Easy answer (he kinda mentions it):

The money saved chasing black market pot + tax excised from the legalised sale of pot = more treatment for addiction.

End of fucking story.

ps. You can tell the type of parent she is that she's so busy off crusading to save people that her daughter is getting high and drunk easily. Lemme guess, extremely strict parent who has closeted her kid so much that she's gone off the rails after getting a taste?

I think "Blame Canada" really needs to be linked to this sift (but have no idea how to do so... = ) because this woman is Sheila Broflowski...

Who the fuck is Sheila Jackson Lee?

And yes, Palin is a terrible idiot.

Why does everyone who thinks Palin is a nut just love Nancy pelosi or Sheila Jackson Lee?

tiz a puzzlement!

Maybe he saw the camera and assumed the biker was a poparazzo?
Nope, you aren't that famous Sheila.

*downunder What a LUCKY Sheila! [sigh ... he's a keeper]

Had to look up Sheila Wellstone. Died in a plane crash in 2002, apparently? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone#Death

So, I dunno... seems a little melodramatic to me.

BREAKING NEWS From Reuters
-Sheila Hogan reporting, Brisbane Aus, Dec. 8 2010

In a shocking move today, China launched full scale war on Australia in what pundits are now calling World War WTF!?!. Chinese Ruler, Sum Yung Gui, has told reporters that leaked documents on Australia's security were the catalyst for this impulsive assault. He was like, all, "OMG, I hate Australia, I hate them so much. I must attack them." Luckily for the residents of Australia, the attack only occurred in one very silly American mind, likely high on schwag and national pride.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Ah yes, the winnable war sabotaged by the left. North ietnamese committing genocide, not living "side by side".


Should have prayed harder, then Jesus may have hopped in and won it for us! PRAISE! God Bless the USA. For got prefers US over them!

...but the Mantis Shrimp is pretty amazing. Something about a Hyperbolic Paraboloid Spring or something...

Shelia Patek can tell you how it works...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, Talks, Sheila Patek, fastest, animals, slow motion' to 'TED, Talks, Sheila Patek, fastest, animals, slow motion, Mantis Shrimp' - edited by notarobot

Reminds me of this TED Talk, which I guess fell through the sift.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sheila-Patek-clocks-the-fastest-animals-TED

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On another note, that was pretty brutal.

A video released as part of a lawsuit against police in Millville, Philadelphia, shows an officer forcefully punching a woman in the face four times after he bungled an attempt to arrest her for riding a bike on the sidewalk.

As reported by NBC news, Sheila Stevenson, 42, has filed a civil suit (PDF), alleging police used excessive force, after then-Millville Police Officer Carlo Drogo stopped her one year ago on February 3 2008.

The newly released video shows Drogo attempting to use pepper spray on Stevenson while she is still on the bike, but instead spraying himself in the face.

As Stevenson struggles, a reeling Drogo knocks her off the bike and onto the ground.

Two more cops then arrive and haul Stevenson to the curb, one of them seemingly applying the full force of his upper arm onto her neck and head.

The same cop then thrusts his knee into her back twice, with full force, whilst attempting to handcuff her.

"I am not doing nothing," Stevenson screams.

"Put your hands behind your back," one of the other officers orders.

"Can you not do this? I'm not doing nothing! I'm not doing nothing," she wails.

Drogo, clearly in great discomfort from using his own pepper spray on himself, then approaches Stevenson after the other officers have restrained her and aggressively punches her in the face and head four times.

"Why are you hitting me? You're hitting me! Why are you hitting me?" Stevenson cries out. "Why did you hit me and I'm handcuffed?"

Stevenson was later convicted of resisting arrest. As noted by NBC10, Drogo resigned from the police department in October for undisclosed reasons. He has previously issued a statement defending his actions and maintaining that Stevenson's allegations represent a distortion of the facts.

The funniest: the mom calls her daughter 'Shayla', 'Sheila'.

That had to be deliberate.