Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:38:22 -0500

From: Dana Beal

Subject: GMfCL 2003 #49: ; Kingston, Lebanon, Leon, Sacramento Make 90
Cities on the MMM Poster for 2004!

So far, 86 [oops, 90 actually] 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

buffalo

burlington

capetown
christchurch
cincinnati
cleveland

cologne

columbia
dallas
darwin
dayton

des moines
detroit
dover

dublin
dunedin
eugene
fayetteville
flint
frankfurt
ft. lauderdale

halifax

hearst

helsinki

hilo
houston

hull
kansas city

kingston

las vegas
lansing

lebanon

leon

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

roanoke

rosario

sacramento
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.

 

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 212-677-7180, and leave a message if no one picks up.

Dana/cnw

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

PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - Monday 8th December 2003

NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY

"KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" RALLY - WED 2PM NIMBIN - Allsop Park

A rally and gathering in Nimbin's Allsop Park is planned for Wednesday 10th
December at 2.p.m. to protest the extraordinary neverending inability of
most police to understand and work with the Nimbin alternative Community,
and to make sure citizens know their rights.

Speakers at the rally include Steve Bolt from the Northern Rivers Community
Legal Centre who will spell out your legal rights and answer any questions
about the law.

Lately police have been road blocking the village entrances for revenue
raising and seem to enjoy making parking fines without even getting out of
their vehicles. The alternative Nimbin Community has suffered thirty years
of police oppression, largely because we just do things a little
differently, and many of us prefer to self medicate with herbs rather than
fermented substances.

For years the plantation squad has terrorised communities with their low
flying helicopter, sometimes with a skull and cross bones painted on the
door. They should stick to their proper task, looking for plantations,
instead of harassing innocent people growing a couple of personal plants.

We estimate ninety percent of Australia's cannabis is grown indoors now
anyway and the annual chopper budget is really a Byron Bay holiday for
Sydney cops who justify it by claiming every plant they find is worth two
thousand dollars. That's why they raid before the male plants are pulled
out, and they just love seedlings! It's time to spend taxpayers money more
wisely. Real plantations of cannabis are easily detected by aerial
surveillance or satellite photography.

For further information contact
nimbin HEMP embassy
51 Cullen St
Nimbin  NSW  2480
ph/fax 02 6689 1842

www.hempembassy.net
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> From: MMM@...
> To: webmaster@...
> Subject: Website entry from MMM - Add City
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:32:30 -0500
>

> Contact 1 Name : Paul Chang
>  Contact 2 Name :

>  Contact 1 Email : paul_chang@...
>  Contact 2 Email :

>  Contact 1 Telephone : (876) 972-0817
>  Contact 2 Telephone :

>  Contact 1 Address : POBox 24, Laughlands, St Ann, Jamaica
>  Contact 2 Address :
>  City : Kingston,
>  Country : Jamaica

>  Website 1 : www.homeplanetearth.com
>  Website 2 :

>  Events : March Rally Concert

>  Event Location : Emancipation Park
>  Event Location 2 :

>  Start Time : 10:00am
>  Start Time 2 :

>  Organization : COalition for Ganja Law Reform
>  Organization Email : paul_chang@...
>  Organization Telephone: (876) 972-0817
>  Organization Address: POBox 24, Laughlands, St Ann, Jamaica
>  Organization Website:
>  Description of Events : Description of Events...
>
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> From: MMM@...
> To: webmaster@...
> Subject: Website entry from MMM - Add City
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:40:07 -0400
>

> Contact 1 Name : stoner bob
>  Contact 2 Name : forhemp

>  Contact 1 Email : stoned_bob_666@...

>  Contact 2 Email : iron_maiden@...

>  Contact 1 Telephone : (717)228-0368

>  Contact 2 Telephone : (717)273-9402

>  Contact 1 Address : 931 Guilford St
>  Contact 2 Address : 931 Guilford St

>  City : Lebanon, Pennsylvania
>  Country : United States Of America
>  Website 1 : none
>  Website 2 : none
>  Events : March
>  Event Location : Cumberland St.
>  Event Location 2 : Cumberland
>  Start Time : 12:00 noon
>  Start Time 2 : 12:00 noon
>  Organization : reefer-r-us
>  Organization Email : crack_head_bob_666@...

>  Organization Telephone: (717)273-9402 or (717)228-0368
>  Organization Address: 931 Guilford St
>  Organization Website: none

>  Description of Events : Walk down the street in a big group of pot heads smoking enoormous blunts, joints, bongs, bowls, and selling

>

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> From: MMM@...
> To: webmaster@...
> Subject: Website entry from MMM - Add City
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:13:57 -0400
>
> Contact 1 Name : Alejandro Garcia
>  Contact 2 Name : cañamo
>  Contact 1 Email : growleon@...
>  Contact 2 Email : growleon@...

>  Contact 1 Telephone : +(52)477-153-2297
>  Contact 2 Telephone :

>  Contact 1 Address : Blvd. tepeyac #220-a
>  Contact 2 Address :

>  City : Leon,
>  Country : Mexico

>  Website 1 : http://www.amecamexico.org/
>  Website 2 :
>  Events : Forum

>  Event Location : Calzada de los Niños Heroes
>  Event Location 2 :

>  Start Time : 15:00 hrs.
>  Start Time 2 :
>  Organization : AMECA (Asociacion Mexicana de Estudios del Cannabis)
>  Organization Email : ameca@...
>  Organization Telephone:
>  Organization Address:
>  Organization Website: http://www.amecamexico.org/
>  Description of Events : Foro Abierto, Acusticos y Letras
>
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> From: MMM@...
> To: webmaster@...
> Subject: Website entry from MMM - Add City
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:13:38 -0500
>

> Contact 1 Name :

>  Contact 2 Name : Brian

>  Contact 1 Email : support@...

>  Contact 2 Email : brian@...

>  Contact 1 Telephone : 877 806-7058
>  Contact 2 Telephone : 877 806-7058

>  Contact 1 Address : 3337 Feltham Way Sac, Ca. 95827
>  Contact 2 Address : 3337 feltham way sac, ca 95827

>  City : Sacramento, California
>  Country : USA

>  Website 1 : www.californiacannabiscooperative.org

>  Website 2 : www.camedpot.com
>  Events : March Rally
>  Event Location : California State Capital
>  Event Location 2 :

>  Start Time : High Noon until 4:20PM

>  Start Time 2 :
>  Organization : California Cannabis Cooperative Community Center
>  Organization Email : support@...
>  Organization Telephone: 877 806-7058
>  Organization Address: 3337 Feltham Way Sac, Ca. 95827
>  Organization Website: www.camedpot.com

>  Description of Events : We welcome all patients, sponsers, advocates, the gen. public, owners/operaters/staff of: cooperatives, care givers, and dispensary's to join us for a Ralley and March from the California State Capital to the federial court house.
>

> Volunteers needed please contact kevin at 1 877 806-7058 toll free. or email me at support@...
>

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

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

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

From: joe@...

Dear Friend,

I was stunned to get a call from the Washington Post on Tuesday night while having dinner with my family at the People's Pint in Greenfield, Massachusetts. 

I was more stunned to learn that Congressman Ernest Istook (R-OK), Chairman of the House Transportation subcommittee, had inserted language into the appropriations bill prohibiting federally subsidized transit systems from providing advertising space to Change the Climate and other marijuana/drug reform organizations.

As a supporter of Change the Climate, I felt you should know about this unprecedented assault on free speech, not to mention a potential roadblock in our efforts to educate citizens about marijuana issues.  I'm still in the process of understanding the implications of this action.  I'm working with Congressman John Olver who is the ranking minority (Democrat) on the Transportation subcommittee - he also happens to be my congressman and an ally of marijuana reform.

I've been scheduled to debate Congressman Istook on Tuesday evening on CNBC, assuming he will debate me on national television.  I was a guest on ABC's Sam Donaldson radio show Wednesday morning.  I've been in touch with our allies at the ACLU, which has backed Change the Climate in Boston, Washington and California. 

With your help, I'm prepared to fight this act of constitutional madness in every major transit system in the country.  If we can raise the funds, we will seek to purchase marijuana reform ads in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Miami, St. Louis, Seattle, and even Oklahoma City!  Let's keep the debate going.

Please consider making a gift to Change the Climate - transit ads cost $30, $60, $120 or $300 per month depending on the city and size of the ad.  Printing our eye-catching ads cost about $17 for a bus card, $48 for a diorama and $214 for larger bus queen ads.

You can go to www.changetheclimate.org/supportus/donate.php and make your contribution.  Over 90% of the funds we raise go directly to our ads campaigns - a very cost effective contribution.  Buy your holiday gifts at our online store www.cafepress.com/ctconline/ and support marijuana reform in the process.

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Joseph White
Executive Director

PS  
You can read about Congressman Istook's assault at www.changetheclimate.org and shortly we will have video clips from Boston's CN8 Nitebeat about our First Amendment case against the MBTA in Boston.

------

From: writch@...

Today's "Daily Mislead" (from http://misleader.org)

As White House Changes Story, British Airways Refutes Bush Story of Pilot Sighting

In his trip to Baghdad, President Bush said he would have immediately turned around had his cover been blown. In trying to play up the secrecy and dangerous nature of the trip, Bush's aides said that a British Airways pilot spotted the president's plane, radioing, "Did I just see Air Force One?" The White House said Air Force One responded: "Gulfstream 5" - a code word to disguise the plane - and the British Airways pilot "seemed to sense he was in on a secret and replied 'Oh.'" (1)

But now it appears the story was a complete fabrication, designed only to hype the story. According to Reuters, "British Airways said yesterday that none of its pilots made contact with President Bush's plane during its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving, contradicting White House reports of a midair exchange that nearly prompted Bush to call off his trip." (2)

Making things worse, the White House revised its story after revelations of the distortion. The White House now says "it had left the wrong impression" and that actually the conversation took place between Air Force One and the airport tower in London. (3) But again, British Airways refuted this tale, with a spokesman for the company telling media "that none of its pilots has come forward to acknowledge either making or overhearing the purported conversation." (4)

Sources:

1  "Bush steals away to Baghdad in a surprise visit to American soldiers", International Herald Tribune, 11/28/2003.

2  "Pilots Didn't Radio Air Force One, Airline Says", Reuters, 12/02/2003.

3  "Bush Aide Clarifies Air Force One Sighting", Washington Post, 12/03/2003.

4  "Changing a Story on the Fly", Newsday, 12/03/2003.

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The Parts Left Out of the Reagan Movie

by Paul Krasner

    The way CBS chickened out of telecasting their miniseries, The Reagans,
you would©–ve thought the screenplay had referred to a claim, in a memoir by
the wife of Peter Lawford, that Nancy Reagan gave the best blow jobs in

Hollywood.  You would've figured that it must have revealed the details of

her affair with Frank Sinatra--he did it her way--or maybe, who knows, her

apocryphal fling with Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates.  You would've

been certain there was footage from that gay orgy in which, according to
Larry Flynt, Reagan had participated before he was president.
    When I was eight years old, I saw the movie, Knute Rockne--All American

(the Notre Dame football coach), starring Ronald Reagan as "The Gipper.©—

Reagan immediately became my first role model--he was handsome and dynamic,
with a twinkle in his eye--and I even started combing my hair just like his,
using water to maintain a fancy pompadour.
    Eventually, I got disillusioned, and when I grew up to be a stand-up

comic, Reagan became a favorite target.  I didn't have to make stuff up,

just report it.  During his campaign for the presidency, he actually agreed
to take a senility test if the proper authorities concluded that he had

become senile.  And, as if to prove his senility, he promised, "If I am

elected, I will end the inheritance tax, for rich and poor alike.©—

    My career as a TV writer was bracketed by the Reagan family.
    In 1980, I was hired as head writer for an HBO special, satirizing the
election campaign.  The show, titled A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to
the White House, took place in a modern newsroom, with Steve Allen as
anchor.  This was the first time in American history that three major
presidential candidates--Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and John Anderson--had
all publicly declared themselves to be born-again Christians.  So the
election was no longer a choice between the lesser of two evils; it had
become a matter of choosing between the least of three sinners.
    Near the end of March 1981, I delivered a keynote address at the Youth
International Party convention in New York.  (These were latterday Yippies,
originally launched as Zippies during the 1972 Republican convention.)  I

asked the audience a rhetorical question, "How would you like to be a Secret

Service agent guarding Ronald Reagan, knowing that his vice president,

George Bush, is the former head of the CIA?"  On March 30, the new president

was shot by John Hinckley in order to make a favorable impression on actress
Jodie Foster.  And if that seemed crazy, Hinckley later came out for gun
control, and Reagan came out against it.
    Although it took more than a decade after the assassinations of John and
Robert Kennedy for there to be a band called The Dead Kennedys, it took only
a few months after the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan for there to

be a group called Jodie Foster's Army.  (Other bands were named Sharon

Tate's Baby, Jim Jones and the Suicides, and Lennonburger.)

    "In the '60s we knew that the CIA was smuggling heroin from Southeast

Asia," I'd say at a campus gig. "In the '80s we know that they're smuggling

cocaine from Central America.  The same planes that fly weapons for the

contras to airports in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica come back to Florida,
Louisiana and Arkansas with their cargos filled to the brim with cocaine,
even though the Administration is carrying on its antidrug campaign.  The
pilots only have to be careful to evade the radar screen.  So while Nancy

Reagan is saying, "Just say no," the CIA is saying, "Just fly low."

    When I met the Reagans' daughter, Patti Davis, in 1981, I told her, "I

really respected your decision to appear at that antinuke rally while your

dad is the president."

    "I was doing that before my father was president," she said.  "I have to

do it.  I©–\'m serious about that.  It's the planet.©—  (This was a logical

extension of the time musician Graham Nash told Patti that she had a cute

ass for a president's daughter, and she said, ©¯I had a cute ass before I was

the president's daughter.©—Patti's Secret Service guards had been at that

antinuke rally.  "I wanted to take a stand," she told me, "by having all

female Secret Service guards, but there's very few of them.©—

    I met Patti's brother Ron in 1991, when I was hired as a writer on The

Ron Reagan Show.  It was an ironic association in view of the kind of
material I had written and performed about his father.  But young Ron was a
fellow cultural mutation, and he understood that I had treated his parents

as political symbols.  One time I noticed a bumper sticker that said

"Subvert the Dominant Paradigm," which I mentioned to Ron, and he adopted it

as the syndicated talk show's unspoken credo.

    We decided to defuse the fact that he was the son of the former
president in a promo which included a recent clip of Ron as host of Evening

At the Improv, saying, "I am the love child of Frank Sinatra"--immediately

followed by an old black-and-white film clip of Ronald Reagan saying, "Can

you imagine what the Commies will do with this!"  But Fox head Barry Diller

happened to be watching TV at home.  He felt that the promo was exploitative
and yanked it off the air.
    In the original CBS script of The Reagans, when Ron told his parents he

was getting married, the reaction was, "Thank God he's not gay."  In real

life, Ron had just been falsely outed by militant gays in New York.  We knew

this issue was likely to enter the dialogue on an upcoming program about gay
rights, so he was prepared.  In fact, gay activist Michelangelo Signorile
was one of the guests, and he mentioned those rumors on the show.

    "I was a ballet dancer," Ron responded, "and any straight ballet dancer

gets a rather thick skin about this sort of thing.  But it occurred to me

that it's insulting to my wife of eleven years, because it says she's living

a lie, and I don't like that."

    Ron had a charming sense of irreverence.  In the conference room, we
were watching a clip from the film Rapture, which was to be included on a

program about religion.  "I met a guy," Mimi Rogers is telling her husband.

©¯You should meet him.  You could love him too.©—

    "You fell for some rich homosexual," the husband says, laughing.

    "He's the Lord Jesus Christ."

    "And," Ron added, "he's hung like a stallion."

    A producer, another writer and I were the pot-smokers on this show.  We
would smoke a joint while walking around the block.  The producer bought his
stash from an actress on a popular series, and one time we drove to her
house to make a purchase.  Ron came along for the ride.  He told us how,
when he had been a toker as a youth, his dad once found a marijuana-filled
baggie in his bureau and confiscated it.
    Another time, the four of us went for lunch at a nearby restaurant, and

the hostess shook hands with Ron, saying, "I thought it was really cool for

your sister to talk about masturbating in Vanity Fair."  However, that scene

was not included in The Reagans when it appeared on Showtime.

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Research on Ecstasy Is Clouded by Errors

December 2, 2003

 By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

In September, the journal Science issued a startling
retraction.

A primate study it published in 2002, with heavy publicity,
warned that the amount of the drug Ecstasy that a typical
user consumes in a single night might cause permanent brain
damage.

It turned out that the $1.3 million study, led by Dr.
George A. Ricaurte of Johns Hopkins University, had not
used Ecstasy at all. His 10 squirrel monkeys and baboons
had instead been injected with overdoses of
methamphetamine, and two of them had died. The labels on
two vials he bought in 2000, he said, were somehow
switched.

The problem corrupted four other studies in his lab,
forcing him to withdraw four other papers.

It was not the first time Dr. Ricaurte's lab was accused of
using flawed studies to suggest that recreational drugs are
highly dangerous. In previous years he was accused of
publicizing doubtful results without checking them, and was
criticized for research that contributed to a government
campaign suggesting that Ecstasy made "holes in the brain."


Dr. Ricaurte, a 50-year-old neurologist at Hopkins since
1988, is probably the best-known Ecstasy expert in the war
on drugs. He has received $10 million from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, more than any other investigator
of the amphetamine analogs known as designer drugs, club
drugs or diet drugs, including MDMA, better known as
Ecstasy, and its close relative MDA.

He vigorously defends his work, saying much of it has been
confirmed by other researchers, and arguing that he is
often unfairly attacked by scientists who minimize the
dangers of designer drugs because they want to use them in
research.

Johns Hopkins stands behind him. "The institution has every
confidence in his ability," said Gary Stevenson, a
spokesman. Of the primate study, he said Dr. Ricaurte "made
an honest mistake, then discovered it and revealed it."

But other scientists, and two human research subjects of
Dr. Ricaurte's who came forward after the retraction, say

they see a pattern of shaky research supporting alarmist
press releases.

It is hard to find impartial observers in the highly
politicized debate over illegal drugs. But even three
scientists whom Dr. Ricaurte cited in his own defense said
that while his high media profile had made him a "whipping
boy" for those favoring Ecstasy research, some of his
best-known work has nonetheless been "sloppy" or "not as
methodologically rigorous as you might want."

Longtime critics are harsher.

"It's hard to trust
George," said Dr. Julie Holland, a professor of psychiatry
at New York University who has edited a book on Ecstasy and
wants to test it in psychotherapy. She accused him of
"playing games with his data" to win more federal grants by
making the drugs look bad.

Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, a prominent clinician at Harvard
and M.I.T. who has clashed with Dr. Ricaurte, accused him
of "running a cottage industry showing that everything
under the sun is neurotoxic."

For 20 years, Dr. Ricaurte has produced studies saying the
amphetamine analogs may cause the tremors of Parkinsonism,
depression and memory and sleep problems. But the consensus
among many amphetamine researchers, Dr. Ricaurte included,
is that there is no proof thus far that Ecstasy causes
permanent human brain damage. In animal studies, very high
doses have destroyed serotonin-pathway nerves, which convey
pleasure and affect memory and appetite.

Just last month Dr. Stephen J. Kish of the Center for
Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto published a review
of all Ecstasy research, including Dr. Ricaurte's, and
concluded that there was no evidence that Ecstasy caused
the tremors of Parkinsonism or any other brain damage "with
the possible (but as yet unproven) exception of mild memory
loss."

Some heavy users have memory problems, but no studies prove
the loss is permanent, or that it is caused by Ecstasy
rather than other drugs in the mix that virtually all heavy
users take.

Ecstasy - invented in Germany in 1912 by Merck
Pharmaceuticals in its search for an anti-bleeding drug -
has been outlawed in the United States since 1985, a
decision that Dr. Ricaurte has taken partial credit for.
Since about 1970, when it was called Adam, some
psychiatrists had tried giving low doses to trauma victims;
in 1985, they stopped, fearing arrest.

Dr. Holland says it relieves anxiety-provoking memories
like a sedative, but as an amphetamine, it does not induce
sleep. Patients "want to talk things through."

As a potent painkiller, she said, it also may help the
terminally ill.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a study
in traumatized crime victims who have failed to respond to
antidepressants. A study of rape victims is under way in
Spain, and another one in the United States is proposed for
depressed patients with terminal cancer.

When Dr. Ricaurte's 2002 primate study was published, his
critics said he could not possibly have given "typical
recreational doses" if 2 of 10 animals died and two others
collapsed of heatstroke.

According to an annual federal survey, almost 10 million
Americans have tried Ecstasy. Few have died.

"Those dead animals should have sent up a red flag," said
Dr. Charles R. Schuster, a former director of the national
drug institute whom Dr. Ricaurte has called a mentor. "The
better part of valor would have been to not publish until
it was repeated."

Dr. Ricaurte said such arguments "do not hold water," since
animal deaths are common in amphetamine research, and two
is too few to compare to human death rates. Dr. Nora
Volkow, the new director of the national drug institute,
declined to pass judgment on his whole body of work, but
called his latest error "crying wolf and losing your
credibility." Because of it, she said, she spent a weekend
checking the agency's Web page on the dangers of Ecstasy
"to make sure it was not overstated."

The agency had already removed all current references to
another well-known study from the site, one from 1998 by
Dr. Ricaurte and his wife, Dr. Una McCann. Dr. Volkow
described it as using "methodologies that were not

optimal."

Pictures from the study - PET scans of the brains of
Ecstasy users - were used on a famous postcard from the
drug agency, "Plain Brain/Brain After Ecstasy." The
postcards were distributed to thousands of teenagers and
implied that Ecstasy users had shrunken brains with holes
in them.

The study had nothing to do with holes, but with serotonin
levels, which Dr. Ricaurte found drastically depleted in 14
subjects who had taken Ecstasy 70 to 400 times.

Dr. Marc Laruelle, a Columbia University PET scan
specialist, called the work so technically flawed that it
was "something to put under the rug." He cited a recent
German study showing that serotonin decreased only modestly
and returned to normal within six weeks. The Hopkins team,
he said, presented its data in logarithmically compressed
graphs that seemed calculated to mask the fact that it had
found impossible results: its 15 "control" subjects had
serotonin levels 50 times normal.

Dr. Ricaurte defended the study, saying his recalculation
technique was common when results from two groups varied
widely, although he said he no longer used it.

Of the photos, Dr. Ricaurte said he had no control over
what the national drug institute did with his work, but he
had asked an agency official to fix their "poor quality."

In the 1990's, Dr. Ricaurte was involved in a dispute over
the danger of dexfenfluramine, another amphetamine analog
sold in Europe as a prescription diet drug.

In 1994, a company founded by Dr. Wurtman, director of
clinical research at the Harvard-M.I.T. health science
division, sought F.D.A. permission to market it in the
United States.

Dr. Ricaurte released a study saying it caused brain
damage; that was immediately disputed by an Environmental
Protection Agency study that found it did no permanent
harm.

In September 1995, Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Hopkins
colleague who frequently published with Dr. Ricaurte,
presented slides to an advisory committee of the Food and
Drug Administration showing Alzheimer's-like brain tangles.


Dr. Wurtman, who contacted The New York Times after the
Science article retraction, said that Dr. Molliver, with
Dr. Ricaurte in the audience, misled the committee by
implying the damage was done by dexfenfluramine.

In an interview, Dr. Molliver called that "a blatant lie,"
and asserted that he had clearly said he was showing damage
done by similar drugs. Dr. Ricaurte agreed.

But transcripts of a follow-up hearing in November 1995
provided by Dr. Wurtman show that several panelists and the
F.D.A.'s expert were confused and believed that Dr.
Molliver had been showing dexfenfluramine damage.
Ultimately the drug was not approved.

For a week in 1996, Greg M. was one of Dr. Ricaurte's lab
subjects.

At the time, he said, he was using large amounts of
Ecstasy, marijuana, LSD, cocaine, amphetamines and heroin.

After seeing the retraction of the primate study, he
contacted The Times, and persuaded a friend who had
accompanied him to call, too.

The two revealed their names and occupations but declined
to be fully identified for fear their former drug use would
hurt their careers. Greg is a graduate student in chemistry
at a leading university. His friend, who said he used to
follow Grateful Dead tours selling up to 10,000 doses of
LSD a month, now works at a West Coast law firm and is in
line for a federal job.

Curious to see if they had damaged their brains, and
enticed by a promise of $100 a day and a free East Coast
trip, they enlisted.

Although the two used many drugs, the research assistant
who interviewed them by phone told them what not to admit
to her if they wanted to be in the study, Greg said. They
were instructed to avoid all drugs for three weeks to avoid
tainting the study; Greg says he had used heroin five days
earlier.

They and other Ecstasy users flown in from the West Coast
took memory tests while still jet-lagged, they said.

Then after lumbar punctures to check serotonin levels,
neither was given the usual night's rest to prevent fierce
headaches. They had to carry their backpacks across campus
and be wired up for a sleep study, which Greg argued could

not reflect normal sleep patterns because they were in
pain.

Both had subsequent tests after shots of morphine and a
drug, mCPP, that causes the same eyeball twitching and
teeth-grinding as Ecstasy, but none of the euphoria. Then
they had PET scans.

Dr. Ricaurte said his research protocols are approved by
university committees. He acknowledged testing sedated or
jet-lagged subjects, but argued that he had always noted
that limitation in his published papers, and switched to
testing in early mornings when jet lag was minimal. Test
subjects who get lumbar punctures are warned about
headaches, and given rest and painkillers, he said.

To weed out subjects who confound results by using other
drugs, Dr. Ricaurte said, his staff quizzed volunteers and
did blood and urine tests. His papers acknowledge that hair
tests, which can show many drugs taken even months back,
would have been more accurate. (Dr. Laruelle, who does PET
scans of Ecstasy users, rejects subjects with hair less
than an inch long.)

Told that Greg had used heroin without getting caught, Dr.
Ricaurte said that was "unfortunate." But like all drug
researchers, he said it was impossible to find heavy
Ecstasy users who used no other drugs.

His papers, he said, always warn that poor performance by
heavy Ecstasy users may have been caused by other drugs.

His critics say that such fine-print disclaimers are not
enough, that all mental tests on multiple-drug users are
pointless and cannot be used as evidence that one
particular drug damages the brain.

Greg's friend reiterated that he had been badly treated and
said he felt the research was skewed to prove he was
brain-damaged.

"Most of the people I used to do drugs with are pretty
screwed up," he admitted. "But if Ricaurte's studies are
true, Greg and I should both be dead. We ate grams a night
of pharma-grade stuff."

Nonetheless, he said: "We're fairly intelligent, rational
guys. We had a stretch of three or four years where we
really blew ourselves out. But we're still smart and
ambitious. Some of their assertions about long-term brain
damage are way off."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/science/02ECST.html?ex=1071439285&ei=1&en=23b5e42d599a42e6

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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

Berlin: Martin Muencheberg <martin@...> 0049-30-29490201 or e-mail: info@... , tel: +49 (0)30 24 72 02 33, fax: +49 (0)30 24 72 02 34    http://www.hanfparade.de/aktion/mmm

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.

Buffalo:  Philip L Beavers jr./B.A.C.H <BLocman420@...> 600-700 people over the course of the day in '02; all 3 networks; no police problems

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

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

Fairbanks: "Melissa M. Hart" <melissahartless@...> Postal: 775 Gradelle St, Apt. E, Fairbanks, AK 99709

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

Hearst: 1-705-362-8402 <fdrlxmt@... >  Robert Neron, Box: 1346 Hearst , Ontario P0L 1N0
 
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.

Hull: Carl Wagner phone: +44 01482494789   5 Victoria Square,
Ella Street, Hull HU5 3AL, U.K. A poor march in Hull, UK this year, but we had 1500
smokeybears in the park.

Kansas City: <mohemp@...> http://www.mohemp.org David 816-678-7447, 'its a
beautiful day' 3918 broadway, kansas city mo. 64111... 816 931
6169.

Kingston: Paul Chang paul_chang@...  (876) 972-0817 COalition for Ganja Law Reform, POBox 24, Laughlands, St Ann, Jamaica  www.homeplanetearth.com  March Rally Concert 10:00am Emancipation Park.

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

Lebanon: stoner bob stoned_bob_666@... (717)228-0368 or iron_maiden@...  (717)273-9402 Postal: 931 Guilford St, Lebanon,PA  Walk down Cumberland street in a big group of pot heads smoking .

Leon: (Mexico) alejandro garcia growleon@... +(52)477-153-2297 http://www.amecamexico.org/   Event Location : Calzada de los Niños Heroes 15:00 hrs

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.

Missoula: John Masterson, Montana NORML 406 542-8696. 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.

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

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) 816-0609 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@...>or S.L. Barker (RCHO) onelovedesignz@...  Monroe Park

Roanoke:  "Marty" <no1zever@...> 540-776-4201 

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

Sacramento: Kevin Burger support@... or Brian brian@... 877 806-7058    3337 Feltham Way Sac, Ca. 95827 www.californiacannabiscooperative.org or  www.camedpot.com We welcome all patients, sponsers, advocates, the gen. public, owners/operaters/staff of: cooperatives, care givers, and dispensary's to join us for a Ralley and March from the California State Capital to the federial court house. High Noon until 4:20PM  Volunteers needed please contact kevin at 1 877 806-7058 toll free.

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 Diego: Donna Lee (619) 223-1050 cannabiswoman2002@...  http://www.cannabisfreedom.org Approximately 50-75 attendees.
NO POLICE! NO PROBLEMS!

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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