Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:57:07 -0400
To: greenpartydrugsgroup@...
From: Dana Beal
Subject: GMfCL 2003 #46: Berlin, Burlington, Cologne, San Diego,
Springfield, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C. Make 84 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@...,
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Chris Wright , rastapeace@...,
pdxnorml@..., hempSA@..., smuuthc11@...,
acididea@..., , andyganja2001@...,
"Melody Karr" ,
"Howie Hempalot" , ,
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mayday@onelist.com, "kathy kennedy" ,
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"Roy B. Scherer" ,
helmut holtzheimer , phillty2@...,
steph@..., "Bill Downing" ,
"Dave Toaff" , mmm@...,
"Angela Goodhope" ,
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"Bud Spliff" , info@...,
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mary mackenzie , hilary@...,
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bitchcrafts420@..., kendermag@...,
"melissa ann"

 HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE MILLION MARIJUANA MARCH--BOOK A YIPPIE SPEAKER!

Recently we wrote you that we need on average $100 for each affiliate to print  and ship this year's poster--and that if you can't send it, we have to raise it somewhere else.

You can help. Go to http://www.yippiespeakers.com  Here's the good news: 20% of all speaker fees go to printing and operating expenses for the MMM 2004. (If you can get me booked personally it's 100%.)

Some of these speakers like Grace Slick and Hunter Thompson get $25,000 just for appearing at yr local university! (Some like Dennis Peron are available for a few thousand) Your local group gets 4% finders' fee.

What we need you to do is contact yr local on-campus activists and have them agitate their student affairs folks in charge of outside speakers  (or equivalent) to book some of our speakers. It's important to clarify that we are NOT  asking them to get this from the budget of their NORML or SSDP chapter, but from the campus office that books outside speakers. (At Kent State they call it the Office of Student Life, and they paid me $4,000 for a three hour appearance, which went straight to the printer.)

It's a good year for it. Things have come full-circle for Yippie! We have all the elements--an illegitimate  Republican President everyone hates at home, a quagmire war abroad--for the first time  since the '70's. And best of all, even though all our speakers support cannabis and oppose the drug war, they are Yippie, not legalization speakers, so you won't have to deal with demands from the university administration that you find some anti-drug speaker for "Balance" or you don't get the booking. (Since we are moving toward protests against the Republican Convention in NYC next August, to be fair they'd have to demand an opponent of protests, period, which is absurd.)

If you have a hot prospect,  email me right back; but since  about half of everything sent to this address "bounces", be sure to also put in a call to the speakers bureau at 212-529-3026, and leave a message if no one picks up. Or call me at 212-677-7180.

Dana/cnw

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So far, 85  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

berlin

boone
bratislava
buenos aires

burlington

capetown
christchurch
cincinnati
cleveland

cologne

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

missoula
montpelier
napier

nashville

newark

new orleans
new york
nimbin

ogden

omaha

orlando
paducah
paris
parkersburg
philadelphia

phoenix
portland
prague
raleigh-durham
rapid city
richmond
rosario
salt lake city

san diego
san francisco

san juan
san marcos

springfield
st. louis
sturgeon falls
tampa

tel aviv
toronto
tokyo
traverse city
tucson
tupelo
upper lake
vancouver

washington, d.c.
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!!!*****

From: mt3825@...

Dear Dana

We marched up Adderley Street on Saturday, 3 May 2003 - from the American
Embassy to the Houses of Parliament. A petition was handed to an official
from the Office of the Public Protector. The petition, amongst other things
calls, for the release of the findings of research conducted by the South
African government. The most vocal spokesperson was André (I think his
surname is Pretorius). There were about 20 marchers (I guess that is one of
every ten thousand users in Cape Town?).

I still wish you, or someone from your organisation, could visit us.

Kind thoughts

Marcus du Toit
082 674 2299
Cape Town

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from: wachtel@...

dana
u can add tel aviv to next year's global cannabis event
thanks
boaz wachtel

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From: tents444@...

Prague, Czech Republic. Million Marijuana March 2003. Cannabis Liberation.
 
Go to the original page of these MMM 2003 photos,
and click the photos there to enlarge them.
http://www.blisty.cz/gal.php?id=354&skin=dark
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

----end of excerpts from a photo page for MMM 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Several thousand people attended.-----

More Prague MMM photos:

http://www.legalizace.cz/index.php?clanekid=280


    Britske listy
  # galerie 1
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  # galerie 3
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    Technisco.cz
  # galerie

    Techno.cz

  # galerie

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Berlin: Martin Muencheberg <martin@...> 0049-30-29490201 http://www.hanfparade.de [200 participants, 2,000 spectators in '02.

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Cologne: grow!Club CannaCom e.V. /redAktion: 0221 562-6347

"Vinnie" <info@...> http://www.grow.de Info booth by grow! w. JES, akzept &

VfD drew interest...

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From: hardy@...

Dana,

Please add me to the list for Burlington's MMM contact info.

Hardy Macia
hardy@...
802-372-9512

[31 Town Line Road, Grand Isle, VT 05458]

Hardy

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From: taporter84@...

Dana,
  You can add me to your list for next year as:

Washington, D.C.: Toni Keane <MMM_DCA@...>
http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html

Note that the e-mail address has changed to
MMM_DCA@... and this is important, I can no
longer use my personal e-mail for the event.
This years event was fine, no arrests or anything.

Only 60 people at peak though and donations didn't
cover costs. 
Sorry but I can't send any money to help cover costs
as I spent a lot of my own money on the event this
year and anticipate doing the same next year (and no,
I don't make very much).  If worst comes to worst, we
can try to print our own posters.  If anyone joins the
effort who can do fundraising, this may change but so
far all volunteers want to do is post flyers. 
Write back to confirm you got this if at all possible.
 Thanks.
Toni

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Springfield:  Joe Setzer (417) 877-6832 <theosopher420@...>137 Hackberry Lane,  Seymour, MO 65746 The march will begin on the Springfield Square at 4:20 sharp, and will take approximately 1 hour (allowing time for dawdling).

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from: terrapin_turtle@...

sorry St Louis MO has taken so long to report, i think we all thought
someone else was on it.
This years March to the Arch was a bit shaky. We had problems getting our
flyers as someone in our group changed all our contact info and then
perhaps that address was misplaced so who ever sent the package looked up
our official address and sent the package there, which would have been
great if we had been looking for it there. As it were though, we were
told the package was going to this one dudes house so when we all left to
the National NORML conference, no one worried about checking our PO Box.
Low and behold the flyers sat there the whole time we were gone and so we
had a bit of trouble passing them all out in time. For future reference,

our PO Box is the better place to send stuff but in this case the dude
assured us stuff was coming to his house so we paid up all our bills and
didn't make other arrangements for the PO Box. We did make our own flyers
and several members worked on getting those spread out around town, and
we did receive a bunch of Cannabis Cultures from Dana Larsen which we
enjoyed handing out. On Saturday we had multiple problems with the
police. They were thick as thieves so to speak. Harassing us about "who
is in charge" and "what's going on here?" even though they obviously knew
or they wouldn't have been out in such droves! Our count was down
substantially from years past to 250-300 people. The weather was great

though and everyone present was very enthusiastic. We had lots of
pre-made signs for people to use, drums, a color guard etc. We did our
march as usual from a park, Kiener Plaza, in down town STL at 4:20 to the
Arch grounds. We had speakers and victim testimonials at the Arch grounds
using an amp system run through an inverter powered by our hemp
bio-diesel powered car (we had saved up hemp bio-diesel for that specific
purpose, for daily use we use soy bio-diesel but we wanted to be able to
say powered by hemp!). Unfortunately on going problems with the car
caused us to have to leave it running while gathering in the park and a
cop gave the registered owner a ticket for "unattended motor vehicle"
when said person crossed the park to deliver the American, Earth and Hemp
flags to the color guard! Mind you, never out of sight of the car. We
only had a brief problem on Arch grounds as it is now a potential
terrorist target (?!) so the group wasn't allowed to pass under the Arch
and had to detour, quite a bit, around it. Then we chose to sit on the
grass next to the Arch steps as construction left very little of the huge
amphitheater like staircase available for our use and although we had a
permit for the steps, we thought it would be very rude of us to block

them. There were 2 national park service personnel who sorta watched over

us but other than the redirect around the Arch we had no contact with

them. Once on Federal property, as in years past, the attitude of the
"officials" is much more laid back than from the City cops. Our event
wound down by 7pm. And we will participate in 2004's event although we
may change our routine a bit. Our info is current on your list although
you may want to add our hotline number 314-995-1395 to the other phone
number you have listed. We know you prefere a live person but our hotline
is available 24-7 and less likley to change.

_____________________________________________

From: foigras2002@...

Dana:

Fisrt of all please include us in the list of the next year march.
Report from México City:
 
Around 3000 persons met in the central park "Alameda Central" to claim for the civil rights of Mariguana users. During more than 3 hours the croud walked  around this  historic park in a festivity mood with the ambient of  drum music. We did  informative stops in the fountains of the park where Ricardo Sala, Jorge Hernandez, Leopoldo Rivera, and Lobo talked about legalization, prohibition, actual legal situation and alternative use of Marihuana.
 
We are glad to say that this march was more than 4 times bigger than last year and was covered by more than a dozen of newspapers and television. Even a politic party participated in an historic day for the mexican legalization movement.
 
No problems with police and autorities.
 
thanks and a hello to the activists of the world
Tato
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From: sisterearth420@...

Dana-
 
I am so sorry that it has taken so long to get to you regarding our phone conversation last Wednesday.  Between parenting, no internet at home, and my new job as a legal assistant to some of the most prominent attorneys in the state-  :)  I haven't had a moment to myself it seems-  Excuses, excuses
 

March starts at noon at Jacob's Island.  ALong Clark Fork River, across Higgins Street Bridge and to the Court House.  Gathering with drummers, fire dancers, music, free hemp treats, and bartering until 4:19-  Spirited speakers and a moment of silence for those who are victims of the drug war.  Sage burning and such-

PLease use old contact info until we get a better phone number-   Shipping address can be 613 DeFoe St.  Missoula, MT  59802   My personal mailing address is PO Box 8022 MIssoula MT  59807
 
I will be mailing a check for our city's posters in the next month or so-
 
Once again, I am sorry for my delay-
 
power to the peaceful,

Angela Goodhope

From: donnaclee@...

Dana,
 
 I've been meaning to send this update to you regard this year's MMM Rally/March here in San Diego. Unfortunately, we were rained out; rain started at about 6AM and didn't let up until almost 3PM and although we only had a handful of people that showed up despite the weather, I think we've acquired a real good contingent of activists to work on making next year's MMM 2004 successful.
Keep us posted; and send all further email messages to cannabiswoman2002@...  please???
Please erase this address from your contact list. Thanks!!!
Pax,
Donna
Cannabis Freedom Coalition, San Diego

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

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From: Garyrumor@...

Click here: israelinsider: security: Der Speigel: Israel preparing strike to take out Iranian nuclear sites http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El2851&enZone=Security&enVersion=0&

Israel and the US are playing a crude game of coercion against the Iranian and Syrian Governments. The US wants a free hand in Iraq and the Israelis want the same in Palestine. They are rattling their sabers against the two regimes to see how far they can bully the Syrians and Iranians without having to actually exert any specific force other than the air raid last week by the Israelis. The US and its Israeli junior partner are up to their necks in a gambit to bring about a sea change in the way the Muslim regimes play in the low intensity war that has been ongoing since the birth of the Israeli State in the middle east. It seems that the Bushites are trying to use force and the threat of force to end support for resistance movements in both Iraq and Palestine on the part of their most public supporters. The real source of support, Saudi Arabia is being threatened in a round about manner. The financing comes from Saudi Arabia as do many of the fundamentalist recruits. But it is inconvenient for the US to assault the Saudis at this time with the Iraqi oil infrastructure in such bad shape and under continuous attack. If the regimes in Syria and Iran can be replaced with dictatorships like that in Egypt. That would satisfy the basic need on the part of the US and to a lesser extent the Israelis.
The problem is the people in these countries are not likely to support such efforts. In Iran a campaign to identify the forces for liberalization with the US government may back fire with a resurgence of nationalism, especially if the Israelis strike at the Iranian Nuclear power facilities. In Syria the stakes are not as high as the government there has fewer resources to bolster its military and no obvious supporters to turn to. The government is secular and with Kadafi making peace noises with the West it will have to turn to the more fundamentalist regimes in Saudi Arabia, and Iran for support. The NATO Turks are no help unless a fundamentalist revival reaches the pro western military circles and a rejection by the EU for membership could only help that along. Syria is being picked on because of its relative isolation and weakened position in the current state of Muslim affairs.

Only the determination of the people as a whole presenting a united front could give the US and Israel a strong enough check, that and the disapproval of the rest of the Muslem and western world as a whole.  As long as the US can bribe and bully small and weak nations around the world into joining the laughable coalition of the willing the Bushites will be able to convince itself that it has support. It will require the pressure of the civilized world and concerned citizens within the nation against such blatant actions as the Bushites are contemplating in Syria to stop them from proceeding. Contact your congressman and do what you can locally. No Invasion of Syria or Iran!!!! - Gary Rumor

From: tents444@...

http://www.shministim.org/english/1e.htm
An activist of the youth refusal movement, enjoys the warmth of burning draft orders.

The demonstration took place in front of the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem.

From: Pieman@...

http://halliburtonhell.blogspot.com/

From: Pieman@...

Subject:        [Trippy-Dippy-Hippies] Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!
Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:05:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      DdC <dendecannabist@...>
Reply-To: Trippy-Dippy-Hippies@yahoogroups.com
To: AMarijuanaSmokersLounge2@yahoogroups.com, mashaction@yahoogroups.com
CC: Debate_and_More@yahoogroups.com


Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!
From: Michael Pugliese debsian@... Wed, 15 Oct 2003
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/magnet.htm
...His book, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass
(Encounter Books, 1999) argues that the radical transformation of American culture that
took place in the 1960s brought the underclass into being. Changes in beliefs and
values at the top of American society produced catastrophic changes in behavior at the
bottom. President-elect George W. Bush told the Wall Street Journal that it was the
most important book he'd ever read after the Bible, and Bush strategist Karl Rove calls
The Dream and the Nightmare a roadmap to the president-elects "compassionate
conservatism." Hilton Kramer called the book "an indispensable guide to the outstanding
question of the day," columnist Mona Charen deemed it "the book of the decade," and the
Wall Street Journal remarked that "many writers have addressed this topic [of the

underclass] but few have done so with more wisdom or more passion.

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From: cureworks@...

Sister Somayah Kambui will be producing the 2004 Million Marijuana
March in 2004 for Los Angeles. 

Here's the 411 on what's been going on with her as she prepares for
next year's rally.  If you're in the greater Los Angeles area,
contact Sister Somayah.

HARVEST TIME 

DID YOU EVER NOTICE HOW THE POLICE ALWAYS SHOW UP AT HARVEST TIME?
YEP!!!  THIS TIME IT'S THE DEA THOUGH

The D.E.A. did a home invasion on Sister Somayah just when her
Nigritian Keif hemp crops were in full bloom. 

We've all seen news photographs of police in the mountains carrying
these big hemp trees?  They are doing it in the city too. 

2003 is another year when the police came to Sister Somayah's house
to collect her most recent crop at harvest time.  Sister Somayah is
known for growing 4 crops per year in Los Angeles, one block from the
Coliseum. Nigritian Keif, the name of the plants that Sister Somayah
grows.

On March 18, 2002 Sister Somayah was found not guilty on all 15
counts of hemp charges.  The L.A.P.D. was told hands off by the
court. All summer the helicopters flew over her backyard, possibly to
see how the plants were coming.  So this year the D.E.A came in. 
On Thursday, October 8, 2003 Sister Somayah called and said she was
the victim of a home invasion by the D.E.A.  They pulled guns on her,
took her hemp plants, her medicine, and put her in jail for about an
hour and a half.  She said the officers who drove her home gave her a
hug.  Of course they did.  They harvested the best backyard crop in
Los Angeles. 

It was the day  Tommy Chong went to jail for selling pipes on line. 
In balance, it was the day before Rush Limbaugh, who had called
repeatedly for the conviction and incarceration of drug users,
confessed his addiction to and large purchases of prescription
drugs.  We live in interesting times.

Sister Somayah is home and preparing to announce Los Angeles'
participation in the 2004 Million Marijuana March.  She has also
begun work to reclaim her plants from the D.E.A., save her home,
settle the insurance claim for the L.A.P.D.'s theft of her plants and
continue to pray.  Since she doesn't sell what she grows, she has to
manage all she's doing on her Veterans Benefits check, which is
small.  She is part of a cooperative effort within the Nigritian Keif
Society, a society of ultimate users, the only affirmative defense
under the controlled substance act. 

Nigritian Keif, hemp, is an effective  remedy of choice.  Sister
Somayah has already more than doubled her life expectancy using
medical hemp.  He decades of research have been destroyed by various
police raids, yet are being reproduced and updated all the time. 
The D.EA. took her computer so if you need to reach her, call her at
323-232-0935.  Her e-mail is still sistersomayah@... .  Her
website www.geocites.com/sistersomayah.  She has been fighting
this 'free the holy hemp' battle for decades and could use some help
right about now.

Tell the new California governor to come to Sister Somayah's aid.
BALANCE THE BUDGET WITH HEMP TAX REVENUES
Open the commerce gates to hemp, Nigritian Keif products,
California's number one cash crop, and balance the budget with the
tax revenues. 

Hemp has already been voted legal via Prop 215, which Sister Somayah
was instrumental in getting voted in.

The governor should stand up against the federal government and let
the will of the people supercede the will of the government.  We can
solve our own problems by taxing our hemp crop. 

Free the people from the oppression of the federal government and
balance the budget.  Let the healing, jobs, businesses and
environmental solutions flow. 

Hemp should not have to support Prison, Inc. any more (another great
savings.).

J. Nayer Hardin, Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises.

****!!!IBOGAINE TREATMENT NOW $1500 IN HOLLAND--CALL SARA, 0113134-624-1770 !!!****

From: HSLotsof@...

The Agenda for the 2003 DPA Biennial Conference Ibogaine sessions are now
available.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/dpa2003/agenda/agenda_sat.cfm

See http://www.ibogaine.org/dpa.html for ibogaine details

Howard

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From: Dana@...

One Day Ibogaine Forum Sunday, Nov. 9

Special 5 hour follow-on Forum,( one day after the Ibogaine workshop at the Drug Policy Alliance Conference in E. Rutherford, N.J.)

At the Unitarian Church, 40 East 35th St (between Park and Madison Aves) in NYC, 3 to 8 pm:

Workshop I: "Can an Entheogen be Accepted as a De-tox in a predominantly 12 Step Environment?"

Treatment providers debating entheogen enthusiasts, 3:00 to 5:30 PM

Featuring Dr. Jeff Gardere (WWRL), Narda Narvaez (PT, DN), Patrick Kroupa (Ibogaine List), Daniel Pinchbeck (Breaking Open the Head), Sandra Karpetas (Iboga Therapy House, & Rommel Washington (social worker)



Workshop II: a political roundtable devoted to getting Ibogaine access through the New York State Legislature, from 5:45 to 8:00 PM

Featuring Dr. Ken Alper(NYU Medical), Howard Lotsof (Father of Ibogaine), Dana Beal (The Ibogaine Story), Mike Rabinowitz (of Assemblyman Dick Gottfried's Office)* and other special guest to be announced


$20 for adults, $10 for students, $5 for the very poor.

Contact Dana at 212-677-7180/4899 or Dana@cures-not-wars or Narda@...

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*invited but not yet confirmed

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From: vector620022002@...

Another ibogaine article in Vice Magazine.

http://www.viceland.com/issues/v10n8/htdocs/want.php

Funny article, smartass writer. It was fun to read, more fun is the
flamewar at the end of it between daniel pinchbeck dissing the writer
and other comments.

I thought it was a fun read and not anymore biased or free of facts
then most ibogaine articles including pinchbeck's who doesn't even
spell howard lotsof's name right in the LA Weekly piece, I think its
fixed where the same article shows up in the guardian.

I dont know how to say it exactly but pinchbeck flaming the writer and
getting mad about exactly the same things he does is funny shit and I
liked breaking open the head its the more I read what he's writing now
the more I get the idea hes a total doofus.

.:vector:.


WANT TO GET OFF JUNK?

Get Really Really High

Martin Polanco doesn't look like a witch doctor. There's no bone
through his nose, no grass skirts or animal skins lying around his
office (however, also absent are any visible medical school diplomas).
Dr. Polanco is just a soft-spoken Mexican twenty-something with an
angel face full of braces and a bad hairdo. He's the kind of guy you'd

expect to find sweating through a church dance or downloading porn in
your company's IT department. One thing he definitely does not look
like is a very experienced trip master who uses a shitload of tribal
psychedelics to get lower-middle-class American junkies so high they
never want to touch heroin again.

"I'm a big fan of the fight-fire-with-fire mentality," says Polanco
from underneath his well-stoked shelves containing everything from
mainstream painkillers to tribal drugs like ibogaine hydrochloride.
Polanco's method involves giving addicts a single dose of ibogaine, a
pill full of all the fun stuff one normally gets out of chewing the
West African root iboga. Ibogaine therapy works on a simple tenet: The
trip is said to be so dynamic and intense that it rewires your thought
process forever, thus smart bombing the craving for dope (and probably
some unexplored regions of your id, as well). Long used by the Bwiti
tribe of Gabon for sacred initiation rights, iboga got a rep as an
addiction cure in the late 50s and early 60s amongst a circle of NYC
progressives who claimed it was a miracle drug. You may have first
heard of it when William Burroughs sought out yage, its South American
sister, to end one of his little dalliances with the brown. His letters
back to Ginsberg became that book The Yage Letters.

After ibogaine started crashing Yippie parties, the US government
scheduled it as a narcotic and the US medical community simultaneously
decided it was no longer a miracle cure. Over the last decade, however,
ibogaine has experienced an unexpected revival. Now there's a cadre of
daredevil doctors striving for its legitimacy in the pharmaceutical and
medical industry. The National Institute of Health has already funneled
millions of dollars into ibogaine studies, while the US Food and Drug
Administration recently approved human trials. In 1996, the University
of Miami Medical Center opened a research facility for ibogaine in the
Caribbean haven of St. Kitts. And Dr. Stanley Glick, director of
neuropharmacology and neuroscience at Albany Medical Center, brokered
twelve years of successful lab research on how the drug binds to brain
receptors into what will most likely be the first clinical tests of
ibogaine in the US.

But addicts looking for that magic bullet RIGHT THIS SECOND must
inevitably turn to Dr. Polanco.

Polanco's clinic, the Ibogaine Institute, is nestled discreetly in the
enclave of San Antonio del Mar, a strip of rent-a-season pleasure
palaces that runs the Baja coast between Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.
It's a 30-minute drive from San Diego, where Polanco's Stateside
partners shuttle in the majority of his clients. The clinic itself
resembles a humble summer villa with a barbeque pit on the roof and red
ceramic work. Self-help and New Age books about angels are scattered
everywhere. It's clean but sparsely furnished, and the sole medical
effects are an asthmatic EKG machine and a lonely saline drip.

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Polanco and patient Jeremiah pre-trip
(Jeremiah has been give morphine to minimize heroin withdrawal);
patient Melissa cuts patient Johnny's hair in observance of an ancient
Bwiti pre-iboga ritual; Johnny finishes the job; Johnny post-trip with
a self-portrait of what he thinks he looked like in the throes of
ibogaine; Melissa at the clinic; Mark, heroin and crack addict, with a
member of Dr. Polanco's dedicated staff.

During my visit, four addicts were undergoing ibogaine therapy at
$2,500 a trip. Patients spend eight to ten hours lying on twin
mattresses spread on the tiles with a heavy-duty plastic puke bucket
close at hand-not unlike kicking heroin by yourself on a hotel-room
floor, except you're tripping your balls off. To ensure no one
seizures, Polanco keeps a team of gringo nurses and trip guides on
hand. If things go well these aides will help with the arts-and-crafts
part of the trip. Of course, the doctor can offer no long-term
sponsorships or therapy. The trip itself is the therapy. After that,
it's adios. He's not magic, you know.

For example, the ibogaine treatment still means you have to go through

withdrawal. When I arrived at the clinic, Dr. Polanco was packing up
his medical bag with the morphine and Xanax he uses to ease the
patients junk-sick pain. As Polanco puts it, "Without these pills, the
pain from withdrawal would lead to some terrible, and potentially
lethal, hallucinations."

Before the tripping began three of the patients seemed nothing more
than sleepy. The fourth, however, was gung-ho and wanted to make sure
he was doing the ritual in full accordance with Bwiti rites. Polanco
asked me not to take photos because the flash would freak out the
patients, an odd request considering that local kids spend the majority
of the night lighting off fireworks on the cliffs beneath the clinic.

The next twelve hours consisted of puking and drawing and laughing and
crying. After about two hours of hysteria they all went back to their
rooms and stared at the ceiling with golf-ball eyes while six thousand
universes flashed across the sky. It seemed a lot more intense for them
than it did for me. The next day I woke them up and everyone said the
same thing: I'm a different person. Each one described his or her
individual trip in the vivid and spiritual of terms of George Harrison
circa 1967. I could go on about the stories they told, but all you have
to do is take a Xanax, smoke a joint, and go to sleep. When you wake
up, write down your dreams. Now multiply that by a thousand and pretend
you were awake for it. You did live with Saddam Hussein and his
superhero wife, and you did go shopping for wolverines. One man was
able to perceive reality as a series of two-dimensional chips, each one
a crucial transparency of the next (whatever that means). Nobody
mentioned seeing heroin during their hallucinations. After hearing
their stories, I began to understand why AA founder Bill Wilson turned
to Tim Leary at the end of his life.

One month later the story becomes slightly less magnificent. Two of the
four have relapsed and are back on dope. Of course, success rates like
these aren't putting Polanco out of business. Week by week, his clinic
continues to take patients from across the border, as it's bound to
until the US realizes that it may be chucking out a medical cash cow in
the drug-war bathwater. "It is not a miracle drug," says Polanco,
smiling a little too coyly. "But it is a very promising one."

GIDEON YAGO

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From: jcaraso@...

Pinchbeck is a doofus.

http://www.matrixmasters.com/pn/2003conversations/2003pinchbeck.html

Pinchbeck isn't the problem, he's some fat terrence mckenna wannabe who
doesn't know anything about hard drugs and not much about drugs of any
kind.

The problem is trying to figure out what is or isn't real in ibogaine
treatment. What Pinchbeck writes about mexico and what Gideon wrote are
two totally different experiences.

4 matresses thrown on the floor next to vomit buckets and a broken EKG
is a little different then the bullshit pinchbeck layers on.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Which is the same with
everything anyone ever says about ibogaine and that makes it impossible
to figure out anything without actually doing ibogaine.

jc
------

From: bcalabrese@...

IMO, this is an irresponsable load of crap.

"For example, the ibogaine treatment still means you
have to go through withdrawal. When I arrived at the
clinic, Dr. Polanco was packing up his medical bag
with the morphine and Xanax he uses to ease the
patients junk-sick pain. As Polanco puts it, "Without
these pills, the pain from withdrawal would lead to
some terrible, and potentially
lethal, hallucinations.".

If you take ibogaine to detox you do NOT go through
the 90+% or even 100% of the withdrawal for most
people. That is the point of taking ibogaine.


"the pain from withdrawal would lead to some terrible,
and potentially
lethal, hallucinations"

If Polanco said that or wherever the source it is
absolutely wrong, as is (IMO) much of the article.

Brett

--------

From: CallieMimosa@...

Very interesting article. I so want to experience Ibogaine myself!
I don't get all worked up about a persons opinion who is not an addict or a medical professional, even if he is a journalist.

Remember, he probably doesn't have any knowledge of pharmacology, legal or illegal.
I think DR Polanco would be irresponsible if he didn't keep some morphine, Xanax and several other meds on hand in case of a crisis!
Yes, I agree with Doc Polanco, Ibogaine sounds like a very promising drug!

Callie

From: windforme@...

Vice magazine is well known here for being a huge load of crap indeed. Anyone who has
ever read the magazine might attest to this and occasionally they even say so themselves. I
read it because I think it's funny - in a sarcastic,
we-don't-give-a-fung-what-you-think-about-anything kinda way. That's just their style.

I'd say Vice could probably be considered a skater/punk  version of Mad mag. In other words,
definately not intended to be taken too seriously and in fact i think it's the opposite that they
are trying to acheive anyhow. It is fun to read though and I really like their Tidbits and Do's
and Don'ts of fashion sections. A couple of issues ago they had these free sick-looking rat
stickers that could be peeled off the front cover. My roomate has them on her journal. They're
pretty funny...

--

From: crownofthorns@...

I'm sure Mexico isn't all that bad, I take people for what they do and
say and I'm not inclined to go with the extreme negative that the story
portrayed. It was still funny  Also like was mentioned the funniest
part is pinchbeck writing hate mail to the site, since the story more
or less is exactly pinchbeck material reversed. Instead of missing a
lot of facts and being glowing positive, it missed most of the facts
and was sarcastic and funny. Not too much objective journalism taking
place from either author and yet another case in the pot calling kettle
black series that is so popular on the ibogaine channel we all tune in
to

Marc I think the morphine and xanax is for the clients before they do
ibogaine. Can't see it being handed out after or what's the point?

Now for other news, awareness of ibogaine is growing. Narconon has added
it right to the front of their site as a dangerous mind control drug


http://www.detox-narconon.org/

Peace out,

Curtis

From: randyhencken@...

I am writing on behalf of the Ibogaine Association. Gideon's article is appalling and offensive as many of you already realize.  All of Dr. Polanco's quotes are fabricated.  Dr. Polanco never said "I'm a big fan of the fight-fire-with-fire mentality," or "Without these pills, the pain from withdrawal would lead to some terrible, and potentially lethal, hallucinations." Or "It is not a miracle drug, but it is a very promising one."

We occasionally do administer opiates to some methadone patients in the days prior to the treatment. This allows the methadone to lose its grip on the opiate receptors and keeps our clients comfortable in the interim.  Opiate administration at the Ibogaine Association is rare.

Gideon crashed our treatment center virtually uninvited and spent barely 36 hours here.  The session that he was here for are not reflective of our normal affairs, we were being documented for Daniel and Steve's upcoming film.  Gideon didn't do his research and doesn't paint a fair picture of our treatment.  He couldn't even get our name correct.  All four patients that he met were administered the treatment for free for participating in the film, not $2500.

We have started administering our treatments in a fully equipped hospital (we have a few dark quiet rooms, so it is not like tripping in a noisy, bright hospital bed).  Patients then go to our house to recuperate post treatment.

I feel that the largest indignity of this viceland article is the malicious attacks on Dr. Polanco.  The doctor does not do this work for fame or fortune, despite what many people may think.   As for the future we do not know if we will be able to continue doing this treatment due to prohibitive costs, but we are not ready to give up yet. We feel that we have a responsibility to continue to be available to the patients that are contacting us every day.

Randy Hencken

Program Coordinator, Ibogaine Association

From: Schmoolyboy@...

The doc sounds like a cool dude yet I think I read that he treated some  400 patients.( I could be wrong about this #)
 
400X $2500=$10,000,000
 
Not for fame maybe, but the profit part?
 
Maybe, someone can clue me in on this one.
 
 

If Hazleton can charge $30,000 why not $2500 for something that may actually work.

P.S.: Correction Please. I'm sorry,
Pinchbecks article states 200 patients at $2800 and then $600 for follow up.
 

Thats still alot of greenbacks or pesos or whatever.

From: randyhencken@...

You are making gross assumptions and you don't understand what it costs to operate a business.

Randy.

From: carlambarnes@...

I think that nearly everybody whos working with giving
ibogaine treatment cares about ibogaine or why would
they be doing that? I also think that saying someone
is doing it only because they are so dedicated to
helping addicts and no other reason is just lying. I
don't think that article in vice had a lot of truth it
was just mean but at the same time seeing those
numbers added up and seeing how its in mexico, that is
a lot of money to be made for giving ibogaine.

What I get from reading daniel pinchbecks articles is
a different version of what I get when alot of the
cannabis people talk about junkies, its this
patronizing tone coming from someone who doesnt know
anything about addiction at all. What am I tryign to
say, its not very real. It might be interesting and
have his opinions on culture or whatever but it really
says nothing at all about addiction. This is just my
opinion.

When I look at some other article he wrote which I've
lost the url to, it's more sort of doofy biosphere
writing and how people who drive SUVs or make a lot of
money are less enlightened then he is. The whole thing
I get out of it is god your a geek  Sorry!

What I really like is what he writes for art and
culture where he's writing about his dad, from that I
get a totally different feeling, like he does know
what he's talking about and is sharing it. That feels
real and I liked it, the rest just reminds me of
people I used to meet at parties when I was 15 and
everyone was stoned and hadn't found hard drugs yet.

What is interesting to know is what happened to the 4
people who were filmed for the mexico movie? The vice
article said 2 relapsed and were back on whatever
drugs they were doing, did the other 2 stay clean?

Carla B

From: windforme@...

Here at the Iboga Therapy House (where we offer treatments free of charge) it currently costs
us about $2000-$3000 per treatment and that's at a bare bones minimum...If you take into
account what it costs for the ibo itself (between $200-300 per dose) + rent , facilitators, food,
nutritional supplements, household supplies, bills (such as internet, phone, hydro),
transportation and other misc. costs.

You can't possibly expect that there is money being made at the Ibogaine Association even if
they are charging $2800 for treatments. In my figures that means they are barely making
ends meet, especially with no outside assistance or funding.

I don't always understand this list, Y'all are sometimes so ready to begin jumping down
eachothers throats. It seems to me there are too many internal politics here at times. Am I
wrong or isn't this list supposed to be a mutual support network? I mean, even if there was
money being made, I can't see why in the world there is something wrong with that? True,
Ibogaine needs to be made available to the masses, and someday hopefully it will be, but
you can bet it's not going to happen without the efforts of those who are at least doing
something about it now. Without the testimonies of those treated, the facilitators and
families/support networks of these people, the world will never learn about Ibo's potential.

To all those of you who have facilitated the use of Ibo in either addiction treatment or
personal transformation: keep up the good work and never mind the bickering...

cheers,

Sandra

Iboga Therapy House

From: sara119@...

a person's reward is determined by his effort and the hardship he

endures in pursuit of good. "In accordance with the effort is the
reward," and not by any objective standards of accomplishment. In other
words, people with a naturally benevolent disposition, even those whose
generosities have become a legend in their community, must go beyond the
point where it is natural and easy to give, and overcome their
resistance to doing that little bit more. It is from this "effort" of
pushing through resistance that comes the greatest reward, and not in
the many generosities that come naturally, no matter how noteworthy they
may be.

Ibogaine is avalible for the Masses,just like natraxone.
People like to use drugs and like to be a drug addict it is easy
and avalible. Some are getting the drug to the door of their house.
Methadone is availible for no charge too and many people are happy using
it.
Our government know about ibogaine treatment thanks to Howard, but will
not provide it.
You can say that cammomille tea works very well and we know it for ages
but within three years
U.S fda is going to take all herbal remedies off the market.

sara

From: aa.senepart@...

Guess most things come down to money.  It's the reason so many countries provide Methadone because I understand they buy it by the barrel and it doesn't cost too much to provide.  Oh but when it comes to blood pressure, asthma, other health issues only some drugs here are subsidised and if you want otherwise it costs lots & lots.
It also seems ironic that everyone is complaining about the cost of detox programmes like ibogaine.  I can't speak for any one else but the amount of money we have wasted and stuck up our arms etc.  over the years would probably pay for lots more than the ibogaine cost.  ..Allison
 

From: ptpeet@...

>It also seems ironic that everyone is complaining about the cost of detox

programmes like ibogaine.  I can't speak for any one else but the amount of
money we have wasted and stuck up our arms etc.  over the years would
probably pay for lots more than the ibogaine cost.  ..<

Yes, good point Allison,
    But, while I'm most certainly NOT complaining or whining about the cost
most charge for ibogaine treatment, it isn't often that an addict has a
thousand or more at one time. When I was on the streets, it was 10 buck bag
by ten buck bag, occasionally scamming up enough for a bundle or two at one
time, a couple hundred bucks. For me as an addict it was impossible to save
up enough money to pay for a thousand dollar or more detox. (Hell, it's hard
enough to do so NOW.)
Peace,
Preston

From: HSLotsof123@...

Well, you can't beat the coast of the iboga therapy house.  On the Viceland
article, I do think it was mean spirited as another author had commented. 
However, considering the possible readers as active drug users, many of those
readers might be more attracted and more comfortable in the mexican venue as the
article provided photographs of patients as wild as the fellow drug uses many
of us knew/know on the streets.  So while the article sucked, a picture is
worth a thousand words.  And, they all said, come on in we will take you as f'd up
as you get.  Right now you can find an ibogaine venue to fit virtually every
type of user you can imagine.  The only thing that is lacking and I doubt that
will happen is ibogaine as a street drug.  "Hey man give me a bag of smack
and a cap of gaine."  Well, there goes the dope business or at least part of it.

Howard

P.S: Preston: That is why it was important to have ibogaine as an approved medication so
that it would have been paid for private or social insurance.  Too bad it never
happened.  Maybe 18-mc will make it.

http://ibogaine.org/18-mc/index.html

http://www.cures-not-wars.org/

Howard

-----

From: brad.fisher@...

I too, find it "ironic" to listen to people at the Methadone Clinic
complaining about the cost. When I speak to the majority of people about
their experience, it quickly becomes apparent their lives have improved
significantly while taking Methadone.

bf

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

Omaha: Paul Tripp, omahanorml.com,  paultrip@... (402)598-6180 12216 Poppleton Plz. #238, Omaha, NE, 68144   Over 30 participants in '02.

 

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.

Phoenix: 602-200-9461 Conscience Credence Cannabis Committee POB 86112, Phoenix, AZ 85080-6112 donovan criss  doncriss@... 602-486-6145 1635 w. grovers av. phoenix,az 85023 or rex 602-618-4521 2222 w beardsly rd #1119 phoenix,az 85027  Rally @ Encanto park

 

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

Springfield:  Joe Setzer (417) 877-6832 <theosopher420@...>137 Hackberry Lane,  Seymour, MO 65746 The march will begin on the Springfield Square at 4:20 sharp, and will take approximately 1 hour (allowing time for dawdling).

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.

Tel Aviv: Boaz Wachtel -- wachtel@... Tel:972-54-573679

http://www.ale-yarok.org.il PO Box 2983, Even Yehuda, 40500

Israel  -- 4,000 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.

Washington, D.C.: Toni Keane <MMM_DCA@...>

http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html

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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