October 13th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Police recently closed down a Berlin sweet shop after it was discovered that the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops that were laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.
The owner of the shop, located in the trendy East Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, was taken into custody on suspicion of drug dealing.
“In the shop we found 120 pieces of magic mushroom chocolate and countless cannabis lollipops,” said police, who confiscated around 70 sachets containing various drugs, about 20 marijuana joints, a range of pills and some jars of drug-laced honey.
Police said one customer, who appeared intoxicated, was arrested after trying to buy a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms from an officer in the shop.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow! Did you remember to get your mom something? How about sending her some Mother’s Day flowers? It’s probably too late to send them and get them to her by tomorrow but there’s nothing wrong with a belated gift. Mom’s love flowers and gifts at any time, it doesn’t have to be a special occasion.
One thing that I really like about ProFlowers is that their flowers come straight from the fields. Proflowers apparently even oversees the planting of the flowers. So that means between deciding which types of flowers they will sell, and bring them in fresh from the fields for your flower delivery you’ll be sending top quality fresh flowers to your mother or someone you love. The prices should be lower too because there’s no middle man. The Wall Street Journal rated Proflowers as “Best Value” when it comes to quality, price and selection.
Speaking of selection, ProFlowers has an abundance of lovely floral arrangements to choose from as well as a variety of plants and plant baskets. You can even select a Bonsai for delivery! Then there’s their gourmet gifts – chocolate and desserts, fresh fruit, gift baskets, steaks and seafoods, teddy bears and so much more.
If you’re on a budget you can even view the many flower selections and other gift ideas by price. By this I mean you can look at best sellers priced under $40, in the $40 to $60 range, $60 to $80 range, and finally best sellers over $80. I’m sure that if someone were visiting the site and had an idea of how much they wanted to spend they’d appreciate being able to quickly see the best sellers in their desired price range.
I really like this site so I’ve bookmarked it so I’ll know where to take my business the next time I decide to send flowers or other great gifts.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Last Friday a dutch journalist asked an Amsterdam court to convict him for eating chocolate. He believes that by eating chocolate he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms on the Ivory Coast.
Teun Van de Keuken, 35, is seeking a jail sentence to raise consumer awareness and force the cocoa and chocolate industry to take tougher measures to stamp out child labor.
“If I am found guilty of this crime, any chocolate consumer can be prosecuted after that. I hope that people would stop buying chocolate and thus hurt the sales of big corporations and make them do something about the problem,” van de Keuken said.
Ivory Coast, the world’s No. 1 cocoa producer which has been racked by instability since a brief 2002 civil war, is the target of allegations by international rights groups that children are working as slaves on its cocoa plantations.
The man began his attempt to be charged for eating chocolate two years ago, when the Dutch public prosecutor ruled that it was not a case for the courts and that the journalist was not directly involved with the cocoa business.
On Friday, he appealed against the prosecutor’s decision before a court which is expected to rule in April.
