A public service announcement from your friends at the Art o Mod Museum and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Top that, Scruff McGruff.
(Source: nicole-picole)
Get ready for this to be your favorite new song / a jingle that you’ll wake up in the morning humming.
Lord knows we’ve all been waiting for a good crystalmeth anthem to rock out with at parties or on the playground.
Thank you, Canadian government, for giving us this golden piece of TV commercial goodness.
“I don’t sleep, and I don’t eat, but I got the cleanest house on the street!!!”
Enjoy this Newly Designed Drug / A Legal Drug Dealing Scholar of the Day
Well here’s an awesome entrepreneur who’s just trying to help us all have a good time and get messed up and shit… Thank you Wall Street Journal:
ANTWERP, Belgium—When the housing market crashed in 2008, David Llewellyn’s construction business went with it. Casting around for a new gig, he decided to commercialize something he’d long done as a hobby: making drugs.
David Llewellyn (above) is part of a wave of chemically savvy entrepreneurs who see gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs.
But the 49-year-old Scotsman didn’t go into the illegal drug trade. Instead, he entered the so-called “legal high” business—a burgeoning industry producing new psychoactive powders and pills that are marketed as “not for human consumption.”
Mr. Llewellyn, a self-described former crack addict, started out making mephedrone, a stimulant also known as Meow Meow [read the Art of Mod post on MEOW MEOW from earlier this year by clicking here] that was already popular with the European clubbing set. Once governments began banning it earlier this year, Mr. Llewellyn and a chemistry-savvy partner started selling something they dubbed Nopaine—a stimulant they concocted by tweaking the molecular structure of the attention-deficit drug Ritalin.
Nopaine “is every bit as good as cocaine,” says Mr. Llewellyn, who has lived in Antwerp on and off since the late 1980s. “You can freebase it. You can snort it like crack.” Still, he emphasized, “Everything we sell is legal. I don’t want to go to jail for 14 years.”
….and here’s how the article ends:
(Mr. Llewellyn) boasts that his safety testing method is foolproof: He and several colleagues sit in a room and take a new product “almost to overdose levels” to see what happens. “We’ll all sit with a pen and a pad, some good music on, and one person who’s straight who’s watching everything,” he says.
So there ya go. If Mephedrone aka MEOW MEOW’s illegality is bringing you down, why not try some Nopaine?
“This is an Artifact of Modernity” Photo of the Day (10/6/10):
…Bringing new meaning to the phrase “addicted to Facebook”.
… Also, this makes us just wanna turn all our favorite company logos into snort-able cocaine designs. Goldman Sachs, anyone? Myspace? ExxonMobil?
Enjoy the above website, where people are asked to submit information on the price of weed in various states and provinces, and with some clever data analysis, calculates averages and charts it on a handy Google map.
So basically, our question is: why haven’t you re-located to the West Coast yet, you pothead?
Also to note: Marijuana is a terrible unlawful substance whose use can kill you and can get you thrown into prison because that’s just how horrible it is. So don’t do it, kids.
(To our sponsors: Artifacts of Modernity does not support cannabis use or distribution, even if most of our posts are written under the influence)
In Case You Didn’t Already Know You Were a Druggie: Cheesecake and Heroin Similarly Affects the Brain
Science once again tells us what we sorta already knew but didn’t necessarily know to this extreme:
“Bacon and cheesecake can alter the brain in ways similar to heroin and cocaine, according to scientists who say they have found the most compelling proof yet that high-fat foods rewire the brain and drive the development of compulsive eating.”
We encourage you to check yourselves into Narcotics Anonymous and/or Promises Rehab Facility immediately.
Back to the article:
When rats raised on regular chow were suddenly given unrestricted access to a high-fat diet, they lost complete control over their eating. Not even mild foot shocks kept them from compulsively feasting on chocolate bars, cream-stuffed cakes, sausage, frosting and other highly palatable human foods. Within 40 days, their body weight had increased 25%.
The rats not only got fat, they also showed addiction-like changes in brain reward circuits — the same changes that have been reported in humans addicted to drugs…
The more junk food the rats ate, the more they overloaded the brain’s reward circuitries until they essentially crashed. As the pleasure centres in the brain became more and more blase, and less responsive, the rats quickly turned into compulsive overeaters. They were motivated to keep eating to get their fix…
When the researchers took the high-fat foods away, leaving only the healthy, but boring chow — what the scientists dubbed the “salad bar option” — the rodents essentially voluntarily starved themselves.
** So basically, if you eat a lot of Cheesecake, and then try to “diet” with healthier food options, prepare to become an anorexic.
“They liked the junk food so much they would rather starve than shift onto the regular chow,” Dr. Kenny said. Even after two weeks of having no junk food, “they still hadn’t returned to the level of intake that you see in the control animals for the standard chow. That goes to show just how powerful this food was.”
The final report goes further, and explains just what’s happening in the brain.
Three groups of rats were studied. In addition to unlimited access to their regular chow, one group was given one hour of access a day to the junk food, while another group had 18 to 23 hours of access each day, for 40 consecutive days.
Rats that had one hour access to the junk food binge-ate, gorging on the food during those one-hour sessions, so much so that they consumed almost two-thirds of their daily calories in that one-hour session. “But they didn’t gain weight, and they didn’t show those addiction-like changes,” Dr. Kenny said.
Rats given unlimited access to the sausages, frostings and cakes didn’t binge or gorge, but they snacked all day. They kept eating, consuming twice as many calories as the “control” rats, even when the flashing cue light came on that was paired with a foot shock.
“Many drug addicts know that what they’re doing is bad — they’re damaging their health, their finances, their family. But they find it very difficult to stop — the behaviour is almost beyond their control,” Dr. Kenny said.
“The same thing happened here: The animals kept on eating, even when there was something in the environment that said something bad was going to happen. They simply ignored it, and they just kept on eating.”
I’m an addict, I’m an addict.
I’m an addict, I’m an addict.
I’m a-dick, I’m addicted to you…. - Simple Plan
Read more: (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2737117#ixzz0jlisBRns)
