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Taint wrote:

They arrest people for smoking pot in New York?

It's a quality of life crime. The latest crackdown is a holdover from the Giuliani administration. Before he made himself synonymous with 9/11, he was the jerkwad responsible for closing a number of gaybars, redoing parks so the bums couldn't camp out there, and yes, arresting people on the street for smokin' teh gange. Gay St. is actually fairly ritzy for what is essentially little more than a glorified alleyway. As mentioned in the article, it's just a communication between two better traveled thoroughfares. The advantage to potheads, it's got a bend in it, despite its abbreviated length. Unfortunately, that's also an advantage to cops, who can pretty much appear outta nowhere.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Pale, did you read that NYTimes article a few months back about the changing population of areas like Christopher Street? Real estate has gone obviously sky high, and the gay population has changed from left wing and radicalized to middle aged parents and homeowners, who complain that the younger generation of gay folk, who come from NJ and other areas to party and hang out on Christopher Street etc, are loud and obnoxious. Sort of a collision of two generations.

Some of the whiners are actual gay people, "Stonewall Generation" curmudgeons who think the whole area should look like Sarah Jessica Parker might come fluttering through at any moment. When I lived in Chelsea in the 1990s, it's what the West Village once was, and what I'm told Hell's Kitchen has become. If the gentrification keeps going in that direction, it'll collide with the Upper West Side by 2015. My other residences were all in the East Village. The West side was all strollers and Escalades. Aside from a few dirty magazine shops and the perfunctory bar or two, you'd think all the yuppies (and guppies) welcomed the extreme over-sanitization of the nabe. A friend in Williamsburg tells me that even though the Pride Parade still takes its last little jaunt down Christopher St, the sidewalks are lined with families who clap and point like it's Ringling Bros.

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Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes.

The skin has joined the growing club of organs that is known to produce "endocannabinoids" — the body's own reefer. The biggest producer of endogenous pot is the brain.

Significantly, the new study pins down long-suspected connections between brain and skin and between stress and zits.

In the skin, explained lead researcher Tamás Bíró of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, these compounds help the sebaceous glands protect us from harsh outer elements, such as the drying effects of wind and sun. Cannabinoids are thought to have a similar role in the leaves of the marijuana plant.

Among its protective functions, "endo-pot" stimulates oil production and tells hair follicles to stop producing hair. Whether this explains the plethora of pimples and receding hairlines at Grateful Dead concerts (or those of former band members) has not yet been determined... (read more)

It rubs the lotion onto its skin. It does this twice a day, or it gets the hose again.