Super Site Sells Salvia
According to Business Insider…
Amazon Is Selling Bongs, Nitrous Oxide, And Deadly Hallucinogenic Drugs.
Lethal ‘legal highs’ including a substance said to be ‘more powerful than LSD’ are being sold on Amazon.
Although other online shopping sites such as eBay do not allow legal highs or drugs equipment to be sold on its site, Amazon is selling salvia, nitrous oxide and poppers, along with drug pipes, bongs and scales.
Maryon Stewart, whose daughter Hester, a medical student, died after taking the party drug GBL, wrote to Amazon last month asking it to withdraw the products. She has had no response from the company.
She told The Daily Mail: “It is utterly irresponsible that Amazon is selling this stuff and tantamount to an endorsement. Amazon is a trusted brand and if it is selling something, it is likely to mislead young people into believing it’s safe. We all know these products are not safe and people taking them are playing Russian roulette with their lives and mental well-being.”
Salvia, a species of sage that is also a powerful hallucinogenic herb, is being sold on the online shopping site by a firm called John Strong Supplies. The company cites press articles describing the herb as, “more powerful than LSD, and legal”.
The disclaimer says the herb is a “herbal incense for the home”, but customer reviews point to it its use as a drug.
Drug experts have warned salvia can trigger psychotic episodes.
A spokesman for Amazon said: “All sellers on Amazon Marketplace must adhere to our guidelines in relation to the products that they make available for sale on our web site, and we use a variety of methods to ensure compliance.
“We act quickly to remove any items that contravene our guidelines and take appropriate action with the seller in question.”
Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-selling-bongs-nitrous-oxide-and-hallucinogenic-drugs-2013-5
Hmmm…
Amazon now sells a bong,
To some people that’s quite wrong.
Salvia it sells,
That’s raising much hell,
There’s N2O for a song.
© 2013 Ronald J. Yarosh
Humorous Interludes by Ron Yarosh 
Food Finds Infuriate Female
Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn’t Be In Poor People’s Grocery Carts
NORTHAMPTON, MA—
With her remarkable ability to determine exactly how others should be allocating their limited resources for food, local woman Carol Gaither is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on what poor people should and should not have in their grocery carts, sources said Thursday.
As verified by multiple eyewitness reports from supermarkets across the Northampton area, the real estate agent and mother of three is capable of scanning the contents of any low-income person’s basket and rapidly identifying those items which people like that don’t need to be buying, based on the products’ nutrition and cost.
Additionally, Gaither, 48, is widely regarded as a leading expert in determining which groceries they would purchase instead if they had any common sense or restraint.
“There’s no reason she should be loading up on those pricey TV dinners if she’s getting the government to pay for it,” Gaither told reporters at a local Super Stop and Shop, training her prodigious faculties on a welfare recipient using a benefit card in front of her in the checkout line. “If I were on food stamps, I’d just buy two whole chickens and a bag of potatoes—you could feed a family for a week on that and still have money left over.”
“All that junk she’s buying is just loaded with sugar, too,” said Gaither, identifying with uncanny speed another critical flaw in her fellow shopper’s grocery selection. “No wonder her kids are acting out like that.”
Sources said that Gaither, in addition to being a noted scholar of how the indigent squander her tax dollars at the supermarket, is able to detect with astonishing frequency instances in which poor people claim they are unable to pay their own grocery bills yet, seconds later, pull out a brand-new cell phone that’s far nicer than the one Gaither herself owns.
Moreover, as one of the most respected voices concerning the poor’s flawed eating habits, Gaither reportedly possesses the ability to instantly assess when people on public assistance keep coming back to the same fatty foods that pretty much explain how they came to look like that in the first place.
Despite her stature, Gaither has never shared her insights with any of these individuals, sources confirmed.
“The other day, I saw a woman who bought a box of name-brand Frosted Flakes because, apparently, the generic kind wasn’t fancy enough for her,” said Gaither, swiftly and decisively calculating that bagged cereal would have cost half as much. “And guess who’s going to be paying the difference in the end?”
“But then again, what do you expect?” Gaither added, making eye contact with the reporter.
Found @: http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-a-leading-authority-on-what-shouldnt-be-in-p,35922/
Hmmm…
A woman checks grocery carts,
To her it’s become an fine art;
Though it might be rude,
She checks out the food,
She thinks that she really is smart.
She feels that the poor buy wrong foods,
They might buy according to moods;
They fail in nutrition,
Which lead to conditions,
In kids who become crude and rude.
The poor should really eat better,
Says this nutrition go-getter;
They should eat healthy stuff,
Not that Marshmallow Fluff.
They should be nutrition trend setters.
They could really save some money too,
If they bought real food, not sweet goo;
If they used common sense,
They could save many cents,
And have cash for their phone bill when due.
© 2013 Ronald J. Yarosh
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