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Medical pot shop shut down
Agents raid dispensary, seize hundreds of plants at farm...
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 10:11am PDT
Psychiatric Pharma's forced medication on humans and animals
The pharmaceutical psych corporations are still force medicating people and animals against their will. Psychiatric survivor and activist Sara Arenson is being force medicated in a Canadian psych ward. GW Bush's pet pharma corporation Eli Lily profits from animal testing and forcing psych medications into the bodies of human captives....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 10:04am PDT
Israelis go to Pot
Stressed Israeli soldiers to be treated with cannabis...
Posted: Fri, Aug 6, 2004 1:14am PDT
Coca Farmers Organize (audio/mpeg 2.4MB)
Coca Farmers Organize
Bolivia is one of the top producers of coca leaf, the raw material used to manufacture cocaine. But the coca leaf has been used traditionally in Bolivia for centuries and is used medicinally to relieve the affects of hunger, cold, and altitude and is also a common ingredient in Bolivian tea. The U.S. backed Drug War has declared a campaign of total eradication against the plant. Small farmers producing the leaf are organizing to protect their tradition. Shannon Young re...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 2:54pm PDT
Narco News Radio Live from Bolivia (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB)
Listen to Narco News' Radio Free América live from Cochabamba, Bolivia....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 9:11pm PDT
HUNGER STRIKER, ON HIS 36TH DAY, STILL NO ACTIONS FROM THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT
Hunger Strike announcement of the discoverer & whistle-blower of seized drugs distribution by high-ranking police generals & drug lords in the Philippines. They used his company. Assasination attempts on him. Richswaze, his nephew-dependent, now 10 held virtual hostage....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 7:20am PDT
House Opposes Effort to Allow Pot for Ill
Newshawk: The New www.DrugSense.org
Pubdate: Wed, 07 Jul 2004
Source: Associated Press (Wire)
Copyright: 2004 Associated Press...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 12:33am PDT
Pot's link to oral cancer disputed
SEATTLE -- Smoking marijuana does not increase the risk of developing oral cancer, according to a new study from Seattle researchers that contradicts an earlier study....
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 1:02pm PDT
A Joint Military Maneuver: Scoring Drugs In Baghdad
Patrolling in Iraq a couple of months ago, Army Spec. Carlos Arellano, a reservist and rapper from California, happened upon what he called "this beauty waving in the wind" -- a marijuana plant just starting to blossom. He resisted the temptation to "confiscate" and smoke the weed, he says, but was pleased to pose for a photo that's just hit the cover of High Times's spinoff magazine Grow America with the headline, "Buds Over Baghdad." This week the pro-pot publi...
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 1:00pm PDT
Plan Colombia: A View From The Front Line; And, an Indigenous Massacre
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Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 1:22pm PDT
Talking Back to Chomsky
It strikes me that it is not at all obvious what we should do, and that by implying that it is, we risk making people feel stupid, when in fact they are quite right to ask the question, "What should I do?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 2:12pm PDT
158 cities worldwide for Million Marijuana March in early May! And counting....
Please use links to detailed up-to-date global MMM city lists! Here is one:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2004.htm
Global Cannabis March. Million Marijuana March. Cannabis Liberation Day....
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 6:28am PDT
CA Medical Pot Pair Receives Light Sentence
Judy & Lynn Osburn received about as low sentences as possible yesterday. This
continues the trend of federal judges bending over backwards to be lenient to
medical marijuana defendants, and further proves what a waste of money and integrity
the federal war on patients is....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:51am PDT
Colombian Governor Who Resisted US and Death Squads Speaks Tues. 4/13
Colombian Governor Defied Death Squads and US...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 3:41pm PDT
3rd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival
Contest Details:
Send us your films of 30 minutes or less on any topic related to cannabis, drugs and the drug war, and/or Harm Reduction.
Only submit in plain old VHS tape or Hi-8 or digital-8.
The films will be screened and judged by participants at the Drug War Vigil Film Festival Sept 24-25th as well as viewers of WWW.Pot-TV.Net
The film chosen for first place will receive
A Grand Prize of $2000 US.. 2nd place $1000.00 3rd place $500.00
New Special 500.00 Prize for best short, a s...
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 12:30pm PDT
4/18-20 "America's In Pain" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More"
Calling for "Congressional Hearings on the DEA War
on Physicians, Pharmacists and Pain Patients", grass roots pain
advocacy groups are pushing lawmakers to take action. The National
Pain Patients Coalition (NPPC), the American Pain Institute (API) and
the National Juneteenth Medical Commission (NJMC) are organizing
"America's In Pain" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More", on the
National Mall and at the U.S. Capitol, April 18-20, 2004, in
Washi...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 11:00pm PDT
Drug War Film Festival
911 and the BC Compassion Club Society present:
DRUG WAR FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 12 8pm
$6 / $4 (911 members)
911 Media Arts Center
117 Yale Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109
206.682.6552...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 2:53am PST
A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference
WASHINGTON, D.C—It was the junior senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, who came the closest to exposing raw political power in Haiti when he led a Senate foreign relations subcommittee's probe into the drug trade during the early 1990s....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 8:05pm PST
Hacktivists Deface Dare.com in Act of Electronic Civil Disobedience
Hackers have targeted dare.com in political protest of the criminalization of marijuana, the hypocrisy of the war on drugs, and the indoctrination of today's youth through the DARE program....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 10:53pm PST
Tell the MS Society to Stop Playing Politics with Patients
Despite endorsements of medical marijuana from the MS Societies
in Canada and Great Britain, the U.S. National MS Society is playing
politics with the lives of seriously ill patients, and refuses to
acknowledge marijuana's therapeutic value in the treatment of MS....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 7:00pm PST