Bellevue makes an attempt at a decent night but ultimately fails miserably. Meanwhile, the feds take down a drug ring (not a medical marijuana clinic!), Terminator vision is more possible than it was before, and toll-geddon approcheth. more ›

Another reason not to use intravenous drugs: botulism. more ›

In the wake of Lake Washington High's decision to test prom goers for pre-funking, Seattlest staffers weigh in on the prevalence of drinking and drugging at their own proms. more ›

Jail officers get tasers, emergency bans on unconventional drugs, and no Presidential Primary in 2012. Welcome to Wednesday. more ›

Booze and pills! Costco wants everyone to have liquor, SPD seizes a load of drugs, and Rob McKenna is in a tizzy over the "turf war" in Seattle. Ah, Friday. more ›

More than 25,248 marijuana plants have been confiscated from their home on the nicely irrigated land in Issaquah, known as Taylor Mountain. With a helicopter overhead and a SWAT team on the ground, in total the Eastside Narcotics Task Force spotted and removed three outdoor pot-growing operations, worth an estimated $5 million yesterday. In addition, drug enforcement agents also located a deserted camp, believed to house up to four people tending to the weed along the slopes of the Department of Natural Resources state-owned land. It's not every day that police reports end in such irony.
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Cops and prosecutors believe they have enough dirt on more than a dozen Central Area drug dealers to send them to jail. But they're not going to prosecute--not yet--under a new community policing tactic that offers drug dealers amnesty for their crimes if they enter job training programs. more ›

Today federal law enforcement agents announced that after a 14-month investigation they have dismantled a large Seattle drug trafficking ring, one that's been dispensing methamphetamine and cocaine into the state from Jalisco, Mexico. And here we were worried about Mexican-borne swine flu. more ›

Ryan Leaf, the star quarterback who led Washington State to the 1998 Rose Bowl, is in jail in Bellingham. He was arrested while crossing into the U.S. from Canada; Leaf is suspected of breaking into a college student's apartment to steal prescription painkillers, as well as a host of drugs charges. more ›

Every dog has its day. You may remember Jack, a black lab/Dalmatian mix who ate a marijuana stash in Seward Park a month ago, and became super-famous, with his story featured in on the local news, as well as in the Huffington Post, the New York Times, CNN, and the Chicago Tribune. more ›

...try the bill for treatment for ingesting levamisole. Blog belltownpeople pointed us to the King Country Public Health Office notice that alerts the cocaine set that someone's been cutting their happy powder with an animal antibiotic (originally used as a de-wormer) that knocks out your immune system: "One individual needed extensive surgery, and another resulted in a hospitalization cost that exceeded $100,000." Paranoid but health-conscious drug users are warned to trust the government about this dangerous development, and be on the alert for cocaine that makes them feel like they're gonna die--but, you know, in a bad way--or if their worm infestation suddenly vanishes. more ›

A month ago, the Seattle Times told us a Honduran crack syndicate had been operating within the forested sketchiness of Kinnear Park, before realizing Belltown’s traditional function as the area’s go-to drug market. more ›

ZIPCAR OPEN HOUSE: Drop in at the grand opening of an actual downtown office for Zipcar--in the old Dept. of Licensing location at 3rd and Union. The open house runs until 5 p.m., and if you stop in and join Zipcar today, there's no annual fee for your first year. We're told there's also a prize wheel where you can win driving credits and other goodies, plus free snacks. We use the Zipcar ourselves, and we're happy to hear that the City of Seattle is joining them in a car-sharing arrangement for city employees. more ›

CAN'T CATCH A BREAK: Nami Mun's novel Miles From Nowhere is about a Korean-American woman in the 1980s who lives out our worst nightmare (underage sex worker, junkie, homeless, it goes on). Seattlest MvB says that the main character is "an affectless screen on which bruises from beatings and ulcerated needle tracks appear without histrionic wailings and gnashings of teeth," and praises Mun's "contemplative eye." Mun will be reading from her book at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. more ›

"Whatever you do, don't do heroin, man." more ›

Rudolph Valentino. Ray Charles. Jerry Lee Lewis dancing on pianos, for God's sake! Dance in Seattle had anything but a boring 20th century. We were prowling around the internet this morning and discovered that today is the anniversary of the date the city banned a really bizarre but popular 1920s and '30s fad called "dance marathons" within its city limits. That was enough to pique our interest, and we've spent the day researching what was happening in the world of dance during the 20th century. Here are some of the highlights, thanks in large part to our favorite local history website: HistoryLink.org. more ›

Robert L. Jamieson has a big, big problem with the way things are down in Belltown and a pretty strong idea of who's to blame: more ›