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Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:45:45 -0500
To: greenpartydrugsgroup@...
From: Dana Beal
Subject: MMM 2004 #16: Hashbash, Posters, Video Feed May 1; Sign up now!,
Join 134 Cities in Jay Day Offensive!
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Important for Organizers: If you cannot afford to print posters for your May Day weekend rally/march from the CD "May Day is Jay Day" most of you were sent, and you need some generic, worldwide posters already printed up, contact David Malmo-Levine in Vancouver!Go to
www.cannabisculture.com
click on forums
click on current news and events
click on mmm and tell David Malmo-Levine you want a package.If you want to do yr own event, insert details of yr march/event that you want on a sticker specifically for yr city--times, date, location, phone, email, etc. You also need to leave a mailing address so that you can get yr shipment. David Malmo-Levine will be on line to answer questions.Otherwise, you can contact us at cnw@... if you need changes in the disc we sent you such as event details, yr phone number, or change in the date--OR if you never got a disc to begin with, and you would rather do your own printing.------------------From: rikki@...Greetings to all you Pioneers, on the New Frontier of
this worldwide " Million Marijuana March" if we take
this opportunity to pull together it will reachout to
the Mainstream Press surely.Come join us every Nation and the world will hear our voices.Dana Beal and I will be connecting all nationsfor licensing the live feed.
I have the lawyers who are familiar with this process.
Your participate in this Historical Musical, Political
non-violent celebration will reach world news.
NO FOOTAGE OF MINORS SMOKING ON FILM ...IT WILL DAMAGE
THE HISTORICAL VALUE AND CREDIBILITY OF OUR EFFORTS..
We have star power onboard that's known the world over.
CHECK OUR WEBSITE http://www.hempevolution.org
Let's take this to the next level to the world live on
the internet and get the visibility and profile needed
to express the benefits of the Cannabis Hemp plant..contact me at:(415) 346-8796 OR rikk@...contact Dana :dana@... Rikki Gordon--------------------So far, 134 Cities are Signed up for 2004 .MAYDAY IS JAY-DAY!(This 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
albuquerqueamherstamsterdamashlandathensatlantaaucklandaustinbakersfieldbaselbergenberlinberneboonebratislavabremenbuenos airesbuffaloburlingtoncapetownchico
christchurch
cincinnaticlevelandcolognecolumbiadallasdarmstadtdarwindaytondes moines
detroit
doverdublindunedineau claireeugenefairbanksfayettevilleflintfrankfurtft. lauderdalegenevahalifaxhearsthelsinkihilohoustonhullkansas citykingstonkristiansandlansinglas vegaslausannelebanonleipzigleonlevinlexingtonlimalondnnlucernemarlysvillemexico cityminneapolismissoulamontpeliemontrealmoscownapiernashvillenewarknew orleansnewtonnew yorknimbinogdenomahaorlandooslopaducahparisparkersburgpeoriaperthphiladelphiaphoenixportlandportlandpotsdampragueraleigh-durhamrapid cityrichmondrio de janeroroanokeromerosariorostocksacramentosalt lake citysan diegosan franciscosan juansan marcossao paulospokanespringfieldstavangerst. louissturgeon fallstallahasseetampatel avivthunder baytorontotokyotraverse citytrondheimtucsontupeloturkuupper lakevancouverventuraviennawashington, d.c.wellingtonwichitawilmingtonyuba cityzurichHelp 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. By the way, I lost about three weeks email not long after last year's event, and have had intermittent email service since that time.. Did anything happen on the first Saturday of May in your area? Numbers? Arrests? Media? Anything of interest happen, etc?You can also call me at 212-677-4899--or leave a message on 212-677-7180.
Dana/cnwP.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*****!!!Cannabis Liberation Day--Mayday Weekend 2004: Updates, Reports!!!*****From: aclrm@...Webgreetings Dana,
The current web address for the sixth Nimbin MMMMarch is Š..http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/mardigrass2004/mmmmarch.htmlcontact email address is aclrm@...The following Australian web sites are expected to collaborate to produce the "LIVE TO THE WORLD" component of the sixth Nimbin MMMMarch Š.www.nimbinmardigrass.com,
www.BigBongMobile.com,
www.nimbinhempbar.com,
www.nimbinaustralia.com/aclrm
www.hempembassy.netwww.peacebus.comTill nextPeaceMax Stone aka rebelart ;O)--~
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The Hippie City Can Stay
Source: Associated Press March 13, 2004
Copenhagen, Denmark -- The hippie enclave of Christiania will remain Copenhagen's
alternative lifestyle community as long as residents obey the law, pay rent and stop
selling drugs, the government said. In a report on Christiania's future, the
government said Friday that enclave residents must adapt their houses to building codes
or tear them down.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18492.shtml-------From: farid@...Irie Friends,
First, I'd like to inform you that France will organise a totally melted
demonstration on May 1st, among the workers and others (cause of the
french social atmosphere that seems more dedicated to UNITY movement, also
because of the first teknival of the year, a lot of our supporters will be
out of Paris).
So in order to be sure that the Global March for Cannabis Liberation willhave its own media coverage, to be sure that each single teknoïd people to
be there.So we'll organised the french GMfCL on May 8th.
As ENCOD (European NGO council on Drugs policy) is calling for action frommay 1st until may 8th.
Second. Well, I'm a french, living in Paris, and I'm a poor guy that is
not able to pay its internet connection to read personnal opinions over
personnal opinions about US history, from Lafayette to Iraqi occupation...
Well, Icould be interested if I was subscriber of such a mailing list.
Please, here we should mainly talk about DRUGS, AND HOW TO END the UN war
on drugs, and ESPECIALLY TO PREPARE IN THE BEST WAY the next Worldwide
demos to free cannabis.
So, I don't want to bother you all, but please answer in a private way if
someone is writing a wrong thing, or is writing bullshit.
So please, I don't want to spend all my time in money for such a spoiled
child debate.
Please, american friends, we, even if we are among the poorest in our
country, we still are the richest of the world, with a Home computer, a
roof over the head and someting in our plates.
I hope that soon we'll get the dictators around the world out of their
kingseat.
All the best,FARId----Medical Marijuana? Yes By Councilman Philip Reed
Source: New York Daily News March 14, 2004
The debate over medical marijuana comes down to a simple question: Should we prohibit
doctors from prescribing or even discussing with their most gravely ill patients all
treatment options? Organizations like the New York County Medical Society and the
American Academy of Family Physicians have called for the legalization of marijuana for
medical purposes. Nine states already have taken this step. I have sponsored a
resolution in the City Council urging the state Legislature and Gov. Pataki to enact a
medical marijuana program in New York.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18498.shtml*******From: neev@...hi dana,
here is the new info for mmm04 in toronto, please let me know when you update the info
any questions, you can reach me at 416-367-3459 and my pager # is 416-426-6354
thanks for the posters cd again
Neev
org name: the Green Directory
email: sales@...
contact phone: 416-915-1881
website: www.cannabisclub.caevent details: Saturday only - 12 noon to 7pm AT THE BACK of Queen's Park - University Ave, north of Wellesley (Museum subway stn). 7,000+ ppl with no police problems 5 years in a row. music, entertainment, hemp market place, hemp garment show, with parade at 2pm, heaps of fun in a nice park.-------------HASH BASH April 3-2004 High Noon U.M. Diag.
http://www.minorml.org
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It ain't fair, John Sinclair In the stir for breathing air Won't you care for John
Sinclair?
In the stir for breathing air Let him be, set him free Let him be like you and me
They gave him ten for two What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
If he'd been a soldier man Shooting gooks in Vietnam If he was the CIA
Selling dope and making hay He'd be free, they'd let him be Breathing air, like you and
me
They gave him ten for two What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
They gave him ten for two They got Ali Otis too.
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
Was he jailed for what he done? Or representing everyone Free John now, if we can
From the clutches of the man Let him be, lift the lid Bring him to his wife and kids
They gave him ten for two What else can the bastards do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
10-4-2 John Lennon - John Sinclair
http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Lennon%20Lyrics/John%20Sinclair%20Lyrics.html*******From: qchemp@...Dana:
Update info for Iowa, Des Moines MMM 2004
Add Contacts:Iowa NORML, PO Box 2144, Davenport, IA 52809 James Getman 563-386-0099 qchemp@...Terry tushona@...
Add Links: Party Down TV, http://qchemp.tzo.com
Remove dead link http://iowanorml.home.mchsi.com Location: West steps of The Iowa State CapitolTime: May 1, 2004 High Noon
Best of luck,
James GetmanIowa NORML******************************************Cannabis News: http://www.cannabisnews.com*******
Man Wins Suit Over Marijuana Raid By Bill Bishop
Source: Register-Guard March 12, 2004
A Lane County jury on Wednesday awarded $70,000 to a Blachly man with a medical
marijuana card whose rural property was raided by sheriff's deputies after a helicopter
patrol detected two small marijuana plots. Michael Wood, 43, a general contractor whooperates an Internet-based weatherization company and 18-acre farm, filed the lawsuit
alleging property damage and emotional distress from invasion of his privacy.Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18487.shtml********************************BUSHWHACKED!!****************************White House Gets Permission To Lie
Source: Common Dreams March 12, 2004
Washington -- Responding to a request by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the General
Accounting Office (ONDCP), the investigative arm of Congress, yesterday gave the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy unfettered permission to mislead the
public in the name of opposing "drug legalization." In the run-up to the November 2002
elections, ONDCP campaigned aggressively against state ballot measures to reform
marijuana laws and other anti-drug policies.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18490.shtml
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* PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/14/ECH14_12.HTM#PDFA
* D.E.A.th Lies and Deceptions: http://makeashorterlink.com/?T530131B6
*******
NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- March 11, 2004
Federal Bill Introduced Ordering States To Pass Mandatory Minimum Penalties
For "Drugged Driving" - - Non-Compliant States To Lose Federal Highway Funds
March 11, 2004 - Washington, DC, USA
Washington, DC: Federal legislation was introduced this week to withhold highway
funding from state legislatures that do not pass laws enacting mandatory minimum
penalties for anyone convicted of driving under the influence of illegal drugs.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18489.shtml-------Karen Kwiatkowski | The New Pentagon Papers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031204A.shtmlFrom: DPAlliance <alerts@...>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:34:10 -0500 (EST)
To: sean.sweeneynyc@...
Subject: Drug Czar Schedule Released!
March 11, 2004 text version <http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=26482&l=21667>
Drug Czar Schedule Released!
John Walters's Drug Testing Propaganda Tour Schedule Made Public
A Rare Opportunity to Grill the Drug Czar
Drug Czar John Walters is at it again - traveling around the country on a taxpayer-funded drug war myths tour - but this time we have his schedule!!
Walters and the White House usually keep his schedule a secret until the last minute because they fear that drug policy reformers like you will challenge his drug war lies. This time around we can plan ahead and pressure him to answer the real questions! We know exactly where he will talk and what topic he will address - the Bush administration's plans to take away parents' rights to decide how best to keep their kids safe. Let's say no <http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=26482&l=21803> to student drug testing!!!
Please organize a group to attend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Student Drug Testing Regional Summits. These events will attract media attention, a great opportunity to get our opposition heard!
** If you don't live near any of the summit locations, please forward this message on to family and friends who do!
The dates and locations of the meetings are:
Chicago, IL, March 16, 2004. 9am-5pm
(Radisson Hotel Schaumburg, 1725 Algonquin Road)
Fresno, CA, March 18, 2004. 9am-5pm
(Fresno Convention Center, 848 M Street)
Atlanta, GA, March 25, 2004. 9am-5pm
(Holiday Inn, 450 Capitol Avenue)
Denver, CO, April 8, 2004. 9am-5pm
(Executive Tower Hotel, 1405 Curtis Street)
You can RSVP for the summits at http://www.cmpinc.net/dts/ . We will send emails to those of you in the areas where these events will occur as we have more details. You can check our online tool kit <http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=26482&l=21803> for ways to help end student drug testing.
Student drug testing has been attracting growing attention since President Bush pushed for greater use of this drug war policy in schools during his State of the Union address. He is even willing to put forward $23 million of our taxpayer dollars to help fund this invasive practice.
Student drug testing is controversial for many reasons. The White House, in its accelerating encroachment on civil liberties, wants to take away parents' rights to protect their own children and take away teachers' rights to teach. This is a safety issue, and collecting children's urine is a serious concern. What's more, studies even show that student drug testing doesn't work to deter drug use. Student drug testing destroys the trust between children and adults, and drives students away from the choir, debate team, chess club, and other extracurricular activities that are proven to help them stay off drugs. Whether you are a parent, a student, a teacher, or just a concerned citizen, this insidious invasion of our nation's schools is a horrifying example of the White House pushing its insane drug war policies on our families.
John Walters is giving us the perfect opportunity to put a stop to student drug testing once and for all!! Make your voice heard at these events and make a difference.
Please forward this email on to anyone you know in Chicago, IL; Fresno, CA; Atlanta, GA; and Denver, CO. We'll keep you up-to-date on actions against the Office of National Drug Control Policy Student Drug Testing Regional Summits in these areas.
Learn More <http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=26482&l=21800>
Contact the Drug Policy Alliance:
Drug Policy Alliance
70 West 36th Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10018
For subscription problems please contact
Jeanette Irwin, Director, Internet Communications
jirwin@... <http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=26482&l=21669> | 202.216.0035------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join the Kerry Drug War Thread: http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=11770&st=90The following is purely satiric, and is reproduced here solely for the entertainment of this list--but with the serious point that pot is never going to be legalized, and if it somehow was, there would be a military coup overnight, and you would all end up like Charles Horman in this morning's NY TIMES.
Missing.
Email exchange with a Neo-Con:
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> The attempted smearing of Kerry through the Fonda "connection" is a Republican attempt to suppress an honest reopening of our unfinished exploration of the Vietnam era.
How dare the Republicans bring up the Communist re-education camps instituted in the South after the North won. The boat people. The killing fields of Cambodia.
It is just like them to denigrate the accomplishments of the Vietnamese people. Compare what they have accomplished to what the autocrats of Taiwan did with their country or even what has been accomplished in Thailand compared to Vietnam.
So I say let the Republican's bring it on. The people are ready for them.
The capitalist hegemons don't stand a chance against the will of the people. Free Bob Avakian!
M. Simon
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From: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Subject: Baba Vakian
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Surely you jest. The Guru is alive and well in France. I think.
Dana/cnw
From: msimon@...
At 07:02 PM 3/10/04 -0500, you wrote:
> Surely you jest. The Guru is alive and well in France. I think.
>
> Dana/cnw
Yes I jest. I believe he did his time and was released.
BTW I still think it would be wise to give up the leftist slant (or tone it down a bit) on your e-newsletter. Some of us are not leftists any more.
I gave up on the left/socialism/communism after the re-education camps post Vietnam War. The boat people. Cambodia. All the things the left promised wouldn't happen because they were "for the people" and had learned their lesson. Liars.
Economically I believe cut throat capitalism has done more for the worker than benevolent communism.
So the lefty stuff though nostalgic doesn't seem to fit the facts. The fact is that it is the right today that is radical - national liberation by the American Army!! - and the left which is conservative - let the dictators stay until the UN (a majority dictator organization ) can deal with them.
Simon
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From: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Subject: left/right no longer makes sense
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Look, I just want to legalize pot. Republicans are, in the main, more conservative than dems on the issue. My question is, what kind of government will bring the proponents of these laws, which are Nazi laws on the face of it, up on charges of state terrorism, genocide, piracy and slavery, and put them to work as prisoners reversing the effects of global warming through vast waterprojects and reforestation.
Some say the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but I believe their labor shouldn't be squandered. In my ideal world, they would be put to working digging--in Siberia, the Sahara--and for outright narcs, snitches and politicians and rabid fanatics who have passed these laws--beneath the Antarctic ice where they can extract gold and pay off the national debt. The guards should be modeled after Arnold S. in Terminator I.The plan for Global refrigeration, as we call it, would involve reflating the Caspian with Arctic seawater and creating a new inland sea in the Western Sahara. Examination of elevation maps shows that it can be done. You just need to furnish millions of anti-potniks with and shovel and pail and make them run up the sand dune in 120 degree weather to drop the sand over the other side. (Their local hometown can pay their food and water bill, since they had no problem funding marijuana prohibition.)Think of it--vast desert areas will be turned into productive farmland due to the new patterns of rainfall.Rightwingers run crematoriums; communists run labor camps. So I guess that makes me a communist. And yes, if we could attain world power tomorrow, we should spend the next eighty years uprooting from every country around the world every judge, mullah and priest, every DARE officer and PR flack who opposes marijuana. They're all Nazis, even if they don't know it, just by advocating criminalization of wholly innocent conduct. THEY are responsible for all global warming since the prohibition of hemp in 1937 in conjunction with Nazi Germany. Guilt could be established by lie-detector, or by admission of their prior statements.
Admit it. They are never, ever, ever going to allow marijuana to be legalized. It will only happen if they are overthrown, and locked up.
Meanwhile, Kerry is preferable to Bush because as a prosecutor he accorded pot the lowest priority. Bush wants to lock you up for three years if you piss dirty in a bottle.
Just my two cents.
Dana/cnwFrenchy wrote:I work in a small, rural, and mostly conservative county that has some of the largest Methamphetamine production in the country. I'm not exactly surrounded by like-minded individuals!! I believe in the decriminalization of Marijuana use, and hopefully the legalization down the road. I still have concerns as to what to do about the other drugs.
I know that you may have difficulty processing this, but what would you do if you found out the government already knows about a medical cure for addiction to methamphetamine (i.e, an addiction interrupter, not a maintenance drug), as well as crack, heroin, cigarettes and alcohol; and had even developed their own, safer variant of this cure, but were not releasing it because there was no great public outcry for it--and therefore no money to do it? What if I told you the advocates of more established treatment modalities were engaged in a little concerted effort to keep this information from the American people? What if I told you that this quantum leap in treatment could tip the balance in favor of treatment vs imprisonment for real "problem" drug abusers.
Most folks in this country are not aware that Ibogaine, an alkaloid from the African rain forest has been reported to act as an addiction interrupter across a wide spectrum of abused substances, legal and illegal, in more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. The unique effect of Ibogaine is the simultaneous loss of multiple addictions after as little as a single treatment. Ibogaine is the first drug used to treat addiction that eliminates both physical withdrawal and psychological cravings.
If you have doubts, check out http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201652207
In the a recent episode of the CBS crimeshow CSI, Ibogaine was portrayed primarily as a treatment for heroin addiction, and it is easy to come away with that impression, because whereas opioid maintenance (methadone) or blockers (naltexone) fail to address the underlying dopaminergic disorder (craving), Ibogaine is the first medication where, when its effects wear off, addicts are free of their addiction. But dramatic recoveries have also been seen with stimulants, and the government version of Ibogaine, 18-MC, is twice as effective for nicotine addiction.Treatment (or re-treatment, in the event the craving for drugs re-occurs) is safe and easy, requiring no more than 2 to 4 days as an inpatient. I know I've gotten in trouble for pointing this out, but Ibogaine is legal in Canada and Mexico. I'm not allowed to tell you here where to send people for treatment. You have to contact me off-thread. The function of this office is to do intake and preliminary screening before we send patients on to clinics outside of the country.Broomer wrote:
Tell me what you think is an answer to what is called the drug problem. How do we stop kids trying to get high? How do we stop people OD'ing? How do we stop guys from burgling to get drug money? How do we stop the production of designer drugs that fry the brain?
All we can do is make more advanced medical treatments available to people who know they have a problem, and who are currently on a waiting list. Understand: they know they have a problem because they're having brushes with the law, OD's, lost their job (not due to a pee test, but because they couldn't show up and do their job), etc. And while they're waiting, they're getting in more trouble, and turning on new users.What we don't need to do is put every single pothead in rehab because they're the easiest to catch, or get rid of more benign psychedelics like acid and mescaline leaving a niche that's inevitably going to be filled by speed and coke. In Holland, besides the coffee shops, there are also "smart shops" that purvey a variety of legal highs.Sandy wrote:
And in this entire treatment overview, I don't see the word Ibogaine listed once. This is not to say there is no value to Ibogaine, but it is wrong to imply Ibogaine is solving drug problems in Amsterdam. Or that Amsterdam is some sort of proof that decriminalizing all drugs is a solution.Ibogaine has been in Amsterdam since Bob Sisko treated Nico Adriaans, founder of the Dutch Junkie Union, in 1989. You took down the website for Sara, so that people on this thread have no way of independently verifying this without doing their own research, but she has the complete authorization of Dutch authorities to do what she is doing, and she is not the only one, just the best in the Netherlands. That being said, the very attitudes working for decriminalization there have perversely worked against it's wider acceptance, with Peter Cohen, for instance, saying he was against people HAVING to get off drugs--so that he's much more into heroin maintenance.Sandy wrote:
He said there are 14 detox beds in the city with a maximum stay of five days used primarily to stabilize addicts. There are very few beds for inpatient abstinence oriented treatment. He said it is a very expensive approach that can handle very few people at a time. Their experience is only 5% are clean and sober two years after discharge. Many of their addict population have been repeatedly through this type of treatment without success. For the younger addict who has been using for under one year he believes it can work with an intense, highly individualized program but for the older or long-term addict he believes drug use is part of a lifestyle that must be changed before abstinence based treatment will work.
We can now take 14 beds and use them three times a week for total detox, with the person moving immediately into some kind of after-group outpatient status. Cost would be LESS than maintenance, and our success-rate, with easy access to re-treatment in cases of relapse, would be more like 70% than the 5% cited here. While younger addicts tolerate Ibogaine better, some of our best successes have been older addicts who've tried and failed all other modalities.I know that you're against promoting Ibogaine, because it's illegal and not cannabis, for which you would make an exception. My question, Sandy, is would you advocate that Kerry bring the kind of pressure Bush and Walters are bringing against marijuana decrim, and force Canada and Mexico to criminalize Ibogaine so that you could cut off ready access for Americans to Ibogaine treatment just across the border? Would you ban it everywhere around the world (it's only illegal in Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands) to bring them into compliance with U.S. law?Spookk rote:
Recently, a cop showed up at the door, decided she had "too many" plants for her medical needs (8, 4' tall ones, two of which were males for breeding) and that her medical recommendation was "expired" because it was over a year old (it wasn't, and the law does NOT require yearly renewals). He then proceeded to throw her to the ground and cuff her hands behind her back, charging her with "resisting arrest" due to her inability to rise from this position upon his command. In spite of Prop 215 and SB420, the DA (an ex cop who was fired/convicted for shooting a man in the face during a traffic stop and then conspiring with his cop buddies to cover it up) keeps adding more charges against her to try and get her to plead guilty to something in order to prevent the inevitable lawsuit.
Now do any of you think any longer that I'm joking when I say that there are some cases of official abuse so egregious that we, (the public that has voted for medical marijuana in 9 states and Washington, D.C.), deserve swift enforcement of California statutes regarding misconduct under color of authority, and appropriate federal civil rights prosecutions?
So what is it going to be, crack down on Marc Emery's free Ibogaine Clinic in Vancouver, or sadistic killer cops in California?Dana/cnw****!!!IBOGAINE TREATMENT NOW $1500 IN HOLLAND--CALL SARA, 0113134-624-1770 !!!****From: rick@...MAPS Members and friends,
The Village Voice today (March 10, 2004) published a hard-hitting article about the approval of MAPS' MDMA/PTSD protocol and the exaggerated risk estimates of Dr. Ricaurte and others.
Since the protocol was given final approval by the DEA about two weeks ago, 10 people with PTSD have already contacted us about coming in for screening to determine if they can participate in the study. Our first experimental session is tentatively scheduled for April 16, coincidentally the same day in 1943 that Albert Hofmann first accidentally ingested LSD! Now's the time to consider making a special donation to MAPS to support the study. Last week we received word that MAPS was awarded $30,000 from a family foundation for this study. We only need to raise an additional $170,000.
The url of the article is: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0410/spartos.php
March 10, 2004. The Ecstasy Factor- Bad Science Slandered a Generation's Favorite Drug. Now a New Study Aims to Undo the Damage. by Carla Spartos. Village Voice.
THE ECSTASY FACTOR
Today is different: You're speaking to a psychiatrist--not in a sterile,
fluorescent-lit hospital, but in a residential office on a peaceful,
tree-lined street. You suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and
you've talked for hours in this very room, but always skipping the violent
chapter that keeps you up at night, giving you flashbacks and causing you
to feel estranged from your loved ones. Now an emergency room doctor and
nurse are stationed inside the house. You've brought an overnight bag.
Today, you've been given 125 milligrams of Ecstasy, and maybe, just maybe,you'll finally be able to face your demons.
On February 24, the DEA issued Dr. Michael Mithoefer a Schedule I license
to legally obtain Ecstasy for a study of its potential therapeutic effects
in the treatment of PTSD. Researchers hope that the drug, which melts
anxiety, will help PTSD patients talk openly about the experiences that
scarred them. It is the first study of Ecstasy-enhanced psychotherapy ever
green-lighted in the United States, one that's been in the making foralmost two decades. "There's been so much struggle over this approvalprocess," says Rick Doblin, director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Studies, the organization sponsoring the research.
Doblin's group stands to create a new landscape for Ecstasy, which has been
at the center of the nation's war on drugs. The old one--with its hidden
agendas, career-obsessed scientists, powerful patrons, and switched
pills--has only recently been scorched. It all began in September, when the
journal Science published a retraction from a group of Johns Hopkins
scientists who'd discovered that a bottle they thought contained Ecstasy
was in fact filled with methamphetamine, commonly known as speed. The
mix-up corrupted the results of a study, published in Science in September
2002, which found that a single, recreational dose of Ecstasy was so
damaging it could lead to Parkinson's disease. Another study, published in
the European Journal of Pharmacology, would also be recalled.
The British journal Nature promptly published an editorial dubbing the
incident "one of the more bizarre episodes in the history of drug
research." Colin Blakemore, head of the U.K.'s Medical Research Council
(the British equivalent of the National Institutes of Health), demanded
that an independent inquiry be conducted into the affair. And The New York
Times' Donald G. McNeil Jr. wrote a scathing indictment of the study's lead
scientist, George Ricaurte, alleging "a pattern of shaky research
supporting alarmist press releases."
Ricaurte did not respond to repeated messages left on his voice mail at
Johns Hopkins or to an official request through Johns Hopkins
representatives, but he has long been dismissive of his work's critics. In
2001, he told the Voice, "Everyone in the field has accepted [MDMA] is a
neurotoxin. I think those [dissenting] arguments have to be put in
perspective." It is this unyielding conviction that has been the hallmark
of Ricaurte's career as the nation's foremost Ecstasy researcher.
But critics say the science has been less than convincing. Ecstasy promotes
strong feelings of empathy by flooding the brain with serotonin, afeel-good neurotransmitter manipulated by drugs like Prozac. Once the high
wears off, users register markedly depleted serotonin levels for about two
weeks. What is not known--and thus is hotly debated--is whether these
changes presage permanent brain damage.
That debate seemed settled when Science issued a press release in September
2002 announcing the devastating results of Ricaurte's study: After taking
doses of Ecstasy akin to what teens might take at a rave, 60 to 80 percent
of dopamine-related neurons in the test monkeys' brains were destroyed. The
release was picked up in headlines around the globe. But some of those who
got around to reading the actual study say what they found troubled them.
"The press release deliberately misrepresented the data," says Colin
Blakemore. "There was no evidence of the 60 to 80 percent cell-death
claim." There were other red flags: 20 percent of the monkeys had died;
another 20 percent had gotten so sick they had to be withdrawn. Yet there
simply aren't thousands of people dying from Ecstasy every weekend. Then
there was the problem that the drugs were injected--not administered orally
as suggested in the paper's introduction.
"The more I looked at it, the more I felt there was an agenda," says
Blakemore, who immediately fired off a letter to Science editor in chief
Donald Kennedy, complaining of "flaws so radical, so deep, they would have
been picked up by any referee." But Science maintains it did everythingright. "This study was peer-reviewed according to the same rigorous system
used in all articles published in Science," says Ginger Pinholster,
spokesperson for the Association for the Advancement of Science, which
publishes the journal. According to Pinholster, the prompt retraction
proved that "science is self-correcting."
Public policy, however, is not so mutable. Weeks after the botched study
was published, its conclusions were repeatedly invoked by witnesses at aHouse subcommittee hearing on the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability toEcstasy Act (RAVE Act). The bill was quietly passed last April as the
slightly reworded Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act. Aimed at quelling
club drugs like Ecstasy and GHB, the law permits the prosecution of venue
owners and club promoters for drug use on their premises. Only a month
after it became law, it was used by a federal agent to shut down a benefit
for Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws. And last weekend, it was used to shutter the
Sound Factory nightclub in Manhattan.
As easy as it is to paint Ricaurte as a rogue scientist motivated by
ambition, the scientific establishment and its patrons also played key
roles in the wider scandal, from merely ignoring critical flaws to
blatantly promoting problematic studies. Alan Leshner, publisher of Science
and former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has
come under fire for endorsing the botched study at its time of publication.
"It isn't clear why an officer of the AAAS should be involved at all in
publicly promoting a particular result published in its journal, least of
all one whose outcome was questioned at the outset by several experts,"
wrote Nature. Pinholster says she called upon her boss "to serve as an
expert source as a service to reporters," adding, "There was no
conspiracy." Leshner declined to be interviewed.
Leshner has long railed against the dangers of Ecstasy. In 2001, when he
was director of NIDA, he told the Voice, "We've known since the late '80s
that MDMA can damage serotonin neurons, and if you give enough of it,
they're blown away."
Rick Doblin, on the eve of his own study, says the payoffs for such shoddy
science have been immense. "Leshner was willing to exaggerate findings to
pander to politicians for money," he says. Leshner did help NIDA bring home
the bacon: NIDA's budget for Ecstasy research has more than quadrupled over
the past five years, from $3.4 million to $15.8 million; the agency funds
85 percent of the world's drug-abuse research. In 2001, Leshner testified
before a Senate subcommittee on "Ecstasy Abuse and Control"; critics sayLeshner manipulated brain scans from a 2000 study by Dr. Linda Chang
showing no difference between Ecstasy users and control subjects. But NIDA
insists it's independent from political pressures. "We don't set policy; we
don't create laws," says Beverly Jackson, the agency's spokesperson.
NIDA wasn't the only benefactor of Ricaurte and wife Una McCann's research.
"George and Una are cash cows for Johns Hopkins," says Doblin, who points
out that every time a scientist receives a grant, money indirectly goes to
the affiliated institution. While both NIDA and The New York Times have
clocked Ricaurte's NIDA grant money at around $10 million, Doblin believes
that's a low-ball figure. "Just this one study was $1.3 million, and he has
done loads and loads of them." Johns Hopkins spokesperson Gary Stevenson
declined comment beyond the official statement.
Another consequence of the retracted study and other discredited
NIDA-funded findings is that they've helped obstruct legitimate research
into the possible medical benefits of Ecstasy. Doblin believes Ricaurte and
others are threatened by such research because it doesn't square with their
drug-war agenda. In the past, Leshner has balked at those accusations. "It
frankly bugs me," he told the Voice in 2001. "It's easy to say that the
government isn't approving studies because they're politically incorrect.
The government may say yes."
Now that the government--more specifically, the FDA--has indeed said yes,Doblin's research into the benefits of Ecstasy in treating post-traumatic
stress disorder is under way. The $300,000 MAPS project, which is funded by
private individuals and family foundations, has had some major setbacks
since it initially received FDA approval in November 2001. The study was to
have been conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina before that
institution backed out; it will now be held in a private doctor's office.While Doblin believes the program would have gotten off the ground withoutRicaurte's retraction, he says it's made all the players, including the
institutional review board and insurance company, "feel a lot more
comfortable."
A study under way in Spain examining the potential therapeutic effects of
Ecstasy in rape victims hasn't fared as well. The Madrid Anti-Drug
Authority pressured the sponsoring hospital to shut the study down in May
2002. Doblin largely blames Ricaurte for the mounting difficulties the
research team has faced since then: Ricaurte, who was born in Ecuador, is
fluent in Spanish, and gave four talks in Spain presenting his bungled
findings.
As for the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, Margaret Aitken, press
secretary for Senator Joseph Biden, who sponsored the bill, said, "Senator
Biden will not change his position based on this one [retracted] study." A
Senate aide also confirmed the legislation would not be revisited, and that
there's "no official process to go back and correct the record."
Blakemore, meanwhile, is still calling for a "full and open discussion"
from Science, including the disclosure of the paper's referee reports. "If
the referees didn't spot what I noticed right away, then what does that say
about the quality of [Science's] referees?" asks Blakemore. "And if the
referees did make negative comments [that went unheeded], what does that
say about Science?" At press time, Blakemore and Leslie Iversen, an Oxford
University pharmacologist, were drafting a letter that Don Kennedy has
promised to publish in Science. That journal, NIDA, and Johns Hopkins
insist there's been no evidence of foul play; no investigations were being
conducted at any of these institutions at press time.
In the end, the ones most negatively affected by the studies may be those
they purport to help. "I'm very concerned about drug use, but the way to
tackle it is not to misrepresent scientific evidence," says Blakemore.
"What's going to be the impact of these studies? Young people won't believe
anything they read."
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From: stevenanker
Subject: Nixon in China
Reply-to: Ibogaine
Preston wrote:
Conservative Republican. Not the Greens, not Kerry. A Conservative Republican. I haven't seen the Dems do anything for ibogaine.
Nor will they.The most enlightened drug policy was under Nixon as he was under enormous strain to bring crime rates down. He was practical. Treatment on demand and methadone were all part of his policy. The irony is also that he started the drug war. Howard was on the O'Reilly Factor and Bill the fascist seemed very receptive to both Howard and ibo. The dems are scared and will probably never be behind a powerful psychedelic for treating addiction. At least not at first. I have often felt that if change is going to happen, it'll be from the right. Those guys care about money and some of them still believe in personal freedom. McCain anyone? Nancy Reagan could be a powerful voice, she supports stem-cell. Only because of Ronnie needing it, but still. Didn't some of her kids have a sex and drugs and rock 'n roll side? Yeah of course they did.
AnywayŠ
I've noticed conservatives never fight among themselves. None of this "I'm going to vote my conscious." No Nader "explicative deleted"ing things up.
When I was arrested and had to face the judge, I cleaned up 'n wore a spiffy suite and thanked the judge for the wise and kind justice handed down. No ""explicative deleted" you! Tool of the drug war." I ate "explicative deleted".
We need to do the same. The ibogaine advocacy movement needs to do the following to succeed:
Be united. Lay low on the crazy. For now... t's 'medicine' and a 'disease.'
Be vigilant about press and media coverage. Sue their "explicative deleted"ing ass if they are wrong. Companies understand money. Who are the best spokespeople for ibo? I like Howard, Patrick and Mash. How about you? Not all publicity is good.
The War on Drugs is expensive, ibo is cheaper. DPA does good work, why fight them? Money is easier to understand than morals.
Work to change ibo from schedule 1 to 2.
We need double blind studies.
Get as many addicts as possible to take ibogaine and tell their friends it works.
Prevent criminalization anywhere else in the world. Do you have any idea how jealous we in the States are of European drug policy?
Encourage Mash to publish.
Pray for 18-mc and nor-ibogaine to be on the pharmacist shelf.
Could this agenda be successful if Kerry loses? It's fairly limited. We have to have a contingency plan if Bush wins, or if drug reform gets sidetracked under Kerry like it did under Clinton. Then again, under Jocylyn Elders things seemed to being going great-- until the GOP took over Congress and forced her out.
Alternatively, would a Kerry landslide put a democratic majority in Congress of made up of newcomers that would vastly speed things up?
-------From Howard Lotsof:
Ibogaine is not an official medicine in the Netherlands nor is it widely
available. But, let me provide you with some background. Charles Kaplan, providessome insight in his article, Reaching a Stage of Wellness: Multistage
Explorations in Social Neuroscience (Kaplan, Ketzer, de Jong, de Vries) Social
Neuroscience Bulletin 6(1) 1993 <http://ibogaine.org/wellness.html>.
"Some suggestions emerge in the consideration of the results of the focus
groups with the Dutch heroin addicts. The focus groups of addicts revealed that
ibogaine was able to induce the experience of collective consciousness and a
clearing up of the mind for members of the focus group. J., one of the members,
reported a common experience, namely, that ibogaine had made her aware that
"All the information I ever got through reading or experience was registered in
my brain." This demonstration of the brain's capacities, which formerly was
only theoretically known, became a lived experience. Common to all members was
the production of an intense state of wakefullness. For three to four weeks
after taking the ibogaine, they slept for only three to four hours per day. After
a month they gradually returned to eight hours of sleep per day. The ibogaine
was not comfortable for the members; all had highly anxious episodes. The
state of ibogaine was described by all as a dream with full consciousness. All
felt themselves to be physically heavy, i.e. in a somnolent stage like a body in
sleep. All reported an interruption of heroin-seeking behavior for relatively
long periods of time, a state that they never thought they would reach given
their former nihilistic, depressed view of life.
From these focus groups some intriguing hypotheses have been clarified,
highlighting both exogenous and endogenous processes. The ibogaine experience
succeeded in providing a common sense of belonging to a distinct community oriented
to wellness - a European variety of the African iboga medicine society. Thus,
even, the one member who used heroin again rather shortly after the treatment
did so out of a clear decision and reported that he did not feel himself
addicted anymore. The focus group undermined a preconceived notion that, because
of its extraordinary psychopharmacological effects, ibogaine produces a
singular, common experience. However, the members discovered in the group that each
experienced the ibogaine in a unique and different way. Does ibogaine, like the
Dalai Lama's medicine, work to create a sense of belonging to a medicine
community that is dedicated towards reaching a state of wellness? Is this special
consensus an important exogenous mechanism culturally reframing pathological
endogenous processes?" [end selection]
From the late 1980's through the early 1990s Dutch user activists began
self-administering and providing ibogaine to other users via an organization theyestablished, Dutch Addict Self-Help (DASH). DASH was principally established by
the founder of the Dutch Junkies Union, the late Nico Adriaans and his
associates. There is very little available current information on the drug user use
of ibogaine in the Netherlands and a good epidemiological study would really
be in order. What is trackable is the availability of ibogaine and iboga root
products through shamanic practitioners such as Sara Glatt at Sara's Housewhere drugs users are provided with ibogaine and other herbal therapies and
independently, the apparent sales of some iboga products via the internet. For the
most part both heroin users and the government of the Netherlands, as other
governments, prefers heroin and/or methadone to ibogaine. On one part, as
these are opioid substances and provide the central effects desired by opiate
dependent individuals and on the other hand, in that persons on methadone and
heroin programs are easy to track and control. Something governments like to do.
In many ways I agree with Peter Cohen that the concept of a drug problem is a
fabrication and a mechanism of societal control and if we did not view it as a
problem it would not be a problem. However, whether viewed as a problem or
not, ibogaine offers a mechanism whereby a dependent drug user has the ability
to reverse that dependence fiscally and mentally and to experience a return to
what is perceived as a preaddictive state. Whether that be for a day or a
year, the experience of returning to a non-addicted state is invaluable as it is
a state that most dependent drug users would not be able to conceive of or
experience. The knowledge of that experience offers the possibility of
recognizing once again that a non-addicted state of mind/body exists and that offers a
unique opportunity to return to the state that Kaplan describes as "Wellness".
Howard S. Lotsof
President
Dora Weiner Foundation
POB 10032
Staten Island, NY 10301-0032
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