Comments on: Cocaine Concentrations in the Air Above Italian Cities Correlate with Drug Use

By: Vikram

Vikram — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:03:14 +0000

#19

Congratulations. Here is your honorary internet.

By: Dan M

Dan M — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:10:16 +0000

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

Alice — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:20:07 +0000

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

Jen — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:18:03 +0000

It would have to be a page from the new testament to claim it’s an insult to Christianity specifically.

By: Clement

Clement — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:14:32 +0000

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

Tony — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:46:49 +0000

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

Bill — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:14:29 +0000

@3,5,7,8
Perhaps the photographer is pointing out the hypocrisy of believers.

By: Geack

Geack — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:07:07 +0000

@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

Greg — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:36:21 +0000

Maybe it’s Tim Tebow in the picture. He always has a bible close by.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:23:22 +0000

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

By: goldencut

goldencut — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:09:15 +0000

3. commenter is a good example why atheists look down on religious people… most religious people are like violent imbeciles – can’t reason with them but also can’t ignore them.

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:50:43 +0000

I would like to know just how much cocaine was used to do this test. Also whether or not this has been done in the United States.

By: m

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:47:48 +0000

3,5,7.

Excellent point.

Discover????

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:16:43 +0000

@Micah, perhaps it’s a conservative photographer? I’m just curious as to why the photographer chose to use Exodus. I’ve got my theories, but I’m probably over-thinking it.

By: vegetable

vegetable — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:06:15 +0000

Hes closer to his god with every line.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:18:27 +0000

anyone else notice he’s snorting coke with a passage from the bible?

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:15:39 +0000

sometimes occur in tandem with drug use, like robberies. However, their approach didn’t turn up any significant correlations between crime-related activities and cannabinoids

Let’s see, cocaine costs a lot, maybe $200/day/user and pot costs about $150/month/heavy user. Who is more likely to go broke first?
A) $200/day coke head
B) $5/day pot head
C) $12/day tobacco head
D) $20/day boozer

By: Laura G

Laura G — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:45:29 +0000

Can someone explain to me why they used a photo of someone using a page from the Bible to snort coke? Would they have just as easily used a page from the quaran? Let me guess….NO. Everyone knows most folks use a dollar bill to snort. Looks like a blatant insult to Christianity to me.

By: 88515

88515 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:26:35 +0000

“However, their approach didn’t turn up any significant correlations between crime-related activities and cannabinoids, which is interesting—what does that mean about the social correlates of marijuana use?”

Oh, wow! How closed-minded does one have to be to actually believe that smoking weed & committing crime is related (inb4 smoking weed is illegal, therefor it’s a crime! -> to that i facepalm)? Seriously?! People, you have to grow up and ditch all these old myths and dogmas about drug use. Drugs are bad when abused. Take a look at Holland – the country with the LOWEST levels of marijuana use among the native people in Europe. Ever wondered why?

By: rabidmob

rabidmob — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:25:13 +0000

Awesome, I must be immune to hordes of things just from breathing the air.