On February 4, 2010, 24 officers of the Food and Drug Administration, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and local law enforcement raided Bouncing Bear Botanicals, a legal botanical shop and warehouse in Lawrence, Kansas. With guns drawn, the officers burst into the building and handcuffed everyone, including senior citizens.

On Feb 4, 2010 the FDA, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement--24 officers in all, raided a lawfully run botanical shop and warehouse. With guns drawn, they burst in and proceeded to handcuff everyone in the building including 65- year-old, white-haired grandmas and grandpas and young, single mothers.

They then proceeded to ransack the entire building.

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Bouncing Bear Botanicals illegally raided by law enforcement

With a ll the recent talk and debates about Avatar, I found this video compelling.
I finally got out to see the movie last week, and spent most of the evening in tears, as I immediatley saw the parallels Cameron was making.
U.S. Oil and Mining corporations are currently involved in an unreported genocide and ecocide in Peru, and no one even knows or seems to care.

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Not so very far away, not so very long ago, a world
was born. The young world awakened, drew in its first
breath, and yawned for a thousand upon a thousand
years. The Everything who gave life to the planet
leaned in close and whispered in the
incomprehensibly slow speech of the Cosmos. The

I've decided I will only take a proper shower once a week. And that's beacause I'll need to wash my hair, which is long and thick.
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There are moments in time,
frozen forever by the question, "what if ?"
One step in either direction
changes life and the beginnings of lives
not yet lived...
We live in a world
full of wind-blown kisses
and dreams of fires that might have been.
When you see me in your next life,
remember me
and this.

Currently, one can view thousands of videos of teenagers and other mentally undeveloped people in the United States filming themselves while “tripping” on what they refer to as “Sally” or “Sally D”, promoting the irresponsible and disrespectful use of Salvia Divinorum. Hysterics have used these videos in a push to pass legislation against Salvia, and have succeeded.