Monthly Archives: October 2012

The experts say the criminal sanctions imposed on the 42,000 people sentenced each year for possession of all drugs – and the 160,000 given cannabis warnings – should be replaced with simple civil penalties such as a fine, attendance at a drug awareness session or a referral to a drug treatment programme.

They also say that imposing minimal or no sanctions on those growing cannabis for personal use could go some way to undermining the burgeoning illicit cannabis factories controlled by organised crime.

 

All this and Felix too.

Decriminalise Drug Use, Say Experts After Six-Year Study (Guardian)

@suttonnick

(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)


Following the postponement of his 23 km freefall drop from the stratosphere (and bid to be the first skydiver to break the sound barrier on the way down) aviation pioneer Felix Baumgartner is about to try again.

Watch it live here

 

This could be the one, people.

Or it could be delayed again.

Or something.

UPDATE: Felic Baumgartner Jumps From Space – VIDEO (Telegraph)

Congratulations would seem to be in order…

maybe not…

@mkayes

(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits, Oisin)

A fish eagle spotted at the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania by wildlife photographer Mark Sheridan-Johnson, who sez:

In nine years of being a safari guide I would never expect to see this unheard of behaviour. I saw the fish eagle on the sand bank with something in its beak. I noticed it wasn’t a fish but was in fact a Nile crocodile. The eagle quickly took off but I got a couple of shots of it flying away. I think this eagle could be a lone individual who has learnt how to hunt for crocodiles.

It certainly knew what it was doing.

22words/telegraph