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Jesse Ventura: If I Waterboarded Cheney, He'd Confess To Murders
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Former Minnesota Governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura went public on Larry King Live yesterday with some harsh criticisms of the Bush administration, as well as Senator Norm Coleman.
...Coleman's always been a hypocrite. He never does what he says. He said election night, when he won, that [Al] Franken should drop out, and he should be the senator. Well, then the same should hold true after the recount.
Ventura, who beat out Coleman in the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial race, said that any federal appeal by the...
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The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
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BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union', Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually. With up to 85% of 'BC Bud' being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the...
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Why the U.S. Has a Quarter of the World's Prisoners
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I can think of no greater hell on earth than spending day after day in a little box. What about non-violent offenders? The drug addicts, the bad check writers, the people that are filling up our jails and costing us money?
The number of prisoners in prisons for drugs equals the total number of prisoners in 1980! The good news: in the past 20 years spending for higher education has increased 21%. The bad news: in that same 20 years, spending for prisons increased 127%. We're creating criminals, not citizens. Summary courtesy of Erikka...
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Incarcerex - when the goin's get tough, take some drugs
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A funny parody of the relentlessly silly drug commercials Big Pharma is always clogging up the airwaves with. Tell Congress it's time for a new bottom line in U.S. drug policy, one that focuses on reducing the problems associated with both drugs *and* the war on drugs. Take action at http://www.drugpolicy.org
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: End the Drug War Now
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Many police officers are asking the question: if prohibition didn't work for alcohol, why are we in denial about it working for other things? The short video presents a common sense argument against the drug war, backed up by former drug-warriors and police officers. In 4 years LEAP has gone from 5 members to over 5,000 calling for an end to drug prohibition.
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