Dispensary Corner 28 Oct 10
October 28, 2010
A PRESCRIPTION pain
medication is being blamed for
an incident in Boulder, Colorado
in the USA this week when a man
allegedly shot himself in his sleep.
63-year-old Sanford Rothman
told police he woke up after
hearing a loud bang, and realised
he had suffered a gunshot wound
to his knee.
Nobody else was in his home at
the time, and officers said the
man keeps a 9mm handgun near
his bed “and takes prescription
medication for pain”.
They said no alcohol or illegal
drugs had played a part in the
incident, with the man later
released from hospital after
treatment for the gunshot injury.
AGEING rocker Keith Richards
has confirmed a long-rumoured
travesty in which he was alleged
to have inhaled the ashes of his
late father after his cremation.
Richards caused controversy
some years ago when he quipped
about “snorting” the remains to a
journalist from the New Musical
Express magazine.
At the time his aides insisted the
comments had been made “in
jest,” but Richards has revealed
that it did in fact happen.
“The truth of the matter is that
after having Dad’s ashes in a
black box for six years, because I
really couldn’t bring myself to
scatter him to the winds, I finally
planted a sturdy English oak to
spread him around.
“As I took the lid off the box, a
fine spray of his ashes blew out on
to the table. I couldn’t just brush
him off so I wiped my finger over
it and snorted the residue,”
Richards confessed.
“Ashes to ashes, father to son”.
CONCERNED parents in the USA
can now hire sniffer dogs to check
their children’s bedrooms for
drugs.
The Dogs Finding Drugs service
costs $200 per hour, with the
company claiming the canines for
hire can detect minute traces of a
range of substances including
marijuana, cocaine, heroin and
methamphetamines.
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