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  • 'Witch doctor' fed blind motorcyclist LSD-laced gherkins

    03/25/2010 7:47:54 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 39 replies · 843+ views
    metro.co.uk ^ | March 25, 2010
    A ‘witch doctor’ has been jailed for eight months after claiming he could cure a blind man – by feeding him gherkins laced with LSD. Jobless hairdresser Patrick Baecker, 35, posed as a mystic healer and told Axel Pfeffer he would make him see for £20,000. The court in Fehmarn, Germany, heard how the former motorcyclist had tried everything to restore his sight after losing it in a crash. But instead Baecker fed him pickles laced with powerful mind-bending hallucinogenic drugs to induce visions. ‘You are a hairdresser, not a shaman,’ Judge Markus Faerber told Baecker in court.
  • Medical marijuana advocate kills herself

    10/26/2007 11:34:42 PM PDT · by Libloather · 248 replies · 314+ views
    Missoulian.com ^ | 10/26/07 | MICHAEL MOORE
    Medical marijuana advocate kills herselfBy MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded. After her earlier attempt failed, Prosser wound up in even more trouble after investigating police found marijuana in her home. She used the marijuana to help cope with pain. That marijuana charge was eventually dropped in an agreement with the city of Missoula, and Prosser had reason to rejoice in 2004 when Montanans passed a...
  • House rejects measure to bar medical marijuana prosecutions

    06/16/2005 10:18:39 AM PDT · by SmithL · 3 replies · 263+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 6/16/5 | David Whitney
    WASHINGTON - A week after the Supreme Court ruled that medical marijuana laws in California and nine other states are no bar to federal drug prosecution, the House voted down an amendment that would have stopped the Justice Department from bringing such cases. Although medical marijuana advocates never thought they would have the votes to bar federal prosecutions, some had predicted that because of the heightened interest after the Supreme Court's ruling that they would do better than Wednesday's 264-161 vote. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Tuesday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco had been working the...
  • Injured Dog Amazes By Taking Self To Vet

    08/08/2003 8:14:53 AM PDT · by dogbrain · 35 replies · 171+ views
    local6.com news ^ | August 8, 2003 | unknown
    CORBIN, KY -- A clever canine in Kentucky sought out his own medical care by limping to a local veterinarian's office after getting hit by a car, according to a Local 6 News report. Injured Dog Takes Self To Vet The 6-year-old dog, Scooby, ran away from his owners when his collar ring snapped during a recent thunderstorm. As he was running across a road a vehicle hit him, injuring his leg and tail....