Phillip Seymour Hoffman the actor

[Dresta]

what a fat fvk

Yeah, was blates on a couple of years away from cardiac arrest anyway. Glad he went out on a high - not many better ways to go .

LOLwut

Making something legal will stop poor addicts from stealing stuff?

Opium is extremely cheap to grow. Addicts wouldn't need to steal shit because the stuff would be affordable for 99% of them. When you could buy morphine or heroin in a bottle you didn't have loads druggies running around robbing everyone. Alcohol was the big problem back then, and it always has been.

[Patrick Chewing]

[gigantes]

how do you survive at night, patrick?

you are the singular worst example of humanity i've ever seen.

[Patrick Chewing]

how do you survive at night, patrick?

you are the singular worst example of humanity i've ever seen.

One of his best performances, truly. His comedic side was very underrated.

[Dresta]

No, but giving lost cases their daily dose for free might keep them away from stealing - the problem is that the broke in car, the stolen radio is actually a good thing for everyone but him, because the owner has to buy a new radio and window.

In my city there's a program that hands out free "injection kits", so junkies don't use used needles in order to prevent drug related deseases. Why not take it one step further and supply them with the drug itself, so they don't steal, sell their bodies, etc?

Everybody from the goverment down to the streetworkers who help them knows the will try to get what they need regardless. It would just take away alot of drug related crime.

General legalization would take away syndicates, middlemen and to some extent streetdealers.

Just imagine if Budweiser got a license to sell weed. If they sell their stuff for 75% of the streetprice and with no legal problems for producer, shop and customer don't you think it would take away alot from the people that make money off something forbidden?

Same for harder drugs.

The goverments biggest problem is still to admit that prohibition on drugs doesn't affect the users. If you want to get rid of hard drugs you have to have a society without psychological problems, which simply can't exist.

It's not like decriminalisation hasn't already been tried, and with some success (despite it being something that only removes a few of the negative effects of prohibition):

Notably, decriminalization has become increasingly popular in Portugal since 2001. Except for some far-right politicians, very few domestic political factions are agitating for a repeal of the 2001 law. And while there is a widespread perception that bureaucratic changes need to be made to Portugal’s decriminalization framework to make it more efficient and effective, there is no real debate about whether drugs should once again be criminalized. More significantly, none of the nightmare scenarios touted by preenactment decriminalization opponents — from rampant increases in drug usage among the young to the transformation of Lisbon into a haven for “drug tourists” — has occurred.

The political consensus in favor of decriminalization is unsurprising in light of the relevant empirical data. Those data indicate that decriminalization has had no adverse effect on drug usage rates in Portugal, which, in numerous categories, are now among the lowest in the EU, particularly when compared with states with stringent criminalization regimes. Although postdecriminalization usage rates have remained roughly the same or even decreased slightly when compared with other EU states, drug-related pathologies — such as sexually transmitted diseases and deaths due to drug usage — have decreased dramatically. Drug policy experts attribute those positive trends to the enhanced ability of the Portuguese government to offer treatment programs to its citizens — enhancements made possible, for numerous reasons, by decriminalization.

http://www.cato.org/publications/whi...-drug-policies

And:

The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. In addition, the number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and money saved on enforcement allowed for increased funding of drug-free treatment as well.

Portugal's case study is of some interest to lawmakers in the U.S., confronted now with the violent overflow of escalating drug gang wars in Mexico. The U.S. has long championed a hard-line drug policy, supporting only international agreements that enforce drug prohibition and imposing on its citizens some of the world's harshest penalties for drug possession and sales. Yet America has the highest rates of cocaine and marijuana use in the world, and while most of the E.U. (including Holland) has more liberal drug laws than the U.S., it also has less drug use.

Read more: Decriminalizing Drugs in Portugal a Success, Says Report - TIME http://content.time.com/time/health/...#ixzz2sKUpw3Jm

Everyone gonna become mad zombie drug addicts doe!!

[Dresta]

Is that even a mullet? It just looks like he has long hair, but combed back with a receding hairline.

This is a true mullet:

[KevinNYC]

The Onion paying tribute to his work in Boogie Nights

Scotty J.’s rejection, so masterfully conveyed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, actually beats it to the punch. His innocence is gone. In lesser hands than Hoffman and Anderson’s, it could’ve been a throwaway gay joke (and character). Instead, it provides one of the most potent emotional beats in a movie full of them.

[KevinNYC]

Time magazine has a nice overview of his career.

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people — troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters’ souls, was our generation’s anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age.

[BRabbiT]

..

nice.


his cause of death is the story line, of course.

what a great actor, though

[16X]

Just watched Capote. I liked it alot.

[Lebron23]

I also like his performance in the talented Mr. Ripley.

[KevinNYC]

A review of his performance as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous by someone who knew the real Lester Bangs.

[irondarts]

I'm glad a lot of people are mentioning Along Came Polly. It's a pretty shitty movie, but god damn PSH is absolutely hilarious in it and make it worth watching. Along with the basketball scene, this scene is also hilarious:

I'm Your Daddy