The new, small 2003 posters are in! Beautiful, 8 1/2
by 11 posters with 160 City Listings on the Back! Please email me now
to get a priority mail (2 lb) shipment to begin publicizing yr event.
We need updated addresses for the many student activists who've
changes their contact information since last semester.
ALSO-- Students can help FUND the Global Cannabis March outreach
effort by getting us speaking gigs!
I'm available for speaking dates at Colleges and U.'s with
big bux for outside speakers. Check it out: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Burroughs, Philip Dick and
Terrence McKenna are dead!
Here's my bio:
Dana Beal, did the first marijuana smoke-ins during the summer of
love, 1967. Founding Member and chief theoretician of the Youth
International Party. Started the YIPster Times after Miami Convention
protests in 1972, crusaded for marijuana legalization in the 70's.
Collaborated with Tom Forcade, founder HIGH TIMES. Changed the name of
the paper to OVERTHROW in 1979; started Rock Against Racism in U.S.
Changed focus from legalization to market separation of cannabis and
hard drugs under the influence of the Dutch model in 1980. In
December, 1980, initiated Ibogaine project with Howard Lotsof to make
addiction interrupter available to addicts everywhere. Transmitted
German VON HANF IST DIE REDE (HG Behr) to American hemp movement,
1882. Published Yippie anthology Blacklisted News in 1983.
Advocated medical marijuana for AIDS patients in 1986; joined ACT UP
in 1988. Pushed Ibogaine thru ACT UP and NIDA until he was unmasked as
a medical marijuana activist after short prison stint in '93. Purged
from ACT UP at the behest of 12 steppers in May, '94; co-founded Cures
not Wars. Started NYC Medical Marijuana Buyers' Club with Johann Moore
in 1995. Altho NIDA, relieved of ACT UP backing, discontinued
Ibogaine development between March 95 and August '96, published the
Ibogaine Story w. Paul DeRienzo in January, 1997. Wheelchair walk for
medical marijuana from Boston to D.C. in fall 1997. Brought Ibogaine
to U.K. in 1998. Initiated Million Marijuana March in 1999.
Co-sponsored First International Ibogaine Conference at NYU in
November, 99. Millennium Marijuana March grows to 90 Cities in 2000;
2001 March in 140 Cities; Million Marijuana March 2002 in 200
Cities Worldwide.
Summary of my lecture:
Since the latest strategy of the Drug Czar's office seems to be
to scapegoat 20 million or more U.S. cannabis users as accomplices of
Osama Bin Laden, I have to ask: How would you react if there
were an illegal drug that could CURE addiction?
Which would you say was more responsible for the problem with illicit
drugs-- some people smoking pot somewhere, or the fact the government
is keeping a cure for addiction from the American people?
I know one drug we should legalize right away. Have you heard of
Ibogaine? It is a schedule one drug, like marijuana or LSD-- totally
prohibited for use by Doctors.
But what if the Nixon-era lawmakers, in their rush to prohibit
everything that could get you high, made a mistake?
Thirty years ago, at the height of the LSD scare, they put Ibogaine on
a list with psylocybin and mescaline, without any idea of its medical
properties. Even today, most people are not aware what a breakthrough
Ibogaine is in the treatment of addictions-- or the fact that
researchers at 4 or 5 major Universities are in a race to find a form
of Ibogaine that the FDA will approve.
This rainforest alkaloid has been reported to act as an addiction
interrupter across a wide spectrum of abused substances, legal and
illegal, in more more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. A
unique effect is the simultaneous loss of multiple addictions--for
example opiates, meth-amphetamine, crack, alcohol and
cigarettes--after as little as a single treatment.
Ibogaine is the first pharmacotherapy where, when the treatment
wears off, addicts are free of both physical withdrawal and
psychological craving. And where opioid maintenance (methadone) or
blockers (naltrexone) fail to address the underlying dopaminergic
disorder (craving), re-treatment with Ibogaine (should uncontrollable
cravings re-cur, or in the event or relapse) is safe and easy.
.
With Ibogaine, the acute phase that requires bed-rest takes just two
days. Even with a period to keep them under observation in case you
have to administer another, smaller dose after 4 to 6 days for
residual cravings, folks can be back at work in just under two weeks.
The stumbling block, as always, is funding--plus lack of the support
Ibogaine would have if more people realized it's not some far-off
possibility in the distant future, but an option already available for
those who can afford to travel. It is only illegal in the U.S.,
Switzerland, and Belgium. In the U.S, we have countered the
prohibition by promoting para-clinical ibogaine treatments for as
little as $600 in Britain and other countries where Ibogaine is not
specifically prohibited.
I believe Ibogaine, and the whole plant iboga extract which
contains all 12 iboga alkaloids (and is preferred for methadone
det-tox), is rapidly becoming another legalization "poster child"
akin to medical marijuana.
THE IBOGAINE STORY is online at
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/ibogaine/iboga.html
I believe the winning arguments for the next stage of the
marijuana debate arise from the fact tobacco is carcinogenic and
addictive--and marijuana is not--directly due to the opposite
psychoactive mechanisms (and immunological and
neurological consequences) of the drugs involved, nicotine and
cannabinoids, to wit:
In the brain, nicotine stimulates glutamate, which triggers
inflammation and produces free radicals, which "turn on" the
carcinogens in the smoke. The cannabinoids in marijuana mimic
naturally produced neurotransmitters that "back-signal"
across the synaptic cleft telling glutamate-firing neurons to chill
out, enabling the immune system to suppress inflammation and sop up
free radicals--so that in pot smoke, the very same carcinogens never
get a chance to turn on cancer. In fact, preliminary studies show that
cannabinoids seem to kill certain types of cancer cells (glioma,
lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer and prostate cancer).
Good news indeed! Yet we would never know, without research
into other psycho-actives that also block glutamate, that this effect
is always paired with effects that are both anti-stroke and
anti-addictive. Mice that were genetically engineered not to have the
mGluR5 glutamate pathway could not be trained to self-administer
cocaine, no matter how much their dopamine or serotonin spiked.
Diszocilpine (Merck 801), a stroke medication which blocks glutamate
at the n-Methyl-d-asparate calcium channel, was found to by scientists
looking from new addiction treatments to abolish withdrawal and
tolerance to opiates and down-regulate supersensitivity to
stimulants.
Likewise marinol, a form of THC, is commonly reported to stop
working to stimulate appetite after some weeks. Brian Murphy*
found that THC is vaporized at a much lower temperature than the
cannabidiols, which are left behind in the vaporizer; while New
England researchers looking for some medical benefits from the
"non-psychoactive" cannabidiol found potent antistroke
effect. All of which gives rise to the inference that smoked marijuana
may be both more anti-addictive and anti-carcinogenic than any other
route of administration.
I concede it is possible to tell folks all this without ever
mentioning Ibogaine. But unless you want to leave out a younger
generation that grew up understanding prozac and serotonin, cocaine
and dopamine, you're going to have to refer to the very same pathways
in the brain to explain how marijuana works. Keith is fond of
comparing pot to a glass of wine, but that is an unfair comparison.
Alcohol works like heroin. The National Institute of Drug Abuse, on
the other hand, classifies cannabis as a hallucinogen, and in fact it
is part of the same sub-class as ayahuasca (harmala) and the iboga
alkaloids. (Pot does post-synaptically what they do
pre-synaptically).
The important thing is NIDA already concedes hallucinogens are
NOT ADDICTING.**
I predict that just as the lull that followed the failure to
legalize pot under Jimmy Carter ended when Jack Herer began to
propagate the scientific facts regarding hemp, dissemination of these
new discoveries about marijuana, cancer and addiction will end the
lull that set in when we failed to achieve any reforms under Bill
Clinton. And because the arguments against cannabis are orchestrated
centrally by the U.S. and the U.N. all over the world, the impact of
this new news will be the same in all cities, in all countries, on all
the continents.
Yours in Global Cannabis Liberation,
Dana Beal/Cures not Wars/Million Marijuana March
___________
* From: "Brian Murphy"
<BMurphy420@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <cnw@...>
The only other item you may want to add is: after the
THC is vapid, the wasting syndrome patience's call it 2 in the
morning pot! When you wake up with bone & deep pain it puts
you right out in 3-5 hits. I do have two people that only used
vapid herb for there serve pain relief.
** for all the documentation, contact
Dr. Robert J. Melamede
Chairman, Biology Department
Room 232
University of Colorado
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
PO Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
rmelamed@...
719 471-1447 H
719 262-3135 W
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