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Now that we’re winning the war on drugs (in Afghanistan), they’re switching cash crops from poppies to pot. With gentile encouragement from the U.N. and other international oficials, Afghanistan has made efforts to eradicate poppy fields farmed to produce heroin. But they didn’t say anything about weed, man!

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* “1. The person who cornered me at DC9 and tried selling me heroin. Bonus points for mentioning that he just got out of jail. Double bonus points for sensing my discomfort and angrily asking me if I was a cop. ‘You have to tell me if you’re a cop!’” [why.i.hate.dc]
* Things you can do in Near Southeast: Use an ATM, eat. [The New Near Southeast]
* “I immersed myself in religious texts on a quest to determine the Jewish view on abortion. This turned out to be a Herculean struggle and the five minutes I spent flipping through the Torah and examining the Commandments proved to be a futile effort. At last, I turned to grandma, whose phenomenal wisdom and infinite knowledge would not lead me astray. And so I came to discover that according to Judaic doctrine, a fetus can no longer be aborted when it graduates college.” [2.71828182845904523536...
* "If you want my body and you think I'm sexy, come on, sugar, let me know." [Candy Sandwich]
* “Some might argue that he has a parking spot in back that he doesn’t always use. Some would probably have a point. But I like to think that his car is a little magic talisman that attracts minor disaster, leaving my car protected from all evil.” [From Harvard Street]

* “La Nuit des Publivores Francophone 2007″ at the Hirshhorn. It’s a night of television commercials from Belgium, Switzerland, Lebanon, Canada, North Africa, French-speaking Africa, and France. $13 at 7 p.m. [Smithsonian]
* Tom Bissell discusses The Father of All Things at Olsson’s in Arlington. It’s about the impact of Vietnam on Americans, Vietnamese and Bissell’s own pop. [Olsson's]
* Shirley Clarke’s The Connection at AFI. “This beat-inflected study depicts a documentarian’s efforts to capture the drug scene as seen through a group of heroin addicts waiting for their connection.” $9.25 at 8:30PM. [AFI]

Last week’s legislation apparently banning online gambling may not be particularly effective when it comes to stopping the $12 billion a year folks plunk down for online wagering, but it settled an issue that had been tearing the nation apart like the old Young Elvis/Fat Elvis stamp vote. It turns out that online gambling is gaming equivalent of crack cocaine (move over, Mah Jong!). Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), among several members of Congress, dubbed online poker little more than taking the pipe. MORE »