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Today's DATE February 20, 2012
 
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topic:  OVERCROWDING IN LEBANON'S LARGEST PRISON
NOTE:  I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I DREAMED ABOUT THIS, BUT HERE IT IS
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2-20-12 - DREAM - I got a new job that was partly on a ranch, and party near 
a town that had a hospital in it.
Apparently I had a son that was about a couple of years old that rode a 
miniature motorcycle with another kid and they raced around and around a track 
that was on a hill.  At one point, my son chased after what looked like a 
pig at first and when I ran over there to rescue the animal, it looked like a 
scared cat laying on the ground upside-down with its legs straight up in the 
air.
When I picked the animal up to comfort it, it turned out to be a child that 
was super genius about a year old, who could speak better English than most 
adults.   A man and woman who were training him said he was in an 
accelerated learning program.  It was amazing to hear the child speak, 
though I don't remember the conversation. 
Where I lived was walking distance from most place and there was a pathway 
about three feet across and  a great number of black sheep ran through the 
walkway as well, nose to but, nose to butt, etc.   \
The supervisor was walking with me, and I told him it was rather 
uncomfortable to walk with them and he said, "yes, It is strange."
The supervisor looked rather like Danny Thomas, the comedian.  (he was 
Lebanse) 
I then went to work, and when I signed my time card, I noted that the date 
was February 1st, though I don't know what date. 
I had to take my son to the doctor for some kind of exam, and we walked there 
from where we worked because I didn't know how to find it myself yet.   
One of the other secretaries went with me. 
I didn't do anything in the office that day as there wasn't time.  I 
spent most of the day, cleaning the mud and small stones off my shoes, and 
putting socks into my small dorm room.
As it turned out, my room was between one where my ex-husband was assigned 
to the same day, and a room that a man I was attracted to, and I had to pretend 
not to know either one.
I heard them say, "Shut up" to each other at one point, and I was surprised 
they were allowed to say that. 
I then went back to my office to sign out for the day, and woke up.
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for SOME REASON, SPIRIT KEPT REMINDING ME OF THE DREAM SO I'M JUST GOING 
ALONG WITH THE PROMPTING:
Roumieh inmates refuse medication in protest against prison year November 16, 
2011 05:54 PM
Read more:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Nov-16/154286-roumieh-inmates-refuse-medication-in-protest-against-prison-year.ashx#ixzz1mxNDTQ7t
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) 
BEIRUT: Prisoners at Lebanon’s largest prison complex Roumieh have given up 
their medications in a bid to pressure authorities to reduce the prison year, 
security sources said Wednesday.
The sources said prisoners at Ward B of the prison complex, including those 
with medical conditions such as diabetes, handed over their medications to the 
administration in protest at the government’s failure to meet their demands.
Prison reforms were carried out by the government following a three-day riot 
in April that left four people dead and 10 others injured. Inmates were 
protesting poor living conditions and demanding general amnesty.
One of the reforms that the government agreed to implement was the 
establishment of a number of additional prisons across the country to resolve 
overpopulation in facilities such as Roumieh. The largest jail in the country, 
Roumieh prison was built for around 1,500 prisoners, but presently houses more 
than 3,700 inmates.
However, the government failed to pass a law in August that would allow 
prisoners to seek a reduction in their prison sentence.
Human rights activists have repeatedly urged the government to implement 
further reforms to resolve pressing issues facing prisoners in the country.
Read more:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Nov-16/154286-roumieh-inmates-refuse-medication-in-protest-against-prison-year.ashx#ixzz1mxJR2OyT
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
NOTE:  FROM WHAT I HEAR THERE IS OVERCROWDING IN PRISON'S EVERYWHERE.  
SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE - OTHER THAN JUST BUILDING MORE PRISONS DOESN'T IT?    
LETTING PRISONERS OUT EARLY IS NOT AWLAYS A GOOD IDEA IN SOME CASES.  
ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR THINGNS THAT SHO9ULDN'T EVEN BE LAWS AGAINST IS ANOTHER 
ISSUE.
california protest: 

CALIFORNIA'S 
OVERCROWDED PRISONS
by Fred Dungan
"The only public housing 
built during the last ten years has been jail cells." - Reverend Jesse 
Jackson, Jr.
	
	In the 132 years between 1852 and 1984, the state of 
	California built twelve prisons. In the eleven year period between 1985 and 
	1996, the state built sixteen more. By 2001 the Department of Corrections 
	operated 33 prisons. Four house only women and one, the California 
	Rehabilitation Center in Norco, incarcerates male and female offenders.
	
	
	In 1977, California housed 19,600 inmates. A decade later 
	in 1998, the inmate population had skyrocketed by an astronomical 811 
	percent to 159,000. By February 2000 that number had jumped to 161,000. 
	California now runs the largest prison system in the Western world. It 
	houses more prisoners than do the countries of France, Germany, the 
	Netherlands, and Singapore combined. California has spent $5.2 billion on 
	new prisons since 1977, yet it still has the most overcrowded system in the 
	United States.
	
	Currently, the state of California incarcerates one out 
	of every eight prisoners in the United States. It is estimated that 
	California will eventually need 30 to 50 new prisons to accommodate the 
	influx of prisoners dictated by mandatory sentencing, stiffer enforcement of 
	parole violations, and the three-strikes law.
	
	Stress generated by packing people as if they were 
	sardines has resulted in scandalous behavior by guards and inmates alike. In 
	1999 there were riots at Norco (17 inmates injured) and Chino. Guards at 
	Corcoran had to be disciplined for staging gladiator fights. Five employees 
	of the women's prison near Chino resigned in September 1999 amidst sexual 
	misconduct allegations and 40 more officers were said to be involved. 
	Investigators have expanded the probe to the other three women's prisons. At 
	least one incident has been referred to the San Bernardino County district 
	attorney's office for possible criminal prosecution. According to Kati 
	Corsaut, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections, “We are focusing 
	the investigation on the staff.” Investigators from Internal Affairs have 
	documented 78 cases of misconduct by guards. In February 2000, a retired 
	correctional officer and another officer on paid administrative leave from 
	the California Institution for Women were arraigned on one count each of 
	engaging in sexual activity with a confined consenting adult, which is a 
	misdemeanor under California law.
	
	On December 20, 2001, fighting broke out in the 
	recreation yard at Lancaster State Prison, which is located in the Mojave 
	Desert approximately 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Startled guards used 
	pepper spray, tear gas, and wooden bullets on the prisoners in a brutal 
	blood bath that injured 300 (some were medivaced by helicopter). Although 
	designed to incarcerate 2,200 prisoners, Lancaster State Prison has been 
	made to stuff more than 4,000 in its minimum and maximum security wings. 
	
	
	The state's worst prison riot in more than a decade began 
	in the morning of Wednesday, February 23, 2001, a dark overcast day, after 
	guards at Pelican Bay State Prison had frisked more than 200 
	maximum-security inmates and sent them outside for routine exercise in the 
	recreation yard. They had been outside less than an hour when one group of 
	inmates converged on another, and the three-acre yard erupted in a rolling 
	series of vicious battles—pitting black inmates against whites and Latinos. 
	Guards shot 13 inmates, killing one. An additional 35 inmates were treated 
	for less serious injuries—primarily slashing and stabbing wounds inflicted 
	with approximately 50 homemade weapons smuggled into the yard in apparent 
	preparation for the fight. The dead prisoner was the 56th inmate to be 
	killed by gunfire in California state prisons in the past 30 years.
	
	Privately operated prisons under contract with the state 
	of California to house non-violent minimum/medium security felons have not 
	fared any better. On October 16, 2001, eight inmates and two guards were 
	injured in a melee involving 135 black and Latino inmates at the Victor 
	Valley Medium Community Correctional Facility in Adelanto. While at lunch, a 
	fight broke out over what Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the California 
	Department of Corrections, termed “an issue of disrespect.rdquo; A female 
	sergeant employed by Maranatha Private Corrections, which operates the men's 
	facility for the state, was struck in the head with a microwave oven, 
	requiring 14 stitches to close the wound. A second guard, also female, 
	received a blow to the face. In March 2000 more than 100 inmates had to be 
	moved from the private Victor Valley prison to state facilities following a 
	racially fueled insurrection.
	
	More than 100 inmates were wounded and 20 were 
	hospitalized with serious injuries from a nearly hour-long melee in which 
	inmates threw mattresses and banged heads against bunk beds on February 4, 
	2006, at a Castaic, California facility. The North County Correctional 
	Facility, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, is a 
	maximum-security complex composed of five jails that together house about 
	4,000 inmates. The main fight was broken up by officers firing tear gas. 
	Smaller fights broke out for at least four hours after the main brawling 
	ended. Officials said the brawl stemmed from racial tensions. According to 
	Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Suzuki, a 45-year-old black inmate who 
	was a registered sex offender was killed. Twenty-six wounded inmates were 
	treated at the jail; 20 inmates were hospitalized. No jail employees were 
	injured. The jail has a history of race related riots. In 2000, a three-day 
	riot at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic injured more than 80 
	inmates, leaving one in a coma. Attorneys representing 273 black inmates 
	filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging the sheriff’s department failed to 
	disarm Hispanic inmates.
	Prison guards fired live rounds, pepper spray, and rubber 
	bullets when faced with a riot by 38 inmates at Kern Valley State Prison on 
	March 18, 2009 in which one prisoner was stabbed to death and 17 others 
	injured. Four inmates were shot with a mini-14 assault rifle when guards 
	moved in to quell the melee that erupted in the general population yard of 
	Facility B. Four inmate made weapons were later recovered from the scene of 
	the incident. Inmate Oscar Cruz, serving a 37 year sentence for first degree 
	armed robbery and gang activity in Los Angeles County died of multiple stab 
	wounds. Kern Valley, one of two state prisons in Delano, is home to more 
	than 4,700 prisoners—nearly twice its designed capacity of 2,448, a problem 
	that has long plagued California's 33 adult prisons.
	According to prison spokesman Lieutenant Mark Hargrove, 
	80 officers responded to a riot on August 8, 2009, which involved some 1,300 
	inmates in seven dormitory-style barracks at the California Institution for 
	Men in Chino. The riot was most likely prompted by tensions between black 
	and Hispanic prisoners, seemingly a repeat of what happened in 2007 when an 
	argument between a Latino and a Black inmate sparked a riot at the Chino 
	facility in which several inmates were stabbed. In the latest sequel to what 
	appears to be ongoing racial violence, a number of prisoners suffered 
	injuries that required hospitalization.
	On August 27, 2010, a riot broke out at Folsom prison 
	involving 200 inmates. Guards wounded five inmates and two were injured by 
	prisoners. The fighting broke out in the main exercise yard and lasted 30 
	minutes. Prison spokesman Lieutenant Anthony Gentile said guards fired their 
	weapons after other efforts to quell the riot failed.
	“We tried to control the situation with chemical agents 
	dispersed over the crowd.” “We fired several rounds of rubber bullets and 
	that didn't stop them from fighting.”
	None of the inmates suffered serious injuries, and none 
	of the 45 to 50 correction officers who responded were hurt. 
	
	
	
	
		SOURCES:
		
		Associated Press, msnbc.com, One Dead, More Than 100 Hurt in Jail 
		Race Riot, Feb 5, 2006
		
		Coronado, Michael, Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, Aug 10 2001, 
		B4
		
		Dyer, Joel, The Perpetual Prisoner Machine, Westview Press, 2000
		
		Ismael, Katie E., Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, Oct 17 2001, 
		B4b
		
		Marshall, John S. and Samantha Young, Folsom Guards Fire at Rioting 
		Prisoners, Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, Aug 29 2010, A15
		
		Williams, Carol, Guards Fire Rounds During Fatal Prison Riot, LA 
		Times, Mar 20, 2009, A17
	

	Overcrowding, long a problem, in a gym used as a 
	dormitory at a prison in Chino, Calif., in 2007. 
 
Published: May 23, 2011 
WASHINGTON — Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they 
violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the
Supreme Court
ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more 
than 30,000 inmates. 
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-to-4 decision 
that broke along ideological lines, described a prison system that failed to 
deliver minimal care to prisoners with serious medical and mental health 
problems and produced “needless suffering and death.” 
Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito Jr. filed vigorous dissents. 
Justice Scalia called the order affirmed by the majority “perhaps the most 
radical injunction issued by a court in our nation’s history.” Justice Alito 
said “the majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California.” 
The majority opinion included
photographs of inmates crowded into open gymnasium-style rooms and what 
Justice Kennedy described as “telephone-booth-sized cages without toilets” used 
to house suicidal inmates. Suicide rates in the state’s prisons, Justice Kennedy 
wrote, have been 80 percent higher than the average for inmates nationwide. A 
lower court in the case said it was “an uncontested fact” that “an inmate in one 
of California’s prisons needlessly dies every six or seven days due to 
constitutional deficiencies.” 
Monday’s ruling in the case, Brown v. Plata, No. 09-1233, affirmed an order 
by a special three-judge federal court requiring state officials to reduce the 
prison population to 110,000, which is 137.5 percent of the system’s capacity. 
There have been more than 160,000 inmates in the system in recent years, and 
there are now more than 140,000. 
Prison release orders are rare and hard to obtain, and even advocates for 
prisoners’ rights said Monday’s decision was unlikely to have a significant 
impact around the nation. 
“California is an extreme case by any measure,” said David C. Fathi, director 
of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, which submitted 
a
brief urging the justices to uphold the lower court’s order. “This case 
involves ongoing, undisputed and lethal constitutional violations. We’re not 
going to see a lot of copycat litigation.” 
State officials in California will have two years to comply with the order, 
and they may ask for more time. Justice Kennedy emphasized that the reduction in 
population need not be achieved solely by releasing prisoners early. Among the 
other possibilities, he said, are new construction, transfers out of state and 
using county facilities. 
At the same time, Justice Kennedy, citing the lower court decision, said 
there was “no realistic possibility that California would be able to build 
itself out of this crisis,” in light of the state’s financial problems. 
The court’s more liberal members — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. 
Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — joined Justice Kennedy’s opinion. 
The special court’s
decision, issued in 2009, addressed two consolidated class-action suits, one 
filed in 1990, the other in 2001. In 2006, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor, 
said conditions in the state’s prisons amounted to a state of emergency. 
The majority seemed persuaded that the passage of time required the courts to 
act. 
Justice Scalia summarized his dissent, which was pungent and combative, from 
the bench. Oral dissents are rare; this was the second of the term. Justice 
Kennedy looked straight ahead as his colleague spoke, his face frozen in a grim 
expression. 
The decision was the fourth 5-to-4 decision of the term so far. All four of 
them have found the court’s more liberal members on one side and its more 
conservative members on the other, with Justice Kennedy’s swing vote the 
conclusive one. In the first three cases, Justice Kennedy sided with the 
conservatives. 
On Monday, he went the other way. This was in some ways unsurprising: in his 
opinions and in speeches, Justice Kennedy has long been critical of what he 
views as excessively long and harsh sentences. 
“A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate 
medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place 
in civilized society,” Justice Kennedy wrote on Monday. 
In his dissent, Justice Scalia wrote that the majority opinion was an example 
of the problem of courts’ overstepping their constitutional authority and 
institutional expertise in issuing “structural injunctions” in 
“institutional-reform litigation” rather than addressing legal violations one by 
one. 
	
		He added that the prisoners receiving inadequate care were not 
		necessarily the ones who would be released early. 
		“Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe 
		mental illness,” Justice Scalia wrote, “and many will undoubtedly be 
		fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping 
		iron in the prison gym.” 
		In his statement from the bench, Justice Scalia said that the 
		prisoners to be released “are just 46,000 happy-go-lucky felons 
		fortunate enough to be selected.” (The justices used varying numbers in 
		describing the number of affected prisoners. California’s prison 
		population has been declining.) 
		Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion by saying that the 
		lower court should be flexible in considering how to carry out its 
		order. 
		Justice Scalia called this concluding part of the majority opinion “a 
		bizarre coda” setting forth “a deliberately ambiguous set of suggestions 
		on how to modify the injunction.” 
		“Perhaps,” he went on, “the coda is nothing more than a ceremonial 
		washing of the hands — making it clear for all to see, that if the 
		terrible things sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order 
		do happen, they will be none of this court’s responsibility. After all, 
		did we not want, and indeed even suggest, something better?” 
		Justice Clarence Thomas joined Justice Scalia’s dissent. 
		In a second dissent, Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice John G. 
		Roberts Jr., addressed what he said would be the inevitable impact of 
		the majority decision on public safety in California. 
		He summarized the decision this way, adding italics for emphasis: 
		“The three-judge court ordered the premature release of approximately
		46,000 criminals — the equivalent of three Army divisions.” 
		Justice Alito acknowledged that “particular prisoners received 
		shockingly deficient medical care.” But, he added, “such anecdotal 
		evidence cannot be given undue weight” in light of the sheer size of 
		California’s prison system, which was at its height “larger than that of 
		many medium-sized cities” like Bridgeport, Conn.; Eugene, Ore.; and 
		Savannah, Ga. 
		“I fear that today’s decision, like prior prisoner-release orders, 
		will lead to a grim roster of victims,” Justice Alito wrote. “I hope 
		that I am wrong. In a few years, we will see.” 
			
		
			This article has been revised to reflect the 
			following correction:
			Correction: May 25, 2011
			
			A picture caption in some copies on Tuesday with the continuation 
			of an article about the Supreme Court ruling that conditions in 
			California’s overcrowded prisons violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban 
			on cruel and unusual punishment misidentified a justice of the 
			court. It was Antonin Scalia, not Samuel A. Alito Jr.
			
		 
		 
 

	
		An exhibit from Plata v. Brown showing male prisoners in an 
		overcrowded California facility. 
	 
 
	The Supreme Court
	
	decided Monday — by a partisan 5-4 split — to order a reduction in 
	California’s prison population (read the full opinion
	here). 
	The Court’s order stipulates that over 30,000 prisoners be removed from the 
	state prison system within the next two years — bringing the current total 
	of around 143,000 prisoners down to a maximum of 110,000. (The system is 
	only equipped to handle about 80,000.)
	With its decision, the Court affirmed that prison overcrowding in the 
	state has had severe repercussions as far as the medical treatment of 
	inmates (for both physical and mental complaints) goes — leading to 
	conditions that constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,” and thus violate 
	the Eighth Amendment.
	
		
			Unusually, several black-and-white
			
			photographs were published with the ruling opinion, to 
			illustrate claims about living conditions in the jails. They were 
			only three of many more submitted to the Court as exhibits in the 
			case. You can see more of the
			
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								moment but is masquerading as part of a water 
								facility. Now why would there be a facility of 
								this nature out in the ...
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								Prison officials say it should take about 
								seven minutes before he is dead. ``This will be 
								one of the last chapters in the Timothy McVeigh 
								saga,'' said bombing survivor ...
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								Over the last couple months several of us have 
								investigated three soon-to-be prison 
								camps in the Southern California area. We had 
								heard about these sites and wanted
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								The jury had two options in deciding the 
								32-year-old former fertilizer salesman's fate: 
								life in prison without parole or death by 
								injection.
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								Fort Devens - New prison a factory 
								facilities and reservoir that have been built 
								around the camp. It was constructed last year 
								and the railroad ...
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			Minor and Samuelson got probation on the marijuana charge, but were 
			sentenced to five years in prison on a first-degree battery 
			conviction. As the case developed ...
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			Peter's outstretched hands were girded (manacled) and he was taken 
			to the Mamertine prison, where he did not want to go.
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			Rev. 20:7 When the thousand years are over, Satan [the Beast from 
			the Abyss] will be released from his prison 8and will go ...
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			PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13 — After eight years in prison, Joseph 
			Fabio now lives in a halfway house next to a funeral home here, 
			where counselors have helped him steer clear ...
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			- Montana statutes contain a second and subsequent offense 
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			DUNE was a prison colony - like Australia. Earth fits the 
			archetype. Like in Dune however- in Earth's genetic cauldron of 
			survival - the strongest DNA ...
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			The title of this page didn't come from the dream, but after the 
			fact, when I was thinking about why I had these dreams about 
			animals.
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			Governor Gary Johnson, which explicitly uses the phrase "we can 
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			Able bodied soldiers were force-marched over 250 miles (400 km) to
			prison camps to the north and east, where they were 
			intermingled with ...
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			6-10-10 - VISION - I saw the Georgia Guidestones in a vision today, 
			... Georgia Guidestones Vandalized . Prison Planet.com 
			Friday, December 12, 2008
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			There is a woman in a prison, like a small jail. Suddenly 
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			Camps as in prison camps and perhaps even concentration 
			camps. One of the first thing the Obama Administration did was to 
			legitimize their existence.
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			He will need all his wits and skill to battle a new and even more 
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			If convicted, they could face nine to 41 years in prison. 
			They will stay in juvenile detention in Girard until a bail hearing 
			Jan. 3. School officials are ...
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			Native American Prison Issues New York Indian Law. Selected 
			United States Supreme Court Native American Law Decisions 18 U.S.C., 
			Chapter 35 (Indians)
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			moved condemned Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan out of his 
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there are many more articles on the internet related to this issue.  
something needs to be done -  its a money making scheme in a lot of issues.  
nobody needs to be in prison for using drugs anymore.  They should be in 
rehab faciliites.    Marijuana for one should be legalized.  
Nobody ever died from using marijuana and its an excellent medication for 
several illnesses including cancer and arthritis and stomach issues. 
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