French Customs Find 'Esctasy' Tablets in (Jimmy) Buffett's Suitcase

[babylonsister]

Sorry if this is a dupe; first I'd heard of it. But Jimmy's alive and well, and 'medicated'. :) Also note the 'punishment'. If only we could adopt that laissez-faire attitude.

(Disclaimer: I've never tried this stuff but am now a bit curious?!)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=9579

American singer Jimmy Buffett was detained by French customs officers earlier this week, after they reportedly found 100 ecstasy tablets in his luggage.

The Grammy winner arrived at Toulon-Hyeres International Airport in the south of France in a private jet on his way to holiday in St Tropez when the discovery was made.

Buffett was fined $380 and was released without charge, according to PageSix.com.

But a spokesperson for the singer insists the tablets were prescribed medication rather than ecstasy: "It was medicine prescribed by his doctor."

But the representative refuses to divulge the nature of the medication or any medical conditions the 59-year-old may be suffering from.

[Wickerman]

1. Shoulda stayed with the Margs, Jimmy

:rofl: That's a bunch - wonder what medical purpose Ecstasy serves?
Edit - I knew it soudned familiar:

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/x_10.htm
For the first time, the FDA has formally approved for research use in humans the hallucinogenic agent Ecstasy. Researchers believe that Ecstasy, technically known as MDMA, may relieve the pain and emotional distress of terminal cancer patients and speed the recovery of soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Dubbed 'the love drug' for effects that include profound feelings of empathy and a nirvana-like contentment, Ecstasy was outlawed by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1986. But the same effects that have made it a popular underground agent make it of interest to psychiatrists today. MDMA may accelerate the therapeutic process of psychotherapy.

'Between 1977 and 1985, roughly half a million doses were administered for the treatment of depression, anxiety, rape-related trauma, and even schizophrenia,' reports Richard Doblin, a doctoral student at Harvard University who leads the Multi disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research. He charges that 'politics over science' stifled proper funding and recognition of MDMA research thereafter.

[HeeBGBz]

2. Interesting

"'Well the word got out
All over the island
Friends, strangers, they were all apologizin'
Some thought me crazy for bein' way too nice
But it's just another shitty day in paradise"

[Marr]

3. Doesn't he have some kind of exemption?

Jesus, it's Jimmy Buffet. Pot grows in his naval.

[rocktivity]

4. Buffet seems more like the get-caught-with-a-joint type.

He doesn't make the kind of music that REQUIRES that you be drugged.

:headbang:
rocknation

[ShaneGR]

5. Eh, the lifestyle...

Unbelievably rich, do whatever you want, lots of beautiful women. Can see how it could be true.

But it could be false.

[NashVegas]

7. Or Mushrooms

I wouldn't have thought him an x guy.

[rocktivity]

8. I have a friend who worked at a rock club

She said that one afternoon some cops came around with information about the dangers and symptoms of Estacy. She says her boss told them, "We don't play the kind of music that REQUIRES you to be on drugs!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[babylonsister]

9. Hmmm, and what kind of rock was that?

My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I remember liking to enhance the atmosphere, and the better the music...:smoke:

[rocktivity]

10. But at rock clubs you enhanced the atmosphere mainly with booze

while cocaine was the enhancer of choice in the discos--if you WANTED. It's a little differen with Estacy, the only drug of choice at rave parties--the music is so bad and endless, taking it is kind of mandatory!

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[babylonsister]

11. So there's no

booze or weed at raves? I've never been to one, thank GAWD!, so I honestly don't know. At least my music was good stuff to get buzzed by, providing you didn't get too buzzed. I hate to say this, but I fell asleep at a Jefferson Starship concert in my youth. :blush:

[Telly Savalas]

6. It'd be a more interesting story if it were Warren Buffett, and not Jimmy

[Orrex]

12. Or if it were an Ecstasy Buffet

Please take a clean plate for each trip through the line.

[Orrex]

13. What's he doing in France?

Shouldn't he be busy litigating against someone who hummed part of "Margaritaville" without paying Jimmy a big, fat royalty for it?

[slaveplanet]

14. maybe Dennis Kozlowski

is on the loose, and Buffet needed to play another party for him.

The rich and powerful need a variety debauchery methods as they figure out how to spend the taxpayer's dime they worked so hard to steal.

They often turn to court jesters and pimps for their connections.