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Poppies.org is Moving! |
| October 26, 2002
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Poppies.org will be moving to our own dedicated machine in a few days. This means the site will be down for at least a couple of days, possibly as long as a week. Email will stop working on Oct 27, so messages may go unanswered for a while. My apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
The site itself will probably be going down on Nov 1st (give or take a day or two), and should hopefully be back up in action a few days later. It's my hope that the site won't be down for more than five days. We should be able to retain the bulk of the forum posts, but it is possible that some posts will be lost. If that happens -- sorry! Either way, we'll try to have things back up and running as soon as possible.
We've just grown too big for our current set up, and I've got no other choice but to move to something more stable. And so, the site and forums are now moving to a *dedicated* server in the new ultra-hi-tech Poppies.org datacenter (aka my living room).
Granted, there won't be any 24/7 monitoring, and if the power goes off, so does the site -- but we'll be doing our best to make sure site availablilty is as high as possible. If anything, things should improve now that the site and hardware will be under my direct control.
Once again, my apologies for any inconvenience the downtime will cause, but not to worry -- we'll be back and better than ever in two shakes!
Cheers,
The Rev. Ayatollah Jones
Poppies.org Founder
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Laos to Cut Opium Area By Forty Percent |
| October 1, 2002
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Laos, part of the notorious Golden Triangle opium-producing region, plans to reduce poppy growing areas by 5,600 hectares or 40 percent over the coming year.
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No Plans to Stop Afghan Crops |
| September 24, 2002
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With two weeks to go until annual cultivation is due to begin again in the eastern Nangarhar province, the local governor says he will only stop farmers if the central government orders him to. Despite a ban on opium production by President Hamid Karzai's government, it is estimated that Afghanistan's poppy crops will yield nearly 3,000 tonnes this year.
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Afghanistan Back on Top in Opium Production |
| September 24, 2002
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Afghanistan has reclaimed the top spot as a world producer of opium, and, despite optimistic signs, it will take several years to erase poppy production, the head of the United Nations drug control agency said yesterday.
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Calgary University Studies Poppy Crop |
| January 18, 2002
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In an unmarked basement room at the University of Calgary, researchers are growing Opium Poppies in an attempt to isolate the opium poppy's enzyme-encoded genes, understand the 18 or so metabolic stages from beginning to codeine and then on to morphine -- and then alter that process.
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Mr. Dressup Dies of a Stroke |
| September 18, 2001
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 Ernie Coombs, who played the much-loved Canadian television character Mr. Dressup, has died in Toronto after suffering from a stroke. I know this is totally unrelated to the site, but this guy was my childhood hero, and this is very upsetting news for me. He was 73, and will be missed -- he was a true Canadian Icon.
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On The Front Lines In The War On Drugs |
| September 18, 2001
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The Puritan spirit is still strong in the United States. In the minds of many Americans, the approval of drug use, of any kind, means that we have to acknowledge that people use drugs, and many Americans would rather ignore this fact. Following this logic, abstinence is the only alternative. This, of course, is the motto of the expensive and ineffective war on drugs.
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Colorado Senator Urges Treatment over Jail |
| September 18, 2001
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Colorado State Sen. Ken Gordon would like to turn a vicious cycle into a virtuous one by reducing the severity of penalties for possession of small amounts of cocaine or heroin and spending the savings on treatment.
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