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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23753-2004Jun7.htmlPatrolling in Iraq a couple of months ago, Army Spec. Carlos Arellano, a reservist and rapper from California, happened upon what he called "this beauty waving in the wind" -- a marijuana plant just starting to blossom. He resisted the temptation to "confiscate" and smoke the weed, he says, but was pleased to pose for a photo that's just hit the cover of High Times's spinoff magazine Grow America with the headline, "Buds Over Baghdad." This week the pro-pot publication is sending the image to all members of Congress, saying it's proud to finally provide lawmakers with an uplifting picture from Iraq.
A combat infantryman who goes by the nickname "Singe," the 27-year-old Arellano comes across in the mag's profile as a patriotic pothead. He doesn't cop to smoking dope in Iraq and offers a sobering view of the conflict in postings on his band's Web site, dankmobb.com. "I'm glad I'm here," he writes, but also warns: "It's a madhouse out here. I don't think this place will ever return to a stable condition." In April, "one of our bases was overrun the other night by over 1,000 of the enemy."