DdC

Straight, Incorporated 12 Nov, 2001

Orwellian anti-drug programs humiliate and abuse youth in a horrifying program of mind control.

In 1982, Leigh Ann Bright was a rebellious teenager who used marijuana and alcohol. Her mom told her she had to talk to counselors at a St Petersburg, Florida drug rehab institution called Straight, Incorporated.

A week before her 15th birthday, Bright went to Straight's building, a converted warehouse. She began chatting with two other teenaged girls, who suddenly announced that they were "peer counselors" who believed Bright had a "serious drug problem" requiring long-term treatment. They told Bright to sign a form agreeing to participate in Straight's residential rehab program. She tried to get out of the room and asked to speak to her parents. She was prevented from exiting. Other Straights joined in, telling Bright she would be "court ordered into the program" unless she signed the consent form.

"They said I could leave after 14 days," Bright recalled recently.

Now a 33-year-old accountant who worked full time while earning two bachelor's degrees, Bright says she is "haunted" by what happened to her in Straight's warehouse nearly 20 years ago.

For six months, not 14 days, Bright was sequestered in the Straight program against her will, without a shred of peace or privacy, without permission to communicate freely with the outside world.

"I was crying and desperate. I was a prisoner," she says.

Going to the bathroom, showering, getting dressed, sleeping, eating - the youngster's most intimate acts were monitored by Straight staffers, most of whom were troubled teens who had been in the program longer than her.

During the day, Bright and hundreds of other youngsters were forced to participate in bizarre rituals. They were required to write "moral inventories," detailing how drugs and sex "ruined" their lives. They sat through hours of lurid encounter group sessions in hot, unventilated rooms, listening to emotional discussions and Straight's Orwellian philosophy.

Bright felt she had been kidnapped by a cult-like organization.

"Straight had its own really weird lingo and some group customs," Bright recalls, describing fellow inmates who jumped around, frothed at the mouth, and waved their arms in reckless abandon during surreal "motivational-confessional" sessions in which they were compelled to publicly disclose their deepest, darkest secrets.

Girls and boys were in separate areas of a large room during these sessions.

"You could hear the boys complaining about being sexually abused," Bright said. "It was like any prison - if somebody wants you and can overpower you, you're fair game. Their stories were horrible." continued...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2072.html



Arnold Trebach: Many premier medical people…
have been involved in organizations that harm youth.

Dr Arnold Trebach, a political science professor, public interest attorney, and author, founded the institute in 1999 after retiring from the Drug Policy Foundation, which he founded in 1986. During his 50 year career as a civil rights official, professor, and reform advocate, the 73-year-old Trebach has increasingly focused on the drug war as a symbol of what's wrong with America. Trebach's 1987 book, The Great Drug War, is perhaps the best single volume about the subject. Its unparalleled credibility and comprehensiveness are grounded in Trebach's abundant skills as a policy analyst, legal scholar, and investigative journalist.

The book contains a chapter describing in chilling detail the incarceration of Fred Collins, now a doctorate-holding professor of mathematics, in the St Petersburg Straight facility in 1982. Collins did not have a drug abuse problem, but his brother George was already in the program, and Straight often demanded that siblings of inmates also be enrolled in residential treatment. Fred Collins' parents tricked him into entering the Straight building. He was held there in abysmal conditions against his will until he escaped four months later.

Goal: To show how much God loves us and what His Son, Jesus, went through for us.
Flogging involved being tied naked to a pole and whipped with straps with bone and steel embedded in them. Flogging ripped the skin right off of a person.



Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
Putting Faith In a Social Service Role; Church-Based Providers Freed From Many Rules
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. - Over the door of one church-based drug treatment center in Houston, a sign printed in foot-high letters announces: "Drug Addiction Is NOT a Disease. It's a Sin." At another, clients pass by a poster of an addict in a hospital bed, ripping IV tubes out of his arms and throwing his pills in the garbage. An angel hovers nearby, offering her protection from this plague of prescriptions.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J17E13B28

GEORGE W. BUSH: THE RECORD IN TEXAS
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n602/a01.html

U.S. Rightist Republican Drug War
GOP Holy War. And hate radio, hate television...
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm

Drug War links
Including MMM WTO A16 J4J3. Rally links...
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/links.htm

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
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.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1CC63B28

Stop Prisoner Rape
http://www.spr.org



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

Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit
Smoking marijuana could help prevent recovering cocaine addicts relapsing, research on rats suggests. Dutch and US scientists deprived cocaine-addicted rats of the drug for 14 days and then exposed them to environmental cues associated with their drug-taking. Such cues often trigger relapse in recovering human addicts.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11031.shtml

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

Americans United for Separation of Church and State
http://www.au.org
Courts, city halls and other units of government should refrain from displaying religious symbols because such actions send the message that the state has a favored religion and that people who do not share that faith are second-class citizens. Learn more... http://tinyurl.com/5dumx

Bush Drinking Played Role in Policy
President Bush's personal commitment to pass his embattled "Faith-Based Initiative" was influenced, in part, by the role faith played in Bush's decision to quit drinking at age 40, Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts, R-Okla., said Tuesday.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10343.shtml

Warning To States on Funding Faith-Based Charities
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11781.shtml

Judge in Wisconsin Voids a Faith-Based Initiative
In a case widely seen as the first legal challenge to the constitutionality of President Bush's religion- based initiative, a federal court in Wisconsin has ordered the state to stop giving money to a drug and alcohol addiction program that relied heavily on Christian spirituality in its approach to treatment.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11725.shtml

It's Not About Church and State
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8998.shtml

Public Serpants
A nursing home aide earning minimum wage caring for Alzheimer's patients is an unskilled laborer. A grade school teacher pulling down $25,000 a year in a crumbling inner-city school is barely a professional. But a politician reaping power, pay, perks and retirement packages is a public servant.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K6A822767

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TAINTED THINKING Ben Ehrenreich, LA Weekly
Drug tests are becoming a class ritual.
Workplace testing is increasingly an indignity reserved for the poor.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/33/in...renreich.shtml

Official Corruption
Soon after Drugczar Carlton Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

This kind of business denies the basic rights of privacy, self-incrimination (Fifth Amendment) rights, unreasonable search and seizure, and the presumption of innocence (until proven guilty). Submission to the humiliation of having your most private body parts and functions observed by a hired voyeur is now the test of eligibility for private employment, or to contract for a living wage. Turner's new money-making scheme demands that all other Americans relinquish their fundamental right to privacy and self-respect.
http://www.jackherer.com

Dare has stranglehold on Drug education!
Communities should have alternatives to using the DARE program, becuause of it's ineffectiveness. There are other programs out there infinitely more effective, but DARE has a stranglehold on drug education. DARE has contributed to increased drug use, and should be replaced with a more effective program. DARE gets some of it's funding from Pharmaceutical companies, so there lies a dubious fact right there.
http://www.mamas.org



Amanita muscaria and cannabis sativa - keys to Christianity?
Ironically, it is very often those who designate themselves as Christians who are most vocal and active in their support for measures to persecute and imprison those who actually know 'Jesus' more intimately than any self-righteous prohibitionist ever could, even as so-called Christians read and study the Gospels of Jesus as printed on the tissue-thin hemp paper used in the majority of modern Bibles (source: Zondervan Books). They reject the true sacrament and settle for stale bread and sour grapes.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/...hp?ideaId=1418

MARIJUANA & THE BIBLE
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1949.html

Soma revealed by Chris Bennett (12 Jan, 2004)
Scholarly research and archeological evidence show that the ancient and mysterious God-plant Soma was actually cannabis. The identity of the ancient plant known as Soma is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the field of religious history. Common in the religious lore of both ancient India and Persia, the sacred Soma plant was considered a God. When Soma was pressed and made into a drink, the ancient worshipper who imbibed it gained the powerful attributes of this God.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3155.html

Stoned fairy tales
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P571211B6

The Philosopher’s Stone
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J51242B46

Thread: America was NOT founded on Christianity!

The assassins of youth...DARE/PDFA
Thou shalt not bear false witness, unless its about Ganja...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W68824DD5

"Behind Czarist 'Truths' Deception No Way To Wage Drug War,"
an editorial published by Daytona Beach News-Journal.

D.E.A.th Deceptions
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html

Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.

Therapeutic Hemp Oil by Andrew Weil, M.D.
The nutritional composition of oil from the marijuana plant could be beneficial to your health. To most people, Cannabis sativa is synonymous with marijuana, but the plant's Latin name means the "useful hemp." Species designated sativa (useful) are usually among the most important of all crops. In fact, the utility of hemp is manifold: the plant has provided human beings with fiber, edible seeds, an edible oil, and medicine, not just a notorious mind-altering drug.

Natural Help For Depression by Dr. Andrew Weil

The Master Key to Self Healing.
Another option is to snack on toasted hemp seeds (which, by the way, aren't psychoactive). You can order hemp seeds from The Ohio Hempery,
(800) BUY-HEMP http://www.hempery.com

Nutritious hemp oil is emerging as alternative to toxin-tainted fish.
New study finds mercury pollution is a serious health risk for those that eat fish.
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercury.html

Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil

Protein: Mad Cows v Hempseed

Ganja treatment of Multiple Sclerosis/Spasms, Pain

Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report

Astonishingly, Walters claims that the 1999 Institute of Medicine report didn't urge the government to allow seriously ill people legal access to medical marijuana on a case-by-case basis. What the institute did say about medical use of marijuana by AIDS and cancer patients was "nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana." Maybe these experts were duped. Maybe John Walters, unbeknown to us, has medical expertise beyond that of the world's leading physicians and researchers. Or maybe he's lying in a desperate attempt to save a collapsing policy.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DOCTORS AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

LEO HOLLISTER, MD Health Aspects Of Cannabis Marijuana And Immunity

ROGER ADAMS PhD Marijuana Research 1938-41

ROBERT WALTON, MD Therapeutic Application Of Marijuana 1937

How To Obtain A Physician Referral

The Partnership for Drug Freedom in America supports the preservation and protection of the natural human right to freely choose our food, drink, spice, medicine, sacrament, fiber and other nourishments from the bountiful harvest of planet Earth.
http://deoxy.org/pdfa/index.htm

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Puffman

Ohhhhhhhhhhh yaaaa, I remember you...

kiWikkid

Yeah, how could you forget DdC posts!!

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A good grower/smoker friend, once in a fit of madness, decided to enroll (voluntarily) in a drug rehab programme At the first meeting he was asked how much he smoked, to which he replied, 10 joints a day. They started calling him a liar, because in their opinion, more than 3 joints a week is considered chronic use. While he didn't think 10 J's a day was excessive, he was totally off their scale, they really didn't believe someone could smoke that much, and after being called a liar several times, he left.

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THE BLUNCH BLACK OF BLOTRE BLAME

TrIcK FaTtY

I was recently stuck into a rehab program against my will..

almost exactly as described...

fuccin horrible..

any parents looking at this do NOT send your kids to rehab..

besides it didnt change me any for the better just made me more sneaky...

now i know how to avoid being caught better..

oh and now i have a hatred for my parents that will never go away no matter

how much thay say "we did it for you"

bullshit... thats a shallow lie..

you did it cause you were embarrased to have a stoner as a son...

FUCK YOU

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These Foo's Be Havin Vacum Lungs, And if you let em hit for free you hella Dum Dum Dum -Luniz

new york newbie

not sure if the origional poster was ever in straight but let me know if u were.

i was 13 years old.i had smoked pot maybe 5 times and drank maybe 10 beers within 3 months of turning 13.my parents told me we were taking a trip to virginia beach,va. turned out that trip lasted 1.5 years as i was locked up in straight and had no idea what was going on.of course being sent to a drug rehab like this i had to have a drug problem.no one would believe that i had only smoked a couple of times and drank a few beers.i had no clue about drugs really.but what a place to learn about some fucked up shit.there were kids that had sleep with family members and even fucking animals.truly a twisted fucking place.it did a number on me since counslors are trained to brainwash you.

theres better way to fix life problems.but straight wasnt the way for me.being 13 and locked up for 1.5 years of course i didnt school.when i tried to goo back to school all i could think of while sitting in a classroom was being in a large room with florescent lights.i couldnt do it.

im pretty old now.i believe things happen for a reason.but for the life of me cant figure out why this happened to me.feel free to contact me especially if you were in straight.i was in va beach and when it closed i spent some time in ATL straight.

Governor

Abuse like that needs to be documented. There are links in the above posts that need to hear from you. There's no reason to wait for 'god' for retribution.

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'Marijuana is responsible for evolution itself' Dr. Robert Melamede
"Fuck the monkeys" Ken Gorman
potgov@yahoo.com
420 Medicine

new york newbie

mr mod if u are referring to me pls reply with the link u are talking about.ive reread this thread and not sure which u ar talking about.

kamikazi89

well, i understood what he meant...

your story should be documented...

was not hard finding an email ....from the links

just no memory of which one

at least kafka was fiction...

this is just bizarre, if it werent so evavsive.....

ain't hard finding the same

marijuana is evil, drug of the devil to go around...


altho i agree with that...its why it should be free