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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...girls earn $150 to $400 a night in salary, in addition to the perquisites and gifts that adoring customers shower on them. But in this saturnalian spectacle there are even more opportunities to burn the money. In addition to the booze, clubs and clothes, there are the drugs - ecstasy, pot, cocaine - in which too many girls indulge. The cycle didn't make sense at first to Lucie - work in a bar for five hours and then go out to more bars and clubs to unwind - but after spending whole nights pretending to laugh at idiotic jokes or feigning understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...code words, 29 of which, investigators believe, refer to drugs. Police recovered more than a dozen different varieties of drugs from Obara's homes - from sleeping pills to chloroform to human growth hormone. In his diaries, he mentions drugs frequently, at one point declaring, "I am so bored with pot, hash and LSD." But if there were any doubts about his main interest, these were dispelled by an entry in which he stated, "I can not do women who are conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the federal government?s challenge of six California distributors who provided medical marijuana to patients with various illnesses including cancer, multiple sclerosis and AIDS. Many advocates and patients claim smoking pot alleviates the worst of symptoms ranging from nausea to muscle tremor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Medical Marijuana Gone Up in Smoke? | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...that day in her courtroom, McNally sent the sometime meth user back to his forklift and the mechanic and recovering cocaine addict back to his three kids. The pot-smoking teenager trailed behind his mother. Says the judge: "When somebody's threatening to throw you in jail, it doesn't feel like they care about you. Now there's a different attitude." And it is showing results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patients, Not Prisoners | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...there's an integrity to her evil-Regis act. She mercilessly skewers the weak, but her tongue-lashings--"Slow coaches and ditherers have no place on the team!"--are an implicit reproach to players who would vote their strongest rivals off (the last one standing wins the whole pot). To Robinson, this kind of strategist is a "coward." As a quiz show, Link is quotidian. But if it does click with Yanks, we have a guess why: in an era of economic contraction, it is a parable on how to equitably fire people. Don't base it on personal factors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Virtuous Reality | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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