Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
by Brian Vastag
Journal of the American Medical Association
Vol. 288 No. 24, pp. 3096-3101, December 25, 2002
© 2002 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy

New York -- Some drugs are made in laboratories. Others, like
penicillin, are discovered by accident. And then there's ibogaine, a
sacramental substance from West Africa that some say interrupts heroin,
cocaine, and other addictions. Over the past 40 years, the tale of
ibogaine's flirtation with legitimacy boasts more twists than the roots
of Tabernanthe iboga, the shrublike source of ibogaine.

After riding the backpacks of Westerners to the radical 1960s New York
City underground, ibogaine rose from a counterculture star to a serious
project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995,
after spending several million dollars on laboratory and animal studies,
the NIH decided not to pursue ibogaine development. Since then, patent
disputes have divided the drug's champions; a growing network of
informal clinics has sprung up; and pharmacologists have discovered that
ibogaine works on the brain in a manner unlike that of any other known
drug (see sidebar 1).

After all this, ibogaine and two of its derivatives appear closer to
legitimacy now than ever before. In 1998, a University of Miami Medical
Center researcher opened an ibogaine clinic on the Caribbean island of
St Kitt's. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had
approved human trials with ibogaine, Deborah Mash, PhD, associate
professor of neurology and pharmacology at Miami, could not secure
funding for a stateside study. Instead, she solicited private investment
and won favor from the government of St Kitt's, where a team of
physician counselors and addiction specialists now collect data that
Mash hopes will cement support for US trials of ibogaine or its
metabolite, noribogaine.

Tabernanthe iboga, the West African source of ibogaine, used by some to
treat addiction.

Meanwhile, another pharmacologist, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of
the Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical
Center, has painstakingly moved a derivative of ibogaine toward its own
clinical trial. After 12 years of basic research on scores of molecular
variations on the ibogaine theme, Glick recently forged an agreement
that represents his best chance for a clinical trial. Signed in November
2002, the contract obligates investors to raise $5 million within 2
years to fund the first human studies of 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC).

But even as ibogaine's supporters sniff success, they worry that the
drug's origins will continue to stunt its development. "It's been a
continuous battle for respect," said Glick. "Ibogaine has really become
notorious because it didn't originate in a lab, but in the
counterculture."

Mash is concerned that burgeoning unsanctioned use will compromise years
of laboratory and clinical work. "We've got this explosion of
underground clinics, and I'm scared that everything I work for is going
to go right down the toilet," Mash said in a recent telephone interview.
As an endowed, tenured professor, Mash has all the right credentials: a

29-page curriculum vitae listing 155 publications; a history of millions
of dollars in federal grants; a spot at the table of several National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) review committees; and a reputation as a
brilliant brain scientist.

And yet, Mash feels that ibogaine's tumultuous history (see sidebar 2)
has isolated her. "I'm the only one [doing clinical research]," she
said. "I figured, somebody ought to test the damn thing. You know,
either it works or it doesn't."

SCIENTISTS LOOK INTO USE

In 1999, Kenneth Alper, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at

New York University School of Medicine, hosted the first serious
scientific conference devoted to ibogaine. He and Glick compiled the
proceedings into a thick volume (Alkaloids Chem Biol. 2001;56:1-330). In
the preface, Geoffrey Cordell, PhD, a pharmacology researcher at the

University of Illinois at Chicago, writes that while ibogaine probably
"won't save the world from addiction," it deserves a "prominent position
in the list of anti-addictive strategies" under study.

Animal data support Cordell's conclusion. Dozens of articles referenced
in the conference proceedings report reductions in self-administration
of morphine, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine in rodents given
ibogaine. The effects last from 1 to 5 days, depending on dosage and
other variables. Noribogaine and 18-MC produced similar results.

That means the central hurdle for ibogaine's supporters is amassing
compelling human data. While unknowable scores of addicts continue
ingesting ibogaine hydrochloridea purified powder -- or ibogaa
whole-plant extract containing a dozen or more active alkaloids -- few
trained researchers witness the events.

"There's basically one big uncontrolled experiment going on out there,"
said Frank Vocci, PhD, head of antiaddiction drug development at NIDA.

Consequently, supporters have had to rely on anecdotal accounts. At a
pivotal 1995 NIDA meeting, Howard Lotsof, credited with discovering
ibogaine's purported antiaddictive potential, presented a collection of
case reports. He reported that 10 (19%) of 52 treatments led to
cessation of heroin or cocaine use for a year or longer; 15 (29%)
treatments led to 2 months or less of sobriety. The remaining treatments
were followed by sober periods between 2 months and 1 year. Despite
Lotsof's report, the NIDA peer review panel voted nine to four to reject
a clinical grant application from Mash.

She regrouped and eventually opened the Healing Visions clinic in St
Kitt's. In 2000, Mash and colleagues published the data from 27 cocaine-
or heroin-addicted patients treated at the center (Ann N Y Acad Sci.
2000:914;394-401). The researchers conclude that "self-reported
depressive symptoms and craving were significantly decreased" at 1 month
after stopping treatment with ibogaine. They also note that ibogaine
treatment "decreased participants' desire and intention to use heroin."
Mash is now analyzing safety and efficacy data for 257 patients.

SAFETY CONCERNS

At Healing Visions, patients receive what Mash calls "state-of-the-art
care," with round-the-clock monitoring and access to the latest
emergency equipment. But individuals who seek out ibogaine in other
settings receive no such supervision. "It's caveat emptor," said NIDA's
Vocci.

Vocci also said that safety was "not the main concern" at the pivotal
1995 NIDA meeting, which he chaired. However, that review panel did cite
safety issues. One reviewer wrote that the drug's toxicology profile was
"less than ideal," with bradycardia leading the list of worrisome
adverse effects.

In fact, between 1989 and 2000, three reports of patients dying after
taking ibogaine surfaced, sparking a swirl of questions about the drug's
safety. The first death, of a 40-year-old woman in France, apparently
stemmed from preexisting heart disease. A lack of medical information
hindered investigations into the other two deaths and led to conflicting
conclusions about whether ibogaine was to blame.

In a 1996 radio interview with WBAI in New York City, Mash said that, in
the French case, the patient "was very sick, she had a very sick heart

and she shouldn't have been given ibogaine under any circumstances. . .
." And in the second death, "we don't completely know the mechanism of
lethality, but it did appear to be respiratory collapse in this case.
The bottom line is that you need to be under medical supervision. . . .
Ibogaine is an important drug but it is not to be used outside the
medical establishment, not ever, ever, ever."

Despite Mash's warnings, unsanctioned ibogaine use appears to be
soaring. A sophisticated "underground railroad" of sorts has sprung up

in New York, spearheaded by Dana Beal, a long-time marijuana
legalization advocate. When heroin- or cocaine-addicted individuals
develop an interest in ibogaine, they often call Beal, who acts as
intake counselor.

During an interview in his home, the one-time headquarters of the

radical 1960s Yipster Times newspaper, Beal said that if he thinks
someone is a good candidate for ibogaine, he helps arrange a visit to an
informal clinic.

The best known operation, according to Beal, is in the Netherlands at
the Amsterdam home of Sara Glatt, who practices various types of
alternative medicine. Glatt has treated some 85 people during the last 3
years. When an addicted individual arrives, Glatt asks for a history of
heart problems or bad experiences with psychedelic drugs. Judging from
that information and the individual's weight, Glatt provides between 2 g
and 6 g of powdered iboga, the whole-plant extract that contains at
least a dozen active ingredients in addition to ibogaine.

Whereas Glatt charges upward of $1000 for her services, the newest
clinic, in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers free ibogaine. The
clinic's founder, Marc Emery, won 2000 of 140 000 votes in the 2002
Vancouver mayoral election running on a platform of open access to
ibogaine. He recently solicited an ibogaine e-mail list for feedback on
a proposed treatment regimen.

Lotsof, on the other hand, has already published a rigorous protocol
(Lotsof H, Wachtel B. Manual for Ibogaine Therapy: Screening, Safety,
Monitoring, and Aftercare, First Revision. Published online. Available
at http://www.ibogaine.org/manual.html. Accessed November 26, 2002). In
the preface to the first revision, Lotsof and coauthor Boaz Wachtel
write that the manual is "intended for lay-healers who have little or no
medical experience, but who are nevertheless concerned with patient
safety and the outcome of ibogaine treatments." The manual suggests
inclusion and exclusion criteria, ibogaine regimens and doses, and
considerations for posttreatment care. A naive physician would likely
accept it as a standard medical protocol.

Back in the realm of sanctioned drug development, Glick and Mash are now
focused on bringing their respective ibogaine derivatives into clinical
trials. "That's certainly the way to go now," said Vocci. Alper voiced a
similar opinion, saying that he views ibogaine as proof of concept that
the best hope for a therapeutic drug lies with ibogaine derivatives.
Glick, too, is certain that the FDA will never approve ibogaine. In
addition to safety concerns and the drug's social history, the
hallucinogenic effects of ibogaine (see sidebar 1) could be problematic.

After NIDA rejected ibogaine clinical trials, both Mash and Glick struck
out with the pharmaceutical industry, which has been traditionally cool
to antiaddiction drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) reports that in 1999, for example, its roster of drug
giants had 10 antiaddiction agents in clinical trials. The same
companies had more than 400 cancer drugs in clinical development. When
asked to explain the disparity, Jeff Trewhitt, spokesman for PhRMA,
said, "We certainly don't know a reason, unfortunately."

But ibogaine researchers and others, including a spokeswoman for the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), say
that addiction stigma and low profit potential are keeping companies
away.

Whatever the case, the dearth of pharmaceutical and other treatments
means that the societal costs of addiction will continue to climb.

SAMHSA reports that in 2000, illicit drug addiction cost the United
States $160 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and crime and
incarceration, up from $117 billion in 1997. Illicit drug addiction is
here to stay.

So too, it appears, is ibogaine.

An Odd Drug

Other hallucinations passed before my eyesburning skulls and faces, the
figures of women in black dresses stretching out long white arms toward
me from the edges of my visionbut when I tried to speak of them, they
disappeared. Meanwhile, the iboga was making me sick. I fought back

waves of nausea. I wanted to reach the deeper visionary state, but I was
also afraid of the drug.
Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic
Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. New York, NY: Broadway
Books; 2002.

At low doses, ibogaine is a mild stimulant. At high doses, users report

deeply emotional visions, sometimes pleasant, sometimes harrowing.
Patrick Kroupa, who credits ibogaine with 3 years of sobriety after 15
years of addiction, said, "It was like dying and going to hell 1000
times."

Whatever the subjective experience, pharmacologists have spent decades
puzzling out the brain effects of ibogaine. Their conclusion: it's
unlike any other known drug. Kenneth Alper, PhD, assistant professor of
psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, said that the drug
appears to work on "every neurotransmitter system we know about." It
binds to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and µ- and -opioid receptors;
all three play prominent roles in current theories of addiction.

Ibogaine also acts as an antidepressant by binding to serotonin
transporters, thereby increasing serotonin levels in the nucleus
accumbens. Evidence of impact on the dopamine and acetylcholine systems
is less compelling, but deserves consideration, said Alper (Alkaloids
Chem Biol. 2001;56:2-33).

Most recently, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, published support for his theory
that ibogaine reduces drug-seeking behavior in rodents by blocking a3b4
nicotinic receptors (Eur J Pharmacol. 2002;438:99-105).

Meanwhile, Deborah Mash, PhD, a neuroscientist at University of Miami
Medical Center, is convinced that ibogaine is nothing but a short-acting
prodrug. It quickly metabolizes into noribogaine, she said, which boasts
a half-life so long that she has been unable to measure it. This
property, she believes, explains ibogaine's purported ability to block
drug cravings for weeks or months (Alkaloids Chem Biol.
2001;56:79-113).B.V.

(Return to text.)

A Brief History of Ibogaine

1885: First published description of religious use of Tabernanthe iboga
in Gabon appears in France; it reports that initiates of the Bwiti
religion eat rootbark to induce visions and "meet their ancestors."

1939: Sold in France as a stimulant until 1970.

1962: Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old from Staten Island, receives ibogaine
from an LSD chemist and gives it to 19 other people. He later reports
that five of seven heroin and cocaine addicts in this group, including
himself, stop illicit drug use for up to 18 months and experience little
or no acute withdrawal.

1970: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies ibogaine as a
Schedule I drug, making it illegal. Belgium also outlaws ibogaine, but
today it remains legal in the rest of the world.

1985: Lotsof receives a US patent for use of ibogaine in opioid
withdrawal. Additional patents describing ibogaine treatment for cocaine
and other addictions follow.

1989: Ibogaine addiction treatment begins in informal clinics in the
Netherlands. By 2002, informal clinics have opened in the United
Kingdom, Canada, Slovenia, and Mexico.

1991: After intense pressure from activists, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) begins funding preclinical toxicology and other
laboratory research on ibogaine.

1993: The FDA approves a US clinical trial of ibogaine sponsored by
University of Miami neuroscientist Deborah Mash, PhD.

1995: NIDA review committee rejects funding for Mash's clinical trial.

1999: Mash opens ibogaine clinic on Caribbean island of St Kitt's. By

late 2002, she has collected safety and efficacy data on 257 addicted
patients.

2002: Long-running legal dispute between Lotsof and Mash ends with the
University of Miami winning patents for noribogaine, a metabolite of
ibogaine. Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of the Center for
Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical Center, signs

contract to bring ibogaine derivative 18-MC into clinical trials.B.V.

*****!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!******

From: mick lambe PARIAH <pariahnt@...>
Subject: Stick this in your pipe and smoke it!
To: minister.ahkit@...
Status:  

John (Ah Kit)

(Bcc)

Alcohol, petrol-sniffing, Kava, adhesive-sniffing, paint-sniffing...

...your pet 'researchers' are not going to convince anyone about the dangers of marijuana to Aboriginal people.

Especially the victims of alcohol abuse.
________________________________

Saw an old friend today, with an external brace implanted through her skin to hold her jaw together.

The internalization of anger is killing a massively repressed people.

(Martin Luther King Jr, talks about this "internalization" -- 1967 -- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community?)

_____________________________

This campaign of ignorance and diversion you have initiated, is entirely oppositional to one thing that can change life on the communities for the better. REAL education.

Not the inappropriate social-conditioning (by leftovers from the '50's) you seem to endorse.

I was a tutor working for Batchelor (Aboriginal) College at Belyuen Aboriginal Community, before I challenged local racism. 
_______________________________________________________

We have wide experience regarding the subject of marijuana use on Aboriginal communities...

... far more pleasant than that associated with alcohol.

You?

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it!

Part 2 - under construction.

regards

Mick Lambe Coordinator: PARIAH
People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands
Northern Territory, Australia
http://www.country-liberal-party.com
BETTER A PARIAH - THAN A LIAR
We support: NAP -- Network Against Prohibition (NT)
http://www.napnt.org

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CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST MONTREAL CLUB

JCT: Sure, Judge Cadieux couldn't grant Boris St-Maurice and

his Montreal Compassion Club any of the things they were
demanding, but he did the next best thing: 

>Date: Thursday, December 19, 2002
>From: Canadian Press PETER RAY
>Subject; Quebec judge halts trial of two men accused of
handing out medicinal pot
 
PR: MONTREAL (CP) - A judge has halted the drug-trafficking
trial of two marijuana activists who were involved in a club
that dispensed the drug for medical use.
 
A lawyer who represented the federal government at the trial

said Thursday's decision amounts to an acquittal for the
accused. "When the judge orders a stay of proceedings, that
is tantamount to an acquittal," Robert Marchi said in an
interview.

Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice, director of the Compassion Club,
and Alexandre Neron, who worked at the club, were accused of
possession of marijuana and trafficking the drug. The case
was watched closely by pro-cannabis and law-enforcement
groups because of its implications for the distribution of
medicinal marijuana in Canada.

Quebec court Judge Gilles Cadieux, who had postponed making
a decision on the case about 10 times, said the absence of a
legal source of marijuana takes away the right to life and
liberty for those who need it.

JCT: So the judge somehow concluded that prohibition of
cannabis violates the Charter's Section 7 Right to Life.

PR: Cadieux also said he wouldn't rule on the
constitutionality of marijuana laws.

JCT: Too bad. But that's for another upcoming case coming up
real soon.

PR: The Crown did not say if it will appeal Cadieux's
decision.

JCT: Appealing is a way to let them keep busting other clubs
while the appeal goes on, so who wants to bet they don't
appeal? And even though it's not like the judge declared the
law unconstitutional and acquitted him, he still declared
that the law killed people and would not permit a trial of
the charge. Kind of like the concept of jury nullification.
A jury can refuse to convict and and a judge can refuse to
convict.

PR: Saint-Maurice, who said the club reopened three weeks
ago, called the judgment a victory. "The prohibition of
marijuana for medical purposes is not constitutional," he
said outside court. "It's a 64-page judgment, but my
preliminary reaction is that we won our case on the level of
constitutional arguments on the right to have access to
medicinal marijuana. And that's what is important." However,
Saint-Maurice noted that the scope of Cadieux's ruling is
limited. "The court at this level can't make a judgment that
will include all of Canada."

JCT: But his decision is bound to help other actions that
will arise every time I put something in the higher courts.

PR: Saint-Maurice and Neron were arrested in the fall of
2000 after police raided the club and seized 66 grams of
marijuana. Neron said he will not go back to the Compassion
Club. "I'm a little bit disappointed with the judgment
because we have been working hard on this for three years
since were were arrested. "We were waiting for something a
little more. But like Pontius Pilate in the Bible, he (the
judge) washed his hands and that's it, it's over." Similar
clubs operate in other Canadian cities.

JCT: And as long as the law isn't declared an
unconstitutional violation of the right to life, the next
club to be busted can use the same arguments to get a stay,
and then the next one to be busted can use the same
arguments to get the charge stayed., and the next, and the
next, all the while costing the victims time and expense and
the costing the government almost nothing.

Let's hope that there are some good nuggets to be mined in
this decision in which the rights of the sick have been
vindicated.
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US CA: Jeff Jones Guilty Of Leafleting

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n2289/a01.html

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Newshawk: CMAP http://www.mapinc.org/cmap
Pubdate: Sat, 21 Dec 2002
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Webpage: http://www.mapinc.org/cancom/7604c8cc-f7ec-4999-94b0-4ed83e1f354f
Copyright: 2002 The Vancouver Sun
Website: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/477
Author: Andrew Struthers, Special to the Sun
Cited: Renee Boje http://www.reneeboje.com/
Pot TV http://www.pot-tv.net/
Bookmarks: http://www.mapinc.org/renee.htm (Boje, Renee)
http://www.mapinc.org/todd.htm (McCormick, Todd)
http://www.mapinc.org/mcwilliams.htm (McWilliams, Peter)
http://www.mapinc.org/people/Marc+Emery (Marc Emery)
http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

U.S. DRUG WAR'S TARGET: A NEW MOM

Here's How Hollywood-Raised Renee Boje Became The Pot Madonna

Gorgeous, guileless and naturally blissed out, Vancouver's Renee Boje,
32, is the perfect poster girl for pot activists; she's also a new
mother and martyr for a cause she never dreamed she'd represent, a
marijuana madonna with everyone from Noam Chomsky to Woody Harrelson
writing letters on her behalf.

Boje lies back on the couch, her baby Shiva curled against her breast.
Images of Ganesh and Shakti smile down from the walls. Outside, the
traffic on Commercial Drive has almost faded. Across the room Shiva's
father, author Chris Bennet, talks quietly about ancient Egypt.

Shiva looks like any 10-month-old who has crashed at the end of a long
day: utterly at peace. However, he slumbers in the eye of a hurricane.
His mother is a flashpoint in America's billion-dollar war on drugs.

If Boje is the marijuana movement's perfect poster girl, as a
sacrificial lamb for the war on drugs, she's better than perfect.
She's a living example of how reefer madness can suck the girl next
door into a maelstrom of cops, lawyers, strip searches and prison bars.

The strategists in the war on drugs are manoeuvring to extradite his
wife to the U.S., where she faces charges of marijuana
trafficking.

The story of Boje, and her role as it-girl for the cannabis culture,
began innocently enough. Boje, who was raised in Hollywood, was 23
before she even tried marijuana. She liked it. In 1996, when
California tabled the controversial Proposition 215, a state
initiative that would allow certain sick people to use marijuana as
medicine, she joined the majority that voted yes. The proposition
passed, and medical marijuana became legal in California.

The following year she saw a man casually puffing on a joint in a
Hollywood coffee shop.

"I asked him how he could be so bold," she says, stretching out on the
sofa like a cat.

Todd McCormick, a cancer sufferer, explained that his illness had
forced him to become an expert on medical uses of marijuana, and now,
thanks to Proposition 215, he had a licence to toke. McCormick, a tiny
man in a wheelchair whose spine was severed in two places, also told
her he had just received a $100,000 advance from publisher Peter
McWilliams to write a book on medical marijuana.

Boje, who had just finished art school, was intrigued, and their
conversation continued. McCormick soon took her on to illustrate the
book.

Over the next few months, Boje spent a good deal of time at
McCormick's Bel Air mansion, dubbed the cannabis castle"(it had a
moat, along with 4,000 pot plants), making sketches for the book. One
night on her way home she was snared by officers from the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency. They claimed they had been watching her through

binoculars as she lined the bridge across the cannabis castle's moat
with pot plants and watered them.

Although she had nothing in her possession, over the next 72 hours she
was strip-searched 15 times while two cops leered at her and told her
what they were going to do with her once they put her "inside for
good." When she mentioned Proposition 215, they laughed and told her
that growing medical marijuana might be legal under California state
law, but under federal law it was no different from peddling smack.
The DEA was a federal agency, and the legal principle of supremacy

meant that in a battle between state and federal law, the latter would
win.

What the feds wanted was for Boje to testify against McCormick and and
his publisherPeter McWilliams, an AIDS sufferer who used marijuana to
fight the nausea his treatment caused him. Both had been busted that
same night and charged with trafficking. Four thousand plants. That's
a lot of grass for one tiny guy in a wheelchair and his AIDS-stricken
pal.

Boje refused. The charges against her were dropped, she was released,
and the DEA started tailing her so they could build a better case
against her.

In 1998, her lawyer told her there was a 99-per-cent chance the
charges would be reinstated. The feds were determined to bring down
Proposition 215, and wanted the case against McCormick and McWilliams
to be iron-clad. She was a pawn in the DEA's gambit. Unless she
testified against her friends, she faced 10 years to life under
federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

"He [Boje's lawyer] said if I was his daughter, he'd tell me to go to
Canada. The only thing I knew about Canada was the Kids in the Hall,"
she says. That, and that B.C. was pretty laid-back about marijuana.

Knowing nothing about the vast area north of the 49th parallel, she
agonized between life in Canada and imprisonment. However, that same
year, in her home state of California, eight prison guards had been
indicted for "pitting inmates against each other in gladiator-style
fights." The conflicts were broken up by firing on the inmates with
rifles. Seven were killed. According to Amnesty International, which
had condemned conditions in U.S. jails, female prisoners were
"subjected to serious sexual abuse, including rape and being sold as
'sex slaves' to male inmates." They were also routinely shackled to
their beds while giving birth.

Boje fled that spring. She couldn't even tell her family she might
never see them again because, in the eyes of the DEA, that would make
them guilty of abetting a fugitive.

At the border the dropped marijuana charges came up on the computer,
but the Canadian border guard waved her in. A 20-something who'd been
caught smoking pot? Big deal.

She found her way to the Sunshine Coast, where a friend of a friend
lived. Life in Roberts Creek was good. She soon founded the local
Compassion Club, and started administering medical marijuana to help
ease the suffering of terminally ill patients and AIDS victims.

Bad move. She got busted in a police raid -- medical marijuana is
still technically illegal in Canada -- and suddenly the DEA had her
back in its crosshairs. Extradition loomed.

Terrified of what awaited her in the States, she applied for refugee
status. When word of her plight got around, she became the cause
celebre of the marijuana legalization movement.

Marc Emery, founder of Hemp BC, publisher of Cannabis Culture, and the
man the National Post called "Canada's pot millionaire," kicked in for
her legal defence and took her to the studios of his newest
enterprise, a fledgling Internet media outlet called, of course, Pot
Radio.

When she walked into the station, Chris Bennet was on the air from
Vancouver Island, talking about marijuana and the Bible. The host
asked Boje to join in, and so she and Bennet exchanged their first
hellos in cyberspace.

Boje was moving even deeper toward the epicentre of B.C.'s marijuana
subculture.

It was 1999, and Bennet still lived in Ucluelet. We were friends then
-- still are.

Bennet, raised by loggers in Ukee, was like some crazy funhouse mirror

image of me. We both surfed, both drew, both lived on converted fish
boats, and both had published books. And we both smoked a lot of pot.
There was only one thing we disagreed on: Chris thought the Tree of
Life in the Garden of Eden was a giant pot plant, and I didn't.

In 1999 Chris wrote a book on this theme, called Sex, Drugs, Violence
and the Bible. It was full of references to Old Testament patriarchs
anointing themselves with cane oil, which Chris argued was a tincture
of cannabis. Highly entertaining. But when he asked me to illustrate
the book I begged off.

I had just quit smoking pot, which for me had become the TV of drugs.

Every night I would turn on, tune in, and drop off.

Remember those fairy rings in Scottish folklore? You get drawn in by
the wild music, dance round and round all night, and when you wake up
in the morning 10 years have passed and you're old. That's exactly
what a decade of smoking pot in Tofino feels like once you sober up.

But I relented, and perhaps because my heart wasn't in it, the cover
painting took forever.

By the time I'd finished, Bennet had moved to Vancouver to work for
Pot TV, another Emery enterprise.

Bennet had his own show, The Burning Shiva Hour, in which he rambled
entertainingly about his favourite subjects: marijuana and the Bible
and anointing and cane oil. There was also a show called The Healing
Herb, which broadcast updates on the fight for legalizing medical
marijuana, featuring Boje.

When I called Chris to see if he liked the painting he told me about
Renee -- he was madly in love with her. Unfortunately, the U.S.
justice department had its own plans for her.

It's after midnight. Chris, Renee and Shiva are curled up on a giant
bed in the next room, and I drift on the couch under the dim spines of
books: Joseph Campbell. Carl Jung. Rabelais. Next morning, it's
Gnostics for breakfast.

Apart from the flow of references to arcane texts, life in the
Boje/Bennet household is pretty standard domestic stuff. At 10 a.m.
Chris leaves for work -- he's now the manager of Pot TV. Boje plunks
Shiva in a device that allows him to trundle around the house like a
little tank while she waters the plants. Not pot plants. Just plants.

As she waters, I ask if she would return to the States if the charges
were miraculously dropped. She shakes her head.

"I had no idea what Canada was like, how free everyone is. I think
they keep it secret down there. Even getting arrested here is so
different. I never want to go back."

Despite the threat of extradition, life in B.C. is good. Emery has
thus far kicked in about a hundred thousand for her legal defence,
and, like a good immigrant, Boje is using her entrepreneurial spirit
to plan her own business venture.

Last December, anointed with cane oil and painted with pagan fertility
symbols, she and Chris exchanged vows at the altar. This spring Shiva
arrived.

Shortly after Shiva's arrival, Boje's lawyers filed a further appeal
to the justice minister, who had agreed to hear Boje's claim for
refugee status, citing Boje's marriage to a Canadian and the birth of
her son. Her refugee claim is based on the argument that conditions in
U.S. prisons are inhumane, and the sentence Boje might face
extraordinary.

Back in California, McCormick and McWilliams, both too sick to flee,
had ended up in federal court, where neither was allowed to mention
Proposition 215, medical marijuana or even their own illnesses.

Stripped of any defence, both pleaded guilty to trafficking in
exchange for the dropping of some charges. McCormick got five years,
McWilliams was released on bail pending sentence. One of the
conditions of McWilliams' bail was a weekly test for THC, which meant
he was unable to smoke the marijuana that had kept him from throwing
up his AIDS drug cocktail. A few months later he choked to death on
his own vomit.

Shortly after the sentencing of McCormick and McWilliams, Bennet and
Boje were interviewed by Global TV. When they watched the footage it
was followed by an interview with U.S. "drug czar" John Walters' right
hand man, Colonel Robert Maginnis. Maginnis singled Boje out, saying

they were coming to get her. He planned to make an example of her
case, and extradite her by hook or by crook.

"It was very upsetting to realize the drug czar knew me by name," she
says, as Shiva bashes his walker into the door jamb, skids off the rug
on to the hardwood floor and thunders down the hall.

It's ironic that while Canada's marijuana laws seem to be loosening --
just last week Federal Justice Minister Martin Cauchon recommended
decriminalization of pot possession under 30 grams -- Boje's foes in
the U.S. are winding up tighter and tighter.

This little BC family is up against their own axis of evil formed by

John Ashcroft, President George Bush, and the new head of the US
office of national Drug Control Policy, John Walters -- three guys who
take their jobs very seriously.

Ashcroft gained notoriety recently when he decided it was "curtains
for Justice" -- literally. He spent $12,000 on drapery to cover a
statue of Justice in Washington that had one breast bared. The son of
a fundamentalist preacher, Ashcroft admits in his book Lessons From A
Father To A Son, that he anointed himself with oil before taking
office as a Senator (he couldn't find cane oil so he used Crisco).

Walters is a lifelong Washington bureaucrat who once stated in the
Weekly Standard that the notion that young black men are unjustly
punished by America's criminal justice system is one of "the great
urban myths of our time." (This, despite the fact that because US
felons are stripped of their democratic rights, even after release
from prison, fully 15 per cent of young black men in Kentucky and
Virginia can't vote.)

And Bush? Well, when a patron in a bar near Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
proposed setting fire to the President to see if God would address the
country "through a burning Bush," he got a three-month prison sentence.

Now Canada must decide whether or not to surrender Boje to a country
and justice system run by this trio.

Her defence is twofold: first, that if repatriated she would face
inhumane treatment because the prisons there are so bad, and second,
that her sentence is so wildly different from what it would be in
Canada that it negates any extradition agreement.

Even her own lawyer calls the gambit a "long shot." If Boje is allowed
to stay, worries are that it will set a precedent and trigger an
influx of criminal Americans. But Boje's only real transgression is
her stalwart character: she steadfastly refused to rat on her friends.

There is already an international precedent in a similar case. In 1999
the high court of Norway unanimously refused to extradite Henry
Hendriksen to the United States because they found conditions in
American jails inhumane. No mere friend of pot smokers, or alleged
rearranger of plants, Hendriksen stood accused of smuggling 50 tons of
hashish into Vermont. But that's not the point. Norway's high court
sees no reason for him to suffer the conditions in American prisons.

Do we want to be more like Norway, or more like America? There are
some issues where the States seems not only like a different country,
but a different planet. Jails and marijuana are at the top of the list.

America's prison population was steady from 1925 until 1973, averaging
around one convict per thousand citizens. Since then it has mushroomed
to seven per thousand, the highest rate on the planet, just ahead of
Russia. The San Jose Mercury News recently lamented that "Our jails
and prisons have become the 51st state, with a greater combined
population than Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota."

Since 1980 the percentage of drug-related sentences has grown by a
factor of ten, and the number of women in prison for drug offences by
over 900 per cent. The majority of these drug offences involve marijuana.

Over this same period, Canada has become progressively more lenient in
its attitude towards marijuana, despite pressure from the Whitehouse.

So now the War on Drugs seems to have permutated into a war between
Canada and the US, at least metaphorically.

It's hard to avoid war metaphors. They have their own gravity. Notice

how easily we slipped into this one.

The whole trick to a war metaphor is to see your side's faults in
others. Earlier I painted Bush, Ashcroft and Walters as paranoid,
breast-phobic, Crisco-anointing Three Stooges.

Here in Canada, we sometimes seem not so far ahead. When Evan Wade
Brown pied Jean Chretien in the face, he got 30 days in jail, before
appealing. A painting of a naked female was recently removed from the
legislature, and when it comes to anointing with oil, Chris Bennet
literally wrote the book.

The whole trick to ending a war metaphor is to find some middle
ground. Pax. Okay, so Americans get a little over-excited when it

comes to pot. Big deal. Like most Canadians, I'd like to see pot
decriminalized, but I'm leery about legalization. Such freedoms only
work for adults. When you're still wet behind the ears, pot is like
fire. It makes a good servant and a lousy, paranoid, couch-potato master.

Ultimately I'd like to cut the government out of the loop when it
comes to what I put in my body, but it will take time.

Last week US drug czar John Walters travelled all the way to
Vancouver, to within a few kilometres of Boje's home, to address
Canada's recent "softening" on the marijuana issue. Seemed like a nice
guy. He reminisced about taking a degree in Toronto, but he also seems
to regard the True North as a giant grow-op fronted by the longest
undefended border in the world.

I understand his concern. It's already impossible for America to keep
Canadian bud out of their free market. And they can't resort to trade
tariffs on this product.

When asked point blank how he felt about the neighbours passing such
libertine drug laws, Walters said we could pass any laws we wanted.
"Canada," he reminded us, "is a sovereign nation.

Of course it's not Canada that needs reminding.

Rain falls, then darkness. We sit in a booth at the Buddhist
Vegetarian restaurant. Shiva makes contact with the baby in the next
booth and they play ping-pong with gurgles and coos. Renee orders a
huge plate of tofu in black bean sauce.

I say, "We have a rule in Canada: 'Never eat anything bigger than your
head.'"

Boje giggles. "I'm breast feeding, I have to eat constantly."

She looks like such a BC hippie chick, it's hard to believe she's a
pawn in the DEA's billion-dollar game. Of course, when a pawn gets to
the back of the board it is transformed into a queen. That always
means trouble in chess. What will she do if Cauchon surrenders her in
court?

"I don't like to think about that, but I doubt if they'll let me go
home with Chris and Shiva and get my things."

I'm thinking the same thing: she'll be hustled out the back door in
shackles. Right now she has a six-month reprieve. By the time her case
comes up again, possessing marijuana will probably be a summary
convictions offence, not a crime. The court will have to decide if she
should spend her life in a place that falls well below Amnesty
International's atrocity bar for an offence that our government deems
on par with a parking ticket.

When the decision is made, we'll find out whether or not, as John

Walters keeps insisting, Canada is a sovereign nation.

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From: Nicholas Merrill <nick@...>
To: freeyourmind@...
Cc: dana@..., pieman@...
Subject: This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf.
Status:  

This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf.

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From: Jaden Harder <jadensheldon@...>

To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

Okay Steve

 Yeah I was wired to coke and heroin IV. Im 25 and before the Ibo my energy was sporatic and I had to work around them. Okay when you do Ibo its like you never come down. But not because youre high but because the experience just lifted you to a more open level where you realize you could have been all along. Im talking physical energy as well. Ive had consistent energy for over a month. Since the morning after I did it. And really try to concentrate on your "visions" because after when you are sorting it all out youll be really glad you payed attention. Yeah just relax and observe and let it happen. And good luck man.

Sheldon

 steve diamond <stevediamond79@...> wrote:

Steve Diamond

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>

To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

Steve,

--- steve diamond <stevediamond79@...> wrote:
> What do you mean, you did not feel right until
> October? Now I'm getting
> scared.

All you are doing creating doubt - exactly what your
addiction wants you to do and exactly what you
shouldn't be doing (IMHO of course).

Karina was on 100mg's of Methadone, she is far smaller
than you (effectivly increasing her mg/kg - or DOSE
compared to you). Methadone is rough stuff and even
with ibo they often don't feel right for a while.
While this can and does happen with other shorter
acting opiates it BY FAR usually is much less and much
shorter - IF AT ALL - and we are not talking about any
full blown withdrawal. So maybe won't feel wonderful
for a week or so... yeah, so? It isn't going to change
a thing to "worry" or get yourself scared over it -
well, not in a positive way.

All this is nothing you don't know - if you want to
ask questions have at it, if you want to scare the
shit out of yourself about failure I STRONGLY suggest
get off the list and just do the stuff (ibo) - oh, and
DON'T THINK (if you are at that stage...) about it.
You are going to be however you are going to be -
unless you get yourself all worked up about failure -
NO FAILURE - look at FREEDOM, you create what you see
- you are not looking at SUCCESS, you are focusing
your attention on failure/fear/what if/WHAT THEN/then
what am I going to do... This isn't healthy stuff, it
is addiction thinking - GET OVER IT so you can GET
OVER IT. YOu may or may not have or not have any
number of reactions to ibo - you will find out when
you get there which ones they are/aren't and how much
of them you have/don't have... Worrying about it is
not good for ya... 

The bottom line of the treatment is it is HIGHLY
likely you will be just fine with the treatment (being
"successful") and then, after it is some-teen notches
easier to recover, it is up to you.

> I have to go back to work four days after I
> am going to take it.

So go back to work 4 days after you take it(the 5th
day). Most of the time you will be able to just fine
even if you kicked dope without ibogaine - you are
addicted to a different drug than Karina was and you
are not on a handful of medications that she was on
and juggling. Most of the time people will be well
enough recovered within 4 days to return to work - it
usually only takes 2-3 days - on occasion people take
a little longer - and if you DO NOT EAT it will take
you longer... maybe not 4 days but eating shortens
recovery and not eating prolongs it. Taking vitamins,
eating fruits and veggies, taking in lots of fluids
etc will be better on your recovery than hot-dogs and
ham sandwitches with coke... Get UP and move around,
get some fresh air (just a bit) - don't sit there in
bed (if that is the case) - in other words LISTEN to
the person on the other end of the telephone telling
you things you need to do in order to recover faster.
Some people do ibo and wake-up quite refreshed (I HATE

THEM!) all ready to go, "cured" even... ya never know.
And yes there  is a (very small) chance you will take
the ibogaine and it will have zero effect on you - so
then what? Then you move onto the next step, whatever
that may be but I tell you this, if you think you are
doomed, then you are doomed till you think otherwise.

> not feel "right?"

That prolonged not-feeling right is much more common
to methadone addictions AND a 2nd treatment will
likely eliminate much/most of those.


Brett
>
> Steve

>

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From: MARC <marc420emery@...>
To: ibogaine@...
X-Priority: 3
Subject: [ibogaine] To Steve Diamond/ Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

Hello Steve,

My name is Marc Emery. I am one of the facillitators that administered

Ibogaine to Sheldon.

The Ibogaine experience is something that cannot be isolated as to duration
of experience. Meaning, yesterday, a patient was administered ibogaine
(first treatment), had 8 hours of visualizations, and today, 24 hours later,
she is walking around and lightly conversational. She will be fine to leave

(if she so desires), possibly 24 hours from now, although we expect her to
stay another 48 hours. However, another patient, a male, was administered
ibogaine 48 hours ago, and visualized for 30 hours, and is having a very
serious session, is still in bed and will require care for another 2 - 3
days, we expect he will stay another 3 - 7 days. When I say 'serious
session', he is seeing so much of his life, his mistakes, his pain, his
past, that his Zen masters are really going over it with him.

We treat 3 - 4 now individuals weekly and the experiences have many
commonalities to we, the facillitators, but inside each mind the trip is
very personal. Stays range from 3 - 8 days. We prefer a lengthier stay (as
long as patients are co-operative). Every patient reports an improved
attitude, physical health, and other benefits by the 2 - 3 week after
period, but prior to that, only 2 - 3 hours of sleep is required nightly for
about 10 - 25 days after ibogaine, plus there are are other transitional
peculiarities. Sheldon has much experience he could impart to you.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

----- Original Message -----
From: "steve diamond" <stevediamond79@...>
To: <ibogaine@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.


> What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I'm getting
> scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going to take it.
> Could you have gone back to work even though you did not feel "right?"
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Mzzthangg13@...
> >Reply-To: ibogaine@...
> >To: ibogaine@...
> >Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
> >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST
> >
> >i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october.....now it's
all
> >good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone........karina

>

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From: Mzzthangg13@...
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:34:15 EST
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

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From: Mzzthangg13@...
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:46:25 EST
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  

--- Mzzthangg13@... wrote:
> you have to go to a medical facility...do not do it
> with these underground
> people it could be dangerous.........look up
> ibogaine locations on the web
> karina

One could also say "don't go to a medical facility, it
could be dangerous...".

I think it would be a mistake to assume that just

because treatment is given in a medical facility means
it is safe or because it is not means it is more
dangerous - hospitals are one of the most dangerous
places on earth. That said I would love for everyone
to be able to "check-in" to their local medical
facility/treatment center for ibogaine treatment on

demand and at price they can afford - that option is
scarce and not covered by insurance. Also being a
doctor/work in a medical facility does NOT mean you
have had your ass-hole taken away or that they will
give better treatment. If I am not mistaken one
ibogaine "death" was after being administered by a
Physician (Baumann) in violation of protocol.

Nothing WRONG with seeking ibogaine treatment (or any
other) under medical supervision if that is how one
chooses. Unrelated case in point. My Fiance just had a
lipoma removed, I watched (and chomped at the bit).
Let me tell you that was the worst case of sterile
technique I have ever seen in my life, the sewing job
was pathetic - I certainly could have done far better.
Last Friday (Friday the 13th) while preparing for an
office party (at our house) and within an hour of each
other Vivian managed to dislocate her toe (which I
fixed) and I sliced deeply into my thumb while carving
ONE of the turkeys. I had no problem
re-locating/wrapping/putting on ice her toe... and no
problem sewing myself up (quite nicely). This is
nothing I have not done before (I was a Hospital
Corpsman, EMT, qualified as a LPN, Operating room
tech... set bones/casted people, sewed people, did
minor surgeries myself). Maybe for YOU it would be
more dangerous than being treated in a medical
facility but for me it was likely safer (closing the
wound so fast helped healing and limited infection vs
a long delay going to an ER) and far cheaper - we both
were fine for the party which would not have happened
if we were both in the ER, waiting...

All that said IBOGAINE does present some danger and
following of protocol (by whoever) is necessary to
ensure safe passage.

Here are some numbers for ya to give you an idea of
the inherent dangers of going to a medical facility
(said only to see the other side of the "coin");

(Medscape you need free registration)

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/408053

The 1991 New York study reported that adverse events
due to medical errors occurred in 3.7% of hospitalized
patients, with 13.6% of the adverse events actually
leading to death. In the Colorado and Utah study,
adverse events occurred in 2.9% of hospitalizations,
with 8.8% of these resulting in death. Extrapolation
of these data implies that between 44,000 and 98,000
patients die each year as a result of medical errors,
with an estimated overall cost to society of between
$17 billion and $29 billion.[4]

http://lists.netlojix.com/pipermail/chirolist/Week-of-Mon-20000117/000107.html

** The NEW YORK TIMES reported that 5% of people
admitted to hospitals, or about 1.8 million people per
year, in the U.S. pick up an infection while there.[1]
Such infections are called  "iatrogenic" -- meaning
"induced by a physician," or, more loosely, "caused by
medical care." Iatrogenic infections are directly
responsible for 20,000 deaths among hospital patients
in the U.S. each year, and they contribute to an
additional 70,000 deaths, according to the federal
Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The dollar cost of
iatrogenic infections is $4.5 billion, according to
the CDC....

A study conducted at the Duke University Medical
Center found that only 17% of physicians treating
patients in an intensive care unit washed their hands
appropriately.[1]...

There are about 33.6 million people admitted to
hospitals each year in the U.S. Somewhere between 2.9%
and 3.7% (average: 3.3%) of these suffer an "adverse
event" while in the hospital.[2,pg.1] An "adverse
event" is defined as an injury caused by medical
management rather than by the underlying disease or
condition of the patient.[2,pg.25] Of these adverse
events, somewhere between 8.8% and 13.6% (average:
11.2%) are fatal.[2,pg.1] Of all adverse events,
somewhere between 53% and 58% (average: 55.5%) are

attributable to mistakes.[2,pg.22]

Or if you really want to get into the numbers

http://www.iatrogenic.org/library/mederrorlib2.html.
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From: crownofthorns@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Status:  



I've got to go with Brett on this one. Medical supervision sounds good but I'd almost go with it being dangerously close to false advertising. What does "medical supervision" mean? A doctor who is licensed in some country other then the US is somewhere earby when you're dosed. I don't get involved with the negative energy here or when people start up on one another with who has the greatest ibogaine treatment and most experience but the impression I got in San Francisco was that Mash said that most of the treatment providers don't have any idea what they're doing. She didn't do any scare stories or harp about it and for the time I was there it was all a positive gathering, but that's almost the same I have from Patrick, except he never communicates exactly and doesn't say anything about anything. I understand you have nondisclosures with Mash but you're also High Priest in your church that conveniently distributes if not most, then I'd have to guess more then half of all the

  ibogaine hcl in the world ;-) Don't tell me you go to St. Kitts if you want a tune up bro, you and Mash have your mutual admiration society going, but you've never said a word about any "treatment" anyone tried to give you, except to describe them as "a bunch of idiots in my face" and of course one of your contributions to slang the "treatment pimps" ;-) From what I've read of your writing where you're much less guarded there isn't anything about the medical supervision you've ever written, but you have a lot of words about what a joke "treatment" was. You in fact have a lot of words about rehab in this very issue of Heroin Times, none of them good ;-)

http://herointimes.com/dec02/detox.html

Peace out,

Curtis

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From: "Martin Polanco" <mptrum@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Bcc:
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:18:00 +0000
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Dec 2002 02:18:00.0392 (UTC) FILETIME=[83F30C80:01C2AA29]
Subject: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Status:  




I agree with Brett that hospitals can be dangerous places. However, I believe that Ibogaine should be taken under medical supervision, especially for people who are detoxing from drugs.
Addicted individuals suffer from a variety of un-diagnosed medical conditions which can complicate the detoxification process such as hypoglycemia, infections, etc.
During the initial phase of a detoxification with Ibogaine, complications can occur which might require medical treatment, for example; dehydration from vomiting, bradycardia, among others.
Regarding the comment made by Curtis I feel that it is arrogant and ignorant to assume that only Drs. licensed in the US are competent.
Dr. Mash might claim that other treatment providers have no idea of what they are doing and she is entitled to her opinion since she is the researcher with the most extensive experience in this field.
It is disappointing that instead of sharing her knowledge to make treatments safer she continues to criticize the efforts of others trying to make this treatment more available at an affordable cost.

M Polanco MD.

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growmoreweed@... www.growmoreweed.co.uk

March/Festival foundered over Biblical interpretation; just 20 people in '02.

Boone: Stan Chamberlain jc48534@...  828 266 7587   ASU Box 7947, Boone NC 28608

Boston: Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition\NORML P.O. Box

0266, Georgetown, MA 01833-0366 781-944-2266 -

http://www.masscann.org - 781-779-1334 fax Signature-gathering drive in '02.

Boulder:  Ralph Shnelvar  ralph@... 303-546-6125 or Fred Smith 303-449-2390 <smithmf@...>

Bratislava: hromi@...  http://kyberia.sk 00420 776 126 587 Daniel Hromada, Cerchovska 8, Prague 2,

120 00, Czech Republic

Braunschweig: <cannabislegal@...> This is an info stall in

Braunschweig distributing leaflets and other information

material from a stall in a shopping area.

Bremen: Silke Tel. 0179/180 25 25 Lieder@... Olaf 0162/77 34

576 Party-Project: 33 99 334 party@... Some 300 participants in '02 despite the bad weather.

Brno: Vaclav Linkov, <linkov@...> Tel.: +420-737-811107

http://www.legalizace.cz  http://www.l.s.cz

Brussels: Ottavio Marzocchi <omarzocchi@...> +32-2-284-5496 www.radicalparty.org

Bucharest:  ClauditZa  clauditza_f@... www.iarba.verde.de.acasa.go.ro 004092195819  address: Spliff Decision, viorele street, nr 34  Bucharest, Romania or Poke www.marihuana.ro 004091343202 address: piata romana, Bucharest, Romania   300 active smokers on a small beach named Kudos in '02.

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@...>

716-895-1987  or 716-578-3410 1160 E. LOVEJOY (st) buffalo 14206 600-700 people over the course of the day in '02; all 3 networks; no police problems

Burlington: Denny Lane / Brendan Kinney, Vermont Libertarian

Party & VT-NORML dennylane@... / chair@... (802)

496-2387 http://vtnorml.org/MMM 802-496-2387 POB 537, Waitesfield, Vt 05673 or matt hogg

<mhogg@... (802) 865-9410. 1,000 in attendence in '02, no arrests.

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

Charlotte: Ragan Tolbert OnThatLevel@...

Chicago: Caren Thomas, WCHDB, 2501 N. Lincoln, PMB#157; Chicago,

IL 60614; 773-381-9330 - cell - 847-344-9394 email  or 773-363-2942

chicagomarch2002@... -or- windycityhemp420@...

http://www.windycityhemp.org

Chico: 530-345-1997 <chicodank@...> or http://www.pot-party.com 1381 Fairway Alley, Chico, CA 95926; or adrian aguilar ode2thewalls@... (530)898-2150 or voicemail pgr 530-571-2071 Approx. 420 participants in '02.

Christchurch: Blair Anderson <blair@...> Mild Green Media Centre ph: ++64 3 389-4065 Website pages.quicksilver.net.nz/blair Newsforum news://http://www.reddfish.co.nz/alcp 500 participants in '02.

Cincinnati: the Happy Hemptress <hemptress@...> 513-684-HEMP [Hemprock Productions, P.O. Box 18253, Erlanger, KY 41018 ]

Cleveland: John <OCannabisSociety@...> (216)521-9333 http://www.timesoft.com/ncnorml 2,000 participants. No arrests.

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

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

VfD drew interest...

Colorado Springs: Bob Melamede <rmelamed@...> or Mstrmanic@... Stephan Ballasch Continuous presence of a few hundred people in the park in '02.

Columbus: 614-291-1026 Russ Selkirk osussdp@... Sean Luse OSU-SSDP,  276 Chittenden Ave, Cols, OH 43201;  or Ken Schweickart 614-265-VOTE dpeo@...  650 participants, no arrests.

Concord: (603)682-9077 nhorml@... or http://www.nhorml.org.org 30 people in '02, no cops.

Copenhagen: Klaus Tuxen hampenyt@...  http://www.hampepartiet.dk or Zid Dhartha mr_azid@...  http://www.christiania.org/ (+0045) 32 95 65 07 org: Hampepartiet ( The party For HEMP)  http://www.hampepartiet.dk address: F.H.B. hampens plads Christiania, 1407 Kbh. K.150 on march, 500 at smoke-in in '02.

Daingerfield: johnny s. chambliss  rollinxoxo@... p.o. box 484, ore city, texas 75683

Darwin: mick lambe pariahnt@... http://napnt.tripod.com 30 marchers, 35 police, but no arrests due media spotlite.

DeKalb: "Adam Timm" <itsmeuwant2c@...>

Denver: Ken Gorman 303-935-6534 http://kg1.org or ralph@... 303-546-6125 [ Ken Gorman, 1073 South Decatur Street; Denver, CO 80219]

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

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

mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/ ,  http://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 "jude

joseph" acididea@... 313 438 1668

http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/detroit.htm 90 to 120 participants exposed to Ibogaine message.

Dover: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...> Delaware Cannabis Society c/o Richard J.

Schimelfenig, 3504 Winterhaven Drive, Newark, DE 19702, (302)

456-9402 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.

Duesseldorf: Marlon Werkhausen <marlon@...>

http://www.gesellschaftsprobleme.de phone: 049-172-7591795.

100 participants, good atmosphere.

Durban: <ezpz.co.za> or <ezpz@...> +27 31 2016 359

PHONE AND FAX. http://www.ezpz.co.za Post net Suite 136, Private

Bag X 04, DALBRIDGE, 4014, SOUTH AFRICA Justin Ballot, 134 Clark

Road, Durban 4001, South Africa

Edinburgh: "Linda Hendry"<linda@...> UK -

0131 667-6488

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

http://www.ctrl.org/mmm     600-800 folks in '02. One arrest.

Fairbanks: Timothy 907-474-9007

Feldkirch: <kontakt@...> 3. Hempfest Organized by

Legalize! ÷sterreich and Burgerinitiative Cannabis (Citizens'

Initiative Cannabis)

Flensburg: Peter Bluhm <peter-bluhm@...> phone: Irene:

04632-871771 Peter: 0461-13620

Flint: Rev. A.S."Happy" Wright <legalizemichigan@...> 989

872 8005 http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/flint.htm 100 participants in '02.

Ft. Lauderdale: Sean LaPierre 954-584-8979 4750 N.W. 10th Court (Apt. 314), Plantation, FL 33313 email: imagic music@...  200 participants, 500 spectators, no arrests.

Ft Wayne:  NickStreet@...  (260) 496-8542 [Nick Street, 416 Russell Ave., Ft. Wayne, IN 46805]

Ft. Worth: "Chet Frank" <chet56@...> 5600 North beach St., Fort Worth TX 76137

Garberville : 707 923 4488 "Paul Encimer" <encimer@...>

Box 162, Piercy CA 95587; or "jeri" <jeri@...>

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

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

Hamburg: Martina Katzsch <hanftv@...> ++49 40 4394493

Kulturhaus Eppendorf  about 70 people in '02.

Hayward: Rebecca Oliver  mil_mari_march@....  510.481.5349 617 grant ave, slz, ca 94580

Event Location : Hayward BART Organization : Loose Confederation of Med. Mari Users Rally @ BART station & march in the San Francisco parade, as soon as they get it together--concert? maybe.

Hearst:  "Les Neron" <lesneron@...> 1-705-362-8402  Robert Neron(Federal Exemptee)

Box:1346, Hearst Ontario P0L 1N0

Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org sky@... Finnish Cannabis Association,

Sorvaajankatu 9 A, 00810 Helsinki, Finland 800 participants in '02.

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

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

Houston: Dean Farrell <fdb@...> (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. 3-400 on March grew to 1,000 in jam in Pearson Park. Cops backed down after threatening arrest because of media frenzy.

Huntsville: Angel Starlin tallgyrrlie81@... [no valid tel no. 2081 Hester Lane, Huntsville, Al 35810] or "Acorn" 256-489-2607 or <mikecrockett256@...> [address invalid]

Indianapolis: Neal Smith, <inorml@...>, 317-335-6023

Voice Mail, 3601 N. Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, IN 46205

http://www.inorml.org 175 participants at peak in '02.

Ithaca: Adam Hirsch <ah222@...>, 111 Dryden Rd(Apt 9C),

Ithaca, NY 14850. (607) 227-0302   200 marchers in quiet protest in '02.

Jackson: linoleumpoppyz@... 601-366-2884  Anthony Harville, 3413 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216

Jefferson City: Al Minta (417)885-3993

http://www.cannabisrevival.com/ cannabisal@... address: 1653

N. Patterson (Apt A), Springfield, MO 65803 or Columbia

NORML/Jeremy & Amanda 573-815-9821 400 participants over the day in '02.

Jerusalem: Joseph  NeedelR@... (011 972) 55-344-859

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

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

6169.

Kendallville: 260-349-1029  Andrew Guthrie, 15-31 S. Main,Kendallville, IN 46755

Kent:  <TennJedJr@...> 330-673-3060 Matthew S. Donowick 237 1/2 E. Summit st.,

Kent, OH 44242 45 people, event overshadowed by Kent remembrance in '02.

Knoxville: Aerow Albrook <sparx17@...> Matt Barker  316 Russfield Dr., Knoxville, TN  37922

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

<prohibitionx@...> [P.O. Box 17 Onondaga, MI 49264]

http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/lansing.htm 300 participants in '02.

Leipzig: C.U. Rolf http://www.feinkost13.org tel 03412131477 or

"veejaykay" <veejaykay@...> rolfdereinzigename@...,

lxc@... j–rg klepsch, simildenstr.12, 04277

Leipzig-germany  Parade w. 1000-1500 participants and

10 loudspeaker trucks, following the route of the famous 1989

demonstrations that brought down the wall, swelling to 2000 people who braved pouring rain at main train station. One arrest.

Lexington: Gatewood Gailbrath 859-259-1522  gatewood@...

Limburg: Batlle@... (Valentin Batlle) 11.05.2002, 08:00 AM to 04:00 PM Limburg City Europaplatz M.M.M-Event with Music (Söllner, Joint Venture ...) Valentin Batlle, Hanf Aktivist

Little Rock: Jamie Collins <k_kar420@...> (501) 663-4216

1516 Fairpark Blvd., Little Rock, Ark. 72204 45 marchers at State Capitol, not one arrest.

Ljubljana: borut.delfabbro@... #352; ou-Lj,

Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana or  Mojca Štraus  mojca@... 0038641786490  Vinski vrh5a, 3240 Šmarje pri jelšah, Ljubljana, Slovenia www.konoplja.org  http://www.sou.uni-lj.si/

Rally Concert

London: International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243,

London, W1A 1YF, UK. Chris: 020 7637 7467. Fax: 0870 0548646. E

Mail: may2001@... http://www.cannabiscoalition.org.htm 10,000 on the march, 30,000 at the festival; no police prolems.

Los Angeles: Sister Somayah 323-232-0935 http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah/events.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sister-somayah 175 participants, S. Central.

Madison: Ben Masel <bmasel@...> weedstock.com 40 to 120 participants.

Manchester: Cannabis Coalition (Manchester), 57 Church Street,

Smithfield Buildings, Manchester, M4. Tel: 0161 834 1130. email: Gingrach@... 600 marchers in '02.

Melbourne: Kevin Aplin FL CAN (321)-726-6656. Jodi James -

Coalition Advocating Medical Marijuana 321-253-3673. 200 in parade, total media coverage; one obstruction of justice citation for filming a cop ticketing some one for an open container.

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.

Miami: Glenn Allen, 42c s.e.12th st. Dania, Fl 33004, 954-929-7025 aka "Nelg Nella" <yabyumyogi@...>  A smoke out/drum circle in Peacock Park with lots of good bud.

Milwaukee: "Dominic Salmaan" <cannabisliberation@...>

414-469-0899. 1525 E. Royall (Apt # 14), Milw., WI 563202. Over 100 people marched for 3 1/2 hrs. in '02. No police problems.

Minneapolis: Grassroots Party or Chris Wright <TCW@...> 612-522-5374. [Suite 111, 8120 Penn Ave. South Bloomington, MN 55431] 400 folks, no arrests in '02.

Missoula: Angela Goodhope <sisterearth420@...> (406) 829-1703 Approx. 420 participants in '02.

Montpelier: Rama Schneider <2001@...> (802) 433-5441

address: 1614 Gilbert Road, Williamstown, VT 05679

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

 
Montreal: Marc-Boris St-Maurice <blocpot@...>

(514)528.1768 3,000 marched 4 1/2 miles; no cops in '02.

Moscow: http://www.cures.by.ru  d-form@...

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

Norfolk: calvinjohnson77@... 757-615-2158 or 399-1704 Kevin Johnson, 317 Idlewood Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23704

Newark: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimel@...> Delaware Cannabis Society c/o Richard J.

Schimelfenig, 3504 Winterhaven Drive, Newark, DE 19702, (302) 456-9402

New Orleans : Daisy 504-957-HERB hemp.rox.com    email:<NewOrleansMarch@...> [Daisy Berbert, 6223 Warrington St. New Orleans, LA 70122]

New Paltz: newpaltznorml@... NORML / SSDP PO Box 775, New

Paltz, NY 12561 500 marchers, well over 2,000 at concert in '02.

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.

Normal:  Nearly  1,000 participants in '02. Zach Thomas and Miriam Sterlin, Mobilizing Activists and Students for Hemp (MASH)   Phone # :    309-275-6112/309-2756110 http://www.mashaction.org e-mail:  mash@...

Nuernberg: Emanuel Kotzian  phone: 0049-(0) 172- 818 217 8  agentur sowjet - info@... -  450 people marched in the rain in '02.

Oberlin: Patty Hallman <sbysc@...> (440)774-4544) c/o

Stitch by Stitch & Curiousities, 31 South Main Street, Oberlin,

OH 44074
 
Omaha: Paul Tripp, paultrip@..., (402)598-6180 12216 Poppleton Plz. #238, Omaha, NE, 68144   Over 30 participants in '02.

Orlando: Kacie Grange Hiphiplady32@... (407)895-3492 [Kacie Grange, 1438 Catherine St., Orlando, FL 32801]

Oslo: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Torkel Bj¯rnson, NORMAL,

Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0158 Oslo, Norway 3000+ participants. No arrests.

Ottawa: "deadmanseedco" <deadmanseedco@...> 613-749-3014

Don Appleby or Rick Reimer at 613-756-2961 or Rob Brown at

613-756-5892 Crowds in the hundreds, almost no arrests.

Paducah: Paula (270)362-9849 <pioneer@...>, Cher

Ford-McCullough <bitchcrafts@...> 65 Cabin Lane,

Gilbertsvile, Ky. 42044 or Brian McCullough

< bpmc@...> (270) 362-8186 50 marchers, 90 at rally, one undercover in '02.

Paradise: Virgil Hales 530-877-5814

Paris: FARId GHEHIOUECHE 06 148 156 79  farid@... or CAM-RD 9, passage Dagorno 75020 PARIS

Tel : 00 33 (1) 40 09 69 75 Fax : 00 33 (1) 44 93 93 57

Like in 2001 and 2002, for MMM 2003 there will be rallies around France (Montpellier, Lyon, Rennes, Marseille, Lille, Annecy,...) and in Paris, the nation wide gathering in Bastille place 3:00 PM.

Parkersburg: "Cindy Wimer" <indianbud@...> "Mountaineers for Medical Marijuana" 304-428-1726 [P.O. Box 1151,  Parkersburg, WV 26101]

Patterson: David Germolus 209-892-6640  angelwater260@...  [304 hoffman ct.,  Patterson, CA 95363]

Philadelphia: <phillyweed420@...> or "chuck palmer"

<chuckp@...> 610-279-6358  100 participants, no arrests in '02.

Phoenix: 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

 
Pilsen: http://www.exist.cz "pavla kozakova" <exist@...>

200 people and one sound system in central park in '02. No arrests.

Pittsburg: Frank Carr 412-247-3674

Pordenone: Anna Cavezzali & Ivan Romano <lallice@...>, Via Firenze 5, 33080 Porcia, PN, Italy

++3282488420 ++43428098

Portland: (503) 239-6110 MMM 2002 Committee c/o Oregon NORML

(OrNORML) http://www.ornorml.org PO Box 86443, Portland, OR
97286 Madeline Martinez yerbanena@... or Steven M.

Cooper Volunteer Coordinator ornorml.volunteer@...  Grew from 200 people, no arrests.

Prague: Michael "xChaos" Polak <xchaos@...> Tel: +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33358050  http://www.legalizace.cz 1-2,000 participants in '02, with hundreds more in nearby park. No marijuana related arrests in Prague (police just arrested offender, who broke police car window, but this was after MMM officially ended).

Providence:  "Tom Angell" <PsilocyberSpore@...> (401) 737-7057  http://members.cox.net/urissdp or http://members.cox.net/psilocyberspore [Tom Angell, 37 Norfolk Road, Warwick, RI 02886] Just 6 people in '02.

Raleigh-Durham: Bryan T. Moore <btm42@...> 614 Carolina

Ave. Raleigh, NC 27606-1606 (919) 816-0609 or Chris Harris (919)368-5913 or "Jeff Badalucco"

<nc_ca@...> (919)834-2816 238 Pecan St., Raleigh, NC

27603 200 souls braved pouring rain in '02. Capitol cops well-behaved, but city cops tried to intimidate.

Rapid City: Bob Newland <newland@...> 605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/  300 marchers in '02. [Bob Newland, H C 89 Box 184A, Hermosa, SD 57744]

Reno: Michelle 775-287-1594 [Michelle Buck, 1850 Idlewild Drive Apt. A9, Reno, NV, 89509]

Richmond: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer@...> (804)

355-7612, or campus libs at <Huclberie1@....> [Roy B. Scherer, 8 North Sheppard St., Richmond VA, 23221]About 100 attendees; march was 4 miles.

Rio de Janeiro: +55 - 21 - 9885 9162 mmmbr2002@... or  "Luiz Paulo" <lpgb@...> 500 participants in '02.

Rome: "Segreteria Forte Prenestino" <segreteria@...> or Michela Gesualdo

<mgesuald@ilmanifesto> 10-15,000 participants in '02.

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

 

Salem: 503.363-4588 Medical Cannabis Resource Center, 1695 Fairgrounds Rd.,Salem, Oregon   97303

<mailto:MercyCenter@...>MercyCenter@... March and Rally plans TBA-- probably high noon around state capital building

 

Salt Lake City: Dr. Ken Larsen (801) 533-8658 <kencan@...> 856

E. 100th St. South (#2), Salt Lake City, UT 84102 or Andy

Morrill (801)334-8122 <rambis4@...> http://www.thc2002.org

http://www.personalchoice.org A. Reed Morrill, 1663 Historic

25th Street,Ogden, Utah 84401 300 noisy marchers, no arrests.

San Diego: San Diego A.C.T. (Association for Cannabis

Therapeutics) c/o T.Villodas,901"F"street#413,San Diego,

Ca.92101 email: Ed zepplin <edzepp@...> or Donna 619-302

3041 or 619-223-1050 (land line) 619-302-3041 (mobile)

http://www.cannabisfreedom.org Approximately 50-75 attendees.

NO POLICE! NO PROBLEMS!

San Francisco: Hemp Evolution/Clark Sullivan "freeman sullivan" <feemansulllivan@...> or c.libertine@... or LAMPS 415-487-0561 4,000 participants in '02, no arrests.

Santa Clara: "Lisa" <angelisa51@...>

San Marcos: Joe Ptak: 512.754.0264 Email:

earthfirstswt@... Postal: 213 Ramsay St.; #107, San

Marcos, TX; 78666

Santa Cruz: DdC <dendecannabist@...> or Jason Brodsky

<theherbalist@...> or Bryan Gilstein

<shelbyrose7@...> (831-502-3865) Bryan Gilstein, UCSC, 600

Kresge Ct, Santa Cruz CA 95064 discussion list:

SCMJMarch@...  400 participants, no arrests.

Sao Paulo: Victor maolvni@... 30620225  rua tirica 345 Cabeca: podiscreuza@... : 35678903: rua japao 876 maolvni@... About 600 people .. There was no use and no

possession of marijuana so the cops couldn´t do anything.

Seminole: semptest5@... "http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/fl3touring/stpete.html"

Sioux City: clint boatman <clint815@...>    5305 Stone Ave, Sioux City, Ia 51106

Sioux Falls:  Bob Newland <newland@...> 605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/

Sofia: Chris Pantchev Xpu100 <hri100@...>

Soltau: Sven <vandreike@...>, 05191-975296

50 people, one police activity.

Springfield: Joe Setzer (417) 877-6832 <theosopher420@...>137 Hackberry Lane,  Seymour, MO 65746

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

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

Stuart: "chad cooke" <chadcooke50@...>  chad cooke 561-213-7307 719-a northview drive,

jupiter,florida. 33458

Taos: 505-741-0056 Kiko

Telluride: 970-708-2348 Robert Smeed, POB 13, Placerville, CO 81430 or Steeprock Rd, Sawpit, CO 81430  In '02, 75 folks marched past the Courthouse, then rallied for about an hour for speeches.

Thunder Bay: Doug Thompson <docclone@...> 807-475-7436 75 participants, no cops, no media.

Tampa: Anthony154154@... Anthony Lorenzo 1-888-210-0425 toll free pager 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 800 participants in '02.

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>www.canadiancannabisawards.ca

<http://www.cannabisclub.ca>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

Trondheim: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Line Arstad, NORMAL,

Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0355 Oslo, Norway 200 participants in '02.

Tucson: mary mackenzie <mmackenzie2@...> (520)323-2947 http://www.hometown.aol.com/marcher420/myhomepage/pepe.html or 3400 east speedway, #118, tucson, arizona 85716 Over 200 participants in '02.

Tula: Boris.it@...

Turku: Vihreet Pantterit http://www.vihreetpantterit.org info@... 300 participants in '02. 10 counter-demonstrators.

Ukiah: Verge Belanger "v belanger" <contactverge@...>

Tommy Gunn, 528 North State St. #1, Ukiah, Ca. 95482 300 participants in '02.

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

<lisenti@...> 707-275-8879 Signed up 131 new patients in '02.

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.

Vermilion: Sonny Morris 967-6069 sonny44089@...  309 devonshire More than 100 people partied in the park, no problems in '02.

Vienna: 5. Hanffeuer, Bushdoctor <martin@...>

http://www.bushdoctor.at Phone: +43 (01) 524 04 40, Fax: +43

(01) 524 04 24, Kirchengasse 19, A-1070, Vienna, Austria"

Walton: Dave Baughman 620-837-4496 <Davyblues1@...>

http://www.kan-sativa.com 124 S. Walton Ave., Walton, Kansas

67151 Around 50 participants in '02.

Warszawa, mazowsze:  Adam Wojtasiewicz  aw@... +48503692715 ul. Mickiewicza 72/15 01-650 Warszawa Poland

Washington, D.C.:Toni Keane <taporter84@...> http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html

Wellington Ben Knight <Legalise@...> NORML NZ , PO

Box 27-315, Wellington +64 25 377509 http://www.norml.org.nz

Wenatchee: 509-662-1338 <jennwarford@...> Jennifer Warford, 507 Woodward dr., Wenatchee, Washington 98801.

Wichita: Debby Moore, CEOHemp Industries of Kansas 2742 E. 2nd Wichita, Kansas, 67214  (316) 681 1743 debby@...; or "KS NORML" <ksnorml@...>  Website:  http://www.hempforus.com 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.

Winnepeg: Chris Buors, <chris_buors@...> mail to 430

Winterton ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2K 1K4 500 rallied at the Parliament Bldg in '02.

Winston-Salem: Queen Selassie (336) 661-0684 4469 Indiana Ave,

Winston-Salem, N.C. 27105 25 people stood under a pavilion in the rain.

Worcester: C.J. & Judi Bunn, 413-245-3675 #9 Maybrook Rd,

Holland, MA 01521 More than 100 people, no problems, in '02.

Zurich: Swiss Hanf Koordination Sekretariat + 41-31-398-144

<infor@...>  Barbecue-Party in the Culture Centre in Seebach/Zurich

CHanf++ GmbH, Zweierstrasse 124, CH-8003 Zürich

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We are still taking submissions for our final design for next year's poster--and we are establishing a VIRTUAL POSTER GALLERY to give every city who can print locally a choice.

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If you want to be moved above this line and listed for next year, just let us know.

If you want to help bring them up to critical mass, just contact them.

***!!!MMM2002 Cities Not Yet Confirmed for Global Cannabis March 2003!!!***

Anchorage: Scot Dunnachie 907-278-4367 <freehempinak@...>

2603 Spenard Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503 http://www.freehempinak.org

Ashland: "Amber Leiter" <amleiter@...>

419-289-8810 , Amber Leiter, 165 Ronald Ave. Apt. I, Ashland,

Ohio 419-207-8834

Augusta: Roger Leisner/Radio Free Maine.

<rleisner04330@...> http://www.radiofreemaine.com

Bologna: mar. million march / association livello 57 ++39

051-271066<m4s@...> Via Muggia #9, 40100 Bologna

http://www.radiocentrale.it or http://www.radiogap.net

Calgary: Ken Kirk e-mail: marijuanaparty.ofalberta@...

780-430-8440

Carbondale: Liz Strebe 618-351-0397 202 E. College (Apt 1), Carbondale, IL 62901

Charleston:  Amanda Kushner Amanda2bad@... 304-746-0777   969 Jarrell Dr., Charleston, wv 25312 Rally Concert

Chesapeake: Barbra 373-9027  bkquamen@... Chesapeake, Virginia

Dallas: Fletch 214-566-2460 <phletch41@...> 6008 E.

Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Tx. 75206 60 or so marchers in '02.

Dauphin: Shroom menace217@... Dauphin, Manitoba Smoke-in, followed by walk to support legalization

Duisburg: Dirk &Co <cafe-zentral@...>

Dunedin: Duncan Eddy <duncaneddy@...> NORML NZ, phone:

027 4719 139 200 tokers on the Octagon in '02.

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

Edmonton, Alberta: Ken Kirk e-mail:

marijuanaparty.ofalberta@... 780-430-8440 or "Ross Z"

<ganja_23@...>

Ellwangen: Sven Semmler <sven@...>

Fairbanks, Alaska: Frank Turney 907-452-3777 or Chuck Rollins

Jr. <chuck@...>

Frankenthal: helmut holtzheimer <movemus@...>

Freiburg: <info@...>, http://www.drogenpolitik.org

Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V. Info stall from 11:00h-17:00h.

corner Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse - Schiffstrasse

Fresno: Glass Packers <glasspackers@...> Eric Burns

Hamilton: Contact aksh1@... 50 participants, 4 questioned and released without charges.

Homer, Alaska - contact Julie Cesarini, P.O. Box 812, Homer AK

99603, 907 235-6040.

Jacksonville: James Johnson  (904)245-2876  chefboyrdee69@...    659 Apeberry Lane, Jacksonville, Florida

Johannesburg: Gordon Maene <Gordon@...> work: (

011)805 6763 cell phone: 082 552 6393

Juneau: contact  Brad Parfitt latebrad@...

Kelowna, B.C.: Teresa Taylor, CCC <luna@...>

taylor1.virtualave.net (250) 442-2741 or (250) 442-5166 Fax

(250) 442-5167 or Amanda/hempshop (250)770-8171

Kailua-Kona: Gretel Zapata of Free Mary Jane

<freemaryjanehawaii@...> Tel# 808.328.9251 voice#

808.331.5418 81-1085c Capt. Cook RD Capt. Cook HI 96726 or PO

box 746 Honaunau HI

Krakow: Marek Warmuz (+48)501-468-018 "quepassa"

<quepassa@...>

Ladysmith: Terry & Wendy, (250)-245-3595, <tandwp1@...>

Las Vegas: Ray Facundo <raybones80@...>, 1750 Santa
Margarita, Apt 122, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702)-222-3560

Leadville: Ken Cary (719-486-2215. 114 W 6th # 9, Leadville, CO

80461

Lille: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93

57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Liverpool: Will Graham <willg@...> tel (inc.

international code): 0044 151 727 1458

Luxemburg (LU) <info@...>, Tel: 00352 26 53 08 95,

http://www.act4cannabis.lu/ They are planning a press conference

and handing out leaflets. Mailing address:LIFE, 53, Val des

Aulnes, L-3811 Schifflange

Lyon: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93

57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79   Location:   14h Croix Rousse Place

Marburg: Gr¸ne Hilfe Hessen, c/o Jo, Tel/Fax: 06631/801512

Location: Cafe Am Gr¸n 70 guests attended.

Marseilles: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93

57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Memphis: Lanie 731-855-7527

Montpellier at Le Bikini Location: 16h Comedie Place

Munich: mmm-muenchen@...

Nantes: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Napa: Bruce Trask 707-253-9295 1020 Soscol Ferry Rd, Napa, CA

94558

New Haven: Lucas Davenport <hardreboot@...> 203-752-2462

Palm Springs: Lanny Swerdlow mappnow@... or

<marijuanamarch@...> pager: 760-836-8166; ph:

760-799-2055.

Recklinghausen: Jossi <janjos@...>

Regina: Daniel Johnson <amduscias@...>

normlsask.cjb.net/

Rennes at l'Ubu. Jean Charles PETITJEAN, BARACANNA (COCAR), 105,

rue St HÈlier, 35000 Rennes. TÈl : 33 (0)2 23 35 15 69 Fax : 33

(0)2 23 35 01 33 E-Mail : baracanna@... SIRET : 432

785 822 00029 APE : 913 E ouvert mercredi de 14h30 ý 19h30

jeudi, vendredi et samedi de 10h ý 20h They will offer hemp

seeds to people at a rally in front of the mayor's house.

San Juan: Christian Fernandez <c_fernh@...> Box 839

Gurabo, PR 00778

San Luis Obispo: "Rusty Stuart" <nzane@...> 1722 Nacimiento

Lake Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446 805-237-7303 or 805-237-7306 And

Jo-D: 805.937.0034

Saskatoon: Jeremiah Whipp (306)230-0951 -- 1800 Main St (Apt

42), Saskatoon, Sask. S7H4B3.

Stafford: Simon  wrxmanuk@... +447816485762  Concert @ stafford town square

Stockton: mikaela/free the weed  912-884-6144 veganarchy16@... veganarchy16@... http://www.hipforums.com 322 lake dr, stockton, california

Stuttgart: <info@...>,

http://www.drogenpolitik.org Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V. Info

stall from 11:00h-17:00h. corner K–nigstrasse / B¸chsenstrasse

Tallahassee: (850)321-8311 ask for Matt <fsunorml@...>

Ricky Bradford FSU NORML c/o Oglesby, Union Student Activities

Office, FL 32306

Taos: Danielle Romero (505)770-5260 or Joanne Foreman

<jofo@...> 505-751-1102

Vega Alta: jose a hernandez <josefaruk1@...> location Park

Recreativo. Que Viva La Musica Coqui Coqui.

Vilnius: "Andrius Brazas" <brazhas@...>

http://www.hardcore 370 98 84714

Wolfenbuttel: <solid-wf@...> Info booth by ['solid] popular.

Yellow Springs: Devon Ronaldson <soulrebel@...> 937 769

1764 c/o Student mailr oom, 795 livermore st., yellow springs OH

45387

Zagreb: "Sergio Stifanic" <fine_time909@...> GALOVICEVA

10, 10000 ZAGREB Phone: ++385 1 2330667

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From: eco man <tents444@...>

Subject: Please subscribe to new MMM email list. Public archive still

open.

Please subscribe to new MMM email list. Public archive still open.

The public MMM email list at Yahoo Groups now requires people to subscribe

in order to post messages to the list and the public archive. For a few

weeks I set it up so that non-members could also send in email messages to

the list. That was to help people send in MMM rally reports. It worked.

The archive also got some spam too. That was deleted. But people should

keep sending in MMM-related stuff. Just subscribe first.

The MMM message archive itself is still public and accessible to anybody:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction

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reform events are covered, too. Email list public archive for event info,

ideas, MMM 2002 rally reports, photo attachments, links, HTML web pages,

etc.. Also, Dana Beal's most recent messages include the latest,

continually-revised, compilation of MMM 2003 cities, contacts, and rally

info. After subscribing to this Yahoo Group email list, please use

cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com  for sending in messages. On the homepage

there are links to archived messages, and to web pages with even more MMM

links, info, and rally report compilations online. Homepage:

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This page was last revised Wednesday, June 12, 2002 09:28 AM -0400. This

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Please send in MMM city info and updates to Dana Beal

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