drug cookies

[Carl Remick]

>Internet consultant Richard Smith told the Senate Commerce, Science
>and Transportation Committee last week that Web surfers who type in
>the phrase "grow pot" in search engines such as AltaVista or Lycos
>(LCOS) are served government-sponsored antidrug banner ads. Smith
>says a Scripps Howard news service reporter subsequently discovered
>that at least one of the banner ads led surfers to the Freevibe site
>and that Internet ad server DoubleClick (DCLK) dropped cookies into
>the browsers of the site's visitors.

Pretty crude.  The sophisticated way to flush out cannabis consumers would 
be to offer *real* cookies, so identifying who's got munchies ;-)

Carl
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