Here’s a look at what mainstream media largely ignored at the Winter Olympics..

At a time of economic turmoil, when politicians are chasing their tails around and the media following them, people are beginning to open their minds up to new ideas, new possibilities. You get all this marketing babble about , “a new way of doing things..” ,”a fresh approach”,  ”…change..” but much of it is just talk to encourage the good economy to come back again. If you believe in it, it will happen. Much of this is true of course. Economy is fake, it is make believe. As soon as all the calculations are done it is just numbers built on legalise.

photo credit: Lenny Montana

Anyway, perhaps we are now informed enough to look at “The Drug Problem”. Let’s not lump all things in one basket here. People are experimenting with other substances now because they are technically legal, bathsalts, herbal incense etc. Why is this happening? Because there is a demand for it of course. Everyone has their vices. Smoking weed in no longer taboo. It has not been for a long time. It is not just present in some subcultures, it is present in all cultures. It is very mainstream.

In Ireland, there would be great opportunities in line if the Cannabis plant is embraced.

Free the weed… and tax it.

Click here for UK Gov statement

BBC coverage here

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

“It is a US-run prison built from scratch on an US military base to hold “enemy combatants” captured in the so-called “war on terror”.

Those imprisoned there have never been charged with a crime, nor do they have any meaningful way of challenging their detention.

The inmates allege abuse at the hands of their captors, ranging from sleep deprivation to brutal beatings. And no, it is not Guantanamo Bay.”

First I heard that there’s a camp similar to Guatanamo in Afghanistan, with the detainees having no way of accessing the outside world!