Comments on: Cocaine Concentrations in the Air Above Italian Cities Correlate with Drug Use http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Vikram http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30934 Vikram Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:03:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30934 #19 Congratulations. Here is your honorary internet. #19

Congratulations. Here is your honorary internet.

]]> By: Dan M http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30933 Dan M Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:10:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30933 God, please tell these people it isn't about them or Christianity, because you are not just for Christians right? RIGHT? I believe in a religion where paper is sacred and is simply flakes of dry skin that fall from God. So this article offends me a Paperist. God, please tell these people it isn’t about them or Christianity, because you are not just for Christians right? RIGHT?

I believe in a religion where paper is sacred and is simply flakes of dry skin that fall from God. So this article offends me a Paperist.

]]> By: Alice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30932 Alice Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:20:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30932 Anyone else consider that just maybe, the 'insult to Christianity' is why it was included? Not because Discover wants to offer insult, but because the practice of smoking in bible paper is fairly well known-and while the drug my be different, gods only forbid someone write a story about drugs without sensationalizing it somehow. And look, they've got you all mad about religion now, too. So now drug users aren't just immoral, criminal, and shiftless scum-they're blasphemous too. Except. . .not. Real reason is because bibles are printed on really nice, thin paper-when you run out of rolling leaf, it's the best place to look. Good job on getting your righteous fires all stoked up though, I'm sure that'll get you some brownie points. Anyone else consider that just maybe, the ‘insult to Christianity’ is why it was included? Not because Discover wants to offer insult, but because the practice of smoking in bible paper is fairly well known-and while the drug my be different, gods only forbid someone write a story about drugs without sensationalizing it somehow.

And look, they’ve got you all mad about religion now, too. So now drug users aren’t just immoral, criminal, and shiftless scum-they’re blasphemous too. Except. . .not. Real reason is because bibles are printed on really nice, thin paper-when you run out of rolling leaf, it’s the best place to look.

Good job on getting your righteous fires all stoked up though, I’m sure that’ll get you some brownie points.

]]> By: Jen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30931 Jen Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:18:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30931 It would have to be a page from the new testament to claim it's an insult to Christianity specifically. It would have to be a page from the new testament to claim it’s an insult to Christianity specifically.

]]> By: Clement http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30930 Clement Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:14:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30930 I think the photo is supposed to show how drug addiction will make you forget everything else. The user has ripped a page from the bible to snort with, cuz s/he is so addicted nothing that is important to them matters when they need their fix. I really doubt it's supposed to be a "slap in the face" to Christians. How that one makes any sense, I don't know. But some people want to feel oppressed even when they are the vast majority. I think the photo is supposed to show how drug addiction will make you forget everything else. The user has ripped a page from the bible to snort with, cuz s/he is so addicted nothing that is important to them matters when they need their fix.

I really doubt it’s supposed to be a “slap in the face” to Christians. How that one makes any sense, I don’t know. But some people want to feel oppressed even when they are the vast majority.

]]> By: Tony http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30929 Tony Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:46:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30929 Do you think the photographer used the story of Moses parting the red sea as some sort of meaning for the photo? I'll admit, I've never done anything, so maybe I'm just naive to some of the cocaine lingo here. I wonder how high the concentrations of drugs like cocaine and such were in the air above Florence... Do you think the photographer used the story of Moses parting the red sea as some sort of meaning for the photo? I’ll admit, I’ve never done anything, so maybe I’m just naive to some of the cocaine lingo here.

I wonder how high the concentrations of drugs like cocaine and such were in the air above Florence…

]]> By: Bill http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30928 Bill Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:14:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30928 @3,5,7,8 Perhaps the photographer is pointing out the hypocrisy of believers. @3,5,7,8
Perhaps the photographer is pointing out the hypocrisy of believers.

]]> By: Geack http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30927 Geack Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:07:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30927 @88515, Smoking weed isn't necessarily related to committing crimes, but selling weed and getting money for weed often are - although Iain #4 makes a very good point about that issue. @ Damien, They didn't spray coke into the air. They just sampled the air and checked what was already in it. @88515,

Smoking weed isn’t necessarily related to committing crimes, but selling weed and getting money for weed often are – although Iain #4 makes a very good point about that issue.

@ Damien,
They didn’t spray coke into the air. They just sampled the air and checked what was already in it.

]]> By: Greg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30926 Greg Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:36:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30926 Maybe it's Tim Tebow in the picture. He always has a bible close by. Maybe it’s Tim Tebow in the picture. He always has a bible close by.

]]> By: Matthew http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/19/cocaine-concentrations-in-the-air-above-italian-cities-correlate-with-drug-use/#comment-30925 Matthew Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:23:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34052#comment-30925 LOL@ comment 3,5,7 and 8 I am sure the reporter just googled for a quick image to add to this story, you four are just over thinking too much. Did you even read the article or just look at pictures like in those fairy tale children books? Good night kids LOL@ comment 3,5,7 and 8

I am sure the reporter just googled for a quick image to add to this story, you four are just over thinking too much. Did you even read the article or just look at pictures like in those fairy tale children books?

Good night kids

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