"One Day at a Time" star Mackenzie Phillips was arrested today in Terminal 4 of LAX after she tried to clear security while allegedly carrying heroin and cocaine.
The drugs were only discovered upon a secondary screening says an airport police spokesman:
During a second screening process, a small amount of what was believed to be heroin and cocaine was discovered on her person.
Guidebook guru and pot promoterRick Steves just left the Netherlands, and he's got a substantial update on the marijuana scene in Amsterdam. First things first: Don't bother calling an ambulance after smoking too much because the EMTs will just tell you to walk it off!
But the big news is what's changed thanks to a new smoking ban--that prohibits indoor tobacco smoking but gives marijuana puffers a pass:
The Dutch, like the rest of Europe, mix their marijuana with tobacco. It might seem strange to an American, but if a coffeeshop is busted--it's busted for tobacco. Shops are mixing a kind of herb tea as a tobacco substitute for joints. Coffeeshops with a few outdoor seats have a huge advantage as their local customers can light up outside....
Many local smokers would rather get their pot to go than smoke it without tobacco at their neighborhood coffeeshop.
Back in May, we told you about scenic Sinaloa, one of the epicenter's of Mexico's current drug war, where "mafia clothes" are on sale and shrines to coke traffickers are high on the tourist agenda. And while much of the country is still peaceful, violence is on-going around the US-Mexico border--and spreading.
A couple of hard-up potheads stood guard at a bridge in Boulder, Colorado, police say, charging joggers and bikers a $1 "toll" to cross. That is, until one passerby--an off-duty sheriff's deputy--refused to pay. In an attempt to shake down the officer, one of the modern-day trolls hit him with a golf club, which as you can imagine didn't end well.
Once in custody, the pair explained to police that they were having a bad acid trip. But why were they hustling money on the bridge? They didn't have enough cash to buy a lighter for the joint they planned to smoke.
While police don't find the antics very entertaining, one local biker loves the story:
Adults should be allowed another option for relaxing and dealing with their anxiety when they fly. It is irrational and potentially dangerous policy to continue allowing passengers to get drunk before and during flights while prohibiting them from simply making the safer choice to use marijuana prior to boarding.
We can think of at least one travel guru would probably get behind this effort: Rick Steves. And come to think of it, SFO already has one pre-boarding pot lounge. Book those flights now, Snoop!
A British woman, who amazingly isn't Amy Winehouse, was arrested at Trondheim Airport in Norway wearing a large wig:
Concealing 2.2 pounds of cocaine glued to her head.
The bewigged coke carrier was coming off a flight from Copenhagen and had the drugs glued so firmly to her head that she had to be hospitalized to de-stick the contraband from her real hair, a local newspaper said.
Before Amy and others with outrageous dos get too excited about the coke-cloaking potential of their beehives, they should take note that this drug mule's downfall came directly as a result of her unusual hair. According to the AP, customs agents stopped the woman because they "suspected that she was wearing a wig."
The Brazillian government is cracking down on masked militias after an incident last month where several journalists were tortured for more than six hours by a gang of armed thugs wearing ninja hoods. The reporters had gone undercover in one of Rio de Janeiro's infamous favelas to investigate the "illegal economy" in the notorious slums.
Before he was gunned down by Colombian troops working with the US government, the infamous cocaine baron Pablo Escobar built Hacienda Napoles, a headquarters near his hometown of Medellin.
According to the BBC, Escobar's massive estate was
A fantasy land with concrete dinosaurs, a bullfighting ring and a private zoo that would have made Michael Jackson jealous, with giraffes, elephants, kangaroos and hippopotamuses.
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