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56:24 – Drug rings from Colombia are implanting liquid heroin into puppies, then cutting them open and taking it out
57:31 – Seth: “If you can watch Front Lines do another hour on meth and not smoke meth with Jonathan and I, then you’re through.”
41:49 – John Michael Montgomery arrested yesterday in Lexington, Ky., for driving under the influence and possession of a controlled drug
42:09 – Seth wonders if Chantico is a controlled drug now
55:46 – 7-year-old girl brought cocaine to her second-grade classroom and passed it around
57:41 – Straight coke orgy thrown down in Philly
43:21 – Jah thinks 7-10-year-old kids would be fine if they did coke, because he had friends who did coke when they were that age: “Their awesome, strong little hearts. They could probably do more coke than we can.”
59:18 – Jah wonders what people do now besides drinking: “Apparently every 14-year-old kid in America judging by my awesome Myspace people are all eating ecstacy like crazy, which is cool because they all eat candy and eat ecstacy, and that’s awesome because that’s the way I left everything. It looks like nothing’s changed in 15 years, it’s like perfect.”
32:07 – Marijuana drug ring busted in Oakland. Confiscated items bore labels that resembled candy, which is how they sold them so easily to kids: Jolly Ranchers or Stony Ranchers, Milky Way or Munchy Way, Kit Kat or Keith Cat, Coca-Cola or Toca-Cola, Peppermint Patty or Puffamint Patty, Pop-Tart or Pot-Tart
55:58 – Jonathan drove on mushrooms, peaking his balls out in his mom’s car. He had all the windows rolled down and he was laughing hysterically while his eyes were tearing. He looked up ahead of him and saw a bejeweled car through his glistening eyes, and it was a cop car that he was tailgating
45:50 – Dude gets high on meth and shoots 12 nails into his head. Seth: “Hey meth – awesome.” Jonathan saw a bunch of pictures of dudes with methmouth recently and got freaked out. Seth explains that methmouth is caused by these dudes not brushing their teeth and eating mad candy bars and Mountain Dew, coupled with intense grinding and gnawing. Seth: “It’s as if they’re British. Basically we’ve got an epidemic of Britmouth.” Jah says it’s worse than Britmouth, that they look like rabid animals
27:34 – Spring Break’s not awesome enough; now they have to get legal drugs in Mexico. Seth says no one dies from drug overdoses anymore; Jah says this is because people are pussies and when he would do it people would die. Seth is jealous that he got to miss out on so much by not going to Amsterdam and not going to Mexico to get legal drugs because it’s so close to him and now he’s sober
5:45 – Jah: “What’s going on with cocaine? It’s everywhere!”
32:53 – Jah lets us know about the drug path: Hawaiian Ice to Crack to Heroin to Meth to Oxycontin to Cocaine to “Drop Dead” a.k.a. “Executioner,” “Flatliner,” “The Exorcist,” “Al Capone,” “Fifi,” “Teflon,” and “Diesel.” A deadly mix of Heroin and fentanyl
4:45 – Jah tripping his balls off at a Dead show
40:26 – Albert Hoffman and LSD
40:35 – “Sugar Rush” – half a hit of acid and half a hit of Welbutrin XL and a quarter of a hit with Prozac mixed with milk, and it makes chocolate milk
31:02 – Meth addicts are going around neighborhoods, finding houses that are being fumigated, opening up the tarp and stealing anything they want from the houses. Jah suggests that they might as well turn the house into a meth lab for 48 hours
12:33 – Seth: “What happens to a 3-year-old when he trips on acid?” Jah: “Well, whatever happens, he’s better for it.”
31:21 – Seth and Willie Nelson have a love for the same thing: mushrooms
6:08 – Jah used to crush up Vivarin and snort it; Seth did No-Doze in the mid-‘90s; Jah encourages people to stay the hell away from jimson weed
2:52 – Salvia divinorum being banned by several states and is supposed to have strong connections to LSD, although Jah denies that
53:09 – Jah talks about methodone abusers who take a Xanax with methodone and it simulates the effects of heroin
52:00 – Jah used to quell his marijuana munchies by smoking even more marijuana
8:03 – Seth’s mom asks him why they talk about drugs nonstop; he says it’s because they haven’t done them in 15 years and they’re so jealous of everybody.
17:25 – Robotripping – teens using over-the-counter cough and cold medicine to get a cheap high
19:13 – Jah spent so much money on a brick of hash and he refused to admit it was bunk. He stole money from his dad for it and smoked it for a week. It ended in him projectile vomiting for inhaling the stuff that was bound together by tar and alcohol. He smoked it in his one-hit out of the back window of his RTD bus
44:42 – Druggie kids on forums are calling salvia divinorum (Episode 038) the “Sally D”
29:29 – Meth addicts are pissing in jugs and either drinking it or putting it back into the cooking process because they’re finding a lot of pure crystal meth going through the urine. Seth: “Now that’s the real Mountain Dew right there.” … Jah explains that peyote is the same way and goes through the body unaltered. Dudes he used to know would trip on it and then drink their own piss. … The furthest Seth went was having a girl blow pot smoke in his mouth
1:42 – Jah wonders if people still do GHB; Seth says they do unwillingly in South Padre
41:21 – Flavored meth is all the rage. Cooker makes it in a Strawberry flavor so kids won’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Jah: “It’s like strawberry cough, from my favorite movie of all time – Children of Men.”
42:36 – In boarding school, Jah and his boys were desperate to get wasted, so they experimented with Dust-off (meanest nitris high ever), huffing Glade
53:49 – Jah reads a passage from DMT: The Spirit Molecule
59:03 – Jah reads more from DMT: The Spirit Molecule
20:06 – More and more gay men are using meth, studies show
15:27 – Dr. Bronner’s wants it to be known that other liquid soaps could also mistakenly register for GHB. Seth says to bathe with UYD.
7:57 – New high for marijuana in the U.S. – sales are stronger than ever. Seth measures his weed by how much UYD it has in it. Seth and Jah have smoked some pretty serious weed and doubt that it’s any better today than it was then
11:00 – Perc-a-pops a.k.a. Actiq – fast-acting narcotic lollipop - FDA has approved them for cancer pain only, patients are warned not to ingest more than 120 per month. Ed McAteer ingests 300+ per month and the sugar has eroded all his teeth away
23:08 – Teens in Colorado are eating up a plant that looks like sage – called wormwood. They’re calling it the “green fairy” and saying it has psychoactive properties
26:51 – Seth stopped doing drugs because he did so many that if he did any sort of real drug one more time, he would never, ever come back to reality: “If you slipped me a hit of acid, I would wake up in Peru and have a different name and be a fisherman.”
32:46 – As a student drug addict, Jah would eat ecstasy and put Tiger Balm on his eyelids: two below his nostrils and two on the eyelids. “It feels like the wind is blowing through your eyeballs.”
33:23 – Seth did a similar drug experiment at Nocturnal Wonderland in India in ’96. He wore a tight silver raver shirt, gobbled up two hits of ecstasy, covered his face in Vick’s Vapor Rub and ran through the fields like Paul Oakenfold.
7:30 – Jah once smoked coco puffs while on a school trip in Benjamin Hill, Mexico, which led to him throwing down a full coked-out sexual assault on a female classmate while watching Mexican porn
42:17 – Seth ponders if they really still try to make people stop smoking weed in college
45:18 – Methamphetamine Manufacturer Registry for several states
5:30 – Jah finds the site PotPartners.com, which is a dating service for burnouts. Jah: “They say 4-20 so many times it’s crazy.”
46:06 – In the San Fernando Valley, meth addicts are stealing the brass caps off of fire hydrants, and selling them for $5-10 apiece to buy more meth. Seth: “When is my obsession with meth going to stop? When it takes me down, the way it’s been trying to do to me since I first tried it in ’97 and smoked it out of that bowl on Orange Drive?! You bastard, methamphetamine!!” (46:31)
47:23 – Jah knew a guy who used to steal freeway siding at 4 a.m. and sell them for scrap to get drug money
23:58 – Meth heads were stealing kegs, caps off fire hydrants and then milk crates. Now they’re stealing aluminum bleachers and selling it to shady dudes who melt it down for one more hit. In L.A., in the last two weeks, this has happened for the fifth time – meth heads are stealing cars and driving them into the front of pharmacies at 2 a.m. and piling up duffel bags of Sudafed and running into the woods.
54:24 – Dude who was selling Rasta Reese’s, wrapping them exactly like real candy, is already in prison, but is being sued by Hershey’s for trademark infringement. He had “unfair competition.”
55:49 – Jah gives the recipe for a ganja gooball: take peanut butter, raisins, honey, coconut shavings and weed and roll them together in balls to make a self-contained snack to walk around and munch on before a Dead show
58:42 – Seth hands Jonathan a business card for a medicinal marijuana clinic called The Farmacy – store hours 10 a.m. to 7:45 p.m., Sunday 12-6:45 p.m. The feds are doing shakedowns of facilities like these, which are pretty high-rent, according to Seth, with filtered oxygen and plasma screens in the lobby, and of course upscale herb
1:00:36 – California state law Prop 215 was passed in 1996, allowing use of medicinal marijuana, but it’s still illegal federally to possess it. Jah knows that medical marijuana cards are fairly easy to obtain, for about $150-200. Jah thinks this is the beginning of the end, that everybody is smoking weed and it’s basically going to be everyone doing it and not caring. Jah says that if this happens he is for sure smoking weed again. Seth: “Don’t leave me on this bus. I hate this bus. I am so far from Shakedown Street…”
36:22 – First it was kegs, then fire hydrants, then plastic milk crates, then bleachers, now it’s cemetery name plates. Methmouths are scraping them off the tombstones and melting them down for a meth hit. Seth: “We’re on to you, methheads!”
59:11 – Seth wants to know what happened to drugs, but Jah assures him that people still do drugs and Zorb at the same time
51:35 – Seth hit the K in Pasadena once – he was a parking meter with his passenger door open, sitting in the passenger seat with his feet on the curb. Some dude leans down and asks him if he was all right, and he said he was cool. “No I’m not!” He maintains he wasn’t in a K hole because he had a buddy he’s seen in one.
12:06 – In a new test, researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from the city’s sewage treatment plant. The test would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of methamphetamines and other dangerous drugs across the country. In early studies from city to city they were showing massive differences in the amount of meth in the wastewater. One urban area with a gambling industry had meth levels more than five times other cities.
20:44 – Chantico, the former chocolaty beverage at Starbucks (Episode 002, 5:03), which has resurfaced as an anti-smoking drug called Chantix (replacing Welbutrin as the most popular drug prescribed for quitting smoking), has been said to have a “change in dreams.” The change in dreams is actually described by users as “vivid nightmares,” “losing my mind,” “suicidal thoughts” and “a complete psychotic meltdown.” 3 million people are on it. One of the people who was on it, Carter Albrecht, the keyboard player of Edie Brichell & New Bohemians, went batshit crazy. He tried to kill his girlfriend, tried to come through her neighbors’ front door, and the neighbor fired a warning shot through the door that hit Albrecht in the head and killed him.
39:38 – Seth reminiscing about his travails with whippets and mushrooms with his boy Ethan Banville
42:29 – Seth’s life sucks now that he’s sober and off the drugs
56:00 – “Wash” is the hot new thing. You take a kilo of cocaine, do an acetone wash to it, and extract half a kilo of the cocaine completely removed of all other things. You’re left with a pure, pure, refined powder. Post-nasal drip is little to non-existent. You can flavor it with grape or strawberry, etc.; high is the cleanest coke high you could imagine without a lot of the crazy side effects. It lasts a long time, you can eat and sleep on it, and when you rise from sleep it’s as if nothing happened
32:45 – Jenkem being abused by teens. Take fecal matter and urine, put it in a glass jar covered with a bag or balloon, put outside with direct contact to sun for days and let it ferment. Content separates and releases a potent gas that is captured in the bag. High is immediate and can last for up to 20 minutes. It’s a cocaine-like high with vivid hallucinations thrown in for good measure. Slang terms: Leroy Jenkems, Butt Hash, Runners, and Winnie
35:43 – Jah says the craziest thing he ever did to get inebriated was fermenting apple juice – was most disgusting rancid apple juice ever; and he huffed Glade.
39:22 – A new teen high is sweeping across the nation: setting fire to curbside trash barrels and inhaling the fumes of plastic and refuse. It gives a short, intense, dangerous high.
40:34 – Jonathan explains that at Dead shows, two people would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a nitris balloon, taking turns huffing it, and then just start running and race. Dudes are running face-first into buses and veggie burritos and ganja gooballs
43:07 – Jah gets a random text from a listener of the show. All the text reads is COCONUT WASH (Episode 089)
13:47 – Toad smoking – extract venom from the Sonoran desert toad of the Colorado River, contains chemical bufotenine that causes hallucinations when smoked
14:14 – Jah says Jenkem is BS unless you drink it
19:10 – Methheads are stealing new stuff now – street lights. They’re stealing them because each of them contains several feet of very valuable copper wiring, because the price of copper is skyrocketing
58:56 – Potspace is the new Myspace, but for weeders. Jah re-references his Potpartners.com site that he found
19:06 – Methmouths are now stealing catalytic converters from parked high-end SUVs because they are usually coated in platinum. It takes one minute and a socket wrench to remove one
6:25 – New drug, Modafinil – not a controlled substance in Canada, where it’s called Alertec. Info came from Laura and Alfred, who also sent the Ice Cucumber. Memory-improving and mood-brightening psycho stimulant. Generally prescribed to treat narcolepsy, it enhances wakefulness and vigilance, but its pharmacological profile is notably different from the amphetamines like Ritalin or cocaine. Soldiers in Iraq are on it pulling 40-hour shifts
3:19 – Discussion about Hawaiian Ice, and how back in the day it was just crystal before it was called crystal. Seth thinks Ice is really, really good crystal.
4:01 – Jah circles back to the lean recipe from Episode 24 – prescription-strength cough syrup with codeine and promethazine, mixed with Sprite and Jolly Ranchers. Called many things: lean, sizzurp, drank, purple oil, purp, syrup, mud, stagga and Mrs. Dranklesworth. Was popularized by Houston producer DJ Screw – source of inspiration for his style of hip-hop called chopped and screwed. In June 2000, Three 6 Mafia’s song Sippin’ on Some Sizzurp brought the drink to prominence. Less than 6 months later, DJ Screw died of a lean overdose. Pimp C of UGK had his December 07 death confirmed as a lean overdose.
49:15 – Seth never got the perks of weed in his weed-smoking days. Jah says shitty weed was the best because he could smoke a shitload of it. Seth and his bud Dar Rollins sat in Seth’s Volvo, smoked a bowl and saw The Big Lebowski the day it opened at The Beverly Connection on a Friday afternoon. … He also smoked just to watch Tootsie at 632 N. Beachwood Dr.
4:20 – (note the time this discussion started) Weed is blowing up right now
26:03 – Seth reads to Jah an excerpt from Time magazine’s July 6, 1981 issue – on the cover is a martini glass filled with cocaine: “The All-American drug has hit like a blizzard, known as coke, C, snow, blow, toot, flake, happy dust, nose candy, Peruvian, lady, white girl. …”
5:06 – Seth tripped a bojangle times and never stabbed anyone – he only cut himself out of his own issues and soul searching
18:40 – Seth gave up cocaine cold turkey, and it compared to mourning like 9 friends who got shot in the face and then an earthquake hit
1:02:36 – Jah’s old style was smoking the seeds (Episode 059), so it renders you sterile for a little while so you’re good to go
45:50 – Seth tells everyone to have an awesome time on 4-20 and to think about Seth crying while they’re doing it. “I’m cool, it’s just 6 years without a drink, a pill, anything. I’ll just have a salad.”
26:07 – Jah and Seth decide that everybody is either on antidepressants or muscle relaxers in today’s day and age. Seth estimates 87%. Jah had a couple friends who took Somas the other night with alcohol. They called him the next day, saying they were completely fucked up. Jah could tell they were barely holding on
3:00 – Seth is tired of seeing babies videotaped smoking weed on the internet. Jonathan claims he has never seen this
29:18 – FAA has banned all pilots and air traffic controllers from using Chantix, after the dude from Edie Brickell’s band went psycho (Episode 084, 20:44). Reason is due to side effects such as seizures, loss of consciousness, suicidal thoughts and behavior, and Chantix dreams
1:03:03 – During the UYD 100th episode, Seth was trying to convince Amir to take a 2CB and peak his balls off during the podcast to update them on the world
16:50 – A different kind of club drug – bodybuilders are applying Preparation H all over their body to keep swelling down and have a more lean look
23:16 – “The Patch.” A fentanyl patch, an opiate analjesic several times stronger for morphine – intended for people with a debilitating pain and a high tolerance for morphine. Measured in micrograms because of its strength.
3:36 – Through a crazy sequence of events, Seth has gotten a strain of medicinal marijuana named after him – “Seth’s Sexy Sativa.” Jah has gotten ahold of some, and puts it in a bowl and smokes it live on UYD. Now that Jah is no longer a sober man, he feels justified to do it. Seth stands on the other side of the room with the fan on so he doesn’t come in contact with it
8:43 – Jah starts to feel some of the effects of the sexy sativa.
11:46 – Seth tells Jah to take another hit, but Jah says no b/c he still has to maintain a hard drive and index cards
11:59 – Seth asked to stop giving babies pot, but was on VidMax website and watched a baby get smacked. Seth now encourages people to smoke out the baby instead of smacking it
56:30 – Seth asks Jah how he feels, and Jah says stoned. He says it’s totally crazy doing it whilst doing the show
0:38 – The World Health Organization tells us that USA leads the world in marijuana use and cocaine use
2:48 – Jah had some absinthe in Europe and says it was pretty dope. He says it was more of a drunk than a high, and has a different hue to it. It was borderline psychedelic but doesn’t think it’s liquid LSD by any stretch
3:33 – Methmouths are now stealing sprinkler heads because the price of copper has quadrupled since 2004 b/c of the economic boom in China and the exportation prices
4:55 – Colon rolling is when you stick ecstacy up your butt, and because of the porousness of the rectal wall it takes the MDMA in much quicker
48:16 – Someone told Jah that traveling to other places in the world is the second most important thing in forming the human brain besides tripping on LSD. Jah trickled back into his life thinking about tripping on acid because everyone his age is dipping back into stuff that they haven’t done in forever
9:47 – When Jah said he was on Venice, Seth thought it was a new drug that he’d never heard about
9:37 – Watson Pharmaceuticals is recalling their fentanyl transdermal system patches because some of them have leaked the narcotic out, exposing the patient or the caregiver and fading them
27:11 – Jonathan hadn’t partaken in any mind-altering chemicals in a very long time and decided to do it this past year after a long drawn-out decision process. He ate a very strong edible that was incredibly potent, and had a screaming bitch terror freakout on it. Jah was typing on his computer writing a goodbye letter to his sanity
24:58 – Seth ponders what would happen if Jah and Amir took mushrooms and went to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua in Culver City 2 weeks after it came out. Jah says he would be in a mental hospital by the third act, while Amir would have left the theater to watch Sportscenter in his room
17:29 – Young adults’ cocaine use is down in the United States, which Seth makes fun of. Jah claims that it’s not down among young adults he knows
45:51 – Jah goes over some of the thievery that goes on by methmouths, including manhole covers, freeway siding, bleachers, fire hydrant caps, gravestone placards, sprinklers, empty kegs, etc. Now, methheads are stealing baby formula from pharmacies across the country. They swap it out for high resale value in poor neighborhoods of big cities.
46:09 – New teen drug getting talked about an awful lot lately – snurf pills. Sold over the internet. 4 teens were hospitalized. The pills contain DMX, which is found in cough suppressants and is a disassociative drug that borders on hallucinogenic
17:30 – Seth asks Jah if he could come up with some crystal meth in an hour, but Jah says probably not. Jah could get cocaine in 45 minutes if Seth could pay for it, however.
17:59 – Seth reads from the catalog MHP (Maximum Human Performance), talking about performance enhancers like “Dren” and what they do to your body. As Seth reads it Jah begins to laugh hysterically
25:34 – Jah explains that there are a lot of people in the world addicted to crystal meth, and that it causes a lot of financial damage to users, and that they are desperate to steal things to sell for the next few bucks for a meth hit. The new thing to steal is solar panels, stolen from rooftops primarily in California. They cost $1,500 to buy and are being sold on Craig’s List and eBay for $100.
1:02:36 – Seth claims that there are 40 million meth addicts in the U.S.
28:49 – Seth revisits the Bryan Nichols case in Atlanta, Ga., and the fact that he kidnapped a 26-year-old woman. When she was on the witness stand the woman said she calmed him down by reading excerpts from The Purpose-Driven Life. She also calmed him down with crystal meth that she happened to have in her crib
31:50 – Jah lets us know that Tina Turner is back on tour
35:46 – Seth: “Drugs are good, they’re healthy. You know what beats that? A little taste of that sobrio. Oh that’ll get you. Whoo!” Seth then goes on a rant about being an angry sober man, and says he is on the cusp of diving into Oktoberfest
36:37 – Seth: “You know what’s a gateway product? Cocaine, you fuckin’ idiots.”
37:48 – Seth asks Jah if he would do ecstacy if he gave him $10,000. Jah: “Yes.” Seth: “What if I gave you $5,000?” Jah: “Maybe.” Seth: “What if I didn’t give you anything but I told you it was going to be the best hit of ecstacy ever, no problems, super clean, and the name of it was Electric Testarosa and it was designed by the grandson of Schulger guy?” Jah: “Sure.” Seth: “And you only had to take a half a hit to start. And we were going to see Tina Turner afterward.”
44:32 – Jah gets Seth going on another rant about his sobriety, sarcastically saying how it’s better to “never ever leave your own reality and just look at life the way it is and never once escape to an alternate dreamscape of peace and happiness.”
7:08 – Sniff Dogs, a drug detection company out of N.J. and Ohio, supplies parents with trained Labrador retriever drug-sniffing dogs. They cost $200/hour and can detect weed, heroin, cocaine, crystal and xanex.
12:36 – Seth picks up a pamphlet from The National Institute on Drug Abuse and reads all the street names for marijuana
58:47 – A new meth thievery is happening – authorities in California, Arizona and Nevada have begun putting microchips in the state’s cactuses because of so many of them being stolen – you can get between $100 - $800 for giant mature cacti. They sell them to local landscapers and nurseries
1:00:08 – Seth types in “slang terms for marijuana” in his Google search and just starts listing them all off, Jah takes the reins over at 1:02:53 as they list them over background music. This goes all the way until they say “seatbelts” at 1:05:55
44:28 – Jah wonders if it’s true that Stevie Nicks used to have coke blown up her ass by roadies. Jah can’t imitate Stevie Nicks but he thinks the only person who can is Lucy Lawless, who did during a Mexican restaurant skit while hosting SNL in 1998
4:44 – Seth came across some crack cocaine PSAs from the 1980s on YouTube, and laughed as he watched one featuring Walter Cronkite saying “crack” over and over again. Seth says that no one smokes crack, except when he did back in the day. Another PSA viewed by Seth was Clint Eastwood, then another with Pee-Wee Herman, then Bruce Willis
17:49 – Jah asks Seth if he’s ever done meth because Jah hasn’t done it. Seth admitted that he took it and that it was awesome. He did it with Brian Bowman and a girl who is now married and has a kid. They were blown away by it and definitely knew it works while at a party. The next day they were on a couch at 632 N. Beachwood, hating meth
41:39 – A routine traffic stop of a 55-year-old man driving a 1994 Ford Thunderbird in Oregon this week turned up 250,000 hits of ecstacy
30:16 – Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Laboratory of Neuro Psycho Imaging, have concluded this week that when given the choice between viewing pics of cocaine or other images of random things, cocaine addicts prefer to look at cocaine
57:19 – Seth thinks the reason people are so violent and sadistic in America is a combination of the amazing high-end marijuana and hardcore pornography. “If you lived in Hollywood and you were to get a high end strain of medicinal marijuana and put it in your body and also have some strong joe and combine that with some of this, I guess, pornography, you’re gonna get baby cockfights.”
16:56 – Seth brings up the coke images study from Episode 142, which Jah says he is still laughing at and was thinking about dudes looking at pictures of coke all week long.
58:52 – Dudes make a truck look exactly like a UPS truck but run a stop sign and take off. Cops got them 6 streets away and recovered 2,100 pounds of marijuana in the back of the truck. Seth understands that some states do not have medical marijuana laws like they do in California
30:40 – Seth gives an obituary for Dock Ellis, a former MLB pitcher who hasn’t had a drink in 28 years, has worked the last 25 years as a drug counselor but on June 12, 1970, when he was 25, he pitched a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while high on LSD. They had flown into San Diego and Ellis asked to go home because they had an off day. Ellis took some LSD in the airport and went to his friend’s girlfriend’s house. The next day he had gotten up and taken more acid, and was told he had to get to the airport to pitch. He flies from LAX to San Diego for $9.50, takes a 3:30 flight, gets in at 4:30 and pitches at 6:05 – the first game of a day-night doubleheader. When he got to the game he popped some greenies and bennies. The game started and the mist started, and Ellis couldn’t see the hitters – he could only tell if they were on the left or right side. The catcher put tape on his fingers so he could see the signals. His teammates knew he was high on something but weren’t sure what. There were times the ball came back at him and he jumped but the ball was really coming slow. One time he tagged first base and said “Whoo I just made a touchdown.” He said it was easier to pitch with the LSD because it was easier to medicate himself
5:52 – Findings reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology showed that bees can develop a cocaine habit. Cocaine repels most insects, but the bees are loving it
20:23 – Jah and Seth reiterate that bees love coke
51:01 – Jah used to put Vicks Vapor Rub under his nose or in a painter’s mask while on ecstacy so he could breathe it in and make him feel like he was breathing through his eyeballs. He would also put Tiger Balm under his nose and one time thought it would be a good idea to put it under his eyes – but it was a terrible mistake (Episode 069, 32:46)
45:57 – Seth and Jah talk about Lil’ Wayne’s use of lean – he’s not addicted to it anymore, supposedly
29:11 – Seth thinks that since Michael Phelps smoked weed, Kellogg’s should replace Phelps with Seth as their pitchman. He pledges that he will remain drug-free and be a good example for children, whereas Jah says he is unable to make that promise
46:28 – Seth ponders that, in these tough economic times, if we all wouldn’t be better off just getting fucked up by ourselves – rather than letting people gather to play Balderdash together
6:48 – Seth alludes to things not being as epic in his life as they would’ve been before “when things could reach their fullest extension…”
16:29 – Seth: “Stop sniffing cocaine and lying, everbody!”
53:11 – If Seth was a cop, he would bust Jah so fast. He is currently looking at contraband in the studio.
31:02 – Medical researchers in Pennsylvania have found that an injection of an ingredient found in licorice has shown a lot of promise for the treatment of cocaine addiction
3:05 – Jah relates his old choking game to “huffing nitris.”
0:28 – Jah talks about getting clean and the last time he did drugs 11 years ago before this lost episode aired
2:58 – Phish had a reunion show in Hampton, Va., during which local police netted over $1 million in drugs and made 200 arrests.
5:09 – Jah explains Catnip – a plant-based speed for cats. Word on the street is that it’s a legal drug you give to cats and it makes them crazy. You can purchase it in flakes and pellets and it’s basically ecstacy or cocaine for cats. Jah explains it only does it to some cats in various amounts or degrees.
39:09 – Kids are smoking Smarties, crushing them up into dust, blowing it out and making it look like smoke with rings, etc.
56:02 – From Consumerist.com, side effects from popular legal drugs – Mirapex (restless leg syndrome) can give you hallucinations or increased gambling, sexual or other overpowering urges; Abilify (bipolar disorder) can give you trouble swallowing, coma or death; Flomax (enlarged prosted) can cause a runny nose and a decrease in semen; Veramist (treats allergy symptoms with gentle fine mist) causes glaucoma and cataracts; Advair (asthma treatment) causes asthma-related death; Acutane (acne medicine) causes depression, crying spells, sudden weakness on one side of the body and very dark urine, as well as birth defects.
6:49 – Jah tells UYD nation that he will have mushrooms with him before the live UYD show so anyone can hit him up before or after the show – preferably not during the show.
4:52 – Jah says that taking psilocybin mushrooms helped him beat Swine Flu
23:15 – Seth was watching Steve-O’s documentary on MTV called Demise and Rise about getting sober, where he videotaped all his antics. There’s a nitris oxide section where he’s 1,000 whippets deep and having conversations with the people who live in his brain while shivering on the couch.
27:56 – Seth thinks more people than not have their lives saved or maintained by some type of psychotropic drug.
30:43 – Jah references Mrs. Dranklesworth (Episode 103. 4:01).
49:08 – The design for the 2010 Olympic torsh for Vancouver was unveiled and seems to resemble a large marijuana cigarette. Industrial designer Mark Busey says “Sure, it may look a little bit like a joint, but I can tell you that what they were going for was ergonomics, sleekness and modernity.” The editor of Cannabis Culture magazine, Jodi Emery, says “I think people who already enjoy a joint themselves will feel a little more kinship with the Olympics now.”
5:11 – According to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, many mothers remain completely sober for their nine months of pregnancy; however, they also go bananas after the nine months are up – both drinking booze and smoking pot.
4:22 – Teens all over the country have been flocking to garden stores and nurseries to buy morning glory seeds. It was a popular fad in the 60s and it’s becoming popular again. Nurseries are putting up signs saying you have to be 18 to buy them. You chew the seeds, and within 30 minutes they are known to have similar effects to LSD. Seth and Jah have never done this
44:32 – Seth encourages Southerners to get off Oxycontins. Jah heard about the street price of Oxy ($50-60 for one) and thought it was ridiculous. They like to take them with Xanax because it feels like a bag of smack.
42:49 – A former surgery technician, Kristen Diane Parker, may have exposed roughly 6,000 patients to Hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for syringes filled with the powerful painkiller Fentanyl. Parker was working at several surgery centers in Colorado Springs and Denver. She took the Fentanyl syringes, and would replace them with her used syringes that were filled with in ineffective saline solution.
20:40 – Seth thinks the only excuse for getting rowdy about Shark Week is to get together with your homies and snort lines of cocaine.
53:59 – Dark Side of the Rainbow is when you start with two hits of acid on your tongue, then start the Dark Side of the Moon album and The Wizard of Oz at the same time. Seth did something similar and got all emotional throughout it. He wonders how the combination ever started. He says it’s even more epic to combine the movie Serendipity with Smashmouth’s Astro Lounge album and four hits of acid. … Another Brick in the Wall-E is when you combine Pink Floyd’s The Wall and the movie Wall-E. When you see the Walt Disney logo appear under the castle as the movie cues up press play on your iPod.
31:02 – Seth claims he has never taken anti-depressants, even a one-off, even when he was getting fucked up regularly.
2:45 – Seth wonders if Faces of Meth could get some new faces, because they had some great faces when they started off, but now Seth is still seeing the same faces of meth addicts
33:27 – Seth talks about how there’s 800 marijuana dispensaries in L.A., and 17 up the street from his house within a 3-block radius
1:02:17 – Jah thinks sleep-eating is possible if you’re on Ambien, but otherwise it’s bullshit.
16:21 – Seth informs us that in Boston you can smoke a J and blow smoke in a cop’s face and get a $150 ticket. Jah’s brother Ben tells him that it’s not as crazy as it could be as far as weed smoking goes. Seth says it’s because you’ll still get billy-clubbed and get your gram stolen. 55:00 – Yuegang Zuo, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, presented research at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society that 90% of the paper money circulating the United States contains traces of cocaine. The cocaine binds to the green dye in the money through ATMs, coffee shops, newsstands, convenience stores, etc. We have the highest percentage of money containing cocaine in the world. The findings also suggest that people in banks that deal with large amounts of it could ostensibly test positive in a drug test.
25:01 – There is a new scourge, a new meth in the world that has hit the scene like gangbusters – called Shake N’ Bake. Makers of meth have learned there’s a new way to get people high. They take a 2-liter soda bottle, put a handful of crushed-up pseudoephedrine pills in it, put some basic household cleaners in it, put the cap on and vigorously shake the bottle. What is left is a residue that can be smoked, snorted, etc. There’s no flame required but the batches are small. The problem is that it’s just as dangerous to make it because if any oxygen in any way enters the bottle, it will blow up like a fireball in your grill.
54:12 – Nearly one-third of all the cocaine in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine, which is a livestock de-worming drug called levamisole, which enhances the effects of the cocaine but has been blamed for several deaths in U.S. hospitals because it weakens the immune systems. Dopamine levels are increased with the drug and it heightens the high of the cocaine. This is put on the coke in Colombia.
56:31 – Jah says he’s gotten some confirmations about Shake N’ Bake (Episode 181).
6:54 – Whitney Houston on Oprah Winfrey, responding to Oprah asking her about her drug of choice being weed combined with cocaine: “Rock cocaine.” Seth thinks weed should just be left out of the equation in this instance.
33:50 – Los Angeles has more weed dispensaries in this city than they have Starbucks
7:15 – Seth and Jonathan riff off some synonyms for cocaine: devil’s dandruff, booger sugar, Bolivian marching powder, Tubbs & Crockett, nose whiskey, etc.
11:31 – The EPA has a 40-page document on their website describing in detail how to clean out a meth lab
1:57 – In reference to a coaster that tells you if GHB or K is in your drink, J-dawg says he would gladly take the drink if the ladies passed on it
20:16 – A psychiatrist in South Carolina is doing trials with ecstacy. Banned by the government in 1985, the DEA has supplied him with potent samples of pure ecstacy for trials. He’s giving 12 people ecstacy and 12 people a sugar pill.
14:41 – The Massachusetts Oxycontin Commission calls oxycontin “a rocket ship to heroin.” The use of the pill has increased 950% in the last decade. Jah calls oxy “stairway to the stars.” Seth had a couple pills one night but he didn’t get to take them.
57:38 – You’ve heard of Faces of Meth (Episode 179, 2:45), but now there’s Faces of Influenza with normal people. The idea is that anyone can get it.
38:19 – Something you can get a grip of meth for is BMW car parts. A ring of professional thieves known as the “BMW Bandits” have been targeting cars all across the West Side, Mid-Wilshire and now the San Fernando Valley, stealing airbags and headlights out of the III and V series BMWs. The thieves carefully remove their wares and then sell them on the black market for several hundred dollars to cars that need replacements of the exact same things. Dealerships charge thousands for these.
28:46 – Abilify is used for depression as an add-on to Lexipro, Zoloft, Prozac, Efexor, Paxil, etc. Seth saw a commercial for it where the woman is wicked sad, and on the screen it says “Actor Portrayal,” just in case.
3:48 – People called UYD about Abilify (Episode 195, 28:46; Episode 162, 56:02) and one of the things people have mentioned as a result of taking it is “organ tremors” or “body shaking.” Seth went on a forum that discussed side effects, and some of the comments left included “…like a washing machine inside my body;” “…like someone is shaking me from inside” and “like I’ve been left ON, a low humming.”
4:58 – Seth recalls showing Jah the side effect packet for taking the bipolar medicine Seroquel (Episode 070, 21:02).
5:27 – Jah goes to places where he is made to believe that he has the best doctors and the best medicines that the world can have because of how privileged we are to live where we do, and his doctors have tried to give him Chantix (Episode 002, 42:09; Episode 084, 20:44; Episode 109, 16:50; Episode 118, 29:18; Episode 154, 11:18; for free so he can hit them up later if he wants more.
4:01 – Seth took an Adderall vacation over the holidays just to get his levels back. He was on 80 mgs a day, and now he’s tapering back to 20 mgs twice a day.
43:23 – Jah’s drug journey was opposite of most people, who start getting fucked up in high school and get mad fucked up in college, then you’re still on that wave for a few more years after getting spit out of college and all of a sudden you’re 30. For Jah, he got sober when he was 16 and didn’t go to college. He watched it happen to others and saw people who he thought there was no way they were alive again.
52:45 – Antidepressants have become the most commonly prescribed prescription drug in the U.S. More than 15 million adults spent more than $10 billion last year. A new study says that 70% of the people on them are having absolutely no benefit and need to be off of them.
34:36 – Seth says that medical marijuana game in Colorado is hot right now.
43:08 – Seth tells his mom about the psychotic things people do while on Chantix ((Episode 002, 42:09; Episode 084, 20:44; Episode 109, 16:50; Episode 118, 29:18; Episode 154, 11:18; Episode 196, 5:27).
9:39 – Maybe not a hot new drug, maybe it is – K2 or Spice (it also goes by “Genie” and “Zonie)” is a mixture of herbs and spices but it’s sprayed with JWH-018, a synthetic compound chemically similar to THC. Users roll up the shake into joints and smoke it. It’s banned in most of Europe and all over Missouri and Kansas, costing up to around $15 a gram. People are calling it “fake weed” or “faux weed.”
47:50 – Since Major League Baseball officially banned the use of all amphetamines, or “greenies,” in 2005, the number of players at this season’s spring training who have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD has shot up tremendously. The diagnosis allows players to be prescribed Adderall. Many say they are just using it as a game stimulant as opposed to addressing ADHD. Twenty-eight players in 2006 were exempt and allowed to be on Adderall. The number this year is going to be closer to 150.
33:14 – Bernie Carbo was a journeyman baseball player who played for the Red Sox in the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in 1975. It was Game 6, the bottom of the eighth and they were four outs away from losing the Series to the Reds. Carbo was minding his own business when he was asked to come off the bench and pinch-hit with two men on base. He hit a three-run homerun to tie the game at 6-6. No one scored in the ninth, it went into extra innings and led to Carlton Fisk trying to wave the ball fair that went off the foul pole to win the game. Carbo was talking to the Boston Globe last week in an article about his life since he was out of baseball, referring to substance abuse problems. Referring to that particular game and night, “I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some amphetamines, took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, then got up to the plate and hit. … I probably played every game high. I was addicted to anything you could possibly be addicted to. I played the outfield sometimes where it looked like the stars were falling from the sky.” He also said he would toss baseballs into the stands to fans who would trade him for joints. He came into the big leagues with Cincinnati, and recalled the trainer tossing him his “vitamins” from the get-go.
36:44 – Jah recalls when he would get really fucked up, then restabilizing on the other point of fucked-up-ness, when he had his “sea legs” and knew how to do shit while being fucked up.
5:00 – Jah agrees that food nowadays is made like cocaine. Seth explains that chicken factories are basically naked women standing there working so they can’t sneak any nuggets for themselves.
41:07 – The guy who created oxycontin passed away. Dr. Mortimer Sackler, 93, was a psychiatrist that owned a small pharmaceutical company that developed oxycontin in 1995.
22:39 – Cosmetic neurology is brain boosting for ultimate brain performance. College students and professors are on the Adderall.
23:01 – Provigil is 100 milligrams of Modafinil (Episode 100 - Part I, 6:25). It’s a drug created for narcolepsy but has been given to 2 million people for brain enhancement. Doctors, fighter pilots and truck drivers are all taking it.
32:55 – Next month the FDA will consider greenlighting a drug called flibanserin – “the Viagra for women.” It was originally developed as an anti-depressant and the market is expected to be worth $2 billion.The pill would tinker with the brain chemicals to treat what they call “hypoactive sexual desire disorder.”
45:35 – When Jah took anti-depressants he noticed the effects were extreme in some ways. Seth asks Jah if he’s ever doubled up with an Adderall and Viagra. Jah claims he’s never taken an Adderall and he doesn’t think he’s ever taken a Viagra.
59:54 – For several years, Mexican drug cartels have targeted their methamphetamine operations to the Native American population of America. The government reports that all 560 independent sovereign tribes have seen an epidemic on the rise. There’s a national ad campaign aimed at American Indians whose meth use is twice as high as any other ethnic groups. One for teens says “We need Res Ball, we don’t need meth.” Res Ball is a fast-paced run-and-gun basketball league among reservation leagues. Jah then starts talking about how Native Americans and Asians have different enzymes from other races and they can’t metabolize them as well and that’s why their drunk is different from our drunk.
14:31 – The Center for Disease Control conducted their first survey looking at prescription drug abuse among American high school students. They found that at least 1 in 5 American high school students have taken a prescription drug without a physician’s prescription. This includes oxycontin, percocet, vicodin, adderall, Ritalin and xanax. The abuse was most common among the whites.
23:24 – In Santa Clarita Valley in Southern California they formed a community task force to address a new problem among their senior citzens’ doctors and pharmacists. Dozens of reports have come in of people targeting the garbage behind senior living facilities in search of prescription bottles that have been discarded. They are looking for any leftover pills and leftover vials, then going in and pretending to be the seniors’ grandchildren and refill their vicodin, extra-strength Tylenol, ambient, percosets, etc.
59:55 – The first winning strain of the High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup was “God’s Pussy.”
2:13 – Seth reads an article about “Hippie Crack: Inside the Nitris Mafia.” It’s an east coast hippie crack ring. Their ballooning business comes to a music fest near you. During the summer concert season, two rings – one based in Boston and one in Philly – sell balloons at $5 a pop. If you can get 350 balloons in a tank, these guys can make $300,000 in a weekend festival. In the article they showed people holding up signs that said I NEED GAS. Festivals like “All Good” in the mountains of West Virginia have a section called “Wookie Nitris Cove” and “Gathering of the Vibes” in Connecticut has “Nitris Alley.” Nitris is regulated by the FDA. The ring has kitchen supply stores that they buy hundreds of tanks from with phoney restaurant licenses. A lot of the guys are ex-cons and dirtbags. The Wrecking Crew are true Deadheads down on Shakedown Street. Cops and EMTs say the main problem is finding teeth and everyone is dropping after huffing it.
5:22 – Jah said that doing nitris around asphalt is dangerous, however, he retells a fun hippie nitris game he used to play (Episode 093, 40:34). Two guys or girls participate in a type of horse-sack race in a grassy area. They take a nitris balloon and take turns huffing it in and out and then try to run as fast as they can in a straight line. Seth says it’s kind of like a dizzy bat race.
17:31 – There was a huge rave that went down in LA recently and a girl died from ecstacy and they canceled all raves thereafter.
38:54 – Drugs Inc. on NatGeo featured heroin, cocaine, meth and marijuana. Meth was Seth’s favorite. Jah explains that meth is “the chemiest, chem-o-chem, chemmy, chem-chem-chem-chem. It is the most toxic, poisonous… it would burn through the earth if you just poured it on the street. It kills anything in its sight. To call it a drug—you couldn’t even call it that. … A drug fucks with synapses. This thing burns holes in your face and mind.”
26:06 – In Wall Street news, drug testing firm Sterling Info Systems shows that cocaine use is going down on Wall Street while marijuana use is going up. In 2007, 16% of positive testing tested for cocaine. In 2009 it dropped to 7%. Marijuana use went from 64% of positive tests in 2007 to 80% in 2009.
4:49 – Seth and Jah coin a new nickname for Kevin Federline, “K Grave” or “K Hole.” (Episode 082, 51:35)
6:14 – Seth has consumed the edible psilocybin, let it go into his system, run its course and do what it do. Seth has done mushrooms a gang of times, and would say for the most part that he had awesome trips. He never had a truly bad experience on mushrooms. Jah then says ecstacy is euphoric and the the argument about using it with cancer patients is it gives you goosebumps and the need for backrubs, yet doesn’t rip away your ego like mushrooms do – so they can better deal with the end of their lives.
26:19 – Two robbers armed with semi-automatic handguns wearing sweatshirts with the word POLICE on them abducted a pharmaceutical delivery man outside a Rite-Aid in Sherman Oaks. They were in a four-door Honda, the dude pulled up in a truck, one of them put a gun to his head, got in the truck with him and they drove away. The dude in the Honda followed them, they pistol-whipped the fool, took everything out of the truck, left everything at a gas station and got in another vehicle and drove away with thousands of dollars of oxycontin. Police said this was not the first time this kind of event had taken place.
28:53 – Seth loves drugs and he’s down with people doing everything, but something tells him that if everything was made legal, shit would be exponentially worse. Jah doesn’t disagree, but he says it would allow for poppy fields to be grown in North America and not abroad. Jah thinks it would need to be government-sanctioned for it to properly work.
3:25 – There’s a new birth control called “Mirena.” Their slogan on their website is “Keep life simple.” The commercial for the drug features a very attractive mother of 2 in a supermarket and her kids are going buck-wild. She’s walking around wondering if she forgot to take her pill. Cut back to the house and they’re going buck-wild in the house. She then says to herself, “I think two’s plenty.”
16:01 – An article in the Wall Street Journal talks about chemists and laboratory-adept entrepreneuers who are constantly creating new psychoactive drugs in the so-called “legal high” market. The first drug Jah thought of that constituted a legal high was herbal ecstacy. These new powders and pills work and are marketed as not for human consumption, and they’re sold over the internet. Twenty-four new party drugs were invented in the last year alone. Officials crack down on them, and by the time that’s happened the companies have already sold a buttload of money and have begun developing a new one. Chemists get their ideas by scanning scientific literature and papers about mind-alterting substances. There’s a pharmacologist at Purdue University who has been invaluable with his work in brain receptors and the breakdowns of psychoactive chemicals and their makeups.
37:26 – They busted a DMT lab at Georgetown University. This is a stretch for Seth, who remembers putting towels under the door and taking fabric softener in the empty toilet paper rolls and then blow the smoke out.
51:00 – A senior at Wesleyan University who was assigned a 24-hour take-home exam went to the Wesleyan Honor Code Review Committee and said his classmates were “cheating.” It’s the same as plagiarism because they all took study drugs to get through the tests – Ritalin and Adderall – taken by prescription or from friends. The senior likened it to an athlete taking performance-enhancing drugs and the review board disagreed.
27:22 – Meth Check – an electronic monitoring system allows pharmacies in the U.S. (16,000 of them) in real time to know whether someone is attempting to buy pseudoephedrine and has already succeeded the limit. It stops the person’s ability to “smurf” store-to-store. Oregon and Mississippi are the only states that require a doctor’s prescription to purchase pseudoephedrine.
52:16 – The bulletin of the AARP magazine featured a statistic that said 200,000 Americans ages 50 and older were admitted to U.S. substance sbuse treatment centers in 2008.
1:02:00 – Invega Sustenna is a new once-monthly injection for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is seeing/hearing/sensing things that are not there, believing that what other people say is not true, not trusting others and feeling very suspicious, avoiding family and friends and wanting to be alone. (Seth doesn’t know a person who doesn’t commit to all of these four key symptoms.) The exact way that Invega Sustenna works is not known. Seek immediate medical help if you have an erection lasting more than four hours. It can also cause development of breasts in men.
14:50 – Wired magazine recently listed narcotics confiscated at a recent Phish concert in Atlantic City. The list goes as such: 70 tanks of nitris oxide (aka NOS, hippie crack and wah-wah), 551 grams of weed, 86 marijuana edibles, 184 grams of mushrooms, 22 doses of ketamine, 34 grams of molly, 60 hits of ecstacy, 30 grams of cocaine, 2 grams of heroin, 395 hits of acid (4 sheets), 21 LSD cookies and 26 pills of oxycontin.
13:52 – Jah wants to know what’s up with the new crazy-ass drug that’s prescribed for psoriasis where you shoot it up yourself. The trials for it haven’t exceeded two years and the shit they’re saying it could do to you could make it the most dangerous drug ever.
19:12 – Jah finds the name of the crazy psoriasis drug: Stelara. Jah says to keep talking while he pulls up a list of the side effects.
33:55 – The Los Angeles County Public Health Department is beginning to distribute flyers at rave events that give tips on how to “minimize potential harms of ecstacy, MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) … take frequent breaks … let your body cool and rest … stay hydrated … sip or take small gulps of water and non-caffeinated sports drinks like Gatorade to replenish your electrolytes … keep an eye on your friends and say together … aim low, dose and frequency. Risks increase with larger doses. Stacking. … Re-dosing when you start to come down. … You could also just stay away. The only way to completely avoid the risks of ecstacy is to avoid the drug entirely. Enjoy the music and the dancing instead.”
38:51 – Employer drug testing firm Quest Diagnostics reports seeing dramatic increases of on-the-job use of prescription opiates such as vicodin and oxycontin.
1:02:24 – Jah touches back on Stelara. It’s a biologic where you’re injecting yourself with biological stuff. It’s a problem because biologics tend not to show their effects until they’re on the market for a while and this one hasn’t even been trial tested for more than 2 years.
15:12 – They’ve made a new oxycontin that’s basically uncrushable. You can still eat them but you can’t shoot them into a vein.
58:22 – According to the New York Division of Criminal Justice, more than 50,000 people were arrested last year in New York City for possession of marijuana. The Drug Policy Alliance says New York City is the “marijuana arrest capital of the world.”
34:49 – Missouri has held a title for some time, being the No. 1-leading state in meth lab seizures and busts, but for the first time since 2003, Tennessee has usurped them and taken the title. However, a spokesperson for the DEA said all the real facts and figures won’t come in until July. It seems as though Iowa and Kentucky are in contention and making a move.
17:37 – Owsley Stanley passed away this past week. He was born in 1935 and died in 2011. He was known as the Acid King of the 60s Psychedelic Era. He made more than 1 million hits of what Rolling Stone magazine called “the best LSD in the world, the genuine Owsley.” He found an acid recipe in the UC-Berkeley library and he started a lab with a female chemistry major he knew. Owsley was also The Grateful Dead’s sound engineer, creating a wall of sound – several PA systems slung together that allowed the band to be arranged through the speaker system and phase canceling that featured two mics, one which was phase-reversed to pick up the speakers playing behind it and allowing the performers to hear themselves better and not have the speaker go through the system. He also co-designed with Bob Thomas the band’s logo of the skull emblazoned with a lightning bolt (aka a “Steal Your Face”). He was nicknamed “Bear” for the chest hair he sported as an adolescent. His quote to Rolling Stone: “I remember the first time I took acid and walked outside, and the cars were kissing the parking meters.” He has a daughter named Redbird and a son named Starfinder. He was a famous carnivore who once said that eating broccoli contributed to the heart attack he had. He moved to Australia 30 years ago to avoid natural disasters. He was in a car accident in a storm and died at the scene – his wife, a passenger in the car, survived.
58:43 – There were a couple medical marijuana dispensary raids on Tuesday in West Hollywood, Calif.
28:59 – Jah says that cigarettes are a gateway drug because you know early on that it’s detrimental and what you get from it isn’t enough to warrant that it’s detrimental. That mindset is abusive, he says. Seth feels this way about Uncle Eddie’s vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Jah doesn’t know any drug addicts who are non-smokers.
13:10 – Seth reads in The Daily Beast about America’s top pot-smoking cities. Nowhere on the list was Los Angeles. Seth says there’s so much weed in that city that there are marijuana edibles in Seth’s fridge and no one touches them.
49:08 – Nitris races (Episode 093, 40:34) are where at least two people take balloons and bend over with the balloon in their mouth, suck it in and blow it out, taking nitris every time for 10 times. You immediately start running and everyone else laughs at the results. Jah said it’s super dangerous and stupid because you pass out while you’re running.
43:22 – An underground website lets you buy any drug. It’s called Silk Road. The drugs are sent from Canada and paid for using “bit coins,” untraceable e-currency.
11:01 – Drug rings from Mexico have taken to the sky. There is an ultra-light aircraft ferry that delivers pot over the U.S.-Mexico border. They fly low and slow over the border. Their wings are painted black and motors hum faintly under the moonlit skies. The pilots, sometimes armed in the open cockpits, steer the horizontal control bar with one hand and pull a latch with the other, releasing 250-pound payloads that land with a thud – leaving craters as the only evidence of another smuggling run. Mexican organized crime groups, increasingly stymied by stepped-up enforcement on land, have dug tunnels and captained boats to get drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Now they are taking to the skies, using ultralight aircraft that resemble motorized hang gliders to drop marijuana bundles in agricultural fields and desert scrub across the Southwest border. What began with a few flights in Arizona in 2008 is now common from Texas to California's Imperial Valley and, mostly recently, San Diego, where at least two ultralights suspected of carrying drugs have been detected flying over Interstate 8, according to U.S. border authorities. The number of incursions by ultralights reached 228 in the last federal fiscal year ending Sept. 30, almost double from the previous year. Seventy-one have been detected in this fiscal year through April, according to border authorities.
16:10 – Seth asks listener to go to MyFox8.com (Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, N.C.), where you can find new Faces of Meth pictures.
31:36 – Scott’s Miracle-Gro has long sold weed killer, and now they are hoping to help people grow killer weed. In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scott’s chief executive Jim Hagedorn said he’s exploring targeting medical marijuana as well as other niches to help boost sales in his lawn and garden company. “I want to target the pot market. There’s no good reason why we haven’t.” Sales at Scott’s rose 5% last year to $2.9 billion, but the Marysville, Ohio company relies on sales at three key retailers – Home Depot, Lowe’s and Wal-mart. Nearly 2/3 of their revenue come from those three stores. With consumers still cautious about spending, those retailers aren’t building new stores as quickly as they used to – making growth for suppliers like Scott’s harder to come by. Against that backdrop, Mr. Hagedorn has pushed his regional sales presidents to look for smaller pockets of growth such as the marijuana market that could produce a notable bump in sales. Sixteen states have legalized medical marijuana, the largest being California and Colorado. The market will reach $1.7 billion in sales this year according to a report by See Change Strategy LLC, an information data services company. While the report focuses on revenue from growers and dispenseries, the president of See Change, Kris Lotlikar, said the market for companies selling hydroponic equipment and professional services is also thriving. “We see very good growth for these types of companies as the medical-marijuana business grows,” he said.
36:06 – Taunton, Mass., Kingsbury, Ind., and Ludington, Mich. – they all have one thing in common: meth addicts at work, stealing railroad tracks. A train actually went off the tracks in Taunton because of these assholes. They’re using welding torches and bulldozers to do it.
37:28 – Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that is credited with inducing transcendental states. Now they say they’ve zeroed in on a perfect dosage level to produce transformative and mystical and spiritual experiences that offer long-lasting life-changing benefits while carrying little risk of negative reactions. The breakthrough could speed the day when doctors use psilocybin – long viewed skeptically for its association with 1960s countercultural thrill seekers – for a range of valuable clinical functions, like easing the anxiety of terminally ill patients, treating depression and PTSD and helping smokers quit. Already, studies in which depressed cancer patients were given the drug have reported positive results. “I’m not afraid to die anymore,” one participant told the lookout.
42:04 – A.J. Daulerio, the editor of the sports blog Deadspin, set up MLB 2K11 on Xbox 360 in his living room and custom designed Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis (Episode 147, 30:40) to be a pitcher for the 2011 Pirates playing against the 2011 San Diego Padres and attempted to recreate the June 12, 1970 game where Ellis threw a no-hitter on acid. Daulerio dropped acid and tried to throw a hitter on the game while on acid. They tried 49 times and spent 5 hours before he had to get out of there and get a pizza. The longest outing was 4 2/3 innings.
7:10 – Seth read an article about the Mexican cocaine cartel – the Cinaloa cartel. The drug trafficker was going to a psychic in Compton while the DEA was listening in on all of his calls.
21:07 – There’s been a lot of talk about Oxy Babies, which are the modern-day crack babies. From Seth’s research, the earliest findings of oxy babies were in Boston in 2002.
23:28 – Seth took oxycontin at a party in 2001
52:00 – U.S. Department of Labor statistics on drug abuse in the American workforce say that 60% of adults with substance abuse problems are currently working full-time jobs
45:16 – Jah understands there is a drug problem, but a bigger problem than drugs themselves are addictions in their entirety. People can be addicted to so many other things besides drugs. If you were to legalize drugs within the country and control them and allow people within this country to grow, process and be compensated for the cultivation of those drugs, you would probably be able to generate enough income to not only fix the deficit but also seek a solution for addiction in its entirety. If free drug trade and cultivation were allowed through governments, you would fix the global economy as well.
3:25 – Marcia just railed some bath salts so she’s revved up and ready to go. She also drank some almond champagne.
56:00 – Drug companies are working to develop a purer, more powerful version of a highly abused medicine which has addiction experts worried it could spark a new wave of 2012 abuse. The new pills contain the highly addictive painkiller hydrocodone but packs 10 times the amount that an existing vicodin would have. A company in San Diego called Zogenix has applied to start marketing the product next year under the name Zohydro. If approved, it would mark the first time patients could legally buy pure hydrocodone. Existing products take the hydrocodone but combine it with the non addictive painkiller acetominophen. Critics are worried because Zohydro is a time-released drug meant for severe pain.
18:30 – Jah asks Seth if he ever came across microdots – little baby pills of LSD that were popular when they were younger. He said nobody talks about them anymore but he remembers people saying so much about them before he knew what they were.
36:39 – Seth recalls doing ketamine in Pasadena. (Episode 082, 51:35)
6:01 – Seth salutes UYD hero of the week Deputy Brett King, who invented Faces of Meth.
43:51 – Seth read an article about women who are pregnant and the delicate balance for those who need antidepressants – they don’t want the baby to be an addict but there’s dangerous repercussions for being depressed.
12:14 – Speaking of ecstacy, a report was published that taking the hallucinogen during pregnancy may harm the health of the fetus and lead to poor motor control in infants.
37:08 – Jonathan didn’t know that steroids are so illegal. He doesn’t understand why, because it should only be a controlled substance in places where there are rules against using them.
29:30 – Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd divulged on E:60 last week that he used to do coke before every game he played. He did the interview wearing a Red Sox jacket that said “Oil Can” on it. He would keep crack rocks in the bill of his cap while he pitched.