Kick Your Pesky Cocaine Habit By Blasting Your Brain with Lasers

Have you ever had one of those days where you thought to yourself “Boy, I sure wish I didn’t have this sexy yet expensive cocaine addiction”? Fortunately for you, there could be a new solution on the horizon, and all you have to do is fry your brain with lasers. Equally sexy. More »

Smartphones Have Ruined Our Ability to Make Wasted Fools of Ourselves

The modern smartphone, for all its utility as a way of capturing crimes in process, waddling babies, and public disasters, has one chilling effect on society: it’s now dangerous to get insanely fucked up in public. And that’s a damn shame. More »

Pocket Scale Wallets Are For Drug Dealers, Right?

DigiWeigh boasts its DW-600W Wallet Scale is the perfect tool for measuring food at a restaurant when you’re following a strict diet, ensuring a letter has the proper stamps at the post office, and weighing “other small objects.” Which is basically marketing speak for: “drug dealers, this is designed and targeted directly at you.” More »

13 Shockingly Creative Ways Drugs Have Crossed the Border

Let’s clear this up right now: drugs are bad, smuggling is a crime, drug lords and their traffickers are black-hearted, vicious, malignant persons. But you have to admit: they’re pretty damn creative. And the means they’ve used to get their product to their customers through the years are nothing short of extraordinary. More »

Your Google Searches Can Uncover Drug Side Effects Faster Than the FDA

The internet: it’s our teacher, our entertainer, and ever increasingly, our doctor. Every day, the country’s sniveling, coughing, light-headed festering contagions plop in front of their computers in hopes of figuring out what the hell is a matter with them—for free. So while brilliant, it’s not entirely surprising that scientists were, for the first time, able to find significant evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects faster than any of the FDA’s own methods. And as The New York Times reports, all thanks to our ailing internet search queries. More »

Mexicali Police Deflate Smugglers’ Compressed-Air “Marijuana Cannon”

Border fences are really tall so it’s not like you can just throw your packages of marijuana over them. No, you’d need something like a weed-apult or, better yet, a weed cannon to heave them over the wall. More »

Watch People Get High and Then Fail a Driving Test

Drinking and driving is the worst. Texting and driving is pretty bad too. So what about getting high and driving? Apparently not that bad! Unless you’re freaking stoned as hell. Then you’ll fail so hard and maybe even lose a nose. More »

Doping Regulations Are a Matter of Scientific Perspective

A lot of people get very upset about doping in sport. They may well have a point—but maybe a little scientific perspective is required. Randal Monroe puts the issue well in the alt text of today’s XKCD cartoon: More »

The Veritable Pocket Laboratory Cops Have to Carry to Test Drugs on the Street

The cops pull over a car doing 75 in a school zone. The driver is behaving errratically, so they pull him out of the car for a search and bingo: a small bag of white dust in the perp’s pocket. But what is it—baking soda, cocaine, arsenic? To find out, they rely on this series of chemical tests. More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Zebra Escape Drills

Don’t let their gentle demeanor and calming stripes fool you. Zebras are unstoppable killing machines. They’ll bathe in the blood of your children just as soon as look at you. That’s why keepers at Tokyo’s Tama Zoo aren’t taking any chances and are prepping for the day these murderous equines overcome their paddock locks. But rather than free one of these stripey psychopaths, even temporarily, zoo officials instead opted for a slightly less deadly option: furries! character actors dressed as zebras. The horror. [BBC] More »