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Stan Lee vs Comics Code Authority: How the Spider-Man Anti-Drug Story Almost Never Happened

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, History, Interviews, Versus on September 1, 2010

We’ve heard the story a million times before.

Now, hear the story directly from Lee’s mouth.

Lee recalls how the Comics Code’s inflexibility stood in the way of a story that spoke to the contemporary issue of drug abuse in the ’70s, and how Marvel circumvented potential censorship on behalf of none other than the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services). It’s a piece of comic book history many fans have read about, but this time it’s told straight from the storyteller who lived it.

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Wallabies are Getting “High,” Making Crop Circles

Posted by mistergroonk in Animals on July 1, 2009

Did you know that Australia supplies 50% of the world’s legally grown opium? Opium that’s used to make morphine and other painkillers.

You did?

Ok, smarty. Did you also know that wallabies tend to eat this opium and run around in circles afterwards til they crash?

Rockos-Modern-Life_0001“The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Lara Giddings told the hearing.

“Then they crash,” she added. “We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”

(via bbc and someone on Twitter. We forgot exactly who.)

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