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October 2010

• Thom Yorke Chills Out On Apparat's DJ-KiCKS Mix for !K7

  by jefe 10/26 10:21 In these shitty weeks before Daylight Savings Time ends and we set our clocks back one hour, the mornings are cold and dark: all the ...

July 2010

• WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary Details Lost Drug War

  by jefe 7/27 12:15 WikiLeaks’ just-released Afghan War Diary paints a picture of failed drug interdiction in the most drug-addled region on the gl...

June 2010

• Review: 'Red Dead Redemption'- A Masterpiece of Mythic Violence

  by jefe 6/10 09:00 Civilization and its malcontents meet their maker in this sepia-toned, bullet-time, bloodbath From the makers of Grand Theft Auto ...

• James Franco Beatifies Allen Ginsberg in 'Howl': Film Review Capsule

  by jefe 6/09 13:27 Aficionados of beat literature, indie film, or hawt man-on-man James Franco action are probably going to enjoy the 2010 quasi-documen...

• Nike ad pairs Kobe Bryant with Andre 3000's Beatles cover

  by Oscar Pascual 6/08 13:33 They may be dirtbags when it comes to international labor laws, but damned if Nike can’t put together a great commercial. This c...

May 2010

• Amon Tobin+Eskmo Chart Frontiers of Sound and Recording

  by the nuge 5/26 09:00 Earlier this month, a new collaboration between two of the most creative forces in the electronic music scene – Brendan Angelid...

• The Splinters remind us why we love rock music

  by the nuge 5/24 09:00 After two years of playing music together in and around the Oakland rock scene, The Splinters released their first full length album ...

• Download: A-Trak's new mixtape 'Dirty South Dance 2'

  by jefe 5/17 12:00 Note the album art by Shepard Fairey, above. A-Trak is no longer just “Kanye West’s DJ”. The Montreal-born turntabl...

• Review: Flying Lotus 'Cosmogramma' – Warp - 10.0

  by jefe 5/04 15:11 Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus’ stellar new album Cosmogramma, out today on Warp Records, is the Entroducing of 2010. It&#821...

April 2010

• Where disco never got shitty: 'Lagos Disco Inferno'

  by jefe 4/29 06:00 Hot tip: back in the ‘70s disco secretly escaped to Nigeria, where it thrived in African discotechs, blissfully unaware of what ...

• Californians quitting pills, coke with cannabis

  by jefe 4/28 06:00 Bay Area residents are enrolling in twelve-step-like classes that use cannabis to quit heroin, pills, cigarettes, alcohol, and other addi...

• Not Stoned? You will be...YOU WILL BE

  by Oscar Pascual 4/27 11:00 The force is bong in this one. [Geekologie]

• Pipes2thePeople: a stupid name for something awesome

  by jefe 4/27 06:00 It sounds like a lame coffee/head shop on Haight St., or some crazy plan to arm the public with pipes, but it’s actually pretty...

• Cocaine overdose treatment found in soil of coca plants

  by jefe 4/26 12:04 Labspaces.net reports scientists have discovered a substance that breaks down cocaine 100 times faster than the human body, potentially h...

• New Video: Dosh's "Airlift" gets maximalist

  by jefe 4/26 10:46 [Dosh – “Airlift” from anticon. on Vimeo.] It’s Martin Dosh’s fifth album for Anticon, and Tommy – ...

• Sleep deprivation madness in 'A Million in the Morning'

  by jefe 4/26 06:00 Friend of The Report, Decon sends us word of a depraved new documentary on the madness of sleep deprivation, starring Vice Magazine&#8...

• Mike Relm cuts awesome "Iron Man 2" trailer remix, lands a job in Paramount marketing

  by Oscar Pascual 4/23 22:43 Mike Relm’s brilliant audio and video mashups have been a TDR favorite for years, and everyone will soon know why. The native Sa...

• The 'Hemperor' passes, Facebook legalizes activism

  by jefe 4/21 12:00 Prominent legalization activist Jack Herer, author of 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes died Thursday, April 15. He was 70 years...

• R.I.P. Gang Starr's Guru

  by Oscar Pascual 4/20 10:15 We lost one of the most talented and gifted emcees to ever bless the mic. Bang your head to “Code of the Streets” and pour...

• Deer Tick's "20 Miles" serves gritty 'Black Dirt Sessions'

  by jefe 4/20 06:00 TDR fave Deer Tick shares the first MP3 from The Black Dirt Sessions, track “20 Miles”. Recorded late last year at Blac...

• Listen to the new LCD Soundsystem a month early

  by Oscar Pascual 4/19 09:00 Apparently the upcoming album from LCD Soundsystem is so good that one of TDR’s favorite comedians, Aziz Ansari, posted a link ...

• FlyLo sparks special session on 4/20 at Dublab.com

  by jefe 4/19 09:00 Maybe it’s because we grew up on the NES and SNES, but the beats of Flying Lotus register as 8.3 on the richter scale of dopene...

• It's not Clear Channel, it's DJ Shadow Radio

  by Oscar Pascual 4/09 15:52 Hey, we all hate the shit they play on the radio (if you don’t, leave now because we hate you too). Not all of us go ahead and ...

• Sex Pistols' Steve Jones fondly remembers Manager Malcolm McLaren: he got me a hooker and some heroin

  by jefe 4/09 12:34 “I was upset when I heard the news, as I’ve always had a soft spot for Malcolm. I knew him since I was 17 before the Pistols formed&#821...

• Review: Daedelus EP 'Righteous Fists of Harmony'

  by jefe 4/08 19:23 Spring is in the ear and LA producer Daedelus’ new “Righteous Fists of Harmony” sounds like an absolutely darling fit for the se...

• CD Review: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' 'I Learned the Hard Way' - Daptone Records (9/10)

  by jefe 4/08 18:08 Brooklyn retro soul act Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings’ latest LP, I Learned the Hard Way is a triumph of sass, brass and swa...

March 2010

• News: NASCAR rejects CannaCar from racing in green

  by jefe 3/31 12:51 NASCAR has denied Cannabis Planet TV’s bid to roll out a green bedecked cannacar in NASCAR races. Here’s what it would ha...

• Clip: 'Dark Side of the Moon' track "Money" for NES

  by jefe 3/31 10:23 Actually sounds kinda tight. Arranged by one Brad Smith. [via YouTube]

• Need directions? Ask Snoop Dogg

  by Oscar Pascual 3/23 11:27 Because I’d rather get them from Snoop instead of some weird British robot lady. [LA Taco]

• New Release Tuesday: March 16, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 3/16 15:52 SuicideGirls: Guide to Living (DVD, Blu-Ray) A bunch of tattooed girls who listen to Morrissey and Atmosphere get naked. And some...

• New Release Tuesday: March 9, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 3/09 12:25 Final Fantasy XIII (Playstation 3, Xbox 360) One of the most celebrated video game franchises makes its next gen console debut. E...

• 'High Times' brings a Cannabis Cup to the West Coast

  by jefe 3/05 12:00 High Times has christened a new medical marijuana quarterly magazine, as well as a California-based Medical Cannabis Cup, and its first-e...

• California Legalization: Ammiano finds a foe in San Diego

  by jefe 3/05 12:00 Who could possibly hate decriminalizing a harmless plant, and saving countless corrections and law enforcement dollars? A dickhead from S...

• Gulf cartel battling ex-commandos "Los Zetas" in Reynosa

  by jefe 3/04 12:00 U.S. authorities have temporarily closed their consulate in the Mexican city of Reynosa due shootouts between the Gulf drug cartel and...

• Tool's Maynard makes wine, hangs out with comedians

  by Oscar Pascual 3/03 15:02 Not only does Maynard James Keenan make crazy-as-shit art metal, he also makes delicious wine from the deserts of Arizona. The limited...

• Authorities: Costa Rica becoming a cocaine warehouse

  by jefe 3/03 12:00 From Latin American Herald Tribune: Costa Rican authorities seized approximately 3 tons of cocaine being transported by truck &#...

• New Release Tuesday: March 2, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 3/02 15:30 Where the Wild Things Are (DVD, Blu-Ray) Spike Jonze takes one of the most beloved children’s stories and turns it into the...

• Metal heads High on Fire score a 90 Metacritic [Woah]

  by jefe 3/02 12:00 Mad props for our long-time favorite Oakland metal band High on Fire, who just netted a 90 Metacritic for their new album Snakes for ...

• Feds poisoned 10,000 in fucked up prohibition ploy

  by jefe 3/01 12:00 Slashdot points us to Slate’s horrible story about how Federal authorities poisoned 10,000 people in the name of prohibition. I...

• 'It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes'

  by jefe 3/01 09:44 Dante’s Inferno illuminates a very manly, muscular Hell New surveys of youth religiosity indicate atheism and religious rela...

February 2010

• Black Dynamite, Good Hair, Aliens vs Predator: New Release Tuesday February 16, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 2/16 13:27 Black Dynamite (DVD, Blu-Ray) Get this critically acclaimed blaxploitation homage flick now, sucka! Good Hair (DVD) This...

• Bonobo's 'Black Sands': Like suicidal Na'vi nerd Prozac

  by jefe 2/10 12:00 Bonobo Black Sands Tax season. Tea Party season. Jersey Shore’s second season. There’s a lot to freak the fuck out ...

• BioShock 2, Massive Attack, A Serious Man: New Release Tuesday February 9, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 2/09 12:47 BioShock 2 (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC) Return to the underwater city of Rapture to eviscerate splicers with a big-ass drill for...

• Study: High THC cannabis can push schizos off the edge

  by jefe 2/09 07:00 New Scientist reports that newer, stronger dope makes crazies, well, crazier. Scientists have noted marijuana’s deleterious effect ...

• Fate of legal, Cali chron in hands of soccer moms, AARP

  by jefe 2/08 09:00 The November 2010 election in California will feature at least one notable ballot initiative: a proposal to tax and regulate personal use...

• Flying Lotus' 'Cosmogramma' transmits May 4 on Warp

  by jefe 2/07 06:00 The BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbes calls him the Hendrix of his generation. Indeed. Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus has a self-descri...

• Chuck Klosterman on 'Eating the Dinosaur', Steroids

  by jefe 2/03 15:49 Friends of The Dope Report, Gelf Magazine has a long, awesome interview with noted author Chuck Klosterman, as done by me. TDR artist...

• Zombieland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lil Wayne: New Release Tuesday February 2, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 2/02 13:50 Zombieland (DVD, Blu-Ray) The perfect blend of zombie gore and hilarity. Not only is Zombieland fun as shit, but it also features...

January 2010

• Diplo presents 'Free Gucci' - the Gucci Mane Mixtape

  by jefe 1/30 12:00 This is the sick shit. A free Diplo mixtape of Gucci Mane’s Cold War Mixtapes. The whole thing’s ‘nanas, but we esp...

• Video: Black Milk's "Keep Going" - 'Album of the Year'

  by jefe 1/29 12:00 New Black Milk album out Spring/Summer 2010. Look forward to it. [Black Milk]

• Vice Magazine's 'Guide to Liberia', partnership with CNN

  by jefe 1/28 12:00 The inimitable Vice Magazine goes to Liberia, so you don’t have to. Now with CNN distro. Jerks.

• Grand Theft Auto 'Chinatown Wars': Now on iPhone

  by jefe 1/27 12:00 Take it from Hugo Chavez, Playstation is poison, and will lead you down the path to Hell. The iPhone, however. That’s just the J...

• Video: Madlib once shilled used Toyotas in Oxnard

  by Oscar Pascual 1/27 10:38 I think this qualifies for most awesome song in a local business comercial ever. Forever ever? Forever ever. [Stones Throw]

• Soul Power, David Bowie, Mass Effect 2: New Release Tuesday January 26, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 1/26 14:51 Soul Power (DVD, Blu-Ray) Remember that Ali vs. James Brown animated short we showed you? Well, it actually happened, kind of. Th...

• Study: Forty-four percent of Internet Viagra counterfeit

  by jefe 1/26 12:00 Who actually buys counterfeit drugs over the Internet? A bunch of limp-dicked morons is who. The counterfeit drug market on the Inter...

• 'NY Times': Researching medical marijuana is, like, hard

  by jefe 1/26 12:00 Believe it or not, doctors can’t get a bunch of purple-urple and run trials on people to see if it indeed mellows them out or cures...

• "The Gift" feat. Mr. Lif: Whitefield Brothers 'Earthology'

  by jefe 1/25 14:31 Peep game from Stone’s Throw vintage imprint Now Again and their February 2010 release from The Whitefield Brothers, Earthology...

• Get Busy Committee savages the boutique rap market

  by jefe 1/25 08:37 First the L.A. kids released a dope 2GB USB album that looked like a little Uzi. Sold out 1,200 of those bastards. Now the supergroup...

• Performing Mexican drug ballads a jailable offense?

  by Oscar Pascual 1/24 17:32 The Clipse should never ever hang out in Mexico, or else they will die. The Mexican ruling party have proposed legislation that would...

• Shady California Priest Busted with Guns, Meth, GHB

  by jefe 1/14 15:04 Selling meth and possessing guns and date-rape drug GHB usually constitutes just another day in paradise for denizens of the Inland E...

• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Announce New Album

  by jefe 1/13 08:15 Vinyl heads, warm your needles. One of the greatest singers and performers alive today, former Rikers Island corrections officer and ...

• The Hurt Locker, Vampire Weekend, Army of Two: New Release Tuesday January 12, 2010

  by Oscar Pascual 1/12 13:51 The Hurt Locker (DVD, Blu-Ray) Grind your teeth throughout every tense minute of this film about a military bomb defusing unit du...

• Liars enlist musical Dream Team to remix new album

  by Oscar Pascual 1/11 14:18 The Liars fifth studio album Sisterworld promises some brutally hard art rock later this spring, but all the rage is coming from news...

• 'Patch Pirate' gets 'deaded' in failed Nevada County, CA. pot heist

  by jefe 1/11 09:49 Nevada County, CA., way up north above San Francisco, has emerged as another Emerald Triangle of cannabis cultivation in California, ...

• Michael Cera takes pills in trippy new Islands video for "No You Don't"

  by jefe 1/10 17:42 Let’s all wish Michael Cera the best with his image overhaul. Youth In Revolt isn’t doing that bad with the critics, eithe...

• Daedelus goes on US tour to promote his new label with Nosaj Thing and Jogger

  by Oscar P Medina 1/08 11:55 Los Angeles has been making international waves for the last couple years now with its own unique brand of experimental hip-hop. Dam ...

• Artie Lange attempts suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly

  by Oscar Pascual 1/07 16:01 Comedian and devourer of drugs and alcohol Artie Lange was hospitalized after attempting suicide last weekend. Years of substance abu...

• British Sea Power shroom trip ends in compound fracture

  by jefe 1/07 10:33 Indie rock outfit British Sea Power writes in to Clash Magazine (no relation to the band) this week with exactly what can go wrong on ...

December 2009

• 'Jennifer's Body', 'Facing Ali,' The Clash: New Release Tuesday December 29, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 12/29 12:54 Jennifer’s Body (DVD, Blu-Ray) We aren’t the biggest fans of Diablo Cody’s annoyingly quirky screenwriting, but...

• Cancel that New Year's Eve idea [Tainted Cocaine]

  by jefe 12/29 12:08 Props to the San Francisco Chronicle for localizing that global story on tainted cocaine we wrote about a few weeks ago. The Chron fol...

• Surely, RFID will end jail escapes, forced sodomy, routine beatings [Don't Call Me Shirley]

  by jefe 12/19 12:00 Jail escapes, inmate violence and sexual assaults will surely come to a dramatic end, now that a Washington D.C. prison has outfitted its...

• Video: Man Choking on Pot Baggie Tasered by FL. Police, Dies

  by jefe 12/18 11:09 Well, that was about the most horrifying thing I’ve seen this year. [Sigh] Kids, don’t eat plastic baggies of weed o...

• Arturo Leyva aka "The Boss of Bosses" is killed by the Mexican Navy

  by Oscar P Medina 12/17 10:36 This could have been a scene straight out of Steven Soderbergh’s movie Traffic. The NY Times is reporting that one of the most n...

• Blunt wrap shopping with D-Lo in Oakland

  by jefe 12/17 09:18 Awesome Thrasher photog Clayton Blaha just hit the liquor stores of Oakland, CA. with rapper D-Lo. The second in a series of dope sho...

• Cannabis legalization in California surges forward

  by jefe 12/16 10:23 (Rich Lee, Tax Cannabis 2010 founder) Adding to its ongoing role as the country’s moral windsock, the State of California mi...

• 'Inglourious Basterds', 'The Hangover,' Animal Collective: New Release Tuesday December 15, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 12/15 12:36 Inglourious Basterds (DVD, Blu-Ray) Quentin Tarantino’s revision of Nazi Germany was full of more depth, emotion, and nuanc...

• Lil' Wayne throws the most bluntastic open house ever

  by Oscar Pascual 12/14 15:37 Weed and video hos are normally a good thing, but not for the real estate agents trying to sell Lil’ Wayne’s Miami apartm...

• What drugs are they taking in outer space ?

  by Oscar P Medina 12/09 19:55 You would be surprised at what these astronauts are indulging in while in space. Booze seemed obvious but scopolamine? For those who ...

• 'Public Enemies', Snoop Dogg, Clipse: New Release Tuesday December 8, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 12/08 13:57 Public Enemies (DVD, Blu-Ray) Michael Mann’s biopic of the notorious John Dillinger turns in a stellar performance by Johnn...

• Tiger Woods lived out his favorite scene from 'Role Models'

  by Oscar Pascual 12/04 15:01 Apparently the movie Role Models was both hilarious as well as highly influential on Tiger Woods’ use of sedatives during sex. ...

• Los Angeles Lakers' Ron Artest admits to enjoying delicious cognac during games

  by Oscar Pascual 12/03 14:16 Ron Artest’s wildly controversial career has been through arena-clearing brawls, a second job at Circuit City, domestic abuse, ...

• Barack Obama Ecstacy Pills

  by Oscar P Medina 12/03 12:53 At a time when Barack’s approval rating is dipping it’s good to know drug lords still hold him in high regard. A sta...

• Cocaine killing dozens in U.S. with pseudo-AIDS

  by jefe 12/03 09:36 You know all that de-wormer Levamisole people keep finding cut into their cocaine? ... You don’t? ... Ok, well not to get all t...

• UC Berkeley study: Pot is my anti-drug

  by jefe 12/03 09:24 UC Berkeley researchers suggest substituting weed for serious boozing problems. A survey of 350 cannabis users found significant amou...

• Marilyn Monroe did more than just smoke weed

  by jefe 12/02 09:07 Norma Jeane Baker died of a barbituate overdose fueled by the narcissistic self-loathing of being an American celebrity. She’s i...

• 'Snatch', Rolling Stones, Souls of Mischief: New Release Tuesday December 1, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 12/01 13:04 Snatch (Blu-Ray) Guy Ritchie’s magnum opus now gets the hi-def treatment it deserves. I fuckin’ hate pikeys… ...

November 2009

• Lazer Bass' Ghosts on Tape gets it done in 2010

  by Oscar P Medina 11/30 15:15 Looking back at the spectrum of music that was made in the last decade one can easily fall into the trap of lashing out at the seemi...

• TDR video of the day: Felt - "Felt Chewed Up"

  by Oscar Pascual 11/30 12:42 Murs and Slug are two of the most charismatic emcees out there, but all the charm in their new video comes courtesy of an awesome litt...

• 'Reason' Mag: Salvia is scary, safe, and too scientifically important to ban

  by jefe 11/25 15:17 Reason Magazine’s December 2009 issue has a well-written, thorough analysis of Salvia witch hunting in America where they argue...

• Funny People, cornbread, football: New Release Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 11/24 14:25 You’d think there would be a cavalcade of awesome stuff coming out the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday, but nah. No dope ...

• Live Review: Them Crooked Vultures in Oakland - the Higgs Boson of Rock

  by jefe 11/20 13:06 By David Downs Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age combo Them Crooked Vultures tore up their second California dat...

• Artist on the rise : Joy Orbison

  by Oscar P Medina 11/19 09:05 Peter O’Grady aka Joy Orbison is making waves in the dubstep world with just a few 12 inches and mixes under his belt, showcasin...

• TDR video of the day: James Brown vs. Muhammad Ali

  by Oscar Pascual 11/18 13:24 No Mas finally answers the question: who would win in a fight between the Greatest of All Time and the Godfather of Soul? Realizing th...

• Texas police accidentally mail 25 pounds of pot to jail inmates [This Week In Smuggling]

  by jefe 11/18 12:00 See, police in Edinburg seized a thousand pounds of the stuff in a truck carrying fruit and veggies. By law, Texas police can’t let...

• Left 4 Dead 2, Them Crooked Vultures, Fight Club: New Release Tuesday November 17, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 11/17 13:56 Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360, PC) L4D’s wave of zombie mutilation continues with this sequel set in New Orleans. Blow ‘em ...

• CA. legal pot initiative halfway done with signature-gathering

  by jefe 11/17 08:00 Tax Cannabis 2010 reports the legalization group has gathered more than 330,000 signatures, more than half-way to its goal of getting a c...

• U.S.'s first MJ cafe opens in Portland

  by jefe 11/16 09:21 Really? The “first”? Ok: The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical marijuana users a...

• Animation: Pitcher Dock Ellis' LSD-fueled no-hitter

  by jefe 11/16 09:15 Long-time readers of TDR know the story of major league pitcher Dock Ellis, famous for the no-hitter he threw on acid and speed in the...

• Cocaine and pepper spray can kill you [Probably]

  by jefe 11/16 08:12 From the Dept. of WTF, New Scientist reports that a brain interaction between cocaine and capsaicin – the active ingredient in pepp...

• Dr. Mario's prescription for HPV and crabs

  by Oscar Pascual 11/16 08:00 Multi-colored pills, of course. [Geekologie]

• Metalocalypse returns for Season 3, new DethAlbum, live shows

  by jefe 11/15 15:40 We’re pissed we missed episode one, luckily Adult Swim is airing the “Renovationklok” in its entirety. Next episode...

• The Green Cross wins 2009 San Francisco Cannabis Cup

  by Oscar Pascual 11/12 15:30 San Francisco medicinal dispensary the Green Cross took home this year’s SF Cannabis Cup on Tuesday. With over 15 of their stra...

• Cambridge kids illegally importing anti-narcoleptic Modafinil to stay focused

  by jefe 11/12 08:50 With finals upons us, it pays to study hard: Modafinil was never meant for people like me. It was invented to stop narcoleptics fall...

• Review: The Raveonettes break hearts at Bimbo's 365 Monday

  by jefe 11/11 10:30 By David Downs Danish rock duo The Raveonettes seduced and betrayed a few hundred Bay Area music aficionados Monday night with 90-m...

• The man who took 40,000 hits of E and lived to tell the story...kind of

  by Oscar P Medina 11/11 08:18 Dangerous Minds linked us to this strange story about a man who over the course of nine years took 40,000 hits of ecstasy. Honestly, ...

• Modern Warfare 2, Up, Pearl Jam: New Release Tuesday November 10, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 11/10 13:38 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC) Our UAV is finally online! The year’s most anticipated video g...

• Review: Modern Warfare 2 - 'Hostiles in the Burger Town!'

  by jefe 11/10 11:12 Insanely violent, stunningly detailed and as addictive as a speedball, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, is worth the hype. Free up time...

• For the broke-ass Pixies fan: A free live EP and Tonight Show performance

  by Oscar Pascual 11/09 15:58 Here’s some free Pixies goodness, since there’s only about 12 people out there who can actually afford to see them on thei...

• Review: Pixies bring 'Doolittle' to Oakland's Fox Theater

  by jefe 11/09 08:11 By David Downs Legendary alternative rock band Pixies howled the ferocious language of Doolittle to thousands of rabid, animalisti...

• Ace pitcher Tim Lincecum faces marijuana charges

  by Oscar Pascual 11/06 13:19 All-star phenom Tim Lincecum faces misdemeanor marijuana charges after a traffic stop in Washington state. The 2008 Cy Young Award wi...

• Time Magazine Op-Ed: Save The Pot Dealers

  by jefe 11/05 16:57 Pretty funny, actually. Bravo, Time. [Time]

• Sighted: Street artist Ludo's Parisian Shrooms

  by Oscar Pascual 11/04 14:05 Street artist Ludo just threw up some delicious magical mushrooms on the walls of his native Paris. Further proof that mushrooms and ...

• News: Cannabis vs. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  by jefe 11/04 10:57 From ScienceDaily reporting on work in the Journal of Neuroscience today: Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatm...

• Lego Rock Band, Weezer, A Final Night with George W. Bush: New Release Tuesday November 3, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 11/03 13:53 Lego Rock Band (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS) Just like the regular Rock Band games, only with Legos for some reason. Althoug...

• Did 'witches' use their vajayjays to trip balls?

  by jefe 11/03 09:11 Here’s a novel theory: Medieval witches didn’t actually fly around the countryside on broomsticks. They smeared sticks wi...

October 2009

• This is your brain on drugs for real

  by Oscar Pascual 10/30 12:55 Science is here to prove that it’s not an emotional girl making a mess in the kitchen. This is an excerpt from an upcoming episo...

• Hearings: Cash, Violence, DUIs, & Mexicans to follow legalization in California

  by jefe 10/29 11:14 That’s the word from anti-legalization advocates in Sacramento yesterday, where a legalization bill came up for debate. The juicies...

• Michael Pollan: Cannabis growers are 'the best gardeners of my generation'

  by jefe 10/28 10:08 Pollan says in his new documentary The Botany of Desire – a two-hour PBS adaptation of his hit book exploring man’s relat...

• California legalization initiative hits 300K-signature mark

  by jefe 10/27 23:47 Proponents of the leading ballot initiative have collected nearly 300,000 signatures since late September, supporters say, easily on pace...

• Monty Python, Broadcast, DJ Hero: New Release Tuesday October 27, 2009

  by Oscar Pascual 10/27 14:21 Monty Python: Almost The Truth (DVD, Blu-Ray) IFC’s miniseries documentary about your favorite comedians’ favorite co...

• Exclusive Madvillain tracks from J. Rocc

  by Oscar Pascual 10/27 13:26 Being the bad muther-effing DJ that he is, J. Rocc always has sole possession of ridiculously rare songs. I saw him at Funky Sole in L...

• Video: Them Crooked Vultures "New Fang"

  by jefe 10/26 09:59 QOTSA, Foo, Led Zepp = What are you waiting for? [Them Crooked Vultures]

• Nicotine Fit running through your brain?

  by jefe 10/26 08:30 Try some push-ups, dawg. From ScienceDaily: While we are no longer faced with advertisements for cigarettes, smokers are still faced...

• TDR mix of the week: Kode 9

  by Oscar P Medina 10/26 07:50 Let’s face it – the Brits in the last 20 years have been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to new musical styles. A...

• Los Angeles voters support medical cannabis dispensaries with a strong majority

  by Oscar P Medina 10/24 14:27 Behold the photo of a man who is out of touch. Dangerous Minds (a website TDR highly endorses) has a great post about how LA City Att...

• Alas, Genesis Through R. Crumb

  by the nuge 10/23 09:00 With rave reviews from the Jewish and extended religious communities, the mainstream media and his loyal fans alike, R. Crumb’s...

• Get Inside Your Head and Hallucinate

  by the nuge 10/23 06:00 The visions are in your head man. It’s all there, the swirling patterns – coursing with color and texture, yes the rainbow serpe...

• Spiders are true friends of an erect penis [Spidey-Sense Tingling]

  by the nuge 10/22 09:00 Venom from a spider that roams Central and South America has long been known to cause massive, uncomfortable erections that often lea...

• TDR video of the day: Felt - Get Cake

  by Oscar Pascual 10/21 16:55 When three of our favorite emcees get together, we simply must give our stamp of approval. Murs, Slug, and Aesop Rock team up for Felt...

• Black Dynamite brings the ruckus to that ass

  by Oscar Pascual 10/21 16:43 We have to get behind anybody who’s super cool and knows kung-fu, drives a $5,000 car and wears a $100 suit. This homage to 70s b...

• Transformers, Flight of the Conchords, Borderlands: New Release Tuesday 10/20

  by Oscar Pascual 10/20 14:13 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DVD, Blu-Ray) Good old mindless Hollywood entertainment from the master, Michael Bay. Hokey ...

• Treasure Island Music Festival: NorCal's Micr-oachella concludes its 3rd year

  by jefe 10/19 11:07 More than 20,000 elite aesthetes of modern music gathered on the grass shores of an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay over...

• Dan Deacon is sonic Prozac for the soul [Treasure Island Music Festival]

  by jefe 10/18 10:57 MGMT, MSRKFT, Girl Talk, The Streets and the aforementioned Mr. Deacon – full report this week on TDR. But first, the TIMF Music...

• TDR invites you to a mindblowing mix of hip-hop : Gilles Peterson

  by Oscar P Medina 10/16 15:51 Gilles Peterson is a British record collector, tastemaker, and record label owner whose show “Worldwide” is absolutely essential if y...

• Friday News Blotter: 'Too Much Good Stuff'

  by jefe 10/16 11:20 From the Lebanon Daily News: A police officer entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 3:25 a.m. Saturday, police said Monday. While ins...

• TDR video of the day: Modest Mouse - Whale Song

  by Oscar Pascual 10/15 14:49 Let’s face the facts: Modest Mouse puts out batshit insane videos all day everyday. Peep the new one from their latest release, ...

• TDR mix of the week: Andy Votel

  by Oscar P Medina 10/15 09:00 Andy Votel is the kind of character that is spoken about in hushed tones by record collectors, producers and the music literati. He st...

• Video of Mexico drug crew burning boat filled with cocaine

  by Oscar P Medina 10/14 22:42 In rare stunning footage released by the US Navy, a crew of Mexican drug traffickers lit a yacht on fire and then jumped into the sea...

• Science Fiction Psychedelia

  by Oscar Pascual 10/14 15:41 Sometimes a good Sci-Fi book cover can be just as mind-bending as the book itself. Such is the case with illustrator Emanuel Schongut...

• TDR video of the day: Mayer Hawthorne - Green Eyed Love

  by Oscar Pascual 10/13 14:35 Mayer Hawthorne goes right down TDR’s alley with some psychedelic soul paired with one sexy absinthe-induced hallucination. Than...

• Stop Making Sense, H.P. Lovecraft, Flaming Lips: New Release Tuesday 10/13

  by Oscar Pascual 10/13 14:11 Stop Making Sense Blu-Ray Considered to be one of the best concert films ever made, you can now see David Byrne’s big-suite...

• TDR video of the day: Lambo - Computer Bagel

  by Oscar Pascual 10/09 15:12 Great Scott! Behold the most amazing song about Jewish donuts ever. This auto-tuned ode to delicious bagels comes from our favorite re...

• TDR video of the day: Basement Jaxx - Scars

  by Oscar Pascual 10/08 14:58 Florae and Faunae have never made me trip balls this hard. Yet another dope beat and video from the electronic UK duo. [Basement Jaxx]

• Kevin Smith encourages youth weed smoking

  by Oscar Pascual 10/05 16:10 From the New York Post: “I know you’re supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don’t...

• TDR video of the day: Depeche Mode - Hole to Feed

  by Oscar Pascual 10/01 14:52 I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors, but I think that God would even have to participate in this epidemic of lurid tong...

• San Francisco grow houses yield fires, firearms, sticky icky ...

  by jefe 10/01 09:33 In the Sunset, police say row houses crammed with as many as 2,000 marijuana plants bear the marks of classic criminal enterprises....

September 2009

• TDR mix of the week: Cut Chemist

  by Oscar P Medina 9/30 15:09 Cut Chemist is the DJ-producer par excellence who cut his teeth playing in underground LA hip hop circles in the 90’s, produced Jurass...

• 41 million dollars in drug money seized by drug agents

  by Oscar P Medina 9/30 13:08 In one of the largest money raids known to the DEA, a total of 41 million dollars was confiscated from the ports of Mexico and Columb...

• Captain Kirk's LSD-fueled techno freakout

  by Oscar Pascual 9/30 09:36 I’d drop tabs with the Shat-Man any day so long as this is playing. [DoseNation]

• This Week in Smuggling: 4.5 tons of cocaine in a shipment of canned artichokes

  by jefe 9/30 06:34 We always like our artichokes a litle cokey. [Latin American Herald Tribune]

• The Girlfriend Experience, Ghostface, Dethklok: New Release Tuesday 9/29

  by Oscar Pascual 9/29 13:30 The Girlfriend Experience If you’re familiar with your pornography, you know Sasha Grey is the hottest, kinkiest starlet ou...

• Meet: the Narcs of All Narcs

  by jefe 9/29 13:07 Ronald Brooks, the president of the National Narcotic Officers’ Associations’ Coalition, which represents more than 70,00...

• Vaporizers and pancakes ['Nuff said]

  by Oscar Pascual 9/28 15:01 (volcano vaporizer and automatican pancake machine review from Gizmodo on Vimeo). This is what heaven must be like, if only Prince&#821...

• Kevin Smith coming to your town this Fall

  by jefe 9/28 06:15 We were just over at our favorite San Francisco comic book store Caffeinated Comics when we saw a cool flyer: An Evening With KEVIN...

• Willie Brown: California pot measure will pass

  by jefe 9/27 12:58 From the San Francisco Chronicle’s most-watched columnist and former mayor: For all our weak-kneed politicians, however, I don&#...

• Stevie Wonder dropped by Coda last night

  by Dr.Octabong 9/27 12:49 Stevie Wonder played at my bar last night … I went to my second Jazz Mafia show at the new live music venue Coda on Missio...

• THC gum, beer, wine, lotion, shampoos, tooth paste, tooth brushes [!!??]]

  by jefe 9/27 08:00 “You name it, we medicate it,” said the executive of Genovations Laboratory in Colorado. Dr. Brooks J. Kelly, Ph.D and c...

• Mike Patton, Kid Koala 'Battle...' with The Slew Live in SF

  by jefe 9/26 09:58 Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton joined the preeminent DJ Kid Koala onstage in San Francisco last night for the final, howling song...

• Media Blitz Greets California Cannabis Tax Effort

  by jefe 9/25 13:51 Reuters, The SF Chronicle, CBS, ABC and other major media outlets descended on the 38th Annual NORML Convention this afternoon for a p...

• Ammiano: San Diego is on a Jihad against Marijuana

  by jefe 9/25 10:51 The historic movement to roll back cannabis prohibition in the U.S. marshaled its forces today at the 38th annual NORML Conference du...

• Oaksterdam Initiative Hits the Streets [NORML]

  by jefe 9/24 17:26 From press release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The Tax Cannabis 2010 campaign will kick-off its statewide signature gathering at a press...

• Paging, CelebStoner.com [NORML]

  by jefe 9/24 16:00 Say, you’re part of a nationally publicized conference on legitimizing marijuana use. Isn’t that a good time be punctual? :)

• Legal pot conference less aromatic than you'd think [NORML]

  by jefe 9/24 13:33 The 38th annual National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Conference inundated San Francisco with hundreds of act...

• TDR video of the day: Portugal. The Man - "Do You"

  by Oscar Pascual 9/24 13:16 A rockin’ tune paired with an ultra trippy video concept. You’re gonna need some serious drugs for this one. Also check ou...

• Drug cops get hooked on Wii bowling during raid

  by Oscar P Medina 9/23 22:39 You work as a drug cop and you raid a suspect’s home, only to find some meth, guns and money. You do a backflip from the joy of ...

• Scientists find the plant gene that produces THC

  by Oscar P Medina 9/23 20:16 Weed nowadays is already so strong, and now they are going to be able to make it stronger? Damn. Scientists at the University of...

• Flaming Lips on Stephen Colbert doing new album

  by jefe 9/23 10:15 “Do you realize?” The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cWayne Coynewww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Ep...

• 'Katamari Forever' crapping rainbows upside our head [PS3]

  by jefe 9/22 18:41 Heyo, we took a crack at reviewing the new Katamari Forever at our games blog for the Examiner. When we opened the Blu-Ray disc case, ...

• Kid Cudi's 'Man on the Moon ...' worth the hype?

  by jefe 9/22 12:44 Sigh. Yes. his 2008 single “Day N Nite” was an Internet smash. His full-length debut is an ambitious five-act journey that moves in “...

• 'Grand Theft Auto' is about to get burlier and gayer

  by Oscar Pascual 9/22 12:34 This is the new trailer for The Ballad of Gay Tony, the latest episode for Grand Theft Auto IV. As you can see by the crazy new weapon...

• Hot single: Garage rock doo-wop with King Khan and the BBQ Show

  by jefe 9/22 09:23 Stringy guitars, scratchy vocals and a classic pop feel define this awesome garage-rock/doo-wop track “Invisible Girl” fro...

• TDR remembers Roc Raida

  by Oscar Pascual 9/21 15:28 Legendary DJ Roc Raida died on Saturday, according to All Hip Hop. Anyone who’s even looked at a set of turntables owes a debt ...

• Awesome portraits of your favorite writers ever

  by Oscar Pascual 9/21 15:00 Everyone who likes words and images throw your hands up. Then go check out the blog Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time...

• The Feds could convict State of California for contempt [Prisons]

  by jefe 9/21 11:09 California is a state that’s addicted to imprisonment. In good times, all its friends looked the other way, but now that it&#821...

• Ecstacy, Speed, Heroin-fueled group therapy = FAIL

  by jefe 9/21 10:50 The BBC reports today on some whacko German therapist who dosed a group of patients with allegedly heroin, speed & ecstasy all at onc...

• Legalizing it at the country club [CalCann2010]

  by jefe 9/21 09:09 California cannabis law reformers CalCann2010 hit the country club farmer’s market crowd this weekend, scufflin’ with cops an...

• Collapsed veins saves man from execution by lethal injection [Modernity!]

  by jefe 9/21 08:42 God must be laughing, because, Friday, a judge granted Ohio death row inmate Romell Broom a temporary stay of execution until they so...

• Rehab center murders continue in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico [Depravity]

  by jefe 9/21 08:39 Cuidad Juarez, Mexico is of course an epicenter of the Mexican drug war, but cartels there are now targeting drug rehabilitation cent...

• This is still a test

  by Dr.Octabong 9/20 17:11 don’t sign off on this, i will delete it soon. thanks. take two. saving something new. rhymes, sweet. checking to see if i...

• Review: Green Day's punk rock opera 'American Idiot' draws standing ovations

  by jefe 9/17 10:23 Iconoclastic director Michael Mayer takes a big hit and extends the high By David Downs Shooting heroin, simulated coitus, ramp...

• TDR Mix of The Week: DJ Nobody

  by Oscar P Medina 9/17 05:44 Elvin Estela aka DJ Nobody has been making music for over a decade now in Los Angeles and has carved out a unique niche for himself a...

• Mexico Drug War Update

  by Oscar P Medina 9/17 05:03 As of September 4th, there have been over 249 murders connected to the drug cartels in Mexico. That puts the death total at close to ...

• Dope Beats: Mayer Hawthorne's Lonely Hearts Tour Underway, Possibly Leading to Massive Surge of Baby Making throughout North America

  by Oscar Pascual 9/15 15:08 See what Mayer Hawthorne is grubbing on? That plate is an American classic, just like the rhythm and blues that originated from South...

• CJR: the MSM are acting less childish about pot

  by jefe 9/15 11:24 “I think editors are realizing that people want more honest, unbiased coverage of the issue,” Richard Lee puts it. “Newspapers are t...

• Peace Officers Ending Pot Prohibition in Sacto [Inspiring]

  by jefe 9/14 17:24 Today, a tour diary from the California Cannabis 2010 campaign, which started gathering signatures this week. An excerpt: Overall the res...

• Too Funky For Burning Man

  by the nuge 9/14 12:00 We at The Dope Report live in close accordance with The Funk. And of course by Funk, we are talking about all of the various meanings...

• TDR: Radio - New Raekwon, KRS1, and Jay-Z

  by jefe 9/13 16:04 The Dope Report took over Pirate Cat Radio last night for a special Saturday night episode of Grand Theft Audio a weekly radio show a...

• Anti-Drug Advocate Busted with Grow House, Gun, Doobies

  by jefe 9/11 12:02 Hey, kids. Today’s public service announcement originates from the fine state of West Virginia, and it goes like this: If you&#...

• LA Times Blog Finds Weed in LA [Shocker]

  by jefe 9/10 09:38 Everyone knows there’s hundreds of medical cannabis stores in Los Angeles, but the LA Times amused itself today by plotting them...

• Legal Pot Initiative Clear for Signature-Gathering in CA.

  by jefe 9/09 08:51 There are now four pushes to legalize possession and growth of non-medicinal cannabis in California. Three at the ballot box and one ...

• Snoop Dogg becoming more Snoop every day [Branding]

  by jefe 9/08 13:48 The nice thing about Snoop is he’s consistent. He’s always essentially said, “I’m a big, rich gangster pimp.&...

• Aziz Ansari Leaks Jay-Z Single in Annoying DJ Mixtape Fashion

  by Oscar Pascual 9/03 15:00 Jay-Z’s upcoming release “The Blueprint 3,” just got leaked, meaning those songs are most likely going to get ruine...

• Beavis and Butt-Head Triumphantly Return to Shamelessly Plug New Mike Judge Film

  by Oscar Pascual 9/03 14:34 After over a decade-long absence, the moronic duo are back only to tell us how awesome Mike Judge’s Extract will be. And for som...

• Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion for lying, kickbacks - largest pharma fraud settlement in history

  by jefe 9/03 11:44 The DOJ giveth and the DOJ taketh away: WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/—American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. ...

• Infected Cocaine Kills Three, Now a National Health Concern

  by Oscar P Medina 9/02 11:41 After DJ Am’s death, crack and cocaine is on many people’s minds as a drug not to be fucked with as it can send you to th...

• DJ AM was on some straight DRUGS, son

  by jefe 9/02 11:21 Do they just give you a tote bag of crack, Xanax, and OxyContin when you become famous in America in 2009? Rolling Stone’s posti...

• SF's Outside Lands Retrospective: In Pictures

  by jefe 9/02 09:05 Today we close the chapter on San Francisco’s second annual Golden Gate Park music festival Outside Lands, which was a lot of fu...

• TDR Radio: The Dead Weather at Outside Lands

  by jefe 9/01 10:15 TDR licks its wounds and naps today after a long weekend in Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands, where we checked out M.I.A., Mastodon,...

August 2009

• TDR Video of the Day: N.A.S.A. - "Whachadoin?"

  by Oscar Pascual 8/31 14:36 Summer is just about doneski, but there’s room for one last helping of blazing heat courtesy of N.A.S.A. The Anti- Records produ...

• TDR Video of the Day: Mayer Hawthorne - "Maybe So, Maybe No"

  by Oscar Pascual 8/26 14:00 We at TDR just came back from spending our summer in the lovely confines of Southern California, but we just can’t let go of the...

• Dope Boy: Patton Oswalt

  by Oscar Pascual 8/26 13:36 With observations that reference drugs, alcohol, classic sci-fi films, and comic books, Patton Oswalt has always been our kind of com...

• Should M.I.A. be bitching about opening for Tenacious D at Outside Lands?

  by jefe 8/25 09:38 “Paper Planes” weight-mover M.I.A. is on twitter this week and curious as to how she, vocalist of song of the year &#822...

• The World's First Cocaine Bar

  by Oscar P Medina 8/25 05:04 Just when you think you have heard it all in terms of the drug world, South America ups the ante tenfold. Route 36 is the name of the...

• Top Ways Drugs Get Into Prison

  by Oscar P Medina 8/24 05:56 Many people end up in jail due to drug possession, drug production or trafficking, therefore it’s no wonder that there is a hug...

• TDR Mix OF The Week: Quantic [Tropical Dub]

  by Oscar P Medina 8/24 05:20 Will Holland (aka Quantic) is one the most prolific and innovative working producers today. What started back in 2000 with a little kn...

• Cocaine is all over your cash

  by the nuge 8/22 06:00 There is good reason why it is considered improper etiquette to snort cocaine with a rolled up banknote. We’ve all heard about how di...

• Mexico Decriminalizes Drugs for 'Personal Use'

  by Oscar P Medina 8/21 16:58 A new law was enacted today in Mexico that allows for ‘personal use’ of narcotics with no prosecution. This means one can be ...

• A Lung Expanding, Tumor Preventing Miracle [Science Says So]

  by the nuge 8/21 12:00 You know how it takes a lot of practice to work up the lung capacity to successfully take a huge bong hit without keeling over coughi...

• Them Crooked Vultures tease us some more

  by jefe 8/19 12:53 Sort of like a Rock Voltron – Them Crooked Vultures combines Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. The album&#...

• 'Washington Post' Op-Ed calls for end to prohibition [When Swine Aviate]

  by jefe 8/18 10:54 Many people have not heard of L.E.A.P., but they have to be one of the most effective anti-drug warriors around. They’re &#8220...

• Did Mexican drug gangs start the La Brea forest fire?

  by jefe 8/17 16:23 The LA Times reports today that officials in Santa Barbara County suspect Mexican drug cartels of accidentally igniting the La Brea f...

• A moment of Dope: R.I.P. Reno 911!

  by jefe 8/13 18:10 Reno 911! co-creator and The State alumn Thomas Lennon announced via twitter today that Reno 911! had been canceled. Which is a shame...

• Fugees' John Forte in 'Village Voice' on his pardon, new EP

  by jefe 8/11 20:58 Much respect to music writer Ben Westhoff and Village Voice music editor Rob Harvilla for getting together this week’s update o...

• Thanks, Manson Family for killing the '60s [Dirty Hippies]

  by the nuge 8/11 12:00 As aging Boomers attempt to remember Woodstock (Aug 18, 1969) this coming weekend through hundreds of anniversary articles, perhaps t...

• Vintage Baatin footage from Slum Village's heydaze [Wax Poetics]

  by jefe 8/10 15:48 Wax Poetics writer and Chicagoan Ronnie Reese ranks among the smartest, savviest music writers in the world. So we’re happy to ...

• Billy Mays Death due to too much Tony Montana

  by Oscar P Medina 8/07 17:55 Famous sales pitchman Billy May’s toxicology report was revealed today and cocaine was found to be the culprit behind his untim...

• The War on Drugs now includes birth control

  by Oscar Pascual 8/07 15:29 em—war-on-birth-control’>Nailed ‘Em – War on Birth Control The overdrawn drug war declares that an attack on o...

• Dope Beats: Stones Throw Sundays at Amoeba L.A. this Month

  by Oscar Pascual 8/07 15:05 It’s easy to say L.A. is where it’s at this summer. The Dodgers are currently the best team in baseball, everyone’s...

• Michael Jackson's death makes a mockumentary of modern medicine [Propofol]

  by jefe 8/07 10:40 Remember when we called it that prescription drugs killed M.J. the way they kill millions in America? Well, the story gets better. ...

• Wildlife Drug Experimentation Up in Recent Polls

  by Dr.Octabong 8/06 10:25 Yeah OK, not really, but seriously, bwahahahahahhaha!!!! [fukung.net]

• TDR Mix of the Week : Dam Funk

  by Oscar P Medina 8/05 21:54 Dam-Funk is the man behind the current boogie craze that has been infecting the music message boards, blogs, magazines, but most impo...

• QOTSA, Foo Fighters, Led Zepp Recombine To Form Them Crooked Vultures

  by jefe 8/05 14:21 Blurt Magazine, for which we write, had some crazy news yesterday that Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Foo Fighter Dave G...

• Video: Bukowski Cruises Hollywood Blvd (So you don't have to)

  by jefe 8/05 14:16 Don’t freak with old Buke. Arthur Magazine posted yesterday an excerpt from Charles Bukowski’s Tapes (1985). In it, the cr...

• Grand Theft Audio Episode 6: Rye Rye, SA-RA, and Lullabye Arkestra

  by jefe 8/04 11:42 So, TDR has radio show called Grand Theft Audio spinning hard drives weekly at Pirate Cat Radio. Here’s Episode 6. Select artists ...

• Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids [The Onion]

  by jefe 8/03 18:32 WASHINGTON, DC — According to a study released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services, drug use is on the decline among...

• The harmful effects of smoking cigarettes, brought to you by gay robots

  by Oscar Pascual 8/03 17:38 C-3PO may not be into smoking cigarettes, but we all know he’s down for smoking meat wieners. Big, shiny, metal ones. [Nerd B...

• Cannabis iPhone app marks the weed spot

  by Oscar Pascual 8/03 17:25 iPhones are amazing devices that can pump your gas and tell you nurturing things when you’re feeling kind of blue. They can also no...

• Oregon speed showing up in wastewater tests

  by the nuge 8/01 12:00 Statistics detailing the amount of drug users in a given community have never been very accurate, especially when it comes to a subst...

• Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray party in Cuba

  by jefe 8/01 09:51 This today from the Latin American Herald Tribune reads like fiction. HAVANA – Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, best known for ...

July 2009

• TDR Mix of the Week : Kon and Amir

  by Oscar P Medina 7/29 22:16 Kon and Amir are the kind of legendary record collectors that get spoken about in hushed tones by producers and the musical cognoscen...

• Ballot Initiative to Legalize Marijuana in 2010 Filed in California

  by jefe 7/28 16:00 The second ballot initiative in two weeks, “Activists have 150 days from filing to gather 434,000 signatures to qualify for the sta...

• DeLorean Biopic Could Be Awesome

  by jefe 7/28 14:27 Fresh off the highly-rated documentary Tyson, wild man director producer James Toback is taking aim at the life of John DeLorean. Tob...

• RIP Dash Snow: Rich Heroin Fucktard

  by jefe 7/26 15:10 (Above: Look at this fucking hipster poster boy, Snow) The New York Times today has a memorable piece on some dead junkie named Da...

• DEA yanks $1.2 billion in plants from Sierra Nevada [Hula Hoes]

  by jefe 7/24 17:08 Tis the season for weedin’ and seedin’. From MSNBC: Federal and state agents have arrested 83 people accused of gro...

• Drug users really need to buckle up in Florida

  by the nuge 7/23 12:00 Just weeks after Florida enacted a mandatory seat belt law on June 30th, four felony drug arrests have been made on unsuspecting moto...

• Cloned South Korean Drug Dogs on the Prowl

  by the nuge 7/23 12:00 Four years after creating the first dog clone and only months after creating four Beagles that glow red under ultraviolet light, scie...

• East Coast Assholes Realize California Is Like, Making Money in Pot Business

  by jefe 7/23 11:17 We can just see the industry magnates of the East Coast scratching their chin at today’s Wall Street Journal article, ‘Wi...

• TDR Mix OF The Week : DJ Harvey

  by Oscar P Medina 7/22 11:27 DJ Harvey is the don of cosmic music in the modern world. He pioneered alot of what people these days are calling cosmic beardo = dan...

• Mexican Drug Lord Busts Yield Scarface's-worth of Toys

  by jefe 7/22 11:16 When a Mexican drug lord gets busted, what happens to his emerald-encrusted pistols? ... The agency is called the Asset Administration...

• The Style Shark [Blogs After Our Own Heart]

  by jefe 7/21 05:38 [The Style Shark]

• The Onion Discovers 'How Drugs Cross the Border'

  by jefe 7/20 18:33 “Step 8: An elaborate network of tunnels leads directly to Bonarroo” [The Onion]

• Lex Records Enlists James Jarvis To Great Effect [Art]

  by jefe 7/17 12:14 England’s Lex Records might just be the MoWax of 2009, what with its Danger Mouse and Doom affiliations among others. Their upc...

• Faces of Meth

  by Oscar P Medina 7/16 15:02 We all know the associations that come with meth; low rent trailer trash, backwoods personalities with missing teeth that look like t...

• Why is California getting more money to fight the drug war?

  by Oscar P Medina 7/16 14:49 Last time I checked we are in the throes of a recession and the State of California is 26 billion dollars in debt. Our schools are ai...

• Hunter S. Thompson's 'Ancient Wisdom' Review

  by jefe 7/16 10:50 We have to be careful which image we project, because the success of that projection may nullify that image. On one hand, you have Sn...

• 12 Mexican Federal Police Officers Assassinated

  by Oscar P Medina 7/15 12:26 Michocan, Mexico is the epicenter of La Familia, one of the most ruthless drug trafficking groups in Mexico. Arnoldo Rueda Medina, on...

• Twilight's Kristen Stewart Kind of Hot To Us Now

  by jefe 7/15 11:41 Sorry. We can’t help it. We simple man. Hope these old photos don’t ruin her Olympic swimming career / vampire advertisi...

• The State DVD is out today, things got out of hand, and now I've got tape all over my face

  by Oscar Pascual 7/14 13:37 The State DVD Psychedelics and greenery aside, nothing has fed the collective TDR head like the legendary State. Their short-lived yet...

• Obama Blanks on Drug Czar's Title [Policy Hints]

  by jefe 7/14 12:06 The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is the kind of thing many Americans would like to forget ever existed. Count Obama...

• Dropping Ecstasy Can Drop Your Handicap [Performance Enhancing Drugs]

  by Oscar Pascual 7/13 11:56 If you find your golf game out of whack, you can either switch to Precept balls, or just trip balls while rolling on E. Even better i...

• Indian Moonshine Sends You To Heaven for 20 Cents

  by jefe 7/13 10:21 Fratboys don’t got shit on Indian peasants. BBC news says 100 are dead from illegal Indian moonshine in Mehmadabad, a semi-indu...

• Mexico Torturing Citizens in Drug War, says WaPo

  by jefe 7/10 12:21 Come on, Mexico. If you’re going to torture, make sure they’re not your own citizens, and do it Egypt, where those uppity...

• Even the Narcs are out of Money in California [Budget]

  by jefe 7/10 12:06 California’s budget mess looks so bad that one can imagine the sick dying in the streets and the crazies raping their corpses. Amid...

• Fountain of Youth Found in Easter Island Bacterial Secretion

  by jefe 7/10 11:54 Chris Rock told us that if it’s hurt or broken, just pour some ‘tussin on it. Well, when he said ‘tussin, he probab...

• Dear Steve Jobs, What's Acid Like?

  by jefe 7/10 11:40 LSD guru Albert Hofmann asked Steve Jobs how LSD helped him form Apple. The answer is still up in the air, but the question itself ha...

• Man Dies Horrific, Chocolatey Death

  by jefe 7/10 11:32 This just in from BBC about an East Coast on-the-job-accident: Vincent Smith Jr, 29, was emptying pieces of solid chocolate into ...

• MJ's Death Possibly a Drug Homicide Now

  by jefe 7/10 11:21 Hate to say we told you so, but: Investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson are awaiting the results of a toxicology report...

• Willie Isz's "The Grussle" Brings The Heat

  by jefe 7/10 11:15 Goodie Mob offshoot Willie Isz has the goods, son. Consisting of Jnerio Jarel & Khujo Goodie (Goodie Mob), their upcoming record ...

• Ghostface Killah Gets Superpowers in New 'Cell Block Z' Comic Book

  by jefe 7/10 11:06 A fatal flaw in super-weapon programs will always be the inability to control your new super weapon. This time-honored narrative clic...

• The Pot Revolution will be Televised [Weed PSA's]

  by Oscar Pascual 7/09 14:58 California pro-marijuana lobbyists are bringing the fight to the television by launching this new ad. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano intro...

• Indian Jewelry: TDR Band of the Week

  by jefe 7/08 14:52 MY working theory is: the more oppressive an environment, the more extreme the reaction is to it. Hence – Indian Jewelry &#8211...

• The $33 Million Bronx Build-A-Bear Brown Bust

  by jefe 7/07 10:50 Authorities announced Saturday a massive heroin bust in the Bronx, where dealers were moving millions of dollars in dope inside Build...

• Left 4 Dead Health Pack after the long holiday?

  by jefe 7/06 09:53 Blarg. We have done it again. Too much of everything and we are back into the fetal position. We feel like we just deposed a presid...

• Why We Stopped Eating Acid in Nevada [Terminator]

  by jefe 7/03 15:12 A man who ran naked through the Stateline casino core was subdued by a Taser on Tuesday before a group of “startled” children in the...

• So This Is What a Shot-Up Bentley Looks Like

  by jefe 7/03 15:03 On a downtown stretch of the 101 Freeway, a storm of bullets riddled a $100,000 Bentley, showering the lanes with shell casings and gl...

• Sweet Lou Admits Using the Sweet Leaf [Performance Reducing Drugs]

  by Oscar Pascual 7/02 15:12 Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella recently admitted to trying marijuana and not liking it, which probably explains his anger issues. ...

• Anti-Smoking Suicides Linked to Chantix, Zyban

  by jefe 7/01 16:37 The FDA is warning smokers that anti-smoking pills Chantix and Zyban can make you want to freakin’ kill yourself and they have ...

June 2009

• U.S. Border Patrol Tunnel-Spotter to Prowl Southwest

  by jefe 6/30 14:36 Many may not think about it, but somewhere, right now, a person is tunneling toward Los Estados Unidos. Drug tunnels to the United St...

• Check Out Zhenli's $206 Million Fat Stack [Well-Played]

  by jefe 6/29 14:07 Dammmm. A California King of cash. You go, Zhenli. TDR’s man of the hour award goes to Chinese-born Mexican pharmaceuticals ...

• Did Pills Kill Michael Jackson? [Dept. of Probably]

  by jefe 6/26 13:48 MJ is up in heaven now. No doubt playing a backgammon tournament with Heath Ledger and Farrah Fawcett, trading pill stories and doubl...

• The United Nations Is Overpaying for Cocaine

  by jefe 6/25 12:45 Today’s top news story emanates from the 320-page, UN World Drug Report 2009. It’s pretty dense, boring, run of the mill stuf...

• Two Ibuprofen Gets High School Girl Naked, Principle Busted

  by jefe 6/25 11:04 When a school vice principle asks you to strip, the answer is always, “I want a lawyer.” It’s a shame the Supreme Court rule...

• Craigslist Pot Dealer Busted, Confirms Darwinian Science

  by jefe 6/23 16:06 Guys, gals. Stop selling drugs via Craigslist. From the AP today: Police said undercover detectives responded to the advertisement and ...

• In His Past Life, Don Draper Advertised for Heroin [History of Drug Ads]

  by Oscar Pascual 6/23 16:00 As this ridiculous war on drugs continues, feds and bureaucrats are getting mad paid while the economy gets sucked into the 12th dime...

• GTA IV's Meth Recipe Could Lead to Death by Explosion

  by Oscar Pascual 6/23 14:03 There’s a lot of things in Grand Theft Auto that you ought not to do in real life. Actually, you shouldn’t do anything fr...

• 'The Kush' Under Fire in Illinois

  by jefe 6/22 12:00 The land of Abraham Lincoln is an ironic hotbed of racism, which goes a long way to explaining why you can get 25 years in jail there...

• Early Halloween Idea #472: Coke Shark

  by jefe 6/22 12:00 Tis the season for migration – the humpbacks head south, the Arizonans head West, and of course, the coke sharks swim northward to Me...

• All DEA, Please Report to Afghanistan [Man Up]

  by jefe 6/22 12:00 The graveyard of empires has some new residents, America’s much-loved DEA agentry. McClatchy reports lengthily this week tha...

May 2009

• Manny Ramirez Suspended 50 Games for Drug Violation

  by Oscar Pascual 5/07 10:22 The Los Angeles Times reported earlier today that Dodgers All-Star slugger Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance enhancin...

• In These Tough Economic Times, Star Athletes and Their Moms Are Pushing Weight

  by Oscar Pascual 5/07 03:00 Apparently throwing a baseball faster than fuck for thousands of dollars can’t even stop your mom from peddling tweak in these ...

• 'Everybody Must Get Stoned' Author Talks 'Beer, Cunt, and Horn Music'

  by jefe 5/07 03:00 On April 1, 2009, Citadel published author R.U. Sirius’ non-fictional work Everybody Must Get Stoned, which details substance us...

• Cocaine-Laden Narco-Subs Set Sail for Mexico Every Week

  by jefe 5/06 03:00 Stupid-ass economy got you down? It could be worse. You could be making a measly $6,000 to spend fourteen days inside a godforsaken Co...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #9 Griselda Blanco

  by Oscar P Medina 5/03 03:00 Griselda Blanco aka “The Black Widow” aka “The Godmother” Country: Colombia, USA Product: Cocaine Born int...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #8 Pablo Escobar

  by Oscar P Medina 5/02 03:00 Pablo Escobar Country: Colombia Product: Cocaine Pablo Escobar was one of the the most notoriously violent and wealthy drug lords ...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #7 Amado Carillo Fuentes

  by Oscar P Medina 5/01 15:30 Amado Carillo Fuentes aka “Lord of the Skies” Country: Mexico, USA Product: Cocaine, Marijuana Amado Fuentes was the b...

April 2009

• Bitter Love between Utah and Pharmaceuticals

  by the nuge 4/30 12:00 In a nod to the pitfalls of religious repression, Utah has become the nation’s leader in the abuse of pharmaceutical drugs. There wer...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #6 Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

  by Oscar P Medina 4/30 09:51 Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha aka “El Mexicano” Country: USA Product: Cocaine It’s no surprise that some of the m...

• Australian Ravers Drowning in GHB

  by the nuge 4/29 12:00 Ambulances are lining up outside of raves in Melbourne. For the first time in Victoria, people attending large dance events are comin...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #5 "Freeway" Ricky Ross

  by Oscar P Medina 4/27 03:00 “Freeway” Ricky Ross Country: USA Product: Crack-Cocaine “Freeway” Ricky Ross claims that at his peak he wa...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #4 Carlos Lehder

  by Oscar P Medina 4/26 03:00 Carlos Lehder Country: USA, Colombia, The Bahamas Product: Cocaine Carlos Lehder is one of the co-founders of the Medellin Cartel ...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #3 Frank Lucas

  by Oscar P Medina 4/25 03:00 Frank Lucas Country: USA Product: Heroin Frank Lucas is famous for going out to the Golden Triangle (the apex of Asian opium produ...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #2 Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez aka "Yayo"

  by Oscar P Medina 4/24 03:00 #2 Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez aka “Yayo” Country: The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, USA Product: Crack Cocaine “...

• Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #1 The Medellin Cartel

  by Oscar P Medina 4/23 03:00 The Dope Report has compiled the definitive list of the most ruthless movers and pushers, the most innovative and sophisticated produ...

• Hobos Hit Hardest by Tobacco Tax

  by the nuge 4/21 12:00 Rolling your own has lost its charm. The tax on loose rolling tobacco has increased from $1.09 a pound to $24.59, that’s a 2200% incr...

• Rupert Murdoch Claims Rights to Bag of Weed [Family Guy]

  by Oscar Pascual 4/20 15:43 Just about everyone celebrating 4/20 today got the pre-party started by watching last night’s episode of Family Guy. While this...

• Prescription Needed to Drink American Tap Water

  by jefe 4/20 06:53 I’m not sure I’m supposed to be taking all this head lice medication with these birth control pills, and I’m defini...

• Dubstep Mixed with Ketamine Creates Zombies

  by the nuge 4/19 15:22 In the case of many musical genres, the mood and energy the style provokes become synonymous with a particular drug that seems to def...

• French Drug Authorities Find Lance Armstrong's Shower to be Offensive

  by Oscar Pascual 4/15 16:47 France’s anti-doping agency has found Lance Armstrong’s recent shower to be in violation of testing rules and is threaten...

• Andrew Sullivan Takes 'The Atlantic's' Readership Out of The Cannabis Closet

  by jefe 4/07 12:00 East Coast Ivy Leaguers are coming out of the pot closet like mad at The Atlantic Monthly’s web site. Over there, gay columnist and...

• Burning Man Ravers Lit Up by Real Natives

  by jefe 4/07 12:00 Everyone’s favorite alternative mainstream $300-a head communal oxymoronic desert drug freakout Burning Man got a black eye this...

• M.I.A.'s “Paper Planes” - A PTSD Cure? [Spotless Minds]

  by jefe 4/07 12:00 Playing M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” loudly at your next PTSD meeting might pave a road to recovery, New Scientist reports. Gun s...

• Give Us Ecstasy and We Can Fight PTSD

  by the nuge 4/07 06:00 Prior to its Schedule 1 criminalization in 1985, MDMA was widely used in the psychiatric community to treat patients who were unable ...

• Watch Super Fun Magical Happiness Grow Before Your Eyes[shroomz]

  by Oscar Pascual 4/07 00:12 Spending an evening in a shamanic psilocybin mushroom-induced trance can be awesome as shit. But sitting around and watching said mush...

• DOOM, formerly MF Doom: Why I Voted for McCain

  by jefe 4/06 12:00 Independent underground rap superstar Doom, formerly MF Doom, is the number five selling indie artist [ReutersUK] in the UK this week...

• DMT Allows Me to Tap into Christ Consciousness

  by the nuge 4/06 08:35 Protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a sect of Christian Mystics have been given the right to use DMT in order to e...

• Bart Simpson, Autobot Pills Not Ecstasy At All

  by the nuge 4/06 00:08 A new drug cocktail containing chemicals that closely mimic the effects of ecstasy has appeared. The Idaho State Police Forensics Lab...

• Mexico at War with the Drug Cartel: A Dope Report Series

  by Oscar P Medina 4/04 01:26 At this stage in the game it is not an overstatement to say that what began as a concern in the Mexican government over the increasin...

March 2009

• Blow Churros: The Feelgood Pastry of the Year

  by Oscar Pascual 3/30 05:07 It’s a great day in the morning for innovations in drug trafficking. Recent word from the DEA’s Microgram Bulletin brings...

• How High? Too High To Pay Taxes: Method Man Loses '08 Navigator to IRS

  by jefe 3/30 04:31 As tax season closes upon us all like a venomus vice of snakes, it’s nice to know rappers have the same problems we have. Wu-Ta...

• Obama Thinks Internet Users are Stoners

  by Oscar P Medina 3/30 03:00 Former marijuana user Barack Obama spoke in his first live video chat to the American audience last week and answered user generated ...

• Nicaragua’s Catch of the Day: Cocaine

  by the nuge 3/30 03:00 It’s white lobster season off the southeast coast of Nicaragua and you don’t even have to leave the shore to collect your bounty. Eve...

February 2009

• Obama To DEA Raid Victims: Kinda Bizzy Rite Now, thx

  by jefe 2/10 12:00 The Obama Administration took a time out from quarterbacking the Great Depression ‘09 to let potheads know Barack still has the...

January 2009

• Awesome Vintage Drug Paperback Covers

  by jefe 1/06 19:48 America’s idea of a dope fiend came straight from 1950’s fiction, according to The Sensational World of Drug Paperback...

• "The 'Spice' Is Life!" ... Ok, it's JWH-018

  by jefe 1/06 19:25 Raving Eurotrash have a new favorite drug, dubbed “Spice”. According to the Drug War Chronicle , the herbal drug is sold in head shop...

November 2008

• Obama, Gingrich, Clarence Thomas Among Top Ten Succesful Tokers

  by jefe 11/15 21:18 Boing Boing reports journalist Radley Balko is making fun of the Office of National Drug Control Policy for their new anti-pot disi...

October 2008

• 9/11 Drives Pot-Growing Deep Into America, Factory Farming Follows

  by jefe 10/13 21:07 Crackdowns on the southern border of the United States post-9/11 catalyzed a bloom in marijuana growing within America’s border...

• Hells Angels, Shotguns, Pipebombs, and a Whole Lotta Meth

  by jefe 10/07 17:00 Police in Oklahoma said October 6, that they have the Modesto, CA. man suspected of killing San Francisco Hells Angels leader Mark &#...

• Brightblack Morning Light Is Your New Favorite Band [Music]

  by jefe 10/07 01:20 Hippy dreams and silver moon beams are the stuff Brightblack Morning Light is made of, so consider yourself lucky. This kind of un...

• Indie Flick "Humboldt County": Rom-Com With Bongs [Oh, God, Here We Go]

  by jefe 10/07 01:00 Seth Rogan and Pineapple Express introduced America to the concept of the Stoner Action film quite successfully in 2008. So is it imm...