Growers and distributors have created a multi-billion dollar dope industry, which is legal under state law, but still banned by the US federal government.
Users can still be arrested and jailed by federal authorities like the DEA and FBI…
The squishy grey organ in my head is a pretty typical example of the human brain. It’s lazy, unpredictable, and infuriatingly secretive… Even now, after years together, we still squabble and bicker all the time…
…Before you moved in there was druggies running a meth’ lab in that place. There were hookers turning tricks in there, fights, non stop fucking problems. I had to call the cops one night ’cause this guy climbed my fence and fell asleep in my back yard…” I lived in Redfern for a while, in…
…I’m fifty feet up in the air, thinking, well, this isn’t gonna end well. I hear the loose coil sliding along the steel edges, and I look over me shoulder, and it’s coming straight at me. It must have hit me, but I don’t remember that. The next thing I remember is being eight or…
…I am woken by crunching gravel. I blink into the blinding beam of a powerful flashlight. Oh, sorry mate. Didn’t realise you were sleeping in there, says a nervous young voice. The flashlight beam moves off my face, and I see an embarrassed looking young cop, with his hand still hovering over his gun holster……
…It sounds like your car is having many problems, says Horst. Yeah, I love her but she’s a fuckin’ piece of shit, says the driver, and cracks open another beer on the dashboard. Couldn’t get her through rego’ last time. So if you see any coppers, fuckin’ let me know. Bastards busted me driving without…
…The driver still has the joint in his hand! He is holding it just below the edge of the window, so the cop can’t see it, but the smoke is curling up around his face, and the cab stinks like bong water in carpet. ‘I am going to prison’ I think to myself… …
“…I froze. Sitting in the shade beside a gumtree only a dozen metres from where I was, there was a bloke wearing a camo jumper, with an Uzi in his lap. I backed up real slow and walked back to the house..” Hitching north from Bairnsdale, I was picked up by a friendly bloke…