Talking About Cannabis Link to Child Abusers

A quick update to remind Debra Bell and co that we’re still here and we’re not going away … not ever.

We’ve already mentioned that the National Drug Prevention Alliance accepted funding from the Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF), an organisation who in their previous guise of Straight Inc were linked to several cases of child abuse in the US.

For the stragglers here’s a quick reminder of Straight Inc’s treatment methods:

Samantha Monroe was 12 years old in 1981 when her parents enrolled her in the Sarasota, Fla., branch of Straight Inc., an aggressive drub rehab center for teens.

Barely a teen, Samantha also had no history of drug abuse. But she spent the next two years of her life Straight Inc. She was beaten, starved and denied toilet privileges for days on end. She describes her “humble pants,” a punishment that forced her to wear the same pants for six weeks at a time. Because she was allowed just one shower a week, the pants often filled with feces, urine and menstrual blood. Often she was confined to her closet for days. She gnawed through her jaw during those “timeout” sessions, hoping she’d bleed to death.

She says that after she was raped by a male counselor, “the wonderful state of Florida paid for and forced me to have an abortion.”

http://www.theagitator.com/drug-war-casualties/

We forgot to mention that Debra Bell also links to the same dodgy bastards on her website along with scientology quacks the Narcanon programme … and this is from an organisation that calls for a scientific approach to drugs education.

That’s all, expect more Talking About Cannabis news, plus details of how you can help derail this crazy bunch of cats soon.

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