries weight. It's the individuals who signed it, supposedly powerful people who matter to other powerful people. It's not a "think tank" like Cato.

what if you get it wet , how can you dry it

This is all very cool, but I'm always a little skeptical when some "high-level commission" -- how I've never even heard of -- starts making pronouncements. Seriously, I doubt I'm the only person who's never heard of "The Global Commission on Drug Policy" before this very instant.

Who says it matters. I mean, the Cato Institute says things like this all the time, but as far as I can tell no one takes them seriously at all. Is this such another ideologically-driven organization?

It would be really cool if someone like, say, the UN issued the report. I've heard of them before, and people might actually listen!

@omgoleus

I'm not saying that Bitcoin isn't interesting or doesn't offer some interesting privacy features: it is, and it does. But I think the linked article (and most of the articles I've seen recently), are just a little too pie-in-the-sky, and I think that people who are considering experimenting with the currency needs to at least consider some of the technological implications.

Calling bitcoin transactions "untraceable" is glossing over some of those important considerations. Yes, bitcoin transactions are less traceable than other forms of electronic exchange, but they're still more traceable than cash, or even the old standby of a 7-11 money order.

Every bitcoin you spend is forever and indelibly marked with your fingerprint, which is uniquely tied to the software wallet you have on your computer. I understand the technological reasons for this, but in some ways it's a bit creepy.

Going back to the original article, some guy is selling Acid on the Internet. It's not too hard to believe that he'll end up getting busted and his computer confiscated. Any bitcoins you paid him will have your fingerprint on it. Depending upon how you arranged the transaction it may be very hard for them to tie that fingerprint to you, perhaps very hard. But if you're not careful, not so much. This is the kind of issue users of bitcoin should be thinking about.

Here's another interesting scenario. Let's say that some government agency wants to start tracking bitcoins. Probably the easiest way to do this is to just start using them -- getting a lot, spending a lot. Every bitcoin has a transaction history associate with it, so they can see where it's been. Then, later, let's say that Looser A gets busted for selling drugs on the Internet. They look through their records (that they generated by looking at all of the bitcoins that passed through their hands), and all of the sudden they see that Looser B and Looser C have paid A some money in the past. Now, if Looser B gets in trouble at some point and they look though his computer, they now know he's the same Looser B that paid A money.

They may have otherwise not known that A and B were associated. But now they know. This is very important: once you're in trouble and they have your wallet, that will provide them with a lot of information they couldn't have otherwise known! Let's say they got your for bitorrenting a CD, and all of the sudden they now know that you're also been buying acid on the Internet. Now, I have no idea how such evidence would work out in a court of law, but they would definitely use it to pressure you into unraveling that whole little neighborhood of the "web of trust!"

This would all be useful and interesting information for LEO as they go about trying to destroy people's lives.

Again, these are just the kinds of issues that users of bitcoin should be considering. I'm not saying anyone should or shouldn't use it. But I am saying it would be foolish to use it without thinking about these things.

Really, I guess that's really my main discomfort with bitcoin. It's based upon some mathematical principles that some people may have a hard time understanding and reasoning about, but the folks behind it are putting out some pretty heavy-handed marketing material ("this will change everything!"), so I fear that some unsophisticated people will decide to use it without really understanding the implications.

At this point, if you really want to be anonymous, a money order and a postage stamp are still the way to go. Yes, bitcoin would be better than, say, PayPal if you wanted privacy. But potential users should be very wary of the claims now being made.

but battling the cartels often leads to thousands of deaths, like has happened in juarez! as far as i can see drug prohibition in any form can only do more harm than good... =/ i pray that the world learns.

10% of the worlds hash trade... Whaaaaaa lol dude musta not been able to move!

I remember Earthworks Headshop, near Dupont Circle in Wash DC...it was THE headshop! My friend usedta sell candles to them. I remember buying the 1st issue of 'High Times' there!

This is the best thing evar.

I want to live there.

love this video

Just finished Mr Nice, Mark's autobiography. Great stuff. A serious mind blow is the drug anthology he edited, Dope Stories. He's a good, low-key pot guru from the anti-authoritarian sixties. Mark's also sings for pot legalization in a reggae band. Harumph!