' Many detainees at Guantanamo Bay were regularly subjected to harsh and coercive treatment, according to officials who worked at the prison facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Military guards, intelligence agents and others described in recent interviews a range of abusive interrogation procedures they said occurred over a long period of time. ' [Full Story] http://tinyurl.com/6h4g7

Your Drug War training and tax dollars at work. The link between the treatment of US Drug War prisoners and the treatment of Abu Ghraib prisoners by the "actions of a few" isolated misfits in US service or contractors has been previously discussed. Meanwhile, the Guantanamo prisoners, being held as "enemy combatants" without benefit of the Geneva Conventions and standard legal protections, have fallen into a black hole of public indifference.

Just Say No?

Top Story: It’s The Stupidity, Stupid. How the Prohibitionist Ideology Has Wrecked The Republican Party and Undermined Democracy Everywhere. When Ideology Trumps Reality, The Result is Stupidity. Posted by Richard Cowan on June 13, 2004 http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=749

' The Los Angeles Times reported today, “Some officers believe that alcohol may have been a factor in the behavior of guards (at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq) who have been charged with beating prisoners, stripping them naked, forcing them to masturbate and stacking them in pyramid-shaped piles on the prison floor. At least one prisoner has told investigators that he frequently smelled alcohol on the guards' breath in the cellblock where most of the abuses occurred.” '

' As the report from Portugal demonstrates, the police on the front lines know what the real “drug problem” is. And so does the Pentagon, for that matter. '

Just Say No?

He is an idiot, how's that? cool...wow i'm frazzled but, alas I vent here, & therefore I am no longer frazzled.

I must now go and feast on fruit juice.

Yes, it did. People of Oklahoma wake up! Istook is kook!

(does that rhyme?)

The way out is the way in...

Kean and failure on 9/11: http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=297&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Lions Gate and IFC Fighting 'R' Rating for "Fahrenheit 9/11" http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_040614fahr.html Teens banned from Moore film: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9846681%5E1702,00.html

Man who chaired CA recall tries to prevent showing of 9/11 film: http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/move_america_forward_blocks_911_Moore_film.htm

Film and Election Politics Cross in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0611-02.htm

The Desperate Censors - Republicans Behind Attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06142004.html

Zagreb, Croatia, Jun. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. rocker Lenny Kravitz says he kept the remains of a marijuana cigarette he once smoked with Mick Jagger out of respect for the British rocker.

Kravitz, on tour in Croatia, said he deemed it a great privilege when the leader of the Rolling Stones offered to share some pot with him, Gloria magazine reported.

"We were performing on the same stage once, and he invited me to go to his place afterwards," Kravitz said. "We talked the entire night and smoked marijuana. We shared a joint, and I kept the rest of it for almost a year. It was a sign of respect."

As a result, Kravitz kept the butt of the joint as a tribute for 12 months, after which he decided to smoke the rest of it.

"At one point I had no grass at home," he said, "so I smoked the rest of the joint I shared with Jagger."

Someone is asking a question about Marinol at http://tinyurl.com/3fj3j It is a display of ignorance considering that the most important fact in all of CP is that synthetic THC under the trademark name, Marinol, is legal as a Schedule 3 drug when its identical molecule from nature is considered to have no medical value, be addictive, and dangerous even under a doctor's supervision. The expansion of that fact would say that whole extracts would almost always be superior to one isolated cannabinoid and that the best path for clinical cannabis is to accumulate knowledge and research with the release of GW extracts and those that follow so that the best (cannabinoidal or cannabinoidial- damned silene plan is hurting spelling and vocabulary) combination. Then there is the fact that the greatest value of cannabis is that it can be free if it were free.