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Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker...
Tags: Music, Promethazine (drug), Genres, Kanye West, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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The right way to regulate pot
Political movements like the tea party may come and go, but the pot party seems to get stronger with every national election, putting the federal government in an increasingly untenable position. To date, more than one-third of the states and the...
Tags: National Government, Health Treatments, Tea Party Movement, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Government
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Lawmaker proposes misdemeanors for heroin, cocaine possession
Charging that the "war on drugs’’ has failed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation that would allow prosecutors to file misdemeanor instead of felony charges in cases of simple possession of heroin, cocaine and...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Mark Leno
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‘Evil Dead’: Jane Levy on the role that gave her nightmares (spoilers)
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIn “Evil Dead,” Fede Alvarez's remake of Sam Raimi's cult classic, Jane Levy plays heroin addict Mia, whose friends (Shiloh ...... -
‘Evil Dead’: Bruce Campbell, Fede Alvarez talk up ‘very scary’ remake
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFede Alvarez still remembers the first time he watched “The Evil Dead.” Inside a darkened Santa Monica editing bay where ...... -
French countess is key advocate for AIDS patients in Myanmar
SHWEPYITHA, Myanmar — After her heroin-addict husband died five years ago, Ei Ei Phyu discovered she was HIV-positive. She thought her life was over until friends directed her to the open-air clinic here where she receives antiretroviral medicine....
Tags: Human Rights, Prostitution, Health and Safety at Work, France, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Evil Dead' could scare 'G.I. Joe' off No. 1 box-office spot
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" could be demonized by "Evil Dead" at the box office this weekend as the horror film aims to possess No. 1. After debuting with $40.5 million, the action sequel will likely take in an additional $20 million during its second...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), The Lion King (movie), Theft, Animation (Movie Genre), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (movie)
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Doctor explains sizzurp's powerful high -- and deadly side effects
Sizzurp, purple drank, lean -- that cough-syrup-laced concoction of many names -- has been gaining popularity in hip hop culture and notoriety as more celebrities fall prey to its effects. Rapper Lil Wayne was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai last week,...
Tags: Promethazine (drug), Flu, Antihistamines, Coughing, Lil Wayne
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Movie review: 'Starbuck's' loser turns family man in big way
Everyone hates David (Patrick Huard), and with good reason: The shiftless, selfish 42-year-old butcher is such a screw-up that when he impregnates his girlfriend Valérie (Julie LeBreton), she severs ties so their child won't have to deal with the...
Tags: Vince Vaughn
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Prescription drug deaths: Bill would tighten rules on hydrocodone
L.A. NOWTaking aim at “America’s most abused narcotic,” congressional lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would place tighter restrictions on the painkiller hydrocodone, which is a key contributor to the nation’s prescription... -
Attorney sentenced for trying to smuggle drugs to client
L.A. NOWAttorney jailed for smuggling drugs: An ex-attorney who authorities said tried to smuggle heroin and methamphetamine to his client at a jail holding facility in downtown Los Angeles, and was later caught at another courthouse with rock cocaine, was... -
Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan
Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...
Tags: Mira Nair, Princeton University, Kiefer Sutherland, Religion and Belief, England
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