Updated: Synthetic Marijuana Dangerous, Causing Violence; 12-year-old Video Used For Scaremongering

Posted August 5, 2015 9:07 PM ET; Last updated August 6, 2015 8:53 PM ET


Synthetic pot known as "K2" on the streets has been on the rise.

Photo: AP

[From article]

The NYPD released a 2002 video of a man on the psychotic drug PCP in Iowa and claimed it was recent footage of a New Yorker under the influence of synthetic marijuana.
The clip shows a naked man screaming wildly, squatting in the street, and scrambling up a fence, defying Taser guns with 'super human strength'.
It was played during a press conference on Tuesday as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton issued an 'urgent' warning that 'weaponized marijuana' - or K2 - is a growing concern for New York officers.
But it has since emerged the scaremongering clip is 12 years old, filmed in Des Moines for the TV show COPS, and depicts a man on PCP, not K2. 

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A spokesman for the NYPD told Gothamist the video was merely 'shown to depict the type of behavior sometimes associated with "excited delirium syndrome"'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186598/How-NYPD-released-scaremongering-video-psychotic-naked-Iowa-man-high-PCP-2002-claimed-New-Yorker-synthetic-marijuana.html

REVEALED: Scaremongering NYPD video of psychotic naked New Yorker high on 'weaponized marijuana' was actually of Iowa man high on PCP in 2002
Police issued a public warning over use of the synthetic marijuana 'K2'
Released two videos showing two crazed users of the drug, both naked
But the clips are actually from TV show COPS in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2002
And the men in the video had taken psychotic drug PCP - not K2
NYPD spokesman insists they did not say they were on K2 or in New York
By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:07 EST, 5 August 2015 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 6 August 2015

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[From article]
The drug, which cops say is prevalent in the homeless community, is a cheap high that also increases body temperature, leading users to strip naked.
“A better term for it might be weaponized marijuana,” Bratton told reporters at a press conference at police headquarters.
“A number of individuals, when under the influence of this drug, are relatively impervious to pain and also have significant enhancement of their physical strength,” he said.
“So our officers encountering these individuals face more significant risk of having to subdue these individuals and potentially receiving injuries.”
Spice users are impervious to traditional takedown methods used by cops, such as tasers and mace, officials said.
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“You’re going to see much more of it in the short term,” Bratton said of the drug. “Our concern in the potential overdose and death, the incredible number of people going to hospitals as well as those that we take into custody.”
Bratton added that while local politicians look to loosen marijuana laws, the synthetic stuff is wreaking havoc across the city.
“Ironically, even as the trend is to decriminalize and effectively pay less attention to marijuana, the synthetic marijuana issue is one of great and growing concern here in New York City,” he said.

http://nypost.com/2015/08/04/weaponized-weed-that-makes-people-strip-naked-wreaking-havoc-in-nyc/

‘Weaponized weed’ triggering nude, psychotic rampages in NYC
By Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
August 4, 2015 | 6:12pm

Minimum Wage is Not Advanced Technology

[From article]
To get your minimum wage increased, you first have to have a minimum-wage job.
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The assumption is that mass, multigenerational dependency is now a permanent feature of life.
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And, if you’re wondering why every Big Government program assumes you’re a feeble child, that’s because a citizenry without “work and purpose” is ultimately incompatible with liberty.
[. . .]
the signature achievement of Obama’s “hope and change” combines 1940s British public health theories with 1970s Soviet supermarket delivery systems.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1213/steyn120913.php3#.UqYzGd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
December 9, 2013 / 6 Teves, 5774
Inequality far worse than economic
By Mark Steyn

A Better Idea. Disposable Penis

This will put the penis enlargement firms out of business.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2277954/Japanese-scientists-discover-sea-slugs-RE-GROW-penis-old-drops-sex.html

Sea slugs have a disposable penis that drops off after sex… then they grow another one, say astonished scientists
Chromodoris reticulata slugs have a 'penis-in-waiting' that grows after sex
First known creature that can detach its used penis before growing another
Japanese experts' findings revealed in Royal Society journal Biology Letters
By HARRIET ARKELL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 04:54 EST, 13 February 2013 | UPDATED: 11:26 EST, 13 February 2013

Immigrants Today

[Received from a correspondent]

A Little History Reminder!


Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented.



Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.



They had waved goodbye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.



Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people.



When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French American, the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.



And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.



And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.