Sam Stone: Collateral Damage

[DdC]

Many Veterans are the "Enemy" of the Bush D.E.A.th War

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

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

[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/pdshoppr...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...08_horrid.html
* Cannabis Prohibition is horrid
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18823.shtml



Ganjawarnews: 5-11-4
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5CE22548
Ganjawarnews: CIAScapegoatingTortu re, RummyCheney MKULTRA DeJaVu, MPPDay, ReeferMadness,
CannabisSpray. DRCnet, Pieman, DrugsWarFailing, LynndieEnglandFollow ingOrders

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

Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6

AWOL Bush
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S14125CD6

Blindness of the Prohibitionists Paradigm
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H581251B6

Bush Crimes Against Humanity
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K58D263F6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6

The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm

Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. Continued...
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html

Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html

Hemp vs Cotton
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P21931295

cotton/pesticides
http://www.newint.org/issue323/facts.htm

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G39E52B28

[DdC]

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

pesticides inc
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4843.shtml



Organic aid for cocaine addiction
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A1B124A37

Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11031.shtml

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J17E13B28

Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
http://www.potpride.com/steppingstone.htm

Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17430.shtml

LEGALISE CANNABIS TO HELP DEAL WITH P (meth)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20646916

DEAth Flunky Waldo
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pma/dea.pdf



Seeking Rest From the Terrors, New York Pops Pills
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B215125F6

Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R14513E36

Mama Coca wants Colombia's fumigation to end
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3323.html

Linx: http://makeashorterlink.com/?H3DF21337

Sign a petition to end anti-drug sprays
http://www.mamacoca.org/FSMT_sept_20...x.php3?lang=en

Plan Colombia and 'Maria Full of Grace'
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4810.shtml

Spraying Small Farmers/Clinton Urged to Block Aid
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4813.shtml



The Real Reason for US Aid to Colombia
http://tinyurl.com/2f6b5

Copter Stoppers
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9096.shtml
Sikorsky Sells 30 Copters for War on Drugs
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8051.shtml

Massacres are blamed on so-called "paramilitaries" rather than the regular army, this is a distinction without a difference. paramilitaries are just an "extension of the state. The paramilitaries act as a glove so the military leaves no fingerprints on the crime." "To say that our sending military aid to Colombia is not promoting these massacres is fantasy," "It is like a go-ahead to the death squads of Colombia."
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Stop the War on Colombians
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcanna...nmessageboards
New Colombian Drug Smugglers Hold Tech Advantage
Lobbyists War Over Billions in Antidrug Aid
Yikes! Attack Of The Killer Fungus Is A Moldy Plan
Vietnam All Over Again - The Colombia Drug War
U.S. Aid to Colombia
Shades of Vietnam
Reimagining Latin American Democracy
MoJo Wire - 7/6/2000 - From Killing Colombia
Not All Drugs are Leaving The Country
New US Aid To Colombia - Deeper Into Antidrug Mire
A New Battlefront Forms for the U.S. in C.A.
Into the Quagmire
From Vietnam to Colombia
Dead, I Can't Do Anything
Congress Agrees on Contoversial Colombian Aid Plan
Columbian schoolchildren sprayed from above
COLOMBIA CONFERENCE: FARC SHOWS WORLD TO STOP COCA
Colombia Tries New Drug Eradication
Colombia Rebels Fight Drug Effort
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Concern over Colombia has blossomed since Congress passed a $1.3 billion aid package for the South American country last year. Part of the so-called "Plan Colombia," the package--which overwhelmingly consists of military assistance, including 30 Sikorsky Black Hawks--was promoted as a brawny escalation of the "war on drugs." Military contractors, Sikorsky among them, were the primary lobbyists for the aid package. Military training and equipment, supporters argued, would beef up the Colombian army's capacity to fight coca production. To many opponents, however--including Colombia Action Connecticut, which called this week's protest...



United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N261231B6
US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H440131B6
Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6
Italy Seeks To Bring in Tough Law on Drugs
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z110211B6
Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
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OIL RIGGED:There’s something slippery about the U.S. drug war in Colombia.
http://www.americas.org/index.php?cp=item&item_id=115
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Spraying Program Hurts Colombia's Small Farmers By Scott Wilson
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread8228.shtml
Bush Should Back Away From Intervening In Colombia By William Pfaff
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread8250.shtml
Military Strategies Won't End Colombian Drug By Elias Castillo
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread8238.shtml
Rights Groups Urge Clinton to Block Colombia Aid January 12, 2001
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread8302.shtml

TOO DEADLY TO IGNORE: The complexity of Colombia’s drug-fueled war does not erase our responsibility to help stop U.S. military intervention.
http://www.americas.org/index.php?cp=item&item_id=118
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Violence in Colombia 1990–2000: http://itdept.americas.org

colombia oil map
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/cu...dia/4/4813.jpg

Sooo we fearfully legislate morality, protecting the kids,
To grow up and serve our oil and drug korpses
after their brains are properly warped.
Iraq or Colombia, Thailand or Afghans to stop growing poppies,
General Georges wars are fought throwing money...
Then the babies with the bathwater tub and plumbing...
Poisoning peoples then selling them treatments.
Even our own, 2 million in cages, sold food clothes and basics,
thats paid by blue collar taxes,
same as the smart bombs missing their targets.
Plenty of wars going round, plenty of profits made in the process.
Hot wars or Cold wars sold to the public,
by chickenhawks and fauxnews, paid with borrowed money...
costing more taxes to pay the world Banksters $billions in interest.
Nice work if your a Fascist.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of D.E.A.th!
DdC

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
National Column Robert Scheer.com
Published May 22,2001 in the Los Angeles Times
That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcol...mns/052201.htm

[patriot]

was actually written about 1970 during Viet Nam. That song still lives on today. In those days, the C.I.A. was importing heroin into the country for the returning wounded veterans that became addicts thanks to the Amerikkan Army doctors.

I have a couple of John Prine's CD's. He is an amazing musician. I also have a DVD of his.

The lyrics he wrote still live on 35 years later. Especially the song, "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore." Incredible song. "Illegal Smile" is very good also.

Good to see you back DdC.

[v3d4]

i never heard of sam stone or John Prine but ill check em out now

but really i just wanted to say...



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sabu visits the twin cities

[DdC]

The Homeless Vet by Gary Jacobson

In acrimonious harmony outside my cardboard box
Late again for appointment to detox
Misfortune and calamity my pox
The crickets singing seems so monotonous
Throbbing in these times barbarous
Forlornly disingenuous.

They sing to an ambiguous apparition lying there
Still with far away gaze in a thousand yard stare
Far across the sea...back there
To an Asian neverland’s nowhere
As people pass on nearby streets without a care
Life, food, drink...home, no longer simple fare.
Continued... http://pzzzz.tripod.com/day.html



System Struggles With Volume of Down-and-Out Vets --
and There May Be Another Generation Coming

Nov. 13, 2004 — "Are they or aren't they really veterans?"
is a question often asked when encountering a homeless person claiming to be a vet.

There's a good chance they are.

Soldiers Learn to Deal With PTSD

"There is plenty of evidence to show that one-third of [homeless males] are veterans," says John Baskerville of Swords to Plowshares, a non-profit veterans support group in the San Francisco Bay area.

‘Get Me Off the Street’

Nearly half of the homeless vets are from the Vietnam era. Eighty percent of them have substance abuse problems.

"I drink," says Richard Smith, a Navy vet. "I'm an Irishman. I drink heavily."

And 45 percent of them are mentally ill and unlikely to get off the streets without treatment.

Brian Roth, a Marine veteran, says he has been hopelessly addicted to drugs since he came back from Vietnam in 1969, and has never had a home of his own.

"Just get me off the street," Roth says. "I'm tired. … I'm 55 years old.

"I'm sleeping with a guy in his van right now," he adds.

According to his records and relatives we spoke with, Roth went to college after his military service and even completed medical school at Michigan State before he started getting arrested for writing illegal prescriptions.

"I know I smell like a skunk and look like one," he says. "But for a year I've been trying to get into a program, and I will stay there if they just make it available." continued...
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/...=247816&page=1

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
http://www.nchv.org/index.cfm
333 Â* Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20003-1148
E-mail: nchv@nchv.org Toll Free: 800.VET.HELP
Voice: 202.546.1969 Fax: 202.546.2063

SAMHSA Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity Expansion Grants
Application deadline is January 15, 2005
http://www.nchv.org/news_article.cfm?id=87

Veterans Incarcerated Transition Guide Now Available
http://www.nchv.org/news_article.cfm?id=14

The Stoners Will Survive
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H11F22F28



Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters By Mark Benjamin
Washington, DC, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era.

"When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God," said Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. "I have talked to enough (shelters) to know we are getting them. It is happening and this nation is not prepared for that."

"I drove off in my truck. I packed my stuff. I lived out of my truck for a while," Seabees Petty Officer Luis Arellano, 34, said in a telephone interview from a homeless shelter near March Air Force Base in California run by U.S.VETS, the largest organization in the country dedicated to helping homeless veterans.

Arellano said he lived out of his truck on and off for three months after returning from Iraq in September 2003. "One day you have a home and the next day you are on the streets," he said.

In Iraq, shrapnel nearly severed his left thumb. He still has trouble moving it and shrapnel "still comes out once in a while," Arellano said. He is left handed.

Arellano said he felt pushed out of the military too quickly after getting back from Iraq without medical attention he needed for his hand -- and as he would later learn, his mind. continued...
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...1848-6449r.htm

Sam Stone Collateral Damage



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

thanks...

but really i just wanted to say...



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