During Power Rangers commercial breaks, I remember seeing Public Service Announcements (PSAs) that featured kids and cartoon characters talking (or rapping) about the “un-coolness” of doing drugs. These PSAs were aimed to...
Category - Drug Week
Go to any young adult party and you’re sure to find a make-shift table with beer cups in triangular formations and plenty of ping-pong balls. Beer pong, king of drinking games, is believed to have originated with Dartmouth...
My drug week confessions aren’t be nearly as juicy as most others, but here it goes: I’ve never smoked pot, and the hardest drug that’s ever been in my system was the hydrocodone the doctor prescribed after I got my wisdom...
Hollywood has a bad case of bi-polar disorder when it comes to drugs. Filmmakers have thrown themselves right into the vortex of the national drug debate, and the use of drugs that appear in movies primarily targeted at Gen Y...
According to this, 17.4% of American males have reported illicit drug use within the past year. I am not one of those men. I can’t stand having drugs in my body, and I’m not just talking about the hard stuff. I will suffer...
By Art Vandelay My favorite word in Dutch is Schiphol, Amsterdam’s international airport. Schiphol is my hub, and I like to have my flight connections there. Usually when I have to have a connecting flight, I get upset, but...
When I was in tenth grade, my health teacher told my class a story about trying her first cigarette. She was from a big Italian family and all her relatives lived nearby. After school one day, she was seen smoking by one of her...
Judging from my call log, my last semester at college was my most popular yet. I’d get texts from unfamiliar numbers, friends-of-friends, and people I haven’t seen since, well, the last time they had a big exam coming up. ...
Compiled by Alex Pearlman and Scott Templeman The stoner movie genre is a classic one that spans decades and has helped many a confused teenager make the decision to smoke marijuana. Where would we be without characters like The...
Federal acronyms do not boast a particularly inspiring literary record. They tend to be strong on utility — think FBI, CBO, FDIC — or invoke a special brand of dystopian terror. FEDRIP, for instance (the Federal Database of...