Jackson was Spending $50,000 Per Month on Prescription Drugs: Report

boys - And State Attorney's who can't prosecute vehicular homicides caused by drunk drivers, when the blood is still dripping of the grill of their car - parked in their driveway.

But we get the death penalty for a join?!!!

i'm waiting to see if the DEAgets busted for not doing there job right they let the people with the cash go...thats what it looks like to me
BongBong

@ lab3 RE:TV, oops

RE:TV
Anyone old enough to remember what they said just before TV stations signed off for the night?

A."That concludes todays PROGRAMMING"

Its 24 hour programming nowdays.

Food for thought.

ouch

Michael jackson. The face of a 20+ year pain killer addiction.

Good way for him to keep the scrips rolling-eh?

Cut off your nose to spite the face- in the extreme.

The Nord - BOP 4 8?

lab3 - no, the "little helpers", all them buds-a-poppin you got goin on. As in that song I can't think of, "mothers little helper, gotta hide it in kitchen cabinet behind the food, so no one sees, just a little blue pill, to help me up the hill".

Please don't quote me on that, as I'm sure 1/2 the words are wrong, but someone a little older, or with more memory will tell you what the name of the song is.

In my parents generation, the "little helper" was Diazepam, aka - Valium, was the drug of choice. Just a little to help me through the day. Well, we know how these "legal" drugs turn out, as with any drug. 50% of the population wants some. Dr.'s haned it out like candy. And you junkies are gonna call me a criminal?

My mother, despite her ardent hate for weed thanks to the Catholic Church and Amerigan Gov't, has, for my entire life (since 11) been telling me I'm a sociopath and criminal (thanks Mom!) for not adhering to THEIR laws, and finding comfort and solace with weed.

However, luckily, she didn't buy into their "legal drugs" scheme herself, and never took a pill she didn't absolutely need. Now, at 90, she's on like 30 of them. But she always tried to get me on something other than pot. "You must have a chemical imbalance, they have a pill for that. Why do you hate the Catholic Churh so much, they have a pill for that. Why do you believe these Draconian laws shouldn't apply to you, they have something new...".

I don't want anything new, synthesized this, GMO's that, irradiated foods? I will stick to the oldest and safest medicine on the planet, which requires no human intervention or intolerance. But, she will not unplug from The Matrix, did you see the movie? Horrible shame to have such a wall between us, never allowing a real relationship to develop. Thanks America! You sure fucked with her head good.

lab3 - does gotta make you a little nervous, though. Knowing, when we're at deaths door, how they will be treating their elderly. Cuz based on what I've seen - I'm fucked!

Hopefully some will watch the Matrix, and catch the many inferences to gov't, cheaptricks, perception, willingness to sacrifice for others in order to save the species as-a-whole, for all creatures of this planet.

The Architect - God, The Oracle - Mother Nature, Neo - Thomas Paine, and everyone "plugged in" has the opportunity to unplug, open your eyes, and listen to the voice deep down in you gut telling you, "tis the right thing to do".

Not likely, but it sure beats the 10 commandments, cuz nobody is adhering to that, ESPECIALLY THE CHRISTIANS who traveled the globe and stole all the gold, and killed all in there way, and those who would not convert.

Good thing you have your own self-funded retirement plan, but 100's of millions will not be so lucky. Hopefully, I can start soon. It has been, and will remain to be, the only profession I will ever take seriously on this continent.

TO: treehugger., I HAVE HAD SOME LUCK AT FINDING THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THE WOODWORK AS IT MAY BE., AND I TOO HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE MATRIX TELEVISION WATCHING HYPNOSIS INDUCING RUT OF 24 HOUR NEWS CYCLES AND THE HORROR THAT IS AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT!! CRIMES OF MURDER AND PASSION AND STUPID UNREALITY SHOWS!! I SPEND THE EXTRA TIME WITH ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS DOING STUFF AND TALKING AMONGST OURSELVES ABOUT WHAT ELSE!? MARIJUANA!! AND OF COURSE OUR DAILY STRUGGLES TO RAISE KIDS AND EACH OTHER UP. WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD SEEMS NOT TO GET IT!!! I THINK SOME OF OUR TRIBE DOES!!! SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FELLOW TRIBESMEN!!! PEACE!!!

bongman - damn good catch, wish I had some research "little helpers". I meant 1.6 Trillion in sales. At least someone is paying attention.

But, in my defense, and a slight deflection, I am currently out of any "reasearch little helpers". Paity sure sucks. But I hear lab3 has little helpers crawling outa the wood-work. It's nice to share ya know, hopefully we can all be neighbors someday.

Why Mexico locale? 35 years of fiduciary negligence! Approved by Congress.

CA real estate - cost prohibitive, or I'd be there now!
FL real estate - as much as $1 million per acre where I live - NO FUCKING WAY!

I unplugged from the Matrix a long, long time ago. While watching cancer take my father, after he broke his back raising all of his kids - the result of Catholic Rhythme. Having to take care of him, at age 9, feeding, changing, bed-pans, etc. until he shriveled to 88 lbs, and died. Then, while in high school, attending college at night, working 3 part-time jobs, REAGAN CUTS MY $180 SOCIAL INSECURTIY CHECK???

Do you think, then, that I'm gonna pay $200,000 for an "education" from Americans? Buy a house for $500,000, and pay $2,000,000 after interest, while someone steals my pension, and 401k, LEGALLY. I'm surpised anyone is that stupid, yet ask the most educated people on the planet how their pension is doing - IBM, GM, ETC. ETC. Ask them.

Thank you Neo, "There is no spoon", it's just I saw it 35 years before the ones still plugged-in. Thanks to Hightimes!

HEY I HAVE GOOD NEWS ON MY OWN LITTLE uh.,effort., WE HAVE BUDS A GROWING!!!!!!! REAL PRETTY TOO!!! NO PRESCRIPTION NEEDED!!!! FREE AS THE SUN AND THE RAIN!!!!! WOOO HOOO!!!

No old people to talk shit to today . Drunk again eh .
Sober up and quit bitching .

all good treeman, except oil companies were pulling 10 billion a quarter last time I looked; & isnt cal., & florida for that matter, as good of an outdoor location as your canal?

havent seen much of the hate stuff except twords stoners(rush limbaugh & rhode island leo) which is why I origionally posted here, when doing ,,,research.

bongman - re;

"So put the canal on hold tree man- any hemp knowledge? Uses?? Truth to replace lies about the blessed buds???

How about an industry of residential growhouses, nothing huge but an avenue to give people to supplement/save their financial integrity"?

Hightimes has been publishing all that information for decades. 75% of the states still have their hemp stamps on the books. But, until you remove the risk of me spending the rest of my life behind bars, you will see no economic gains from me.

The canal is all part of that. It's the best place on the planet to grow pot/hemp. You'll also notice that my plan calls for the requirement to grow 2 acres of hemp or bamboo per acre of bud. Where do you think that's going? Right back into the economy. Cheaper, renewable, CARBON NEGATIVE alternatives to their petro-shit CARBON INTENSIVE industry.

Better construction materials, super insulated homes requiring 0 heating and cooling. It's all out there, you just have to grab it by the balls. Millions of new businesses will be the result. Grow shops, head shops, retail bud shops, compassion centers. 500,000 new farms, IN AMERICA? Then, when you're crop comes in, you build a house, and get some neighbors, soon Walmart, Home Depot, hospitals. IT WILL BE THE SAVING GRACE OF THE ENTIRE GLOBE!

All the scraps, all grass clippings, all lawn debris, branches, trees, anything Mother Nature grows, can be turned into Ethanol to fuel your farm equipment. It's a wonderful cycle she has built for us, we're just to ignorant to employ it. While Mobil/Exxon makes 1.3 BILLION PER YEAR IN PROFITS.

But instead of "common sense" practices, spelled out by Thomas Paine 300 years ago, we're convincing 3rd world countries to grow more HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP FOR US, 300 MILLION OBESE DIABETICS, instead of growing food to feed millions? You have any idea of how many people are going to starve because of MONSANTO, CODEX, HR BILL 875, FDA BILATERAL AGREEMENTS ON TRI AND QUADRALATERRLS? CHINA IS GONNA GROW MY FOOD - FUCK THAT!

You also have 30-60 million new tax payers. Trillions of dollars saved in time and deisel = cheaper prices for consumers. Now $100 will get you 3 pairs of sneakers, instead of 1 sneaker. What good is 1 sneaker.

Just need SENSI-ble legislators in the White House, instead of them money-hungry elitests that ain't worth the air they breathe. Now you see why I refused to be "educated" by Americans? It's much easier for me to learn what matters to me, than to try and un-learn the shit they shovel. Think Einstein said that too, "don't let an education get in the way of your learning". He dropped out too! It's hard to focus on what matters, while your memorizing all that useless shit they call an "education".

Thomas Paine and Thomas Edison. You don't need much more, except food and pot.

bongman - on a lighter note, you might like this

to: newagecitizen.com or New Citizen Cain?

I saw your post in Hightimes, and visited your site, and was initially intruiged? Pot and politics?

But after browsing for a few minutes, found myself questioning how you intend to achieve the goals or fund these movements.
I don't think your membership fee will cover it.

Just a few observations that may help further you cause;

don't model our immigration policy based on other countries, America is supposed to set global policy, not follow it.

playing the "immigrant card" is a pathetic attempt to grab the attention of the frustrated and desperate. It's no excuse for not being able to come up with real solutions to real problems (and 100 years of bad policy) with real funding and legislation, and a million new jobs, as I have.

Unfortunately, the aristocracy of this country (property owners) was built upon slavery. But became a Super Power because of immigration, and will continue to do so long after we're dead. Not to mention the most obvious - HUMAN CIVILIZATION IS THE RESULT OF IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION - except for the endemic of Africa/India.

don't make personal attacks on the US President - attack his policy, not his character (which has yet to be determined)

I'm sure you're not a constitutional lawyer, nor will you ever be commander-in-chief., despite your 2012 hopes. As I am sure he's not, "Obama is the most prejudiced President in US history ". You base your surmises on what study?

And we don't need a massive Energy R&D project, the technology is already there, we just refuse to manufacture, so Germany and Japan are the only ones cashing in on our research.

Here are some of my ideas, feel free to steal and cash in on;
Medical Insurance covers it, without a Dr deeming it appropriate, or building a database of "registered users" losers that will pay when the DEA hacks the data, or will be denied an organ transplant cuz, "your medical ID thumbstick indicates you're a pot-head".

50% tax on recreational sales
50% tax on commercial bud sales
0% tax on personal consumption-we don't pay tax on anything else we grow for personal consumption (but soon you will if you don't vote no on Bill HR 875, google it, google CODEX)

You have to grow 2 acres of hemp or bamboo per acre of bud
0% tax on donations made to compassion clubs (I'd freely give half of my crop to the terminally ill, who pay nothing cuz the shop only needs a little money to hand out donated weed)

Build a canal from Baja to Brownsville 600' wide by 100' deep;
30-60 million new tax payers, stop the buy, end the violence, create 1/2 a million new jobs, take half of the semi's and trains off the roads, and procure the best place on the planet to grow pot/hemp! Cut the travel time in half again, first is was Cape Horn (crazy mother-fuckers!), then Panama, now Baja!
That means you can buy 3 pairs of sneakers for $100, instead of 1 sneaker. What good is 1 sneaker?
....but is that really what the gov't wants?
Keep puffin...(that doesn't mean = cage penguins)

Treeman-nice shovel deflection. My issue is that those of us in our 40's-50's, growing up in the 70's & 80's, as a whole, have allowed- Politics, Economics, Environment, Peace, etc.. you know, important stuff, to regress to the point it has. Rise & fall cycle. Truth generally is the 1st step to remedy & since there has been a whole lot of lies...

Weed, as I have been a smoker for 25 yrs in sacred. I saw the war on drugs from inside of the BOP for 8 years as a nondrug offender- a nation "selfdestructing". Saw countless decent, good people given much more time than an axe weilding child molester will ever get.(but heh, prison industry is strong & growing, right behind "servicing debt".

So we have a grave injustice which also happens to be an untaped cash crop w/more industrial avenues than just about anything. So put the canal on hold tree man- any hemp knowledge? Uses?? Truth to replace lies about the blessed buds??? How about an industry of residential growhouses, nothing huge but an avenue to give people to supplement/save their financial integrity????

* on a side note, can you explain the jew haters? in particular their hatred of lesbians? Now the thought of 2 young women frolicing in sheets has always been one of my favorites, actually about at the top of the list, so...?

to all Americans - Just a smidge of Common Sense by Thomas Paine, trying to unite us against tyranny, and taxation without representation. Amazingly, most of it still applicable today, and probably will be forever.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested.

The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and completely destroy the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the benefactor and creater of this work

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher!

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, in plain view for Freedom and security.

And however our eyes may be dazzled with show, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and reason will say, 'tis right.

No country on the globe is so happily situated, or so internally capable of raising a fleet as America. Tar, timber, iron, and cordage are her natural produce. We need go abroad for nothing.

bongman - like the shovel dig (pun intended) :)

But, if we're not economically, and ecologically sustainable, what's it all for? By the time we're in diapers this country will be bankrupt. What then? Move to El Salvador?

Sorry if I harp on the canal too much, I just think it's something that a Senator, with balls, should've done 100 years ago. Imagine? 30 million new tax-payers for the past 100 years? Zero border violence? And the best place on the planet to grow pot! It'd be 60-90 million Mexican-now American residents of Baja, USA, Cannibas capital of the world.

I already have to work until 80 to collect social security. By then, with American inflation at 17%, we will barely be able to buy diapers and cat food - AND NOTHING ELSE.

Happy 4th!

treeman- we are the same generation & its the 40's & 50's the rode the wave of good times a bit to far. Think free weed is far off, going to drop like dominos soon. You did hit the nail on the head w/your mind expansion comment, that is one reason it has not been free- musta put the shovel down for a second & put the canal on hold?

Peace / Happy 4th (remembering free spirited people founded this country)

Freddy - Nah, it was just when I see Baltimore Fred, Hightimes has programmed me to see "Fed Fred". Sounds like something they'd use, just as an inside joke. But you seem too mature and knowledgeable to be working for our gov't.

the umm syndrome, after you too. Can't imagine who you pissed-off, you seem too mature for that. The real umm, the one with the heart icon (nice trick, is there a way for me to enter hexadecimals too?) usually sides with lab3. So, if you see 'her' blasting lab3, you know she's a fake.

And lab3 has only blasted me twice, admittedly deservingly. Once I was testin him, the other was a simple typo, and umm usually sides with him.

If I had to guess, and I really despise having to try and keep track of who is who, I'd say it's xxx999, back to haunt me. Plenty of criticisms, laconic surmises mainly, but offers society no real opinion of their own, or propose any ideas for real change.

On a lighter note, happy 4th VA - home of the first US President, and first "richest man in America" (albeit, from slavery).

Bring back THOMAS PAINE. Perhaps, the single most important figure in the American Revolution, responsible for single-handedly uniting this nation - and how did this nation treat him? Read your history, or just read about our international relations. Not much has changed, 250 years!

Bongman - I don't think my parents were even born when they started fucking with pot, so don't even think of blaming it on "my generation"

And I think most of our frustration comes from the fact "your generation" is all about nothing. No protests, no riots, no drop-out's. They are all about consumerism, and not paying taxes. Good luck!

Baltimore Fred - SORRY about teasin the pseudo, it's just that, in here, it looks like "I'm a Fed"

Whether you are, or aren't, I respect your opinions, knowledge, and maturity. As I try to respect all law enforcement. They're just drones, doin a job. WE, the people, our Congress - are charged with making RESPONSIBLE LAWS. Don't know when they'll start, but it's only been 250 years.

I think I'll be long-dead-and-dusty before weed is truely free, but I never thought I'd see 1/3 of the states friendly. Imagine, another 1/3 and you got yourselfs a
NATIONAL REEFER-ENDUM!

Freddy - alive-n-kickin, happy 4th! Hope we 3 live to 100!

Well, you must be infinately more patient than I, cuz I'm from the class of'80, and am leaning more toward lab3's resolutions, revolt!. Should be apparent, especially when I start using profanity.

I've been vehemently smoking pot since 11. Always preached non-violence(probably hyper-sensative, OCD). Labeled a sociopath by my catholic family, cuz I don't respect these draconian laws imposed on a now global scale, while they try to patent a plant, and refuse to consume their "legal drugs".

Meanwhile, 80% of them, along with 50% of America, (I think this is lab3's) "must use pot to numb their throats the way they shovel down "legal" psychotropics", and call me a criminal?

So, naturally, when arrested at 18 for 1 joint, I did what any REAL pot smoker does, laugh in the judges face - and plead guilty. They think they're hurtin me? I didn't pay 200,000 for their lame college education, didn't bank any money for Bernie Madeoff to steel, and now that all my forecasts have come to fruition - I didn't lose a fuckin penny as a result of REAGAN-OMICS, unlike MILLIONS of "educated professionals"? Doctors, lawyers, engineers, the most educated people on the planet. They swallow willingly, and beg for more with the Patriot Act.

OMFG!

Keep puffin (that doesn't mean cage penguins!)

Where is the hostility coming from?

Hey umm kiss my ass. Your ship of fools sailed on without you. In your mind you must think I'm 20 something. You must have lost your mind if you had one to lose. I'm from the class of '72 and I still could kick your ass. Want to start something Butt Bandit Chicken Shit?

lol,
Care to elaborate?

Well said gstlab3 cannabis consumer :)

♥

AM I AN OLD FART OR IS IT STILL BAD MANORS TO TALK BADLY ABOUT THE DECEASED? WE ALL HAVE TO FACE OUR MORTAL END AND HOW WE HAVE LIVED AND TREATED OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. WE ARE ALL VICTEMS AND WE ALL HAVE FREE WILL TO DO OR NOT TO DO EVIL OR GOOD. I DOUBT WE WILL EVER KNOW OR SHOULD KNOW ALL THE GRUESOME DETAILS OF EVERY SUPERSTARS LIFE., WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIVES?? WOULD YOU PASS THE SCRUITANY OF THE EVENING NEWS AND TABLOID JOURNALISM? I KIND OF DOUBT IT., PEACE OUT!! GROW YOUR OWN AND OF COURSE., FUCK THE POLICE!!!!!!

as for michael- star performer in an age when the entertainment industry became america's life blood. did not have proper support system which led to extremely bizzare behavior. this behavior may have crossed the pedaphile line, if so he will pay an eternity of pain. How bout the parents of the children sent to him? If there was ever a candidate to have their genatils removed, slowly, w/no pain killers & rusty dull tools, its these people.

I suppose high times put this article here to show that pills have essentially taken the drug trade. He shoulda stuck to herb.

Shouldn’t the crusty old stoners accept any positive input from the younger generations as they are the vehicles of change, not to mention they may bear a very heavy burden caused by our generations. Or should we just display our ability to tell people to fuck off, in a plethora of deliveries, prophane or not; all the while w/our backs to mainstream as they nauseated us long ago?

Look @ the big picture, something good is very close, but as we well know, just because it looks good now doesn’t mean it wont be twisted by some $driven scumbag. How bout closing a deal the right way?

GST3LAB and Treehunger if you need a voice of support, God bless you two. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. To you other ball less bastards that don't have a reconizable handle, eat shit and die young, gutless wonders.

Treehunger on another article you said I sounded too "VA." Dude, I was born at Johns Hopkins and am currently living 10 blocks southeast of there. Calling me "VA." is like an insult. Go O's, Go Ravens, and don't forget Eager Alan Poe. Also I was riding the 714 line when you were in high school.

Dale - nice sentiment, but while he was behind bars, just like any other citizen without millions

lab3 - right? 1/2 the American population is on some kind of psychotropic prescription - and they got the balls to call us drug addicts?

I'm sorry, who is overdosing or dead because of their medicine? Us or them? Don't fuck with mother nature, and expect positive results.

TO BAD SO MUCH ENERGY IS WASTED ON HATING OTHERS AND THEIR IDEAS., IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO READ MY REMARKS DO NOT BOTHER ME OR ANY ONE ELSE UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THE DISCUSSION OR VOICE YOUR OPINION ABOUT THESE AWFULLY DANGEROUS DRUGS AND THE COST TO OUR SOCIETY!! IT MAKES ME VERY ANGRY AND IS A LIFE LONG INTEREST TO ME. I HAVE LOST MANY PEOPLE TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND I HATE TO REPORT ANOTHER ONE JUST OVER- NITE., YESTERDAY., METHADONE AND ZANEX IN COMBINATION KILLED SILENTLY IN HER SLEEP AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 49. SHE WAS A MOTHER AND WIFE.,ALL THE USUAL SOB STORIES OF POVERTY AND ABUSE via ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.,WICH TURNED INTO HER OWN DRUG FILLED CABINETS AND EVENTUAL DEATH. THIS IS REAL AS IT CAN GET AND WE GRIEVE AND MOVE ON.

Dale - 400,000 years of "evolution", and humans are still so intolerant of eachother. Why do you think mother nature made pot? Happy people.

misdirection? - The tail wagging the dog? Not, the dog waggin it's tail.

to: "toAlex", and I suppose OJ was innocent too? Poor black millionaires bein abused by American society? What state do you live in? So I know not to grow there, you've already had too much!

OJ and MJ are both where they belong. Though, I've heard that MJ isn't really dead, and this is all a publicity stunt. Has anyone seen pictures of the body? A copy of the death certificate? Even Madonna wouldn't pull a stunt like that.

The news agencies are controlled by the rich and only print stories that suit them,they are tools of the government to keep the masses
focus away from issues they deem unsuitable or harmful to their billfolds.
That they glorify a pedophile with too much money doesn't surprise me
and the fact that Jackson paid out #122 million in lawsuits to parents of children he molested sickens me because after the first lawsuit,who didn't know that he was sick? Every suit filed after the first one was brought up with the parents knowledge that they were sending their children to be molested by him so they could sue and get rich. Their names should be listed so society can shun them the rest of their lives.

I find the concept of "modern times" to be very interesting, and disturbing. Like it or not, we, the human race, are still in an infant stage. We are still struggling with figuring out how to run society in a manner that will benefit all of us. Idealistic, yes, but the simple act of realizing that those of us who want to live our lives differently than others (hint: those of us that are not clones,) is a long way off, if not completely out of our reach. If Michael could have been open about his drug use without judgmental bullshit and media humiliation, he, like many others, could have been helped by society in general. Yes, the human race has a lot further to go...

How do you know he "really" did those terrible things?

I can't believe anyone could know unless they were there.

This country has become a bunch of bitter gossiping mean people.

this should be a lesson to people not to abuse perscription drugs

bingo. Was is the word, he was good. Til he started wearing one glove, and grabbin his nuts.
But Motown was the shit, I still remember those labels spinnin round at 33

Michael did have some talent, but the guy was sickening molesting children and giving them 'jesus juice.' The man is just frightening yet the mainstream media continues to cover this man as if the world were ending because he is gone.

They want to cover this man as a distraction to what is really happening in this country that they don't want you to know about like carbon taxes and satellite tracker boxes in your car taxing you by the mile. Welcome to the new green religion courtesy of Al Gore.

...but you might want to find the "shift" key first, and the "period", sentence structure, paragraphs couldn't hurt.

onceapothead - But not always a pot head? I've been smokin since I was 11, care to compare brain pans with me?

and this just in...
america's #1 over the counter
pain killer
turns out to be more than that
acetaminophen
liver? you really didnt need that anyways..

Fairbanks - I ate almost 50 ludes a week in high school, and still got A's. But that was a long, long time ago. Now, nothin be nature.

lab3 - well, he (assuming he's a he) can be verbose, (if the caps bug you - you're exrtaordinarily sensitive, anal, and intolerant) and alude to revolution (which this panzy-ass country hasn't seen for 40 years, so if you've never plead guilty to a 420 charge, or are under 40 - shut-the-fuck-up!) usually the first and last of his run-on sentences are pretty mainstream, ableit violent.

But Jefferson committed murder on the White House lawn. Murder, revoltutionist, founding father. Read your history. No real change comes without an uprising or revolution. If you're generation is "the smartest and most technoligally advanced civilization in the 4 billion year history of the earth"...what the fuck are you doing about it?

Anyway, my first response to the headline - I'll bet the pharm industry, and the parents of CA will miss him. RIP

gstlab3, is ur sole purpose in life commenting on high times articles? do you actually do anything else?

it's borderline obsessive-compulsive...

i mean, the article was interesting, but no one cares about ur excessively short comment

why the hell would neone take that many vicodin. LOL i poped 2 perks yesterday and coodnt get out of bed. NUTS

40 Vickie’s a day is really not that much, the real danger with 40 a day is the 14,000 mg's of Tylenol (acetophenomine) which can shut down the pancreas or worse still, the liver. The danger from the hydrocodone is on the low side of what the normal 200 lb male, chronic pain patient, would receive in a normal days maintenance dose of say oxycodone. Depending on the dose of the Vicky, 5mg or 7.5 mg it would be around 200 to 300 mg of oxicontin or CR Morphine. I take that much in the morning dose for some serious pain issues but I also work full time, contribute to my community, have raised two, now grown, children and am an upstanding member of the political process. I also have a "pain contract" with my doctor that I must live up to which means I get the pain meds I need but if I try and BS my doctor or lie about any drug use they can cut me off. The medical issues with Michael should have been referred to a pain specialist, maybe attend a three week in-house pain clinic so all his doc's knew wtf was going on. If Michael was in that much pain maybe it was 100% straight up and a pain specialist could have assessed his needs. Thank the DEA for making patients creep around from doc to doc scamming pills and for the sense of fear good doctors feel every time they fill out a script for pain meds. If the DEA would back off doctors could act more reasonably and responsibly.

BIG PHARMA IS KILLING LOTS OF PEOPLE!!!OXYCOTIN COST 8 DOLLARS A PILL FOR A 40 MILLAGRAM,THEY GET RICH WHILE LIVES GET DESTROYED.SOONER OR LATER BIG PHARMA AND THE BIGWIGS KARMA IS GOING TO CATCH UP TO THEM.TO LOOLOOWHATEVER YOUR NAME IS YOU'RE A COP AND SHOULD STAY OFF THIS FUCKING SITE.POT IS EVERYWHERE AND ALWAYS WILL BE SO GIVE IT UP!!

Tolerance to Vicoden takes time to build up and 40 a day suggests that Michael was taking all these pills for a lot longer than the year suggested in the article. It's a fair bet he's been popping pills for a very long time.

if he had stuck to cannabis he would still be alive...might be in jail but would be alive, there is a drug problem in the u.s. and its sponsored by the drug compaines..when will there be a pill for to many pills

1st comment is Way too long speed read the whole thing its all a bunch of the same garbage that could have been summarized in four sentences you make marijuana supporters look stupid and all caps wtf

40 a day?!?! that cant be right. thats crazyness. 20 in 12 hours.. plus xanex? didnt he watch the dark night? come onnnn

i mean, the article was interesting, but no one cares about ur excessively long comment

that was way too long to read

WHERE in the WORLD is wh,nor-cal smoker,It's ME,and River Runner.............HOLLA IF YOU HERE ME!!!!!!!!!

Ashes to ashes...dust to dust...if Micheal would of smoked hemp...he'd be still around. Hemp don't kill like opiates. Vote yes to NORML.

TO THE DUMBASS BELOW DONT WASTE YOUR BREATH ON THE SHIT! YOUR TALKING, BECAUSE THE FUCKS THAT R IN CHARGE NO THAT SHIT ALREADY AND THEY DONT GIVE A RATSASS!

REVOLUTION! NOT FUCKING SPEECHES!

THE MIGHTY WEEDGOD HAS SPOKEN!!!

I HAVE NOTICED ALL THE TIME THEY TALK ABOUT MODERN MEDICINES IT COMES DOWN TO THE OUTRAGEOUS COST OF IT ALL., TO BEGIN WITH A GOOD DOCTOR IS ONE THING., BUT TO HAVE NUMEROUS DOCTORS LIKE MICHEAL JACKSON AND ALL OF THEM PROBABLY KNEW THEIR CLIENT WAS WEALTHY AND ANYTHING TO MAKE THE PATIENT HAPPY AND OF COURSE FEEL BETTER WAS THEIR GAME., WHEN NO CURE,REHAB OR A CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE WOULD NOT HELP ANYMORE THEY THREW THE DRUGS LIKE PEZ CANDY!!! TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE PATIENT., I BET HE DOCTORS ARE REAL SORRY NOW AS THEIR CASH COW IS DEAD., THE POINT OF THIS IS MONEY., MONEY MAKES THE SYSTEM OF MEDICAL CARE JUST AS CORRUPTABLE AS THE POLICE THAT ENFORCE PROHIBITION ON DRUGS ON THE STREET AS ARE THE POLITICIANS WHO WRITE THE LAWS THAT MAKE CERTAIN DRUGS LEGAL AND AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE!! IF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL CARE ARE A NEED FOR EVERYONE., WHY DO WE KEEP THEM SO EXPENSIVE AND HARD TO REACH AND WHAT OF THE CONTROLS? HOW CAN WE PUT VALUE ON HEALTH AND COMFORT!!?? TO THE SICK AND THOSE WHO SUFFER DEBILITATING PAINS HEALTH IS PRICELESS. IT HAS BECOME JUST A DREAM FOR MANY DUE TO THIS HIGH COST AND THE LAWS THAT RESTRICT ACCESS TO NATURAL MEDICINES OF THE PAST LIKE MARIJUANA AND OPIUM., WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER TO HAVE OUR TAXES PAY FOR MEDICAL CARE FOR EVERYONE AND MAKE AVAILABLE MOST NATURAL MEDICINES AS THEY ARE CHEAPER AND WIDELY AVAILABLE AND HAVE KNOWN SIDE EFFECTS?! WHAT??!!OH!! THAT'S RIGHT NO ONE COULD GET RICH OFF OF SICKNESS,DISEASE AND DEATH AND DYING AND ANY OTHER FORM OF HUMAN SUFFERING!!! NOW.., WHO IS SICK?