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| Blame the Furries |
| 2007-11-26 |
| In at least one Twin Cities pet shop, it takes a note from his parents nowadays for a teen-ager to lay in any big supply of catnip. Owners of other stores have taken to questioning their youthful customers closely about large-scale purchases. They know the reason for the sudden popularity of catnip in the Twin Cities and nationwide – and it isn’t the one a young man gave the owner of a Hennepin Av. pet shop: “I have,” he explained, “a GREAT, BIG cat.” The fact is, the kids are smoking the stuff, apparently in dubious pursuit of a low-budget thrill. What’s more, it’s getting so you can’t even trust your friendly neighborhood dope peddler anymore – there’s evidence that marijuana salesmen are diluting the pot with catnip or substituting catnip altogether. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 "...they call it Mellow Yellow" (Quite rightly, I might add) -LpG- |
| Posted by: Leonard Plynth Garnell 2007-11-26 21:51 |
| #6 Now dried bananna peel.... baby dawg that is some serious business. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-11-26 20:21 |
| #5 Gotcha... the source link makes it more clear. :-) |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2007-11-26 14:18 |
| #4 This is a reprint of an article that appeared in 1969. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-11-26 13:30 |
| #3 This article says people can score an OUNCE of weed for ONLY $10 to $20 in the Twin Cities! And then they say people buy catnip because it's cheaper?? This reporter clearly has his head in his @$$. Paging Dan Rather! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2007-11-26 12:27 |
| #2 "Nepetalactone,” he said. “doesn’t have a true hallucinogenic affect on cats. It appears to be a sex attractant.” So is their an uptick in feline beastiality in the Twin Cities? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-11-26 11:01 |
| #1 Scientific American has an article in its latest issue describing a method to actually tell the amounts and types of drugs being used in a locale by constant measurements of the drugs in sewage. It appears to be undergoing full scale tests in some cities. Because, even druggies use toilets, it is much more accurate then analysis like this. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-11-26 10:38 |