Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:45:36 -0400

From: Dana Beal

Subject: GMfCL 2003 #38: Remember Rainbow Farm!; Fayetteville, Newark,
Spokane, St. Louis Make 57 Cities on the MMM Poster for 2004!

So far, 57  Cities Have Signed up for 2004 .

MAYDAY IS JAY-DAY!

(Next year, the first Saturday of May falls on May 1)

albany

albuquerque

ashland

bratislava

buenos aires

capetown

christchurch

cincinnati

cleveland

dallas

darwin

dayton

des moines

detroit

dover

dublin

eugene

fayetteville

flint

frankfurt

ft. lauderdale

halifax

helsinki

houston

kansas city

las vegas

lansing

mexico city

minneapolis

montpelier

nashville

newark

new orleans

new york

nimbin

ogden

orlando

paducah

parkersburg

prague

raleigh-durham

rapid city
richmond

rosario

salt lake city

san francisco

san juan

san marcos

st. louis

tampa

toronto

traverse city

tucson

tupelo

vancouver

wichita

wilmington

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To: risto mikkonen <risto.mikkonen@...>

From: Dana Beal <dana@...>

Subject: Re: Problems w. May 1

Cc:

Bcc:

X-Attachments:

First : the 1st of May is physically impossible at least here in Finland to organize any extra festival. Both in Helsinki and Turku those places where we have arranged our demos will be crowded with thousands of more or less drunken people. We have been discussing about some alternatives either to have the demo one week later or even one month later in June when it's definitely warm also here in north. These plans are still open but there will be demos next year and we hope that still more cities would participate
 

We actually look upon it as a season of protests, commencing with 4/20 smoke-ins, peaking with worldwide marches on or around the first weekend of May--but with alternative dates of May 8 & 15, and indeed not really ending until the event in Amsterdam on the first Saturday of June. We accept that people in New Zealand, Canada and Northern Europe (even Slovenia) find the weather a bit more clement on the second and third weekends of May. The important thing is to get nationwide coverage.

To get on the poster for 2004--"Mayday is Jay Day"--check yr contact
info and email me back telling me to add yr city to the List at the
top of this email. Right now you are listed as follows:

Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org
sky@... Finnish Cannabis Association,

Sorvaajankatu 9 A, 00810 Helsinki, Finland

Hi!

In Helsinki there were between 600 - 1000 people depending on the source. At least in the park there were lots of people. In the evening happening there were lots of program and bands but only some 300 people because there happened to be another happening for younger audience that had similar themes.

Because this year there were demonstrations in 4 cities (Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Oulu) in Finland so the news coverage was good. Even the main TV channel (TV 1) showed Helsinki demonstration in the main news cast 8.30 PM.

 

WE WANT TO KEEP THIS FOCUS. WHAT ABOUT MAY 2, A SUNDAY? 

 

In Oulu local activists arranged their demo ex tempore with short notice but anyhow they gathered some 150 people on a rainy and chilly day. The police had taken a sniffer dog and demanded that everybody must be sniffed before the demo - but they took it so slowly that nobody was arrested. The constitutionality of this is questionable because police has no right to stop legal demonstration - but then again there's nobody doing anything about it.

I've been in contact with those arrangers but they haven't really organized into something more coherent yet.
 

In Turku and Tampere there were also some 150 people in both, ask more if there's nobody answering from these cities.
 

Yours
Risto Mikkonen

Ps. Greetings to Elvy !

What I have for these cities is as follows:

Oulu: c/o risto mikkonen <risto.mikkonen@...>

Tampere: Janne Puustelli <huopa@...>  Kanavatie 10 as 1, 37500 Lemp, Finland, EU or  Lasse Pihlainen <lasse.pihlainen@...> Annalankatu 11 C 31, 33710 Tampere; Org: Hamppukaupunki <hamppu.kaupunki@...> http://www.hamppukaupunki.cjb.net/  MMM touring around central areas starts 14:00 at Hämeenpuisto/Metso

Turku: Vihreet Pantterit http://www.vihreetpantterit.org info@...

Contact phones would of course be useful. But do you know if these emails are up to date?

Dana/cnw

*****!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!*****

From: 
"Melody Karr" <fiddlefoot420@...>   Block Sender  |  Block Domain

Date: 
2003/08/28 Thu PM 04:59:57 CDT

To:

bonner@...

Who: Friends of Rainbow Farm
 
Where: In front of the "old" Cass County courthouse, at the junction of Routes 60 and 62, in Cassoppolis, MI
 
When: 5:30 p.m., Labor Day, Monday September 1st, 2003
 
What: Remembrance vigil for Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm
 
Bring: Signs, banners, drums, music, candles, photos, memories, or anything you feel should be part of a loving and respectful gathering to honor our fallen brothers
 
 
It's that time again, folks.
 
Two years ago, Labor Day weekend 2001, Tom and Rollie were executed by the forces of so-called law and order. They were not killed to protect the public safety, to punish them for smoking cannabis, or because of the plants in their basement. Our friends worked boldly and passionately to change destructive, unjust laws, and to inspire others to do the same; and in the end they rejected the authority of a court that had amply shown its bias. They refused to hide. They refused to run. They refused to bow down. And for that, the Police State ground them up in its gears.
 
Now, Labor Day 2003, friends of Rainbow Farm will once again gather to remember, to honor, and to show the world that we will not forget. Whether you're an old Farm hand or just discovering the story, if you feel moved to join us, please do. We will begin at 5:30 and stay until we decide to go. I hope to see you there.
 
PeaceLoveGratitude,
Melody A. Karr,
Michigan Cannabis Action Network
 

By the way, for those of you who haven't seen or heard, the October issue of Playboy Magazine includes a 9-page article entitled "Siege at Rainbow Farm." Whatever your opinion of the magazine, this was a pretty decent article --- as fair as anything else I've seen, more so than many. Word of warning: it does include graphic photos of Tom and Rollie's bodies.

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Source: The Guardian Online
Author: Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Date: 04 Aug 2003
---

The Green party's drug spokesman, Shane Collins, today called for creation
of cannabis cafes in the UK after he was released from prison on appeal
after marijuana plants were found in his house.

Mr Collins, a former election candidate for the party and long-time
campaigner for drugs law reform, had been sentenced to six weeks
imprisonment for the possession and cultivation of 19 cannabis plants in
his Brixton flat.

But today he was released on appeal following five days incarceration in
Brixton jail.

He said: "We need legal and regulated cannabis cafes to separate cannabis
supply from crack and smack, which are the real problem drugs in society."

"If the government won't allow cannabis cafe, the only alternatives are
street purchase or home cultivation, neither of which is ideal."

And he hit out at the waste of resources involved in his prosecution,
telling reporters: "I'm relieved that the crown court has overruled a
fairly extreme magistrates' court, but I'm frustrated that 19 small plants
have caused 6 court appearances, 5 days in prison and at least 8 police
officers' time, as well as a large waste of taxpayers' money."

Jenny Jones, the Green party's deputy mayor of London, said: "This is
ludicrous when we're on the point of changing the law. It's even worse when
the UK has its highest prison population ever. The criminal justice system
is under huge pressure, yet we're being heavy-handed on victimless crime."

Mr Collins, who organised this year's 20,000 strong Legalise Cannabis
festival in south London, is hoping to stand as a green party candidate for

next year's London assembly elections.

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"Nimbin Hemp Embassy" <hemp@...> 
Date: 
2003/08/12 Tue AM 12:57:35 CDT

To: 
"Hemp Embassy forward" <hempembassy@...>

Subject:

A Current Affair - doing better this time!

PRESS RELEASE NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY 12 JUNE  2003
 
The Nimbin HEMP Embassy was relieved to see A  Current Affair's latest Nimbin story, screened last night, was a big improvement  on last time when David Margan and the Brisbane crew came with lies and a  hidden camera.  However, a couple of errors are worth noting.

Firstly, A Current Affair said Nimbin's  famous cannabis cafes were booming.  Unfortunately this is two years  out of date! 
 
As much as we wish the cannabis cafes were still  operating in Nimbin, unfortunately they are not, having been closed down  by police raids a couple of years ago.  Consequently, street dealing  and all that goes with it is celebrating prohibition daily.  Not that we blame the dealers, how else can unemployed  cannabis users buy their medicine other than stealing - the former is clearly  more preferable.

For those who don't know, the extraordinary success  of the 'unofficial' cannabis cafe trial a couple of years ago, was so popular,  fair and sensible that it got up the nose of all sorts of people who lobbied the  National Party local member, Thomas George, who in turn went to the Police  Minister who had no choice but to send in the troopers.  The consequences  of this are glaringly obvious to Nimbin visitors today and George himself is  apparently too frightened to walk the Nimbin street now.

Otherwise many people in Nimbin were impressed  today that ACA managed to get across the message of how risky it is to  smoke cannabis with tobacco, an entrenched Australian tradition.  Also the  possible dangers of unregulated hydroponically grown cannabis were  revealed.
 
Unfortunately the youth counsellor, Jill Pearman  gets it all wrong in the program when she guarantees that if you give up  cannabis for a week, you'll be climbing the walls!  Michael Balderstone,  spokesperson for the Nimbin HEMP Embassy says, "like many other people around  here who don't smoke all the time, when I stop, the only drama is it's  difficult to get a full night's sleep for a while.  But that's because  I don't smoke with tobacco.  It's amazing to us that 'experts' like Jill  and Professor George Patton, with his 'groundbreaking' study haven't yet twigged  to the importance of the tobacco/pot mix.  We think the government is  completely irresponsible in not communicating this message clearly to  Australia's cannabis users and young potential users, despite us lobbying  them on the matter for years."
 
For further information you can see the story at http://aca. ninemsm.com.au /stories/1468.asp   
 
Michael Balderstone

 

Nimbin HEMP Embassy
Phone:  02 6689 1842
            02  6689 0326
 
A/H       02 6689  7525

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From:

"jhnprcvlhckwrth" <hromi@...>  

Date: 
2003/08/17 Sun AM 12:03:34 CDT

To: 
<dana@...>

Subject:

bratislava registration for million marijuanna march 2004

Hello, I would like to register Bratislava (capital city of Slovak
Republic) for MMM2004. This year was big success, so it's possible that

next year MMM will be 2 day long, Saturday and also Sunday.
My contact address is:

Daniel Hromada
Haanova 44

Bratislava 851 04

Slovak Republic
e-mail: hromi@...
web of event: mmm.kyberia.sk

i don't have a mobile phone yet, when i will have, i will send you the number

thank you!

--> hromi@...
One Mind there is, but under it two Principles contend

http://www.kyberia.sk <--

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From:

-t zeman <terrapin_turtle@...>

Date: 
2003/08/18 Mon PM 11:48:13 CDT

To:

dana@...

Subject:

Re: GMfCL 2003 #36: Bratislava Makes 45 Cities on the MMM Poster for 2004!

St Louis Missouri will be participating in May Day 2004

thanks, -terri.

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From:

"Rev. Tom Brown" <revtombrown@...>

Date: 
2003/08/27 Wed PM 08:25:33 CDT

To: 
dana@...

Subject:

Registration for the GMfCL 2003 #37:

Greetings,

Please change the registration on your records for the May 1, 2004 Million Marijuana March below to that here:

Fayetteville, Arkansas;  Rev. Tom Brown, revtombrown@...  , (479) 251-1780; First Church of the Magi, P.O.Box 2827, 72702;  or Rev. Nancy Harris, nharris@... ; Sacred Truth Mission at (479) 582-4138

Thanks and Jah Bless.

One Love revtombrown

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From: 
Danza Mundial <earthdancepuertorico@...>   Block Sender  |  Block Domain

Date:

2003/08/17 Sun PM 08:34:52 CDT

To: 
dana@...

Subject:

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Hello Dana & all the Organizers world-wide.
 

We have been hard at work here in Puerto Rico working on the United Nations International Day of Peace! Our friends www.Earthdance.org  will have more details.

As for Next Year please include earthdancepuertorico@... on the poster and all mailings to fellow organizers, I hope with this email I can encourage organizers to send me relevant information and merchandise to distribute and start selling here. It would also be nice to recieve rights to exclusively distribute both High Times and Cannabis Culture Magazines let me know, send all products to:

425 Carr. 693 PMB 130 Dorado PR 00646-4802 .
 
Sincerly,
 
Zen Alejandro Otero
www.burningclone.com
 


www.EarthDance.Org  -Puerto Rico
A  www.BurningClone.Com  Project

Here Donate for sponsor initiation!
 
Zen Alejandro             787-345-9036
425 Carr. 693  PMB 130

Dorado PR, 00646-4802

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From:

"Steven Conliff" <stevenconliff@...>  

Date: 
2003/07/28 Mon PM 12:55:38 CDT

To:

dj_mccrea@...

"The Pain of the Fire at the Stake is Little":

Clues to Traditional Uses of Indian Hemp

by Steven Conliff


Burned cannabis residue has been found in Ohio animal effigy
pipes labeled "Hopewell."  Until confronted with woven hemp
fabric from prehistoric burial mounds, Anglocentric experts
asserted precontact Indians hadn't "advanced" beyond wearing
animal skins.  Howard S. Russell (Indian New England Before
the Mayflower) showed how hemp held together the native
American economy:

"'In their houses,' Governor Bradford of Plymouth records,
'they have [...] great bags or sacks made of hemp, which
will hold five or six bushels.'  This type of hamper was

woven of Apocynum cannabinum, the native hemp.  Lescarbot
implies that the Indians may on occasion have planted this
or at least encouraged it to grow near their villages,
though Champlain on Cape Cod was told that there the natural
growth was plentiful enough.  In 1633 John Oldham brought a
supply of such fibers back to Boston from the Connecticut
Valley.  Governor Winthrop thought them superior to English
hemp.  Peter Kalm reports the plant plentiful in old corn
grounds, and in the woods also."

Modern basketweavers of the Far West draw artistic praise

and museum attention for their intricate hemp and corn husk

weaving, a 10,000 year-old skill.  Rebecca Chamberlain wrote
of fellow Yakama, elder Sarah Queaempts (News from Indian
Country, Mid-May 1997):

"Weaving a hemp bag is time-consuming and can take an entire
year.  Gathering and preparing twine takes as long as
weaving the bag itself.

"Tall, straight stalks of Indian hemp, which are ideal for
weaving, are highly valued.  Today, because of habitat loss,
quality hemp is difficult to obtain."

Because Eastern Algonquian medicine people selectively
combined other cultures' treatment innovations with their
own, Lenni Lenape "doctols" in Ohio by 1770 were containing
epidemics which ravaged the settlements.  (Gale Encyclopedia
of Native American Tribes, Vol. 1, p. 104.)  Popular Anglo
historical author Allan Eckert has published an account of
Tecumseh supposedly forbidding marijuana use.  (Tecumseh

also ordered all Indians to kill their dogs, inspired the
execution as "witches" of numerous Traditional Lenape
doctors, and took a British general's commission.)  But
Oklahoma University Sociology Professor James H. Howard
(Shawnee!  The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and
Its Cultural Background) cites recollections by descendants
of both Tecumseh and Rebecca Galloway for the "accidental
discovery of a Shawnee Medicine, used to allay pain."  The

reference is to William A. Galloway (Old Chillicothe) and
Howard's observation is sly:

"In the tale Rebecca shows the source of this medicine, a

flowering tree, to her friend Tecumseh who is much alarmed
but then explains to her (ibid.:  pp. 279-280):  'The red
man takes the powder of the flowers and (p. 280) leaves, or

of that other fruit that you held in your hand, into battle

with him.  If the bullet bites or the arrow pierces, the
potion quiets the pain.  If the warrior falls in battle, it
eases him.  What you held in your hand the fruit is the
best.  With it, the pain of the fire at the stake is little.

If wounded, the warrior can be removed to a place of safety
without pain.  This powder is as powerful to quiet pain as
your opium is, but does not do the harm it has done.  No
paleface knows its power.  It is our secret.'  Unfortunately

I can offer no clue as to the identity of this tree or
shrub."

Among those who defeated Tecumseh and his confederacy were
Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, one of three counselors to the
Chief Sachem of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, a grandson
of Hendrick of the Mohawks and himself a Revolutionary War
hero decorated by George Washington.  Aupaumut kept a
journal of his travels and also wrote a tribal history,
cited as the ultimate source for ancient Mohican customs by
both Tribal and White authorities.  The complete surviving
text is in Electa Jones (Stockbridge, Past and Present),
distributed by the Arvid E. Miller Museum Library, N8510 Moh
He Con Nuck Road, Mohican Nation, Bowler Wi 54416.

Aupaumut, writing at the turn of the Nineteenth Century,
made a careful distinction between two qualities of hemp:

"The Sachem is allowed to keep Mno-ti, or peaceable bag, or
bag of peace, containing about one bushel, some less. --
This bag is made of Weeth-kuhn-pauk, or bitter sort of hemp;
grows on intervals, about three or four feet long; and
sometimes made of Wau-pon-nep-pauk, or white hemp, which
grows by the side of rivers, or edges of marshes -- amazing
strong and lasting -- of which they make strings...then
worked and made into bag of different marks.  In this bag
they keep various Squau-tho-won, or belts of wampum; also

strings; which belts and strings they used to establish
peace and friendship with different nations, and...passed as
coin.  In this bag they keep all belts and strings which
they received of their allies of different nations.  This
bag is, as it were, unmoveable; but it is always remain at
Sachem's house, as hereditary with the office of a Sachem;
and he is to keep the Pipe of Peace, made of red, hard stone
-- a long stem to it.  Besides this bag, they keep other
smaller bags which they called Ne-mau-won-neh Mno-ti, or
Scrip, which contains nourishment on journey, which they

carry with them when they go out to hold treaties with other

fire-places.  In such strips they occasionally put belts and
strings for transacting business abroad."

"Wau-p-" or "wap" in Lenape conotes "clear white dawn light
which comes from the east," or enlightenment.

Aupaumut was close with Nicholas Cusick, the Tuscarora
credited with saving General Lafayette at Barren Hill.
Emigration of the Tuscarora from the Carolinas and their
unprecedented integration into the Iroquois League coincided
with spread of the Calumet or Peace Pipe religion,
previously practiced by no Lenapes east of the Miamis.  By
1720 the calumet-smoking ceremony was supplementing
wampum-exchange as treaty-sealing covenant in Red and
cross-cultural diplomacy.  Wau-pon-nep-pauk would have been
just one component of kinnickkinnick, a blend of available
tobaccos and herbs smoked ceremonially; in the Pipe

religions, what's smoked is not as important as the vehicle
of the pipe, the intent behind the herbal offering, and the
passage of the smoke into the spirit world.)  John Napoleon
Britton Hewitt, the ethnologist who is the bottom-line
source on Iroquoia and who was himself a Tuscarora, revealed
the Tuscarora called themselves Skaro-ra, "those of the
Indian hemp."  Hewitt is source for the controversial
assertion the Hodenausaunee Iroquois League shaped

Franklin's Albany Plan of Union and ultimately the United
States Constitution.  Old Ben did make his fortune printing
treaty council minutes, almanacs full of Indian folk wisdom,

and currency, all of course on cheap hemp paper.  Jefferson,
who placed his faith in the small farmers, independent of
the moneylenders, told the Indians he was a Pocahontas

descendant; he raised hemp, despised tobacco, yet exchanged

"smoking samples" with Washington, who carefully separated
his male and female hemp plants, unheard of unless done to
keep the more psychotropically potent females
uncontaminated.  Perhaps more tellingly, both writing at the

onset of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine and Adam
Smith asserted Ohio was potentially the best hemp-growing
region in the world.

Tobacco, as the British crown well knew, depleted the soil.
So did cotton.  Hemp enriched it.  Britain's naval armadas

required endless cords of hemp rope and canvas.  But unlike
the cozy rum/molasses/slave triangle, the tea/hemp/tobacco
trade quickly turned cut-throat.  Explained Alfred W.
Crosby, Jr. (America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon:  American
Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812):

"Hemp had become essential to Great Britain as early as the
sixteenth century, and, as she never raised enough for her
own use, she had expected her colonies to supply her with
it.  At the establishment of Jamestown, hemp was in the list
of goods recommended for production there.  In New Plymouth,
in 1639, a law was passed requiring each householder to
plant a minimum amount of hemp.  In 1681, when our Governor

Culpeper complained of tobacco overproduction in Virginia,
the British government suggested he encourage the growth of
hemp instead.  All in all, the British government and ten of
our thirteen colonies offered, at one time or another,
bounties for every ton on American hemp; but even at the
time when the bounties were most tempting, little hemp went
from America to Britain."

So protectionist Britain passed the navigation laws
requiring all tobacco and hemp traded to Russia must pass
through British ports and warehouses.  Now
merchant-smugglers like John Hancock and John Paul Jones

made common cause with planters like Washington and
Jefferson, and, temporarily, with the Red, Black and White
embattled farmers of the Hudson, Housatonic and Connecticut
valleys.

Underwriting the independence of small farmers, backbone of
Jeffersonian democracy, the versatile hemp seed could
prevent widespread debt indenture to banking (and
chemical-pharmaceutical) interests by virtue of its uncany
ability to provide sufficient food, fibre, basic medicine
and commerce.  Any farmer who wanted to cut loose from the
banks (pun intended) and "paddle his own canoe" could live

and support a family in the publicly-owned wilderness for

two years on a handful of hemp seeds.  This is what gave
value to farmland in Ohio, used to pay off the Revolutionary
War troops and capitalize the United States:  without roads
you couldn't transport your corn to market, as the whiskey
rebels quickly learned.

Like all things Native American, hemp often became
associated with heartache.  William Apess -- 19th Century
Pequot-Wampanoag author, theologian and miscegenationist --
recalled his old and alocholic grandmother selling her
baskets door-to-door.  Apess' editor, Barry O'Connell (On
Our Own Ground), traces hemp-weaving in New England.
O'Connell understates how the widespread "presence in many
New England households and museums of Indian baskets from
the period manifests that they had some value."  They were
the boxes and bags of their day! and their manufacturers

were treated exactly like bag-boys, bag-ladies and people
who live in cardboard boxes are today.  How poignant and
humiliating is the plight of survivors having to stoop to
peddle venerated objects!  O'Connell quotes Trudie Lamb
Richmond's account of Schaghticoke and Mohawk basketmakers
who talk to their sweet grass, asking forgiveness for having
to sell them but needing the money to survive because, as
one was told by her grandmother, "Sometimes it is better to

bend like the willow than to be strong and break like the
oak."

Over 250 treatment substances now or long listed in Western
medical pharmacopeias, and others yet undiscovered, were

developed by Indian medicine people, sometimes from animal
or mineral but more often from vegetable sources.  Most of
our wild Indigenous foliage has been supplanted by Old World

weeds.  Just as England's navy gobbled up Sherwood Forest

for masts and the Vatican looted Mexico's gold and Peru's
silver, the Anglo-Anglicans lined the palaces of their
Enlightenment with the canvas (cannabis) which once hung so
usefully in modest but happy wigwams.  Gladys Tantaquidgeon,

the Traditionally-trained Mohegan herbalist who became an
anthropologist, lamented she only retained familiarity with
those plants which survived in her region, a fraction of her
ancestors' range (Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related

Algonkian Indians).  After several generations' removal from
the Hudson Valley to Wisconsin, Stockbridge-Munsee herbalist
David Besaw made much the same point at the 2001 Mohican
Historical Conference:  his knowledge of the handful of
Traditional remedies also resident in the brave new homeland
is deep but not broad.

So no expert authority, Red or White, can say what Crandy
and Tracy Johnson were told by their clan relatives about
their religious obligations as Deer Clan Tuscarora.  But
their solemn convictions they are by ancient and sacred
heritage "Hemp People" certainly seem consistent with known
Woodlands practices.  Their sincere belief should be all
required for their protection under the Native American

Religious Freedom Act, the Constitution, and sundry and
assorted Treaties, supreme law of the land.

New York State Police arrested the Johnsons for cannabis on
their reservation (Danny Skye, High Times, April 1997):
since 1787 New York State has defied U.S. authority over
Indian affairs.  Indigenous rights historically must get
established after some Indian takes the initiative to assert
a latent right no ancestor ever willingly gave up.  To limit
the damage and prevent another revolutionary bushfire,
courts uphold clearly documented claims.

In Ohio the Iroquoian-speaking tribes regarded as their
"grandfather tribe" the Wyandottes.  William Walker, a
half-blooded chief who founded Kansas City and became
provisional governor of Nebraska, told Lewis Henry Morgan
(Indian Journals, 1859-62) that Wynadotte political
leadership came from within the Deer clan.  The
deer-quartering ceremoney is the best-known ancient Mohican
ritual, and all Lenape associate the deer with the Keeper of
the Game and the color red in the Big House religion.  Hard
Strike, a grieving Miami of "the long-ago time," was given a
pipe by an old medicine man with whom he had shared his

venision.  The pipe, part of a sacred bundle which

descendant Camillus Bundy retrieved from the fire which
killed his mother and then passed on to collector Milford
Chandler, was said to lift depression and confer the power
of flight.  (David Penney:  Art of the American Indian
Frontier.)  Of course, amanita muscaria-chomping reindeer on
both sides of the Bering Strait inspired those tales of
Santa's aerodynamic magic.

And Crispus Attucks, an African-Lenape freeman of
intimidating size and street militancy whose Indian name was
paradoxically Small Deer, fell best-known martyr of the
Boston Massacre.  The slang term "buck" for dollar, our
basic unit of currency, can even be traced (via Arthur St.
Clair) to Delaware hunters at Fort Pitt when the value of
one buckskin equaled a U.S. dollar.  When one learns today
deer are the bane of the guerrilla pot farmer's existance

for their uncany early-spring ability to nose out the
tenderest shoots, one can begin to appreciate possible
associations with the deer for those who gathered rather
than cultivated their cannabis.

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
anecdotes abounded of gargantuan plant and even animal
growth in the radiation zones.  (Decommissioning part of the
Rocky Flats plant in Colorado in the 1990's taught us the
truth:  damaging as radiation is to any organism, the mere

presence of humans is the most devestating invasion that can
happen; take us away, and no matter how much radiation we
leave behind, every other organism is better off and

immediately flourishes.)  In 1947 the Atomic Energy
Commission and the Agricultural Experimentation Station in
Wooster, Ohio, conducted a series of tests to find out if

plant irradiation boosted growth.  With cobalt-60 they

bombarded a variety of seeds and plants from different
distances.  Results disappointed.  The only noticeable
effect scientists got came from irradiated hemp seeds.  The
offspring, to the third and fourth generation, showed a

puzzling two- or three-to-one preference for producing
female offspring.

I was researching effects of the Fernald military uranium
plant near Cincinnati (where one of my prouder achievements
was kiboshing the dose reconstruction contract award to

Battelle Memorial Institute, which both operated and then
fudged the data on the Hanford Reservation).  Cancer rates
soared.  On one inspection tour around the fly-ash pile, a
west wind blew up and I inhaled something hot.  It felt like
the time I got an uncle's burning pipe tobacco in the eye,
only this time the fire was lodged in my upper left lung.  I
whipped out my emergency hashish supply (concentrated
cannabis is the world's greatest expectorant), inhaled the
fume from a quarter-gram or so, and unceremoniously coughed
back out the car window a mucousy gob encapsulating whatever
it was.  While cool air rushed into my wounded lung, I
chuckled, remembering how female hemp flourished under

radiation; and I knew there must be a God, because see how
the universe evens things out:  If there is a nuclear
catastrophe, we'll all be very sick, but the good news is
we'll be smoking much stronger marijuana.

[Steven Conliff is a Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican descendant
living in Ohio.  This was written at the request of Darren
McCrea for delivery to his Colville Confederated Tribe to
consider along with a proposal to cultivate commercially
medical marijuana.]

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From:

HSL123@...

Date: 
2003/08/19 Tue PM 12:27:56 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 
[IBOGAINE] recent publication Ibogaine attenuation of morphine withdrawal in mice



  


or move to



Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2003 Aug;27(5):781-5.


 
Ibogaine attenuation of morphine withdrawal in mice: role of glutamate
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

Leal MB, Michelin K, Souza DO, Elisabetsky E.

Faculdade de Farmacia, Pontifi;cia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do
Sul, Rua da Republica 580/306, Cep: 90050-320, RS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Ibogaine (IBO) is an alkaloid with putative antiaddictive properties,
alleviating opiates dependence and withdrawal. The glutamate N-methyl-D-
aspartate
(NMDA) receptors have been implicated in the physiological basis of drug
addiction; accordingly, IBO acts as a noncompetitive NMDA antagonist. The
purpose of
this study was to evaluate the effects of IBO on naloxone-induced withdrawal
syndrome in morphine-dependent mice, focusing on the role of NMDA receptors.
Jumping, a major behavioral expression of such withdrawal, was significantly
(P<.01) inhibited by IBO (40 and 80 mg/kg, 64.2% and 96.9% inhibition,
respectively) and MK-801 (0.15 and 0.30 mg/kg, 67.3% and 97.7%, respectively)
given prior
to naloxone. Coadministration of the lower doses of IBO (40 mg/kg) and MK-801
(0.15 mg/kg) results in 94.7% inhibition of jumping, comparable to the
effects of higher doses of either IBO or MK-801. IBO and MK-801 also
significantly
inhibited NMDA-induced (99.0% and 71.0%, respectively) jumping when given 30
min (but not 24 h) prior to NMDA in nonaddictive mice. There were no
significant
differences in [3H]MK-801 binding to cortical membranes from naive animals,
morphine-dependent animals, or morphine-dependent animals treated with IBO or
MK-801. This study provides further evidence that IBO does have an inhibitory
effect on opiate withdrawal symptoms and suggests that the complex process
resulting in morphine withdrawal includes an IBO-sensitive functional and
transitory alteration of NMDA receptor.

_________________________________

"Brian Mariano" <patven@...>  

Date: 
2003/08/21 Thu AM 06:45:04 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject:

Re: [IBOGAINE] schizophrenia

> Has anyone treated a patient diagnosed with

> schizophrenia with ibogaine or in
> the inverse has any patient diagnosed with

> schizophrenia been treated with
> ibogaine?
>
> Howard
> _______________________________________________
Hi Howard,
I did treat a young female with schizofrenia without knowing of
her illness.She did have a very pleasant experience,nevertheless
the schizofrenia was pretty acute for months afterwards.I don´t
know how related that was to the ibogaine or to the taking/not
taking of her medications.She´s in normal conditions now like any
other schizofrenic:as long as she takes her pills she´s OK,when
she stops the schizofrenia takes over.Eventually ibogaine didn´t
help her and didn´t harm her.

Brian Mariano
>

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From:

HSLotsof@...

Date: 
2003/08/24 Sun PM 07:28:09 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject:

Re: [ibogaine] my introduction and a question

Jeff,

I never heard of doctor Revici before you mentioned him but, went to
google.com and found the passage below.  Returning to your situation, how old
are you?

Howard
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Dr. Revici developed successful treatments for heroin and alcohol
addiction. His detoxification agent for heroin addicts, called Perse,
was almost chosen over methadone as the nation's treatment of
choice. Perse, which incorporated selenium in a lipid base, physically
detoxified addicts within five to eight days. At the request of
Congress, Revici presented over 2,000 case histories of successful uses
of this nontoxic and nonaddictive agent. The idea for Perse had
arisen from Revici's cancer practice after he observed that patients
previously on addictive narcotic analgesics exhibited no withdrawal
symptoms when placed on his lipid analgesics.
At a 1971 congressional subcommittee hearing that took testimony
about Perse for a full day, Congressman Charles Rangel of New York
said, "The results and what we witnessed with patients was so
unbelievable that the doctor from Municipal Hospital has now gone
back on a daily basis in order to continue with this chance to see the
miraculous results that have taken place."
Barron's ran a full-page feature on Revici's treatments for narcotic
and alcohol addiction in 1972. Both Congress and the FDA promised
Dr. Revici full support for large-scale clinical testing, signaling that
Perse could be the most important breakthrough in drug treatment.
Because selenium is normally toxic in high doses, Revici
reformulated the medication to eliminate it. The new substance,
called Bionar, worked just as well in the same amount of time, with
no withdrawal symptoms. (The selenium incorporated in Perse was a
bivalent-negative form, very active and virtually nontoxic.)
The stage seemed set for a major advance in the war on drugs. But
less than one month after the congressional hearing, the FDA re-
versed its position and recommended methadone, an addictive and
toxic drug, as the treatment of choice. Why?
One possible answer is provided by Marcus Cohen, who helped
coordinate the campaign to save Revici's license. He suggests,
"Hospitalization was required for treatment with Perse, and because
many of the patients were poor, Medicaid was asked to pick up the
tab. As in the case of most drug addicts, they presented with other
conditions besides addiction, which needed medical attention....
Methadone, addicting in itself, nevertheless was favored by State and
City officials as a means of controlling the mostly black and Hispanic
drug population.... The drug companies and health care professionals
that profited from exclusive use of methadone did not welcome
competition, least of all from a treatment which did not cause a
lifelong dependency."
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In a message dated 8/24/03 9:50:18 PM, Jeffgd1@... writes:

<<

Hello

I have been reading this list for some time now and feel the time is right

for me to introduce myself. I hope this a first step on my journey towards

freedom from Methadone through a productive Ibogaine session.

I am currently doing 50mg's daily of methadone. I go in once week as I have

for 4 years or so now. The impact on my life is not much but I often wonder
if

I just don't see the impact or impediments that Methadone and the program are

putting in my way.

I was an IV heroin addict on and off for 15 years or so before this last 6

years of pure Methadone use and being clean of opiates (save the Methadone

obviously) I use cannabis daily and psychedelics of various types at times

throughout the year usually at music events.

My wife of ten years died in 1993 of a cocaine/heroin overdose at home with

our then 6 year old son and myself present. The surreal nightmare that

followed is still mind boggling to me. Calling her parents from the hospital
to tell

them that their daughter was on deaths door due to a drug habit that they
were

completely unaware of was horrendous. But nothing compared to telling my son

his mother was dead the following day I will NEVER forget the sound of the

moan that escaped his small mouth......

In our/my many year odyssey through our addiction we tried many ?cures? 21

day meth detox- then 6 month meth detox- and even an ?experimental doctor

named Dr. Revicci (sp?) here in NYC whose name escapes me-he ran a hospital
for

addicts in the 50-60's and had apparent success with the use of some types of

compounds that frankly I forget.  (H.Lostoft any of that ring a bell) his

hospital was in upper Manhattan. I have the literature somewhere and will try
to

find it if anyone cares. By the way his cure ?worked? but we were to dumb to

know it. He got us through thefirst few days relatively painless but
exhaustion

and the baby's needs took it's toll. And we picked up.

After my wife's death I went to a 21 day rehab after a hospitalized one week

detox and spent a few months in constant pain and with very very little sleep

and it wasn't long before I was a newly widowed single father with a huge

habit. After a year or so of that I went on the Methadone program that I am
on

now with the attitude that it would be my insulin and take care of what I

considered a medical problem. I thought I would be on it for the rest of my
life.

Even way back before her death I had heard inklings about Ibogaine and was

always drawn to it on a subtle level I find hard to explain. The use of a

psychedelic even one as apparently unenjoyable (as opposed to LSD say) seems
to

make sense to me...hmmmmmmmm But it was only available far away I thought.

Now after remarrying an amazing woman with no addiction history at all and

after being so far out of the?loop? as far as being an active heroin addict

with 'copping' and all,  I feel I can be done with this but I KNOW that a
meth

detox is beyond my scope I know that six months or more of sleepless
exhaustion

and all the rest after the slow weaning process is more than I can deal with

and is not in my future.

BUT a session with Ibogaine seems perfect. An eye opening if scary adventure

that will help me get a clean slate is just what I need and seems the only

real hope I have of getting off this Methadone.

When reading statements like ?doing Ibogaine will reset your brain to it's

pre addicted state? well I am simply overjoyed at the thought that this is

possible.

From what I have read here and elsewhere if one is not surrounded by active

addicts or in that world even one treatment can and will work to get me over

this Methadone thing.

I live in NYC and dont have much money. But I am determined that Ibogaine is

the solution to a problem I have been dealing with in overwhelming and subtle

ways for far too long now.

I have sent a similar letter to Marc Emory at his Ibogaine House but if

anyone else can steer me in the direction of a place to get Ibogaine
treatment I

will be ever grateful!

I so enjoy reading most of the posts on this list and wish all here nothing

but wellness and joy in their lives.

Freak Freely!

Love,

Jeff G >>
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From:

HSL123@...

Date: 
2003/08/25 Mon PM 05:21:12 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject:

[IBOGAINE] Sabril/Vigabatrin propsoed for drug craving

I recently received a call from a patient seeking ibogaine treatment who

informed me of an anticraving drug called Vigabatrin (tradename Sabril).  Below
is
one of the articles listed on google.com/

Any reports from the field would be of interest.  Too bad we can't see a
vigabatrin vs ibogaine study.

Howard

Diane Greenberg, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 516 344-2347, or
Glenn Diamond, David Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 650 579-2870

Brookhaven Lab Awards License to David Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
for Potential Addiction Treatment

UPTON, NY - The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
has licensed to David Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Burlingame, California, the use
of the drug vigabatrin for its potential application in treating addiction.

Vigabatrin, a drug used to treat epilepsy outside the U.S., may prove to be a
highly effective pharmaceutical treatment for cocaine addiction. In August,
1998, a team of scientists from Brookhaven, St. John's University, New York
University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Boston University reported
in
the journal Synapse that the drug, also known as gamma vinyl-GABA, or GVG,
blocked cocaine's effect in the brains of primates, and significantly decreased
the animals' drug-seeking behavior. In subsequent studies, Brookhaven
collaborations found that the drug effectively blocked test animals' craving
for
nicotine, heroin, alcohol and methamphetamine.

Stephen Dewey, the Brookhaven neuroscientist who led the groundbreaking
studies, said, "We are pleased to have entered into a long-term research
collaboration with David Pharmaceuticals to expand and enlarge the scope of our
discoveries. Addiction is a terrible disease, and those who suffer from it, as
well as
their families and friends, and society in general, are held hostage to it. I
am hopeful that our collaborative efforts will lead to a safe and effective
treatment."

Glenn Diamond, founder and CEO of David Pharmaceuticals, Inc., commented, "In
light of the compelling public health interest, we are determined to rapidly
develop these significant discoveries made at Brookhaven Lab."

Diamond added that David intends to file with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration within the next fourteen months to initiate clinical trials for
the use
of vigabatrin in the treatment of cocaine abuse. Future filings are planned
for the use of the drug in smoking cessation and for the treatment of heroin,
alcohol and metamphetamine addiction.

Dewey and his collaborators did their research on vigabatrin at the
Brookhaven Center for Imaging and Neurosciences at Brookhaven Lab, a pioneering
research center that uses positron emission tomography and other medical
imaging
techniques to study the brain mechanisms underlying addiction. Brookhaven is a
designated Regional Drug Addiction Study Center of the National Institute on
Drug
Abuse.

David Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a privately funded startup company focused on
the development of medicines to treat difficult central nervous system
disorders such as substance and behavioral addictions, memory and cognitive
impairment, and mental retardation. David is named after the founder's seven-
year-old
son, who has Down syndrome.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory creates and
operates major facilities available to university, industrial and government
personnel for basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical and
environmental sciences, and in selected energy technologies. The Laboratory is
operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, a not-for-profit research management
com
pany, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.

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