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His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw guards tying a man to a wooden pole.

If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions.

And no one, he claimed, did a thing about it.

Brit police are warning that when cannabis plants reach the final stages of maturity the odor they release has carcinogenic properties ... Officers who deal with the plants use ventilation masks and protective suits and people who have plants in their home, especially anyone with young children, may be exposing their family to a health risk. Yep, just smelling one of those horrible cannabis plants can give you cancer!

Elderly farmer, accidently plants 1000 marijuana plants, thinking he was planting sunflowers.

The 69-year-old who grew marijuana to help his cancer-stricken wife was sentenced to jail on Friday morning

Gary Burton must serve 60-days behind bars for growing two pot plants in Chippewa Lake. He will also serve 30 days house arrest and will undergo drug testing for two years.

Burton says he was growing the plants for medicinal purposes, to help ease his wife's pain due to her breast cancer treatments.

Cops steal Bangor man's pot plants and charge him for possession of $38,000 of marijuana. When the man turns out to have a Maine issued medical marijuana card the charges are dropped. When the man sues for $38,000 in damages over the destroyed plants the District Attorney is appalled.

A Gwinnett County homeowner said police were off target when they searched his home looking for marijuana plants in basement grow rooms. "They said, 'Just say you had plants and you moved them someplace else.' And I just kept telling them the truth. There was never a marijuana garden here," said Scott Smithwick. Smithwick has set up high intensity lamps, fans and a watering system in two basement rooms in the Lawrenceville home that he shares with his father. He said he does not grow, sell or smoke marijuana and uses the equipment to cultivate mostly tropical plants and flowers.

OOPS Sorry this is old news. The new date on the video made me think it was new.....I wish I could delete this. A young man decides to visit his brother in jail. Instead he is severely beaten and burned because he forgot he had a cell phone in his pocket.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kE9MDUEh8o&context=C496ebcdADvjVQa1PpcFP...

Article:
http://www.laweekly.com/2011-05-26/news/men-s-county-jail-visitor-viciou...

A ridiculous proposal to ban plants in Australia if they have any remote trace of properties that could make 'illegal' drugs.