Jackson Pollock's Corpse 100 Years Old Today

The man the media liked to call "Jack the Dripper", changed art for good or bad without really trying, as he shrugged his burly shoulders and retreated into his laboratory of paints for their carnivorous awakening on the pithy canvas'.

 

Is the Legalization of Drugs in Portugal a Success?

In 2001 the Portuguese government became the first country to decriminalize drugs- now this does not mean shops can sale drugs, or drug dealers can register themselves as legal businesses-no- this means anyone caught in possession of certain quantity of drugs (less then a ten day supply) for personal use does not have to go to prison and have their reputation malhawked, rather they are forced to meet and be evaluated by a social worker, a psychiatrist, and an attorney who outline reasonable actions to help the drug user if they indeed need help at all.

It reminds me of an episode of The Wire, where an audacious district commander, Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin sick of the failing methods used in squalid neighborhoods in fighting the criminal drug hierarchy sets up Hamsterdam, where he copies the methods of Amsterdam and proposes that as long as drug dealers agree to stay off other streets other than the street allocated they can go about their business. It is interesting to note contrary to common belief marijuana has never been legal in the Netherlands, rather they consciously turned a blind eye to enforcing the law against shops which provided marijuana to customers.

 So why did Portugal break way from the general, conservative European drug policies?  The reason why Portugal enacted such radical laws was that it had the worse drug use in all of the European Union, so they felt a different approach was needed and urgently. João Goulão the president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction said " we were out of options". Portugal had the highest AIDS caused by dirty syringes deaths than anywhere else in the European Union in 1999.

So has it paid off?The statistics say yes, their are vast improvements. Portugal nowadays finds itself with the lowest rate of marijuana users in Europe, America has roughly 450% more marijuana users and hilariously they have the most stringent laws in the entire world for drug use, America Fail! Since the new laws were introduced, drug use and drug-related deaths have fallen along with the bonus of a rise in those seeking treatment for drug addiction due to the fact that they are no longer afraid of criminal prosecution for seeking such help to their drug problems. There has also been more success in catching those higher up the chain of organized drug-related crime. Glenn Greenwald who worked for the Cato Institute on researching the results of the new laws said “judging by every metric, drug decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success. It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country."

Anthony Hopkin's Song From The 1980s

Smoking Pipes Banned! Unless You Are A Dalmatian

The land that has given us dalmatians, has disgracefully banned the lovable pipe, which Rene Magritte refuted the existence of with his painting entitled "This is not a pipe". Now there will be no "This is not a pipe"s at all in Croatia!This sign was spotted off the coast of Dubrovnick. Funnily enough you are allowed to smoke in train carriages, pubs and restaurant but not in the open air of parks! There is loophole in the legislation we here at MRHP have researched and found to be an effective solution. Dalmatians are allowed to smoke pipes in parks, so pop on a dalmatian costume and you are ready to go! 

We here at MRHP will appreciate our rights to smoke in parks by ambulating to our neighborhood park, nestled in-between ugly houses and having a few puffs of liberation. Ah the sweet smell of billowing smoke freedom!

Dinosaurs Eating!

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Some Bicycle Diaries 4 Ya!!!

Better late than never baby. Expect more juices from the auld bike journeys shortly. XXX

UEFA.com Team of the Year 2011

Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid & Spain)

Right-back: Daniel Alves (Barcelona)

Centre-back: Gerard Pique (Barcelona & Spain)

Centre-back: Thiago Silva (AC Milan)

Left-back: Marcelo (Real Madrid)

Right midfield: Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich & Nertherlands)

Centre midfield: Xavi Hernández (Barcelona & Spain)

Attacking midfield: Andres Iniesta(Barcelona & Spain)

Left midfield: Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur & Wales)

Forward: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF & Portugal).

Coach: Josep Guardiola (Barcelona)

Tasered Soldier Screams Like A Little Girl

Tattoo Star

Indian Man Scalped By Leopard (WARNING Graphic Images)

Dave Eggers Creates The Literary Shower Curtain

Dave Eggers author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity as well as working on the script for Spike Jonze's The Wild Things has created a literary shower curtain. Dave Eggers writes appropriately from the point of view of the shower curtain. It currently costs 65$ from the literary quarterly The Thing whom publishes stories printed on all sorts of things where you would not expect to find it! Anyone interested in purchase, go here http://www.thethingquarterly.com/quarterly/issue-16-dave-eggers.html

A Simple Request

We give a lot at MRHP and rarely do we ask our readers to give back. In support of our recent book launch we would very much appreciate it if you could like and spread the word of our FB fanpage for the book. If you are feeling even more generous why not go absolutely fucking insane and purchase a copy. You will not regret it :-)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/UpSyndrome/355947444422753?ref=notif&notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite&sk=wall

Leaked Images of the New Bond Film Skyfall

Nobel Prize Jury Calls Lord Of Rings Poor Writing

What seems like a lack of foresight and expected snobbery on behalf of the Nobel committee, showing awards influence little on the propagation of pieces of work into the world. C.S Lewis made famous by Alice in Wonderland had put up his friend JRR Tolkien for nomination. One Anders Österling, a snobby and bitter literary critic dismissed JRR Tolkien who he judges as having "not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality" I should note he also shunned Robert Frost for being too old. Which is much more outrageous then JRR Tolkiens omission for "poor prose". Who thought you would find ageism with one of the highest awards in literature! Absurd I know! Even in sports such as boxing, men in their late forties have won championships such as everyone's favourite George Foreman. Imagine if they were chastised for being too old. And they took their awards away!

The Ultimate Sport - Chess Boxing