Sam Stone came home, To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back. There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years, Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. Mmm....
Sam Stone's welcome home Didn't last too long. He went to work when he'd spent his last dime And Sammy took to stealing When he got that empty feeling For a hundred dollar habit without overtime. And the gold rolled through his veins Like a thousand railroad trains, And eased his mind in the hours that he chose, While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes... There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years, Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. Mmm....
Sam Stone was alone When he popped his last balloon Climbing walls while sitting in a chair Well, he played his last request While the room smelled just like D.E.A.th With an overdose hovering in the air But life had lost its fun And there was nothing to be done But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill... There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years, Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. Mmm....
Sam Stone * John Prine * Souvenirs
Of the 2 million U.S. prisoners, 1.2 million are in for drug related crimes and all but 3% are non-violent. How many diabetics do you know holding up 7 11's for a fix? Let the doctors fight the disease of addiction. Let the cops fight real crime. Get the Politikans and Profiteers out of it. Remove the corporate/government profits perpetuating this war on Americans and poor. Support your local WoD Resistance Group today! DdC
November Coalition: http://www.november.org
Needle drop-boxes OK’d By DAN WHITE
Sentinel staff writer May 15, 2002
SANTA CRUZ — Parks clean-up crews and advocates for addicts are hailing the city’s decision to put disposal boxes for used syringes in a dozen public restrooms.
After no discussion Tuesday, the council unanimously approved the plan, which will cost the city about $900. The steel padlocked boxes will be in bathrooms at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, the Louden Nelson Center, Main Beach and the Municipal Wharf.
Heather Edney of the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange, a nonprofit agency that lets intravenous drug users exchange dirty syringes for clean ones, said, "This means people understand it’s a public health issue and nothing more. It’s not about morality. It’s not about whether people should or should not use drugs."
But the council decision was met with harsh criticism from a spokesman for the Seaside Co., owner of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the city’s biggest tourist draw. "This sends a horrible message about Santa Cruz to visitors and tourists," said Seaside’s John Robinson...
Robinson, who was not at the council session, said Seaside was not consulted about the proposal.
The Santa Cruz Needle Exchange hopes the plan will slow the spread of hepatitis C and HIV.
This sends a horrible message?
Ironic that it is the city’s biggest tourist draw believing these "tourists" arn't the ones buying and selling the white powder drugs, or the reality of STDs on the straight "tourists" getting acceptably drunk and layed, and then passed to their loved ones back home. Especially the condom phobes. This corporation does nothing for the community, except clog its streets and parking and pollute the water with its refuge.
Free Speech TV Needle Exchange, Compassionate Use
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x20341.shtml
Needle Exchange- You Know What I'm Saying?
Frizzi Maniglio, 1999 frizzi70@aol.com
Compassionate Use Jan. 8 - Jan.14
http://www.freespeech.org/fstv/0108.htm
Frizzi Maniglio, "Seeing my sister die the way she did convinced me that I had to get in and do something!" says Bronx needle exchange worker India Camacho. A close look at one community's fight for life, "You Know What I'm Saying?" challenges viewers to rethink the lethal assumptions behind punitive national and local drug policies.
Some California Needle Exchange Programs Emerge from Shadows as New Law Takes Effect
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/121/canep.shtml
The dawn of 2000 brought a glimmer of hope to California’s 24 syringe exchange programs and a wait-and-see attitude from several veterans of one of drug policy reform’s highest-stakes battlegrounds.
As of January 1st, a new law protects syringe exchange practitioners in the state from prosecution – if the locality they serve declares a public-health emergency and re-declares the emergency every two weeks.
The statute is a weaker version of a bill that California Governor Gray Davis had threatened to veto last year. The original bill would have acknowledged the effectiveness of syringe exchange programs in combating the spread of hepatitis C and HIV, and would have allowed such programs to operate without a public-emergency declaration.
Davis signed the weaker bill last October. To date, the cities of Los Angeles and Berkeley, as well as Marin, Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, have declared public health emergencies. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/121/canep.shtml
Clean Needles and the Crisis in Drug Use
Washington Times (11/12/96) P. A23
Studies have not proven that needle exchange programs actually reduce the spread of HIV,
in part because such studies depend on an unreliable population, John P Walters
Sterile Needle = No AIDs
Waldo has no problem letting this unreliable population titrate dosages or provide Quality Assurance in his GOPerverted moronality making the disease of addiction into a very profitable crime.
More D.E.A.th Deceptions http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html
target='_blank'>The new face of power in America
Silencing Political Dissent
V.V.A.F. Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
First WorldView 2003 Survey
http://vvaf.policy.net/worldview2003
Voters expect a war will produce relatively high levels of casualties - 1,000 American soldiers (seven times the casualties of the 1991 Gulf War) and thousands of Iraqi civilians. A majority of voters says they would judge a success a war that resulted in such levels of casualties but removed Saddam Hussein from power and disarmed Iraq.
View poll results online
http://vvaf.org/worldview2003/march/slide1.html
Definition of Successful Military Action in Iraq
http://vvaf.org/worldview2003/march/slide13.html
Then there's the "wounded" returning in much greater numbers.
Some like Sam Stone, some not as lucky.
Many more than you might think still dug in to their hooches
living as homeless coming to town collecting relief once a month.
Much of the streets population are mentally ill vets,
released from the dungeons by Rayguns and Bush'Ý,
Thorazine shuffle to wonder around , 51/50 selling their birth rites.
Some just can't shake the wars nightmares in the daytime...
The Government preferred legal booze alternative
only adds liver damage and dementia.
Then they find what Science knew and hid from the people.
Then these vets get 90 years in prison for growing a remedy.
Serving foreign Oil Wars when homegrown veggies oil will do.
Pushing chemical cottons poisons when organic hemp is soft and stronger.
DEAth Czars lying about nutrition and hiding hempseed the omega efa's in perfect balance.
For humans and cows, instead of the 12 pounds of chemical grain for each pound of meat.
The trees yield less fiber with less tensile strength of hemp plywood,
or does it yield the cellulose for paper,
hemp without the bleaches that run off and poison more.
Jobs and cash crops and alternatives grown almost any place with dirt.
A natural weed to deter harmful weeds instead of Monsanto agent orange or DDT.
A weed that deters harmful bugs instead of Tom Delays pesticide killers.
A weed with deep roots to aerate the soil inviting worms and other natural fertilizers.
All the synthetic drugs Waldo sells, causing side effects,
requiring more over the counter meds.
To treat the diseases cause by these poisons sprayed instead of hemp alternatives.
Costly crude based chemicals pushed by these same Fossil Fool Internationalists,
How many times til the people finally get it?
Especially the ones getting shot and blowed up ... DdC
The Stoners Will Survive
Israel To Soothe Trauma With Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19585.shtml
Israel: IDF To Treat Shell Shock With Cannabis August 05, 2004
The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. An army statement said the military medical corps and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem would begin treating victims of post-traumatic stress - commonly known as shell shock - with THC, the active ingredient in the cannabis plant. It said the treatment would begin on an experimental basis. "The use of THC as part of the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was approved by military and civilian committees relevant to the subject," the statement said.
Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3A913555
Cannabis prevents brain damage
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2B913555
Marijuana protects your brain by Dana Larsen (01 Jan, 1999)
Studies reveal that marijuana protects against brain damage from stroke, heart attacks, and nerve gas.
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting by Michael Pollan
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4796.shtml
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13601.shtml
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13600.shtml
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13596.shtml
Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers
Israeli soldiers suffering from combat stress could soon be treated with cannabis to relieve their symptoms. "The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medical corps, in cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is introducing the use of THC, the active agent in the cannabis plant, which helps relieve post-traumatic stress disorders, on an experimental basis," an army statement said. The mental health department of the Medical Corps was set to to begin tests on volunteers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after reserve duty. Hundreds of Israelis have been treated for combat stress after performing their mandatory national service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19285.shtml
Letter From Israel - Keep on the Grass
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/15/thread15130.shtml
Nervegas Protection
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4856.shtml
Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O35755DD6
James Geddes 90 years for possession of 5 medicinal cannabis plants.
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html
Abuse In Prisons: Iraqi and American. Bush says, “That is not the way we do things in America.” No, That Is Exactly The Way We Do Things in America! Especially In Texas and Florida.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2004-05-06 16:20:00
Marijuana News: http://www.marijuananews.com
An internal departmental survey of corrections officers in one southern state found that line officers estimated that roughly one-fifth of all prisoners were being coerced into participation in inmate-on-inmate sex. (MarijuanaNews note: I have had to delay by a week my analysis of the new prohibitionist propaganda from CASA: “Casa Report Finds More Teens in Treatment for Marijuana than for Alcohol or All Other Illegal Drugs Combined. Huge Increase in Emergency Room Admissions Among 12 to 17 Year Olds Where Marijuana is Implicated.” PDF full text
http://www.casacolumbia.org/pdshopprov/fil..._Letterhead.pdf
* "The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
* SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape
http://www.spr.org
* Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org
* Male Rape in US Prisons
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison
* Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.
* Correctional Systems, Inc. (CSI) is a publicly-traded corporation that contracts with governmental agencies to operate correctional projects. http://www.crxs.com
U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P31523E28
Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28
According to the government-funded National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 800,000 to 1 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time in 1991. But in 2000, according to the same survey, 1.6 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time. "If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana, it seems not to be working," comments Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in D.C.
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in US By Fox Butterfield
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18823.shtml
* The US prison story is now tied to the Iraq torture story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/artic.../08_horrid.html
* Cannabis Prohibition is horrid
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18823.shtml
Ganjawarnews: 5-11-4
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Ganjawarnews: CIAScapegoatingTorture, RummyCheney MKULTRA DeJaVu, MPPDay, ReeferMadness, CannabisSpray. DRCnet, Pieman, DrugsWarFailing, LynndieEnglandFollowingOrders
No Good Defense: Charles Ommanney / Contact for Newsweek
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4934778/
How Much Did They Know?
http://www.sundayherald.com/41905
Rumsfeld knew about the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. So did the US governor in Iraq, Paul Bremer. Even the British Ministry of Defence knew. Can we really believe that Bush and Blair didn't? By Diplomatic Editor Trevor Royle and Westminster Editor James Cusick
Forget The Trial Get The Rope: Bush Approved The Torture!!!
http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2004/05/12742.php
Excerpted: por gdy Monday May 10, 2004 at 12:26 AM
The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm
Hemp vs Cotton
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P21931295
cotton/pesticides
http://www.newint.org/issue323/facts.htm
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G39E52B28
TOO DEADLY TO IGNORE/OIL RIGGED
The real reason we're in Colombia...
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4814.shtml
Medical Marijuana Information Links
http://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htm
Brain Disease Rates Soaring, Pollution Link Cited
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19344.shtml
Israel: Using Pot To Save Brains!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/2/thread2314.shtml
Cannabis Fuel http://www.hempcar.org
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/Fuel.html
Drug Czar Lauds Phony Anti-Drug Budget Numbers To Congress
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15661.shtml
Herbicide Exposure To Illnesses Among Vietnam Veterans Link
http://www.ejnet.org/rachel/rhwn212.htm
Agent Orange, All Over Again
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10495.shtml
The Dogs of War [pesticides; antibiotics]
http://www.ejnet.org/rachel/rehw436.htm
EU Sceintist Legalize Paraquat!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2E1611B6
pesticides inc
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