Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:27:49 -0400
To: greenpartydrugsgroup@...
From: Dana Beal
Subject: GMfCL 2003 #43: Amherst, Columbia, Hilo, Rio Make 73 Cities on
the MMM Poster for 2004!
CC: eco man , yerbanena@...,
risto.mikkonen@..., "Ken Gorman" ,
indianbud@..., initiativ@...,
Mojca Straus , ezpz@..., newagecitizen@...,
hromi@..., "Terry Mitchell" ,
pariah_mob@..., jc0_66@...,
"Irena" , legalizemichigan@...,
"Matthew Jorn" , Newagecitizen@...,
Xpu100 , mjmarch@..., info@...,
marijuanamarch@..., hempSA@..., has.cornelissen@...,
farid@..., inorml@..., , Boris.it@...,
Chris Conrad , iowanorml@...,
duncaneddy@..., , RoadsEnd@...,
Chris Wright , rastapeace@...,
pdxnorml@..., hempSA@..., smuuthc11@...,
acididea@..., , andyganja2001@...,
"Melody Karr" ,
"Howie Hempalot" , ,
mmm@..., melacs42x60@..., rebelart@...,
pcornwell@..., martin@..., CAMPNC@...,
Blocpot@..., DennyLane@..., rappa@...,
Hanfparaden Center Berlin , ,
mayday@onelist.com, "kathy kennedy" ,
, sokrates@..., ,
, "justin ballot" ,
Hempsters@..., texasm5@...,
"Roy B. Scherer" ,
helmut holtzheimer , phillty2@...,
steph@..., "Bill Downing" ,
"Dave Toaff" , mmm@...,
"Angela Goodhope" ,
Usersvoice.jmt@..., Michael Palmieri ,
PROBER13@..., StewMO1941@..., rmelamed@...,
chris@..., pakaloha@...,
werkhausen@... (M. Werkhausen), chairman@...,
bloom@..., pdr , aksh1@...,
fdb@..., , Hanf-tv@...,
blair@..., "Jay Statzer" ,
encimer@..., Skywolf@..., ,
cannabisal@..., globalpeas@..., emanuel@...,
dangssdp@..., fine_time909@..., Boris@...,
miriamwhite420@..., bud_jamesbud@..., mappnow@...,
xchaos@..., btm42@..., wachtel@...,
forml420@..., Michela Gesualdo ,
terryparkerjr@..., fjhc@hotmail, "Razor" ,
legalise@..., "Nelg Nella" ,
artworks@..., phillyweed420@..., info@...,
doncriss@..., "Joe Wein" ,
"Bud Spliff" , info@...,
OCannabisSociety@..., "Catherine Jones" ,
writch@..., cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com,
mary mackenzie , hilary@...,
escandonavia@..., jipiando@..., leoparda_azul@...,
faenadub@..., don@..., ultra_plus_estrella@...,
helmcke@..., m_bandida@..., malcomska@...,
foroalici@..., earthfirstswt@..., dmcvay@...,
taudarknes@..., "The Happy Hemptress" ,
"New Paltz Norml" , hamppu.kaupunki@...,
bitchcrafts420@..., kendermag@...,
"melissa ann"

So far, 73  Cities are Signed up for 2004 .

MAYDAY IS JAY-DAY!

(Next year, the first Saturday of May falls on May 1. We are recommending Sunday, May 2 or Monday May 3 in cities where there is significant conflict with other local events--or as a rain date. Of course, we understand that some schools have to do it on 4/20 because their school year is over by May, and that some northern cities have to do it a little later in May...)



albany
albuquerque
ashland
asheville
auckland
boone
bratislava
buenos aires
capetown
christchurch
cincinnati
cleveland

columbia
dallas
darwin
dayton
des moines
detroit
dover
dublin
dunedin
eugene
fayetteville
flint
frankfurt
ft. lauderdale
halifax
helsinki

hilo
houston
kansas city
las vegas
lansing
levin
mexico city
minneapolis
montpelier
napier
nashville
newark
new orleans
new york
nimbin
ogden
orlando
paducah
paris
parkersburg
philadelphia
portland
prague
raleigh-durham
rapid city
richmond
rosario
salt lake city
san francisco
san juan
san marcos
st. louis
sturgeon falls
tampa
toronto
tokyo
traverse city
tucson
tupelo
upper lake
vancouver
wellington
wichita
wilmington




Help us reach our goal of 300 cities worldwide!

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 the last listing we have for you is as follows:

Eaton: Andy Fudge fudgeie@... 210 eaton lewisburg rd apt#61 Rally 12 noon -- lots of kick ass specialties

By the way, I lost about three weeks email not long after this year's event. Did anything happen on the first Saturday of May in yrour area? Numbers? Arrests? Media? Anything of interest happen, etc?

You can also call me at 212-677-4899.

Dana/cnw

P.S.: We are also interested in adding to our list of prestigious endorsers, which consists of pot activists well-known in their city or country. We need a name and phone number for each. Any suggestions?

P.P.S: We need on average $100 for each affiliate to print  and ship this year's poster.  If you can't send it, we have to raise it somewhere else.

*****!!! May 3, 2002/Mayday 2004 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!*****

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From:

"Suzana Sousa" <sousasuzana@...>

Date: 
2003/09/14 Sun PM 04:32:06 CDT

To: 
dana@...

Subject:

Rio de Janeiro

High dana,

I´ve had a meeting with the Brazilian Harm Reduction Movement recently and
they´ve agreed on organizing the march in 2004. So, please add Rio to the
list. The new contacts are:
mmmbr2004@...

00 55 21 2240 4351 or
00 55 21 2240 4377

Warm regards,

SuZana

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Columbia: Henry Koch hkochii@...  or Malece Howard benegezzeret@...  803-413-8144  1300 Langford Rd Blythewood, SC 29016

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From:

"Melissa M. Hart" <melissahartless@...>

Date: 
2003/09/25 Thu AM 01:12:42 CDT

To: 
dana@...

Subject:

Fwd: Fw: Free Hemp in Alaska press release

--- newsroom < newsroom@... > wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:04:33 -0800
> To: melissahartless@...
> From: newsroom  < newsroom@... >
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Free Hemp in Alaska press release
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> From: Freehempinak
> >
> To: newsroom@...
> >
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:47 PM
> >
> Subject: Free Hemp in Alaska press release
> >
>
> >
>
> >
> On September 23rd the court ruled in our favor

> saying the state now has to count at least 170 of
> the 194 remaining booklets.

> >
>
> >

> Scot Dunnachie campaign manager in charge of

> gathering the signatures for Free Hemp in Alaska
> said "This is great now we can return to running a
> campaign in favor of this initiative, It would have
> been devistating to our group to have turned in over
> 50,000 signatures, nearly double the amount needed,
> and still not qualify.  The courts decision will be
> available to view at our website
>www.freehempinak.org ."
> >
>
> >
> Lt. Gov. Loren Leman tossed out the petition, ruling
> that hundreds of signatures collected were invalid.

> >
>
> >
> We submitted 484 petition signature books with more
> than 50,000 signatures. The state denied 194 of the
> signature books, which meant only 21,737 of the
> 28,782 signatures needed were certified, according
> to the lawsuit.
> >
>
> >
>
> >
> Scot Dunnachie
> >
> Free Hemp in Alaska
> >
>www.freehempinak.org
> >
> 907-229-5398
> >
>freehempinak@...
> >
> 1241 w 27th #421
> >
> Anchorage Ak, 99503

> >

>>

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udge Dismisses Pot Conviction
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/16/thread16757.shtml
Posted by CN Staff on July 04, 2003 at 10:52:10 PT
By Dan Rice, Staff Writer
Source: News-Miner

A Fairbanks judge ruled the Alaska Constitution guarantees a local man the right to possess marijuana for personal use in his home. In a decision rendered last week, Superior Court Judge Richard Savell dismissed the Fairbanks man's conviction for pot possession, ruling that a 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision legalizing personal marijuana use by an adult in their home is still the law.
Savell agreed with arguments made by an attorney for Scott A. Thomas, 42, who was charged with three counts of felony fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance for allegedly growing pot plants in a Tonsina Drive residence last summer.

The case went to trial in May and the jury found Thomas guilty of one count of a misdemeanor charge of sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance for possessing 2.6 ounces of marijuana.

Lawyer Bill Satterberg immediately filed a motion for Savell to dismiss the guilty verdict based on an argument that the law under which Thomas was convicted was not constitutional as determined by the controversial 1975 state Supreme Court decision made in Ravin v. State.

The decision made it legal for adults to possess marijuana in their homes for personal consumption as long as the amount of the drug didn't exceed enough to constitute "an intent to deliver."

Four ounces of marijuana or more was considered the intent to deliver threshold when the decision became part of the state's criminal code, but state law has since placed the amount at eight ounces.

The justices ruled in Ravin that possession of pot by an adult in their home was allowed as a fundamental constitutional right to privacy. However, a 1990 voter initiative changed state law to make possession of any amount of marijuana in any location illegal.

In Thomas' recent case, the defense argued that the portion of the law prohibiting possession of marijuana for personal consumption by an adult in their home is unconstitutional.

"A direct conflict in the law exists between the right to privacy guaranteed under the Alaska Constitution and the statutory prohibition ... which criminalizes the personal use of marijuana by an adult in the privacy of the home, regardless of the quantity of the prohibited substance," reads a portion of Thomas' motion to dismiss his conviction.

Savell granted the motion on June 25, writing in pen under his signature of approval that "Ravin stands."

Jim McLain, a legal clerk in Satterberg's law office who drafted the motion for dismissal, called the decision significant.

"My understanding of it is that if Ravin is still the law, then marijuana is still legal," said McLain, a former attorney.

He said Savell's decision does not necessarily set precedent, "although in reality it may be indicative of what other judges in Fairbanks do."

McLain added that he expects a more broad-scale debate to develop soon about whether Alaska's marijuana possession law is constitutional. McLain said he believes that the 1990 voter initiative that criminalized all pot use in the state is not binding, considering voters do not have the power to change the constitution through the initiative process.

In a 1998 Alaska Law Review article that McLain included in his motion, author Andrew Winters also argued that Alaskans have a constitutional right to possess marijuana in their homes.

"Ultimately, the limited actual enforcement of private marijuana possession means both Ravin and the initiative that attempted to invalidate it have a great deal of symbolic value. Ravin is a symbol that Alaska should be proud to endorse, a symbol of the value that Alaska places on personal autonomy," Winters wrote in his conclusion.

It's possible that the District Attorney's Office could appeal Savell's decision. The Distract Attorney assigned to the case was not in his office Thursday and unavailable for comment.

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From: 

Roger Christie <pakaloha@...>   

Date: 
2003/09/22 Mon AM 07:23:18 CDT

To: 
Dana Beal <dana@...>

Subject: 

Aloha - Religious use of cannabis sacrament is LEGAL right now!

                        Cannabis enjoyers all over the world...


Aloha to each and every one of you.  How's it going?   

Dana and crew and you have done a great job in promoting and living the MMM, and continue to do so.  I have been, and still am, stoked to be a part of it from out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  God bless you everyone.   

After being  a cannabis and hemp activist for the last 17 years, I want to take my life higher , faster, better, farther ...  And I give thanks and appreciate the place I am in, right here and right now, too.  


I want this coming year to be a celebration of herb freedom, rather then another protest against cannabis prohibition.  That has become boring as hell for me and denies the FACT that, in my opinion, religious use of herb is legal today.  The choice is always ours to make.  Focusing on what I want is the way to help manifest it, in my opinion.

I want all of us to experience the life of our best cannabis dreams and to be able to exercise our freedoms in the healthiest and happiest way imaginable.  You do, too.    

As we think of the coming M MM in 2004 I want to communicate what I think is an important message...   Marijuana is already legal right now for religious purposes - in private - IF - you know how to communicate it, and how to demonstrate it to law enforcement.  If this is new to you, I can help.  It rocks!  

In my opinion, there IS a way, and the way is called a

                            RELIGIOUS 'DEFENSE TO PROSECUTION' .  

It's working for me and for everyone I know who exercises it.  Everyone!  :-}  We 'win'
100% of the cases that come against us.  100%.  This is 'it,' for me.  Prosecutors have not taken any of the members of my ministry all the way to jury trial...ever.  They would rather let us go, one at a time, instead of risking a precedent-setting verdict.  There is no 'second opinion' allowed for anyone's choice of religion.

Some day, together, we will change the laws and legalize herb.  Some day...but until then

Tick-tock-tick-tock ... precious time is going by...30 freakin' years and counting!  The past formulas to legalize have failed ... repeatedly.  Protests, demonstrations, lawsuits, petitions, concerts, etc.  A particular event might be a success, but the effort fails to make cannabis legal for individuals.  We need another 'model' to go by and I know of one.    

Until 'some day' comes, the sacred herb is already legal for all those who use it 'religiously' and can prove it with their simple paperwork and personal testimony.  I know that I have found a way and I invite you to check it out and to see for yourself.

                                 www.thc-ministry.org

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the USA declares 'religious freedom' for all.  'Getting high' is a religious term!  As I exercise it, my religious freedom gets stronger.  All states have religious freedom built-in without passing one new law or petitioning one more knuckleheaded elected official who loves telling us NO!   Enough!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 18 says a similar thing; all people of all nations have religious freedom.  This means you and me, all of us.  Let's claim our religious use for herb.  And religious use includes medical use.

It was reported in February of 2003 that Jesus used marijuana !  The Washington Post and the BBC played the story from High Times with complete respect.  Amazing!  Search for yourself and see that this is true.  This point ends the debate, in my opinion.


If Jesus gets to use cannabis - we get to use cannabis - when we claim a religious exemption.  Period.  End of story, beginning of cannabis reality.

Last year approximately 768,000 people were arrested for cannabis in the USA alone, 90% for simple possession of under one ounce.  I want to offer my THC Ministry as a Sanctuary, a refuge of legality to all those people, and more.  To you, for instance.  

I think I can help to 'win' every case of simple possession for all sincere people, IF it was in private and there was not a sale involved.  Simple.  Zero lawyer to pay.  Zero ass to kiss.  All good.  Get this protection in advance of any legal hassles and it's very powerful, better than having insurance.  Get it AFTER you are busted and it works in reverse.

Once you learn this method of legitimacy, it is yours to enjoy and to exercise for the rest of your life.  Imagine...free cannabis sacrament for the rest of your life - without changing even one law. Without one more protest march, or petition, or anything.

     Religious freedom for cannabis sacrament is yours for the taking right now .

Check out www.thc-ministry.org.  If this feels right to you, get empowered!  Join.  

Then go to www.ulc.org and be ordained online as a legal minister.  You can print-out your temporary minister paperwork immediately right at home for FREE.  It's very legal and easy.

The combination of both memberships is enough to provide 'reasonable doubt' in the minds of any jury in the land; state or federal.  We win!  Finally.  Hallelujah!

This next MMM could be a celebration of our religious use of cannabis, protected by the Constitution and the U.N. and acknowledged by the cops and law enforcement because it is already in place.  That is my idea of a good time!  Let the MMM be a leader in going positive for each of us, and collectively, too.  That's the party I want to host, not another demonstration against anything.  What do you think?  


Love and respect,


Roger Christie



                                              THC
                                The Hawai'i Cannabis Ministry
                        "We use cannabis religiously and you can, too."
                                     www.thc-ministry.org
                                        (808) 961-0488

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*****BUSHWHACKED!!*****

************************

WHY WE HATE BUSH
Wed Sep 24, 8:01 PM ET

By Ted Rall

It's the Stolen Election, Stupid

NEW YORK--"Have the Democrats totally flipped

their lids?" asks David Brooks in The Weekly

Standard, quasi-official organ of the Bush

Administration. "Because every day some

Democrat seems to make a manic or totally

over-the-top statement about George Bush, the

Republican party, and the state of the nation
today."

True, Democrats loathe Dubya with greater

intensity than any Republican standard-bearer in
modern political history. Even the diabolical Richard

Nixon--who, after all, created the EPA, went to

China and imposed price controls to stop
corporate gouging--rates higher in liberal eyes. "It's

mystifying," writes Brooks.

Let me explain.

First but not foremost, Bush's detractors despise him viscerally, as a man.

Where working-class populists see him as a smug, effeminate frat boy who

wouldn't recognize a hard day's work if it kicked him in his self-satisfied ass,

intellectuals see a simian-faced idiot unqualified to mow his own lawn, much

less lead the free world. Another group, which includes me, is more

patronizing than spiteful. I feel sorry for the dude; he looks so pathetic, so

out of his depth, out there under the klieg lights, squinting, searching for

nouns and verbs, looking like he's been snatched from his bed and beamed

in, and is still half asleep, not sure where he is. Each speech looks as if

Bush had been beamed from his bed fast asleep. And he's willfully ignorant.

On Fox News, Bush admits that he doesn't even read the newspaper: "I

glance at the headlines just to kind of [sic] a flavor for what's moving. I rarely

read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read [sic] the

news themselves." All these takes on Bush boil down to he same thing:

The guy who holds the launch codes isn't smart enough to know that's he's
stupid. And that's scary.

Fear breeds hatred, and Bush's policies create a lot of both. U.S. citizens

like Jose Padilla and Yasser Hamdi disappear into the night, never to be

heard from again. A concentration camp rises at Guantánamo. Stasi-like

spies tap our phones and read our mail; thanks to the ironically-named

Patriot Act, these thugs don't even need a warrant. As individual rights are

trampled, corporate profits are sacrosanct. An aggressive, expansionist

military invades other nations "preemptively" to eliminate the threat of

non-existent weapons, and American troops die to enrich a company that
buys off the Vice President.

Time to dust off the F word. "Whenever people start
locking up enemies
because of national security without much legal care,
you are coming close
[to fascism]," warns Robert Paxton, emeritus professor
of history at
Columbia University and author of the upcoming book
"Fascism in Action."
We're supposed to hate fascists--or has that changed
because of 9/11?

Bush bashers hate Bush for his personal hypocrisy--the
draft-dodger who
went AWOL during Vietnam yet sent other young men to

die in Afghanistan
(news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites), the
philandering cocaine
addict who dares to call gays immoral--as well as for

his attacks on peace
and prosperity. But even that doesn't explain why we
hate him so much.

Bush is guilty of a single irredeemable act so heinous
and anti-American
that Nixon's corruption and Reagan's intellectual
inferiority pale by
comparison. No matter what he does, Democrats and
Republicans who love
their country more than their party will never forgive
him for it.

Bush stole the presidency.

The United States enjoyed two centuries of
uninterrupted democracy before
George W. Bush came along. The Brits burned the White
House, civil war
slaughtered millions and depressions brought economic
chaos, yet
presidential elections always took place on schedule
and the winners
always took office. Bush ended all that, suing to stop
a ballot count that
subsequent newspaper recounts proved he had lost. He
had his GOP-run
Supreme Court, a federal institution, rule
extrajurisdictionally on the
disputed election, a matter that under our system of
laws falls to the states.
Bush's recount guru, James Baker, went on national TV
to threaten to use
force to install him as president if Gore didn't step
aside: "If we keep being
put in the position of having to respond to recount
after recount after recount
of the same ballots, then we just can't sit on our
hands, and we will be
forced to do what might be in our best personal
interest--but not--it would not
be in the best interest of our wonderful country."

Bush isn't president, but he plays one on TV. His
presence in the White
House is an affront to everything that this country
stands for. His fake
presidency is treasonous; our passive tolerance for it
sad testimony to
post-9/11 cowardice. As I wrote in December 2000,
"George W. Bush is not
the President of the United States of America." And
millions of Americans
agree.

Two months after 9/11, when Bush's job approval rating
was soaring at 89
percent, 47 percent of Americans told a Gallup poll
that he had not won the
presidency legitimately. "The election
controversy...could make a comeback
if Bush's approval ratings were to fall
significantly," predicted Byron York in
The National Review. Two years later, 3 million jobs
are gone, Bush's wars
have gone sour, and just 50 percent of voters approve

of his performance. If
York is correct, most Americans now consider Bush to
be no more
legitimate than Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who
also came to
power in a coup d'état.

And that's why we hate him.

------------

From:

"chris ryan" <old_jack_tar@...>

Date:

2003/09/24 Wed PM 09:30:22 CDT

To:   dana@...,

Subject:

Fwd: Deadline for Patriots

>From: "The Ghost of Ben Franklin"

>Reply-To:

>To: "Chris Ryan"

>Subject: Deadline for Patriots

>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:57:31 -0700

>

From:

"The Ghost of Ben Franklin" <info@...>

Date:

2003/09/24 Wed PM 06:57:31 CDT

To:

"Chris Ryan" <old_jack_tar@...>

Subject:

Deadline for Patriots

DEADLINE FOR THE "PATRIOT ACT"

Congressman Dennis Kucinich continued his leadership today

on Capitol Hill today by introducing the first comprehensive

bill to repeal offensive sections of the misnamed "USA PATRIOT

Act."  The Kucinich bill -- called the "Benjamin Franklin True

Patriot Act" -- is already supported by the ACLU, NAACP, a

Jewish group, an Islamic group, and 20 members of Congress.

Kucinich's bill would repeal  sections of the original "PATRIOT

Act," that authorize 'sneak and peak' searches; warrantless

library, medical, educational, and financial record searches;

and the detention and deportation of non-citizens without

meaningful judicial review.  Passage would be the final deadline

-- or death -- for the "PATRIOT Act."

Rep. Kucinich is the only presidential candidate who voted

against the "PATRIOT Act" in October, 2001.  The other Democrats

in Congress currently running for president all voted for it --

and Howard Dean has said, "I never criticize them for that" in

view of the post-9/11 pressure.  Congressman Kucinich stood up

to the pressure then...and now.

At a news conference today, Kucinich invoked the words of Ben

Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase

a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Kucinich added: "Will we stand by as the Administration formulates

a second more dangerous "PATRIOT Act" because, in the President's

words, 'the first bill didn't go far enough'?  Or will we step

back from this atmosphere of fear and work to restore our basic

freedoms and rights?  With the introduction of the True Patriot

Act, I say we take back our Constitution."

DEADLINE FOR DOLLARS

Sept 30 presents another deadline -- the quarterly fundraising

deadline for presidential candidates.  This is the time for true

Patriots to support this unique candidate who is taking his battle

against the "PATRIOT Act" nationwide

Many of you have already donated.  If so, please send this

email to every civil libertarian or Libertarian or Green or lover

of privacy and individual rights you know and ask them to

support a man who (whether you agree with him on all issues) is

standing up for your basic freedoms on the campaign trail and on

Capitol Hill.

It's quick and easy to donate:

https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php

 

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Retracted MDMA study claiming that MDMA could cause Parkinson's evokes

widespread criticism of sensationalism and bias

A widely-publicized NIDA-funded Johns Hopkins study, published September 27,

2002 in the prestigious journal Science, claimed that MDMA causes dopamine

damage and can be linked to Parkinson's diseas. In a shocking development,

the study was recently retracted by authors George Ricaurte et al. They now

report that the drug used in the study was actually methamphetamine instead

of MDMA, supposedly due to mislabelled bottles, and that subsequent research

with oral and then the injection of genuine MDMA failed to replicate the

original findings. MAPS estimates that roughly $1 million was spent and

about 25 monkeys were sacrificed in these experiments. The retraction

confirms that more attention should have been paid to the exaggerations,

omissions, and political agenda of the original study, which MAPS and

several scientists had criticized in the New York Times and the Washington

Post when it was first published, and in a letter MAPS sent to Science one

week after the paper appeared but which took Science eight months to

publish.

The study retraction has received wide coverage, with stories in the

Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR's "All Things Considered," ABC

National News, as well as scientific journals such as Nature, The Scientist,

The New Scientist, British Medical Journal, and others. Newspapers around

the country picked up the story from the AP and Reuters wire services. The

San Francisco Chronicle even published an op-ed rebuking Ricaurte's team for

their flawed methodology and dishonest assessment of its results. Most of

the articles about the retraction, and the retraction itself, can be found

on the MAPS website at http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/studyresponse.html .

The MAPS website has been visited by more people than ever before as a

result of this publicity, since MAPS is mentioned in many of the articles.

The problematic research of the NIDA-funded team is not only politically

fueled, but has had a detrimental impact on public policy. One of the most

unfortunate consequences of the Science study was its impact on the debate

over the recently-passed and Constitutionally-dubious RAVE Act, in which

Congressional representatives were motivated in part by exaggerated fears of

ecstasy's toxicity.

Many questions remain unanswered by the retraction. It is still unclear

which studies published by the Ricaurte team may have used the mislabelled

vials of methamphetamine and MDMA, thus needing to be retracted as well. On

September 17, 2003, The Scientist reported that a study published in the

European Journal of Pharmacology will also be retracted soon. Also unknown

are the design details of the studies with genuine MDMA that failed to find

dopamingeric neurotoxicity, such as doses, routes of administration and

ambient temperatures. This information is needed to properly assess the risk

that MDMA can cause dopaminergic neurotoxicity, since the retraction by

Ricaurte et al. lacks the grace and wisdom of a simple retraction and makes

a feeble effort to claim that MDMA could still cause Parkinson's. On

September 18, 2003, MAPS sent a letter to NIDA director Nora Volkow

requesting the prompt release of additional information about Ricaurte et

al.'s research.

(http://www.maps.org/mdma/retraction/volkowletter091803.html)

To read the response to the study from the scientific community and the

media, go to:

http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/studyresponse.html

You can read the retraction itself at:

http://maps.org/media/science9.5.03.html

> Pubdate: Mon, 15 Sep 2003
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-ecstasy15sep15,1,6080075.story?coll=la-headlines-health
> Copyright: 2003 Los Angeles Times
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.latimes.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
> Author: Jonathan Bor, Baltimore Sun
> Cited: Multidisciplinary Assn. for Psychedelic Studies
http://www.maps.org/
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mdma.htm (Ecstasy)
>
> SECOND ECSTASY STUDY RETRACTED
>
> Johns Hopkins scientists find new error involving vial mislabeled in the
> first experiment.
>
> Scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have retracted a second
> study linking the drug Ecstasy to a certain type of brain damage because
> once again the wrong drug was given to lab animals. Dr. Una D. McCann, a
> neuroscientist involved in both experiments, said a letter of retraction
was
> sent Thursday to a medical journal, which she declined to identify until
> editors there decide how to handle the matter.
>
> Scientists discovered the mistake after they checked lab records to
> see if methamphetamine from a mislabeled vial used in the first
> experiment had been used elsewhere.
>
> "As you might imagine, we systematically went through the books to
> find out which, if any, of our published studies involved the same
> [vial]," she said Thursday. "We did find one, and a letter of
> retraction was sent out to the journal today."
>
> The errors came about when a chemical supply company, Research
> Triangle International of North Carolina, switched the labels of two
> vials containing methamphetamine and MDMA, the active ingredient in
> Ecstasy. The scientists have not found any other studies in which they
> mistakenly gave methamphetamine rather than MDMA to research animals.
> However, she said researchers are concerned about another possible
> repercussion. Because labels on two bottles were switched, it is
> possible that MDMA was accidentally given to animals instead of
> methamphetamine in another experiment.
>
> If a continued search of lab records turns up a problem of that

> nature, scientists might have to issue another retraction, she said.
> Last week, the journal Science released a letter of retraction in
> which the Hopkins scientists admitted that they had accidentally given
> methamphetamine, rather than MDMA, to squirrel monkeys and baboons in
> an experiment.
>
> That study seemed to show that MDMA damaged cells that secrete
> dopamine, a brain chemical needed for normal movement. Because the
> same type of brain damage occurs in people with Parkinson's disease,
> the scientists suggested that Ecstasy users might be putting
> themselves at risk for the devastating ailment.
>
> Members of the research team, led by Dr. George Ricaurte, suspected a
> problem when they were unable to replicate the results in other
> studies. McCann, who along with Ricaurte has studied Ecstasy for about
> 20 years, declined to provide details about the second study, saying
> only that it involved rats and was not designed to test toxicity to
> dopamine cells.
>
> The second retraction may stir up a longtime controversy over Hopkins'
> Ecstasy research. Critics have charged that the scientists made too
> much of their study results, concluding from scant evidence that the
> drug places users at risk for long-term brain damage. Rick Doblin,
> founder of an organization that favors research into the therapeutic
> potential of Ecstasy, said Thursday that the researchers have been
> slow to scrutinize their work's validity.
>
> "This doesn't help their credibility and goes to the whole question of
> what else they know," said Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary
> Assn. for Psychedelic Studies.
>
> Another group of Hopkins animal studies, not called into question by
> the labeling problem, tied MDMA to the death of nerve cells secreting
> serotonin, a brain chemical that regulates mood. Loss of this chemical
> has been tied to depression.

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From: 

HSLotsof@... 

Date: 
2003/09/13 Sat PM 03:53:24 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

[ibogaine] Special Project

Dear list,

Having recently submitted a request for donations for Dora Weiner Projects,
http://www.doraweiner.eastwest.html it had just come to our attention that we
neglected to request funding for a special project.  This will be participation
in the Drug Users Conference sponsored by the Danish drug users group of
BrugerForeningen that will take place in Copenhagen October 31 and November 1,
2003.  We have had indications of interest in ibogaine from some of the
conference participants and think this would be an exceptional opportunity to
learn
from our European colleagues and provide information on ibogaine.

The Dora Weiner Foundation is seeking $3,000.00 in tax deductible
contributions to allow participation in the BrugerForeningen conference.  This
will be
the third of three conferences that DWF will have the opportunity to
participate
in during the months of October and November 2003.  The California Society of
Addiction Medicine Conference and the Drug Policy Alliance Conference are
already referenced at http://www.ibogaine.org/csam.html and
http://www.ibogaine.org/dpa.html

Donations to the Dora Weiner Foundation may be sent to our address listed
below. Checks and money orders should be made payable to Dora Weiner
Foundation.
Donations from countries other than the United States should be in the form of
checks or money orders in US dollars drawn on US banks.

Donations should be mail to:

Dora Weiner Foundation
46 Oxford Place
Staten Island, NY 10301
USA

Thank you for your continued support.

We also suggest that other persons interest in this conference consider
attending.  Attendance is limited to 70 persons.  See Conference material
below.

Howard S. Lotsof
President
Dora Weiner Foundation
46 Oxford Place
Staten Island, NY 10301
tel, 718 442-2754
fax, 718 442-1957
email, dwf123@...
http://www.doraweiner.org
*************************************





From: 

AQUIS18@...   

Date: 
2003/09/13 Sat PM 07:50:35 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

Re: [ibogaine] Special Project

Glad to hear you would actually endorse attendance at the CSAM conference where "treatment pimps" like myself, Dr. Mash, Dr. Glick and others will be speaking about Ibogaine.

 
It is our hope and aspiration that Ibogaine will be available as soon as possible, to all those in need of its healing efficacy.
 
 
It seems that many on this site feel this can be done without the hard work of dedicated people who have the credentials to make the powers that be listen to the data.
 
 
We "treatment pimps" are not the game, but have to play the game, if Ibogaine is to ever be made accessible to all who seek it.
 
Practicing addiction medicine and addiction research costs money and is also our avocation. It is,, in part how professionals in the addiction field, support themselves and their families.
 
I don't know what many on the site do for a living but I wonder if they give it away or charge for their work.
 
All  should go to their employers on Monday A.M. and announce that their services are now free.
 
Let he that is without sin cast the first stone and all of that.....
 
I know most are good people or they would not be behind this endeavor in the first place.
 
Then why are so many, so angry at the world? Addiction, is truly a fear and anger based dis/ease.
 
 
I feel fortunate, blessed and honored to have chosen a career that allows to me to help so many on a daily basis, ( regardless of their ability to pay). Unfortunately, I do not own a hospital, treatment center, pharmaceutical company or medical staffing agency. Those things cost money.
 
I receive calls every day from good people who seek treatment and have no medical insurance, money or rich relatives to help.
 
 
I'm sure that those who wish to throw stones at "treatment pimps"  would be glad to donate their pay checks to pay for their detox. If so I will gladly provide my services at any time pro bono.

 
Talk is so cheap.
 
Howard, you have earned the respect of so many and rightly deserve it. I am sure that many others on this site have also done much at their own expense to help others. Yet some are just full of shit and feel they contribute something by bashing others whom they have never met and  know nothing about. That is a sin. plain and simple.
 
To them, I state, another dose of mother Iboga, perhaps? This time the message that love cures not hate, will get through.. we all need to work together. There are so many we have to convince that we can't afford to fraction off  others who work towards the same goal.
 
G-d bless you all (even those who believe in 12 step programs).

-----------


From: 

<crownofthorns@...>   

Date: 
2003/09/13 Sat PM 08:15:11 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

Re: [ibogaine] Special Project

Bro I don't think anyone cares what you do for a living. The only messages
that replied to you were people who busted you for writing a totally
fake message full of lies. From the same account you used to post about
the Star last year.

Nobody has ever called Mash or Glick treatment pimps, they're scientists.
You don't exist anywhere except last on some paper Mash wrote. That is
all I'm finding online. In science that's the 'throwing someone a bone'
listing ;-)

Nobody has ever replied to you to anything except what you yourself put
on the list. That's the Star and the big lie message. What vector replied
is true enough. If you're so important then why are you writing dumb
messages to the ibogaine list asking questions that Mash and Patrick
can answer? It means neither one of them wants to help you with whatever
it is that your doing or whoever your trying to get arrested or shut
down.

Nice love and iboga closing. Done any ever?

Peace out,
Curtis

--------------

From: 

HSLotsof@...   

Date: 
2003/09/13 Sat PM 08:21:31 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

Re: [ibogaine] Special Project

In a message dated 9/14/03 1:16:00 AM, crownofthorns@... writes:

>Nobody has ever called Mash or Glick treatment pimps, they're scientists.
>You don't exist anywhere except last on some paper Mash wrote. That is
>all I'm finding online. In science that's the 'throwing someone a bone'
>listing ;-)

On the issue of the last named author on a paper on some occasions that
individual, I believe Glick may be an example on some of his papers, where the

last
named author is the mover and shaker and the corresponding (first) author is
an upcoming student/colleague.

Just my recollection.  I could be wrong.

Howard



-------------


From: 

AQUIS18@... 

Date: 
2003/09/14 Sun AM 09:26:42 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

Re: [ibogaine] Special Project

I was asked by CSAM at a late date to provide a clinicians view point on Ibogaine. ASAM is open to physician membership only. It is my hope that physicians will listen to another physician who is a certified addictionologist and open their minds to the possibility of Ibogaine.
 
I am not a researcher per per se. I am a clinically based physician. I treat addicts, one at a time. I don't write papers nor seek to be listed on any. I certainly do not need to be "thrown a bone." I am an insignificant piece in the Ibogaine puzzle but will do what I can to inform my colleges about what I have seen.
 
I am an independent practitioner and provide my services as such. I have no relationship to Patrick and I am not an employee of Healing Visions.
 
Just to clarify: I have never given permission to the Star to publish any information nor provide those statements to them.
 
The message relating to different forms of Ibogaine and accessibility related to a family member who has struggled with methadone for 25 years but will not accept help from his own family despite their offers to do so. He is a proud and good man and wanted to do this on his own. 
 
Where my observations correct? Are many on the site, angry people with good intentions? Why strike out at a persons communication skills or make accusations. At least get the facts or ask.

One true fact was noted.  I have no good answer as to why am I wasting my time writing to this site in an attempt to clarify certain issues. I guess I'm just a slow learner and have to be burnt more then once to learn a lesson. I will not make this mistake again
 

Over and OUT

---------------------


From: 

"paul jackamo" <pauljackamo@...> 

Date: 
2003/09/22 Mon AM 06:55:08 CDT

To: 
ibogaine@...

Subject: 

[ibogaine] Article on ibogaine in UK National Newspaper "The Guardian"

Hi Folks

Dont know if anyone has posted this up yet. The article below by Daniel
Pinchbeck appeared in last weekend's Guardian. It was a pretty long article
& the New Scientist article aside a few months back (and of course Nick's
efforts over the years) , it represents a significant exposure of the iboga
meme over here in the UK.

Paul.




>       Ten years of therapy in one night
>
>       Could a single trip on a piece of African rootbark help a junkie
>kick the habit? That was the claim in the 1960s, and now iboga is back in
>the spotlight. But is it a miracle cure? Daniel Pinchbeck decided to give
>it a go. And life, he says, will never be the same again...
>
>       Saturday September 20, 2003
>       The Guardian
>
>       In 1962, Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old heroin addict in New York,
>ordered from a chemist iboga, a plant used in West African rituals, and
>tried it for extra kicks. After consuming the bitter rootbark powder, he
>experienced a visionary tour of his early memories. Thirty hours later,
>when the effects had subsided, he found that he had lost all craving for
>heroin, without withdrawal symptoms of any kind. He said he then gave iboga
>to seven other addicts and five stopped taking drugs immediately
>afterwards.
>       In 1985, Lotsof patented the ibogaine molecule for the purposes of
>addiction treatment, but could not get his treatment approved. In the
>interim years, ibogaine had been declared, along with LSD and several other
>psychedelic molecules, an illegal "schedule one" substance, with potential
>for abuse and no medical value. Although it found dedicated support among a
>ragtag group of countercultural activists and left-over Yippies, in 1995
>the National Institutes of Health discontinued research into the substance,
>and pharmaceutical companies have since ignored it, perhaps due to low
>profit potential.
>
>       But now, interest in ibogaine is growing rapidly, passing a "tipping

>point" through a combination of anecdotal evidence, underground activism,
>journalism and scientific research. Articles have appeared in US
>publications ranging from the authoritative Journal Of The American Medical
>Association (Jama) to the populist Star. The Jama piece, Addiction
>Treatment Strives For Legitimacy, described the drug's stalled and tortured
>path through the regulatory agencies, noting that the treatment's
>frustrated supporters in the US have set up an "underground railroad" to
>give addicts access to the drug: "While unknowable scores of addicts
>continue ingesting ibogaine hydrochloride purified powder - or iboga
>whole-plant extract containing a dozen or more active alkaloids - few
>trained researchers witness the events."
>
>       The Star took a more colourful approach: "Rare Root Has Celebs
>Buzzing" it said, trumpeting the treatment as the hot ticket for "the
>numerous celebs who look for relief from their tough lives in the bottom of
>a bottle of Jack Daniel's, a needle or prescription medicine". The article
>insinuates that "some of our favourite A-listers" not only get cured but
>enjoy the hallucinations as an illicit "fringe benefit". Outside the US,
>new clinics have opened in Mexico, Canada and Europe, offering reasonably
>priced, medically supervised opportunities to try ibogaine as a method of
>overcoming addiction. In fact, at one new clinic in Vancouver, the
>treatment is free.
>
>       Iboga is the sacred essence of the religion of the Bwiti tribe of
>Gabon and Cameroon. Most members of the tribe ingest it just once in their
>lives, during an initiation ceremony in which massive amounts of the
>powdered bark are consumed. Through this ritual, they become a baanzi, one
>who has seen the other world. "Iboga brings about the visual, tactile and

>auditory certainty of the irrefutable existence of the beyond," wrote the
>French chemist Robert Goutarel, who studied the Bwiti. The iboga bark's
>visionary power is produced by a complicated cocktail of alkaloids that
>seems to affect many of the known neurotransmitters, including serotonin
>and dopamine. Its complex molecular key may lock into the addiction
>receptors in a way that resets patterns and blocks the feedback loops that
>reinforce dependency.
>
>       In an essay on ibogaine's anti-addictive properties, Dr Carl
>Anderson of McLean Hospital, Virginia, speculated that addiction is related
>to a disrupted relationship between the brain's two hemispheres, and that
>ibogaine may cause "bihemispheric reintegration". Ibogaine also accesses
>REM sleep in a powerful way - many people need considerably less sleep for
>several months after an ibogaine trip.
>
>       Six years ago, I became a member of the Bwiti. I had heard about
>ibogaine from an assistant in an anarchist bookstore in New York. On a
>magazine assignment, I went to Gabon and took iboga in an initiation
>ceremony. It was one of the most difficult, yet rewarding, experiences of
>my life. I had heard the substance described as "10 years of psychoanalysis
>in a single night" but, of course, I did not believe it. As the tribesmen
>played drums and sang around me until dawn, I lay on a concrete floor and
>journeyed back through the course of my life up to that point, witnessing
>forgotten scenes from childhood. At one point, I had a vision of a wooden
>statue walking across the room and sitting in front of me - later, I was
>told this was "the spirit of iboga" coming out to communicate with me.
>
>       My Bwiti initiation was complicated by a belligerent, greedy shaman
>who called himself The King and demanded more money from us before, during
>and after the ceremony. The King was also dissatisfied with the visions I
>described, and threatened to keep feeding me more iboga until I reported
>more impressive sights. The initiation, which lasted more than 20 hours,
>was ultimately liberating. At one point, I was shown my habitual overuse of
>alcohol and the effect it was having on my relationships, my writing and my
>psyche. When I returned to the US, I steadily reduced my drinking to a

>fraction of its previous level - an adjustment that seems to be permanent.
>
>       Recently, I tried ibogaine for a second time. I took it at the
>Ibogaine Association, a clinic in Rosarito, Mexico. I had been contacted by
>a heroin addict who had been inspired to take ibogaine after reading the
>book I wrote about my experiences: three months after his first treatment
>in Mexico, he was still clean - after a 12-year dependency. He told me,
>"Your book saved my life." He had given Dr Martin Polanco, the clinic's
>founder, a copy of my book, and he had offered me a free treatment. I was
>curious to see how the experience would differ away from its tribal
>context. My new friend wanted to take it again to reinforce the effect. We
>went down together.
>
>       Polanco estimates that his clinic has treated nearly 200 addicts in
>its first 18 months. About one third of those patients have managed to stay
>clean - either permanently or for a considerable period; many have returned
>for a second treatment. "Ibogaine needs to be much more widely available,"
>Polanco says. "We still have a lot to learn about how to administer it, how
>to work with it." He does not think iboga is a cure for addiction, but is
>convinced it is a powerful tool for treatment - and, in some cases, it is a
>cure. He plans to set up several non-profit clinics. "This is something
>that should be non-profit," he says. "After all, it is a plant. It came up
>from the earth. It does give you some guidance. It shows you how you really
>are." He chuckles. "That can be scary."
>
>       The Ibogaine Therapy House in Vancouver, British Columbia, opened
>last November. "So far, we have treated 14 people quite well," says Marc
>Emery, the clinic's founder and head of the BC Marijuana Party. "They all
>say that their life has improved." Emery, nicknamed the "Prince of Pot", is

>funding the free clinic with proceeds from his successful hemp seed
>business. "Ibogaine stops the physical addiction without causing
>withdrawal," he says, "and it deals with the underlying psychological
>issues that lead to drug use."
>
>       Emery estimates that treatment for each patient at the clinic costs
>around $1,500 (£943), which includes two administrations of the drug. "When
>I found out about ibogaine, I felt that someone should be researching this,
>but the drug companies aren't interested because there is no commercial
>potential in this type of cure." Neither he nor Polanco is too concerned
>about ambiguous studies on ibogaine's toxicity. As the Jama article noted,
>"One reviewer wrote that the drug's toxicology profile was 'less than
>ideal', with bradycardia [an abnormally slow heartbeat] leading the list of
>worrisome adverse effects."
>
>       "From the masses of reports I have studied, a total of six people
>have died around the time they took ibogaine," says Emery. "Some were in
>poor health, some took other drugs at the time of their treatment. That
>doesn't scare me off. I have a lot of confidence in ibogaine."
>
>       At this stage, with little scientific study, the true toxicology of
>ibogaine is impossible to determine - the treatment is unlicensed in other
>countries and illegal in the US. The decision whether or not to take such a
>risk is entirely personal. Emery notes that his clinic screens for heart
>problems and other medical conditions that might contraindicate the
>treatment. It also gives patients small daily doses of iboga for two weeks
>after their initial treatment. "Iboga tends to make anything bad for you
>taste really crappy. If possible, we want our patients to quit cigarettes
>at the same time. We think that cigarettes can lead people back to other
>addictions."
>
>       Emery notes that nobody has so far criticised the project, and he is
>seeking support from local government. "Iboga tells you to change your ways
>or else - it goes over all of your health and personal issues. It is like
>the ghost of Christmas past."
>
>       Randy Hencken drove us from San Diego to the Ibogaine Association. A
>25-year-old former heroin addict who had kicked the habit after two

>ibogaine treatments at the clinic, he was now working for the association,
>going to local methadone centres with flyers and keeping in contact with
>former patients. The first treatment costs $2,800 (£1,760), including an
>initial medical examination and several days' convalescence afterwards, but
>subsequent visits are only $600 (£377) - and it seems most addicts need at
>least two doses of ibogaine to avoid relapsing.
>
>       The Ibogaine Association is in a quiet, dignified house overlooking
>the Pacific, decorated with Buddhist statues and yarn paintings from
>Mexico's Huichol people. I was given a medical examination by Polanco and a
>test dose of the drug. Twentyminutes after ingesting the test dose, I
>started to feel nervous and light-headed. As I took the other pills - a
>gel-capped extract of the rootbark powder - I realised I was in for a
>serious trip.
>
>       The nurse led me back to my room. My head already spinning, I lay
>back on the bed as she hooked me up to an electrocardiograph and headphones
>playing ambient music.Why was I doing this again? Ibogaine is no pleasure
>trip. It not only causes violent nausea and vomiting, but many of the
>"visions" it induces amount to a painful parading of one's deepest faults
>and moral failings. I had a loud, unpleasant buzzing in my ears - the Bwiti
>probably pound on drums throughout the ceremony to overwhelm this noise.
>With my eyes closed, I watched as images began to emerge like patterns out
>of TV static. I saw a black man in a 1940s-looking suit. He was holding the
>hand of a five-year-old girl and leading her up some stairs. I understood
>that the girl in the vision was me and that the man represented the spirit
>of iboga. He was going to show me around his castle.
>
>       While startling at the time, such an encounter with a seeming
>"spirit of iboga" is a typical vision produced by the Bwiti sacrament. In

>many accounts, people describe meeting a primordial African couple in the
>jungle. Sometimes, the iboga spirit manifests itself as a "ball of light"
>that speaks to the baanzi, saying, "Do you know who I am? I am the chief of
>the world, I am the essential point!" Part of my trip took the form of an
>interview that was almost journalistic. I could ask direct questions of "Mr
>Iboga" and receive answers that were like emphatic, telegraphed shouts
>inside my head - even in my deeply stoned state, I managed to scrawl down
>in my notebook many of the responses.
>
>       I askedMr Iboga what iboga was. I was told simply: "Primordial
>wisdom teacher of humanity!"
>
>       Later, my personal faults and lazy, decadent habits were replayed
>for me in detail. When I asked what I should do, the answer was stern and
>paternal: "Get it straight now!"
>
>       This ideal of straightness, uprightness, kept returning during the
>trip - a meaningful image for me, as I suffer from scoliosis, a curvature
>of the spine. When I was shown other faults that seemed rather petty and
>insignificant, I tried to protest that some of these things really didn't
>matter. Iboga would have none of it, insisting: "Everything matters!"
>
>       Iboga told me that I had no idea of the potential significance of
>even the smallest actions. I reviewed some events in my life and my
>friends' lives that seemed bitterly unfair. Yet, in this altered state, I
>felt I could sense a karmic pattern behind all of them, perhaps extending
>back to previous incarnations. Iboga affirmed this, dictating: "God is
>just!"
>
>       To many readers, these insights may sound trivial. They did not feel
>that way at the time. They were delivered with great force and minimalist
>precision. While they might have been manifestations of my own mind, they
>seemed like the voice of an "other". Generally, I never think in such
>direct terms about "God", and "primordial wisdom teacher" is not my syntax.
>
>       During the night, I had numerous visions and ponderous metaphysical
>insights. At one point, I seemed to fly through the solar system and into
>the sun, where winged beings were spinning around the core at a tremendous

>rate. Up close, they looked like the gold-tinged angels in early
>Renaissance paintings. Perhaps due to my recent reading of the Austrian
>visionary Rudolf Steiner, this whole trip had a kind of eco-Christian
>flavour to it. At one point, I thought of humans as an expression of the
>Gaian Mind, the earth's sensory organs and self-reflective capacities, at
>the planet's present state of development. If we are changing quickly right
>now, I considered, it is only because the earth has entered an accelerated
>phase of transformation, forcing a fast evolution in human consciousness.
>
>       The loud buzzing sound that ibogaine produced seemed to be something
>like a dial tone, as if the alkaloid were in itself a device for
>communicating on a different frequency than the usual one. Thinking of my
>girlfriend and our child, I realised that I was lucky - "You are lucky!" Mr
>Iboga echoed. I felt tremendous, tearful gratitude that I had been given a
>chance to live and love, to explore and try to understand so many things.
>
>       As so often these days, I pondered on the terrible state of the
>world - wars and terrors and environmental ruin. I saw sheets of
>radioactive flame devouring cities, huge crowds reduced to cinders. I asked
>Mr Iboga if this was going to be the tragic fate of humanity. The answer I
>received was startling - and reassuring: "Everything is safe in God's
>hands!"
>
>       As ludicrous as it may sound, this message has stayed with me and
>alleviated much paranoia and anxiety. While tripping, I decided that Mr
>Iboga was a form of enlightened mind, like a buddha who had chosen a
>different form, as a plant spirit rather than human teacher, to work with
>humanity, imparting a cosmic message of "tough love". At one point I asked
>if he would consider incarnating as a person, and the answer I got was,
>basically, "Already did that!" - implying that, in some previous cycle, he

>had passed through the perilous stages of evolution we are now navigating.
>I also came away from this trip with the suspicion that iboga was the
>original inspiration for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the
>Biblical tale. The plant's placement in equatorial Africa, cradle of
>humanity, would support this idea, as well as its sobering moral rectitude.
>The "good and evil" that iboga reveals is not abstract but deeply personal,
>and rooted in the character of the individual.
>
>       Late in the night, I retched and vomited out bitter rootbark
>residue. I put on a CD of African drumming. Closing my eyes, I watched a
>group of smiling Bwiti women dance around a jungle bonfire. After that, the
>visions died down, although it was impossible to sleep until late the next
>night.
>
>       My friend in recovery had a less visionary experience. His faults
>were also paraded in front of him in repetitive loops that seemed endless.
>At one point, I heard him scream out, "No! No! No!" He saw a possible
>future for himself if he didn't kick heroin - becoming a dishwasher,
>sinking into dissolute old age with a bad back and a paunch. He asked what
>he could do to help save the world. He was told: "Clean up your room!"
>Meditating on his experience later, my friend quipped, "Ibogaine is God's
>way of saying, 'You're mine!' "
>
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To get on the poster for 2004--"Mayday is Jay Day"--check yr contact info on the old list below, and add yr city to this New List

Albany: Terry Phelan 518-436-7098

Albuquerque: Cindy Giannini  Cin_L_@... (505) 880-0666   Between 500 and 1000 participants in '02, no arrests

Ashland: "Amber Leiter" <amleiter@...> 1528 Township Road 1153, Ashland, Ohio 44805.

419-289-8810  419-207-8834

Asheville: 828-254-4062 Mary Jane dazed_n_confused420@... PO Box 1661, Asheville, NC Org email: lilpunkbabe420@... We had close to 5,000 people come out and smoke up with us.

Auckland: Albert Park. ph 09 302 52555 auckland@...  www.norml.org.nz  Chris Fowlie, NORML New Zealand, PO Box 3307, Shortland Street, Auckland, NZ

Boone: Joshua Nathan Simmons <js28918@...>  114 trivette's dr., boone, nc 28607

Bratislava: hromi@...  http://kyberia.sk 00420 776 126 587 Daniel Hromada, Haanova 44. Bratislava 851 04, Slovak Republic

Buenos Aires: daihatsu missminipimer@... www.mefis.to   or miss olga summers olgasummers@... www. ligalais.com  ARDA (011) 15 40289847 RADDUD (011) 46357820

Nos juntaremos el 4 de mayo, 16 hs., a fumar uno en el planetario buenos aires.

Capetown: "greggoodwin" <greggoodwin@...> or "Marcus \(Home\)" <mt3825@...> 082 674 2299     100 people, mostly Rasta's, in '02.

Christchurch: Blair Anderson <blair@...> Mild Green Media Centre ph:  ++64 3 389-4065   025 2657219 Website pages.quicksilver.net.nz/blair Newsforum news://http://www.reddfish.co.nz/alcp  see http://mildgreens.com/mmm2003.htm no arrests. police present but ignored. (you can see police cars in the background of some photos)  100's of joints thrown to the crowd. 100's of Cannabiscuits distributed. The bongs and chillums and hot knives were visible.. (see photo's)  about 300 people over about 4 hours. Street march... "prohibition free zone declared". briefly mentioned on local news.

Cincinnati: the Happy Hemptress <hemptress@...> 513-684-HEMP

Cleveland: John <OCannabisSociety@...> (216)521-9333 http://ohiocannbis.org 2,000 participants. No arrests.

Columbia: Henry Koch hkochii@...  or Malece Howard benegezzeret@...  803-413-8144  1300 Langford Rd Blythewood, SC 29016

Dallas: Paula Matson 817-299-8447

Darwin: mick lambe pariahnt@... or http://napnt.org napp biggpond <napnt@...> We are continually harassed by Police -- I'll forward this on to NAP as PARIAH are concentrating on other issues right now.

Dayton: Sterling Albury 937-685-9148 graspinfinity@...

Des Moines: iowanorml@... (515) 288-5798

http://iowanorml.home.mchsi.com/ http://commonlink.com/~olsen/ ,

mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/, http://www.iowanorml.org/

http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/index.html ; or Terry Mitchell

(515) 789-4442; 608 Dallas St., Dexter, Iowa 50070. 300 marchers, police friendly.

Detroit: "Professor Hemp" <newagecitizen@...> 313-563-3192 or Dimitri 313-506-5724;

<http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/detroit.htm>www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/detroit.htm Noon-5:00pm Grand Circus Park at Woodward & Adams. Two bands, speakers and "Shattered Lives" display. Ibogaine press conference at 2:30pm   Sidewalk march at 4:20pm along Woodward

Dover: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...> Delaware Cannabis Society, 63 Lawson Ave.

Claymont, DE 19703 (302) 793-0716  299 demonstrators, 8,000 spectators, cops watched and did nothing in '02.

Dublin: "Butler, Philip" <phillty2@...> +353 1 4163707 or

<jday@...> http://www.cannabisireland.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group//ie-cannabis/ 1,000 people in "02.

Dunedin: The Octagon. dunedin@...

Eugene: Kris Millegan <Hempsters@...> 800-556-2012

http://www.ctrl.org/mmm     600-800 folks in '02. One arrest.  Kris Millegan P.O. Box 577, Walterville, OR 97489

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

Ft. Lauderdale: Chris Kenoyer 954-938-7231 Florida Chapter AAMC America Alliance For Medical Cannabis http://www.onlinepot.org The Complete Guide To Medical Marijuana Fort Laudedale/broward county

email: floridaaamc@... More Secure Emails at onlinepot2@... - Or Normal Emails onlinepot2@...

Halifax: 902 865-8606 Michael Patriquin <mpat@...>

HempWorks, 93 Orchard Dr, Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia B4E 3B3

Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org sky@... Finnish Cannabis Association, Sorvaajankatu 9 A, 00810 Helsinki, Finland   600 - 1000 people in '03, at least in the park. In the evening happening there were lots of bands but only some 300 people because of another happening for younger audience w. similar themes. Because there were demonstrations in 4 cities (Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Oulu) in Finland, news coverage was good.TV 1 showed Helsinki demonstration in the main news cast 8.30 PM.

Hilo: Roger Christie <pakaloha@...> (808) 961-0488

http://www.thc-ministry.org 200 in '02.

Houston: Dean Farrell houstonnorml.org or info@... (281)752-9198.

http://www.cultural-baggage.com c/o Dean Becker, 11215 Oak Spring, Houston, TX 77043 Total attendance was about 5 hundred in '02. Narc infiltrators mar event.

Kansas City: <mohemp@...> http://www.mohemp.org David 816-678-7447, 'its a

beautiful day' 3918 broadway, kansas city mo. 64111... 816 931

6169.

Lansing: Kathy Kennedy 517-628-3915 or e-mail: "kathy kennedy"

<prohibitionx@...> http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/lansing.htm  Certified ASL interpreters

Las Vegas: Stoner Club  c/o Kimberly B. greatquests@...  http://www.stonerclub.com  Please contact me for ideas and more information.  We are in the planning stages at this time

Levin: Kimberly Reserve. levin@...

Mexico City: +5300 5774 email: helmcke@... or volgn@... or"Tato"  foigras2002@... "Camello"  cosmocamello@...  "Asoc. Mexicana de Estudios Sobre el Cannabis" <amecamexico@...> Leopoldo Rivera

Rivera/AsociaciÛn Mexicana de Estudios sobre el Cannabis,

Amapola # 35, col. Jardines del Molinito, Naucalpan, Estado de

MÈxico. CP. 53530 MEXICO or Adolfo Prieto 1003, Col. del Valle,

C.P. 03100, Mexico, D.F. or Samuel Martínez Ramírez

Av. Azcapotzalco #193-4 Col. Clavería Mexico D.F.

 www.vivecondrogas.com, www.amecamexico.org, www.hemp.com.mx Almost 300 people in '02.

Minneapolis: Grassroots Party or Chris Wright <TCW@...> 612-522-5374. 400 folks, no arrests in '02.

Montpelier: Rama Schneider <vtmmm@...> (802) 433-5441

address: 1614 Gilbert Road, Williamstown, VT 05679

http://www.ramabahama.net Several people handed out literature in '02.

Napier: Marine Parade. hawkesbay@...

Nashville: "Howie & Marivuana Leinoff" <torml@...> or marivuana@... (615)ACT-HIGH. http://www.marivuana.com http://www.punkenstein.com  150 marchers, no arrests; first tv coverage in '02.

Newark: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...> Delaware Cannabis Society, 63 Lawson Ave.

Claymont, DE 19703 (302) 793-0716

New Orleans : Daisy 504-957-HERB hemp.rox.com    email:<NewOrleansMarch@...>

New York City: Dana 212-677-7180 <dana@...> 7,000 participants in '02. 148 arrests.

Nimbin: Max Stone of the Australian Cannabis Law Reform

Movement" aclrm@... ph: 61 0266 891842

http://www.nimbinaustralia.com http://www.bigbongburgerbar.com/webshow/ 24,000 participants in '02. No arrests.

Ogden: Happy Gorder happy04202003@... 801-603-4720 1065 Wall Ave (85A), Ogden, UT 84404

 

Orlando: Anthony Lorenzo  407-687-1622 or1-888-210-0425 toll free pager

Paducah:  Cher Ford-McCullough http://community-2.webtv.net/KYMMM2003/KentuckyMillion/ Postal: 65 Cabin Lane, Gilbertsvile, Ky. 42044 or Brian kymmm2003@...  (270) 362-8186 50 marchers, 90 at rally, one undercover in '02.

Paris: FARId GHEHIOUECHE farid@... 00 33 (0)6 148 156 79 ; 5, rue de

Tombouctou 75018 PARIS or CAM-RD 9, passage Dagorno 75020 PARIS.
Since 2001, PARIS is part of the Global march for Cannabis liberation by

gathering all  french cannabis legalizers in Bastille place, May 1st at 2:00 PM. Everyone and

every groups are welcome to organize their local events in order to increase the

pressure for cannabis liberation around the world.

Parkersburg: "Cindy Wimer" <indianbud@...> "Mountaineers for Medical Marijuana" 304-428-1726

Philadelphia:  "chuck palmer" <chuckp@...> 610-279-6358  100 participants, no arrests in '02.

Prague: Michael "xChaos" Polak <mmmteam@...> Tel: +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33358050  http://www.legalizace.cz MMM 2003 was the smoothest,most "mainstream" legalization event.... 2000 people, almost zero interest from police... MMM looks more and more like regular festival, rather than political rally. However media coverage was good/neutral, and as usual, it seems politicians are more likely to talk about legalization after MMM attracts media. We publicly announced the list of 8 people imprisoned for cannabis only out of 10 million. But Vaclav Havel is no longer president; Havel used right to give amnesty to prisoners to virtually veto some laws, including cannabis possession.

Portland: 2004 MMM Organizing Committee, c/o Oregon NORML, PO Box 16057, Portland, Or 97292    503.239.6110

Madeline Martinez: yerbanena@...  Steven M. Cooper: OrNorml.Secretary@...

Raleigh-Durham: Bryan T. Moore <btm42@...> 124 S. Applewood Ct., Rocky Mount NC 27803  phone (919) 247-2644 or Chris Harris (919)368-5913 or "Jeff Badalucco"

<nc_ca@...> 919-247-2644 238 124 S. Applewood Ct., Rocky Mount NC 27803

Raleigh NC MMM will be held at the Capitol Building from 4-9pm on Saturday May 3rd.

Rapid City: Bob Newland <newland@...> 605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/  300 marchers in '02.

Richmond: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer@...> (804)355-7612 <http://us.f148.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=onelovedesignz@...m>or S.L. Barker (RCHO) onelovedesignz@...  Monroe Park

Rosario: +54 - 341-4201291 or +54 - 341- 4642699 E-mail: raddud@... Corrientes 1307, 2000 - Rosario- ARGENTINA Nearly 400 participants in '02.

 

Salt Lake City: Dr. Ken Larsen (801) 533-8658 < kencan@... > 856 E. 100 South (#2), Salt Lake City, UT 84102 or Ben Valdez 801-304-0303 hempower@...  http:/ www.utahmmj.org 300 noisy marchers, no arrests.

San Francisco: Hemp Evolution/Clark Sullivan http://hempevolution.org (415) 724-5081 "freeman sullivan" webmaster@... 4,000 participants in '02, no arrests.

San Juan: Alejandro "Zen" Otero hempwierdzenie@... postal: 425 carr. 693 PMB 130 Dorado PR 00646-4802 Tel# 787-345-9036  Also: www.Earthdance.org   earthdancepuertorico@...

 

San Marcos: Joe Ptak: 512.754.0264 Email:

kindradio@... Postal: 505 Patricia, San

Marcos, TX; 78666

Spokane: Darren McCrea 509-998-3405  rcannabisclub.org 4807 N. Adams, Spokane, WA 99205

St. Louis: 314-567-8522 gstlnorml@... or St. Louis Area NORML , PO Box 220243,

St. Louis, MO 63122.   http://www.gstlnorml.org 600 marched to the Arch for cannabis reform.

Sturgeon Falls: Bro Michael Ethier 705 753-4756 maryhuanamike@... ..c/o Tarzan's Mission of the Sacred Herb,171 Queen Street, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada P2B 2G2

Tampa: revolutionary_stoner@... or Kelly 813-389-8941 Over 100 participants in '02.

Tokyo: Takao Bakuya (Cannabist) info@... +81-3-3706-6885 http://www.cannabist.org 1,200 participants in '03.

Toronto: Larry Duprey (416)540-7829 fax(416)242-2635 or Toronto Area Association / Marijuana Party of Canada, 132 Dundas St. East, Toronto, On M5B 1E2 (416)367-3459 3-6,000 participants in '02. http://www.canadiancannabisawards.ca http://www.cannabisclub.ca

Traverse City: Melody Karr <fiddlefoot420@...>

(231)885-2993 PO Box 524 Mesick, MI 49668. or 10954 Birch Road

Mesick MI 49668. 70 marchers, hundreds of spectators in '02.

http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/traversecity.htm

Tucson: mary mackenzie <mmackenzie2@...> (520)323-2947  or 3400 east speedway, #118, tucson, arizona 85716 Over 200 participants in '02.

Tupelo: Contact: Anita T. Mayfield Phone # 662-963-0775, E-mail:  <mailto:nita@...>nita@...

Upper Lake, Ca.: Linda & Eddy Lepp"linda senti"

<lisenti@...> 707-275-8879 Several hundred showed up, 140 new patients signed up. in "03.

Vancouver: David Malmo-Levine, <dagreenmachine@...> BC

Marijuana Party Bookstore and Internet Broadcasting Center, 307

West Hastings Tel. 604 682-1172 http://www.cannabisculture.com 2,000 marchers in '02.

Wellington: Frank Kitts Park. wellington@...

Wichita: Debby Moore, CEOHemp Industries of Kansas 2742 E. 2nd Wichita, Kansas, 67214  (316) 681 1743 debby@...; or c.a. riley, Kansas NORML  316.685.7869  ksnorml@... http://www.ksnorml.org Last year about thrity people met and marched through downtown Wichita. I will plan a cookout with speakers, but will certainly discourage any smoking of the herb cannabis.

Wilmington: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...> Delaware Cannabis Society, 63 Lawson Ave.

Claymont, DE 19703 (302) 793-0716

The following 2003 List consists of 231 cities [If you want to upload ANY  of the following to the web, remember that [bracketed material] is private, and intended for internal information of this network only--so that Dana Larsen can send you a check and a box of CANNABIS CULTURE magazines, in other words. DON'T--DO NOT--PUT IT ON A WEBSITE] or may be accessed at  http://www.cures-not-wars.org/cities.htm   Another, no-longer active list follows the 2003 list below for regional organizers who want to follow-up and reactivate those cities for next year. An alternative, MMM Million Marijuana March, 236+ cities globally can be accessed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction  :

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