And so, in a week when the White House called on district attorneys everywhere to target the movement for legal pot, and MAPinc reported an out-of-control heroin upsurge from Pittsburg to Willmington to Willimantic, the marijuana movement was re-inventing itself as altruists bringing Ibogaine to the very heroin addicts by created by Bush's policies in Afghanistan and Columbia (kudos to Rep. Dan Burton for bringing out the story of the Administration's benign neglect of heroin production in Columbia)...

Dana/cnw/212-677-4899 (Please call)

http://www.straight.com/editorial/health.php

Ibogaine a One-Way Trip to Sobriety, Pot Head Says 
 
By Gail Johnson 
Mark "Atomos" Pilon Illustration

Marc Emery may not have made it to the mayor's chair,
but the head of the B.C. Marijuana Party has plenty of
other ventures to keep him busy. Besides running a
seed-distribution business, the peace and pot activist
has started a new project that he's especially
passionate about, one he says can cure cocaine and
heroin addiction at a low price.

He's the man behind the Iboga Therapy House, a place
he has rented on the Sunshine Coast that overlooks the
ocean and where drug addicts can go for ibogaine
treatment.

Ibogaine comes from Tabernanthe iboga, a flowering
African shrub that's related to the coffee plant. In
some parts of West Africa, it's a hallucinogen used in
male rites of passage. Iboga is said to induce wild
visualizations, be nonaddictive, and have
anti-addictive qualities.

Advocates allege that one or two doses is enough to
cure addiction, whether it's to crack cocaine, heroin,
alcohol, or nicotine. Unlike methadone, which is
itself addictive, ibogaine does not produce painful
withdrawal symptoms.

Emery, who started treating addicts from the Downtown
Eastside two months ago, covers the costs, which
amount to about $1,500 per person. He takes in up to
four addicts per week and has administered oral doses
of ibogaine himself to nearly a dozen people. It's the
first such program in North America.

"This could be a very effective way of treating people
at a very low cost," he told the Straight on the line
from the Sunshine Coast. "People who have been through
opiate withdrawal are amazed. They don't have a
dripping nose, there's no nausea. This has been a
revelatory experience. I'm hoping the government will
pick it up."

Though not approved by Health Canada, ibogaine is not
a prohibited product under the Controlled Drugs and
Substances Act, Emery noted. The substance is illegal
in the United States, but it's available through an
international black market, and there are private
clinics in the Caribbean and Panama City. "It's an
underground phenomenon all over the world," said
Emery, who orders ibogaine from Ontario, Slovenia, and
Holland.

One of the alleged benefits of ibogaine is that it

doesn't cause the horrible flulike side effects that

people withdrawing from heroin or cocaine typically

endure, such as diarrhea, cramps, anxiety, and muscle
twitches. However, some preclinical studies have
indicated that the substance could cause lasting
damage to the cerebellum, leading to loss of motor
coordination.

The use of ibogaine to treat addiction got its first
push from Howard Lotsof, an American who patented the
therapy. He's credited with recording initial
observations of the effects of ibogaine on heroin
addicts who took the substance to get high in the
mid-1960s. (Lotsof was one of them.)

Lotsof tried to go beyond anecdotal evidence by
conducting preclinical research. He approached
pharmaceutical companies to back his efforts, but none
responded--likely because of the lack of potential
profit, since the medicine is usually taken only once.
He pushed for the Food and Drug Administration's
approval of clinical trials, but that plan fell apart
in 1993, when a 24-year-old heroin user died about 20
hours after taking ibogaine. (Two other addicts have

also died following ibogaine treatment.) The therapy
has its critics, like American drug researcher Peter
Hoyle, who, according to a recent High Times article,
doesn't think there's enough evidence to warrant human

trials--especially since the mechanism of ibogaine's
action isn't understood.

Without any official stamp of approval, Lotsof
continues research and treatment (mainly in Holland).
He recently co-wrote a revised Manual for Ibogaine
Therapy: Screening, Safety, Monitoring & Aftercare,
which cautions that "treatment providers and patients
are solely responsible for their actions."

"The extremely costly regulatory approval process and
the reluctance by major pharmaceutical firms to pursue
regulatory approval in the West has led to the
formation of non-medical ibogaine treatment," the
manual says. "This document is intended principally
for lay-healers who have little or no medical
experience, but who are nevertheless concerned with
patient safety and the outcome of Ibogaine
treatments."

Lotsof urges caregivers to insist that people have a
complete physical, including an electrocardiogram,
before treatment. Emery has studied that document as
well as others on the Ibogaine Dossier Web site
(www.ibogaine.org/), which has opinions and
information related to the treatment.

Emery said he--or another of the "facilitators" at the
Iboga Therapy House who are trained in first
aid--observes people for about 24 hours after the
administration of ibogaine and monitors their blood
pressure and pulse regularly. Emery added that the
hospital is a 10-minute drive away and that all
candidates have to sign a medical-release form.

Anyone is welcome, Emery said, as long as they stop
taking drugs for 24 hours before treatment. He said he
recommends two doses, about a week apart, to prevent a
relapse. "Typically the first dose cancels the
physical addiction," Emery said, "and the second
targets the psychological underpinnings of addiction."


Emery, who's never taken ibogaine himself, said the
substance can cause intense visualizations lasting
eight to 18 hours. He also said that because of the
lack of withdrawal symptoms, ibogaine can help addicts
address other issues. "Being an addict can be a great
excuse in a financial or emotional crisis," he noted.
"This gives them the strength and courage to face
their problems without giving in to their weaknesses.
They have an opportunity to reinvent themselves, so
they need to stay away from triggers or temptation."


The Iboga Therapy House has fitness equipment,
instruments, games like crib and chess, and a
meditation room--anything that "gives people pleasure
that doesn't involve drugs", Emery said--but no TV.
Emery, who doesn't accept money from addicts unless
they want to donate after they've been clean for at
least three months, said he'd like to see the
treatment made available to all Vancouver addicts, who
can contact him via the Vancouver Area Network of Drug
Users (604-683-8595).

He added that he hasn't encountered any opposition to
the ibogaine project yet. "I've never run into
critics," he said, "because there's nothing to

criticize."

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

Pubdate: Sat, 04 Jan 2003
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Maria McClintock, Sun Ottawa Bureau

FEDS FIGHT POT RULING JUDGE

OTTAWA -- The federal government has filed an appeal of an Ontario court
decision that ruled there are no laws forbidding the possession of small
amounts of pot.

Jim Leising, the Justice Department's director of prosecution in the
province, confirmed yesterday the feds are appealing so the laws
surrounding possession of pot for recreation use will be clarified.

"We're hoping the appeal will be heard quickly," said Leising, who hopes
the Ontario Superior Court will hear the appeal within the next 30 days.

"Whatever uncertainty that was created by this judgment would be cleared up
and that would mean everyone would be in agreement that the prohibition
against possession of marijuana is valid."

Justice Douglas Phillips threw out charges against a 16-year-old Windsor
teen Wednesday, siding with the defence lawyer's argument that there are no

laws in Canada prohibiting the possession of 30 grams of pot or less.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03.n012.a03.html

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Ancient Amazon Brew Comes to Colombia's Cities

Reuters Thursday, January 2, 2003; 10:58 AM

By Jason Webb

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - They crouch in a daze as the shaman plays the
harmonica, forcing themselves to gulp down a murky liquid so bitter it
makes them sick.

It is a long, dizzy night in a smoky room wheezing with ritual music. But,
perhaps just a precious few times, with their eyelids clamped shut, the
brew takes effect and they see visions. Colors flow into shapes, swirl then
snap into focus.

Stick men may appear, or totemic animals such as the boa constrictor or
tiger, or Indian villages or submarine cities.

When morning comes, it's back to reality for the groups of people around
Colombia's capital Bogota who have been drinking yage, an Amazonic potion
which is attracting a following among urban intellectuals and artists. But,
as the shaman packs away his ritual fan and the nocturnal imbibers emerge
blinking into the traffic, they hope reality won't seem quite the same.

Yage makes you vomit repeatedly and gives you diarrhea. But users say they
feel physically cleansed, as well as mentally reinvigorated by a sense of
meaning attendant on the visions, a conviction of the existence of a world
beyond the material.

In the 1950s, the writer William Burroughs, a dedicated drug addict and
proto-drop-out, found out about the vile, bitter-tasting brew and came to
South America to look for it.

"All Medicine Men use it in their practice to foretell the future, locate
lost or stolen objects, name the perpetrator of a crime, to diagnose and
treat illness," he wrote in a letter to the British Journal of Addiction,
in which he recommended scientific research, speculating "perhaps even more
spectacular results could be obtained with synthetic variations."

But the history of yage far predates Western counter-culture. For
centuries, the potion, together with the gnarled jungle vine used to brew
it, have been central to the religions of dozens of South American Indian
ethnic groups.

American-born Jimmy Weiskopf, a slightly-built 60-year-old whose blue eyes
open wide in a somewhat harrowed, wrinkled face, quotes an Indian shaman,
or "taita," in his new book "Yage, the new purgatory."

"When I am drunk with yage," one of them explains, "I fly up to the Milky
Way and talk with the spirits and they tell me how to cure. Sometimes, in
these visions, they show me a particular plant and the next day I go to the
forest to find that plant and am able to cure the sick person."

VINE OF THE DEAD

Yage is a Colombian name. Peruvians use the Quechua word "ayahuasca,"
meaning "vine of the dead" or "vine of souls." The drink contains the
chemical dimethyltryptamine, or DMT -- a compound which is outlawed in the

United States and produces a similar class of effects to psychedelic drugs
such as LSD.

Perhaps with an eye to following the advice of William Burroughs, a
California-based businessman patented the yage vine in the 1980s, although
U.S. authorities took away the rights a decade later after complaints by
Amazon Indians.

U.S. law enforcers frown on yage, even if they have sometimes found it hard
to explain exactly why.

A federal judge recently ruled customs agents violated religious freedoms
when they confiscated ingredients from a Brazilian-inspired Church, known
as the "Union of the Vegetable," which used the brew in ceremonies in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. The judge also said there was no proof that it was harmful.

Its use is permitted in much of South America, and has a certain cache in
the arty circles of Bogota, where even the mayor, a former mathematics
professor, has tried it.

Of dubious legality or not in the United States, the Internet is full of
ayahuasca information for American dabblers in drugs.

Often describing their visions in terms more reminiscent of sci-fi movies
than religious experience, many trippers dwell on the horrible side effects
and one recounts how he tried, unsuccessfully, to drown out the flavor with

syrup.

A typical excerpt: "A little after 1:30, R got up to puke. K puked a little

after that. Soon they were on their way to join me. We all arrived in
hyperspace around 1:45 or so."

Such louche accounts of narcotic tourism could hardly be further removed in
tone from Weiskopf's professions of respect for the vine, which he insists
is a sacred plant.

SHAMANS FLEE TO CITIES

He has taken the stuff for more than a decade, since his teenage sons
returned from a holiday with their mother in the jungles of Putumayo in
southern Colombia and intrigued their father with a story of drinking yage
in an Indian village.

"It seemed to have changed them, it seemed to have made them more mature
and it seemed to have been a very interesting, illuminating experience for
them," Weiskopf told Reuters at a cafe near his Bogota home.

These days, his yage sessions generally take place with friends in the
capital city. The 38-year-old war which scours Colombia's countryside has
forced many Indians, including taitas, to seek refuge in urban centers in
the past few years, spreading the practice of taking their visionary drink.

In his book, so far published only in Spanish but eventually to be
available in English, Weiskopf likens the sense of their own insignificance
which is impressed on yage users to the humbling message of many religions.

Those who drink see their faults with great clarity and are therefore
enabled to heal emotional problems, he said, also ascribing great medicinal
properties to the brew because of its ferocious expulsion of toxins from
the body.

Yage is not addictive, users say, in fact quite the opposite. At least one
doctor has claimed that he has successfully cured addictions to cocaine
using the potion.

Weiskopf, who has only rarely drunk yage without the guidance of a taita,
dismisses suggestions the drink, with its messy excretory effects, could
become a recreational drug.

While its visions offer glimpses of the sublime, a world in which users
feel hidden spirits are revealed to them, a night of yage-drinking can
often warm up with diabolic apparitions and a terrifying conviction of
imminent death.

"I think there's a spirit in the bottle and you have to liberate that
spirit. Now I think if you don't have a ritual and you don't do it on a
special occasion with reverence and with seriousness probably you're going
to have a very flat experience," said Weiskopf.

© 2003 Reuters
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From: Paul Freedom <nepal@...>
Organization: CPOP

X-Accept-Language: en

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/local/4873940.htm
Posted on Sat, Jan.  04, 2003

Police return seized pot
Owner had doctor's recommendation to use the marijuana

Patrick S.  Pemberton The Tribune

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Donovan No Runner walked out of the San Luis Obispo
Police station all smiles Friday, holding the bag of marijuana

authorities had returned to him.

A local Superior Court judge had ordered the city to return the
marijuana it confiscated from No Runner last summer, ruling the
23-year-old Grover Beach man had a valid doctor's recommendation.

But police were concerned that handing the pot over to No Runner would
violate a federal law prohibiting the distribution of controlled
substances.

As a result, the City Council considered appealing the court's ruling
during a last-minute meeting Friday, but instead it decided to give up
the fight.

"The city is an agency of the state, and we're following state law and a
court order," Interim City Attorney Gil Trujillo said.

Shortly after the city decided not to appeal the case, No Runner went to
the police station, where his 8.4 gram bag of marijuana was returned --
still in good condition.

While smoking marijuana is illegal under federal law, California's
Proposition 215 makes it legal for those with a doctor's recommendation.

"For the time being, people are protected under state law, not under
federal law," said Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the Washington,
D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project, which advocates the
decriminalization of marijuana use.

While state voters legalized medicinal marijuana, law enforcement can

still confiscate pot until it is proven that a doctor's recommendation

is legitimate.

No Runner's difficulty arose because state law does not specify what is
supposed to happen to medicinal marijuana once confiscated.

In court last month, No Runner's attorney, Lou Koory, cited an Oregon
case in arguing that police are immune from federal prosecution, though
no such case exists in California.

Trujillo said that ultimately, the issue will be resolved in a higher
court.

With no clear guidelines for such a case in the state, No Runner's case
could have become a precedent on appeal.

But the city also decided it was not feasible to pay attorneys' fees at
a time when it is experiencing a $5 million deficit.

Koory said he and his client were ready to fight the issue if an appeal
had been sought.

"We're just happy that common sense prevailed," he said.

No Runner said his doctor recommended marijuana to combat the effects of
bipolar disorder.

He was lighting a water pipe near SLO Brewing Co., between a trash can
and a tree, when he was stopped by a police officer in August.

No Runner told the officer he had a doctor's recommendation, but he was
cited anyway, and his marijuana was taken.

Once the recommendation was verified, the District Attorney's Office
dismissed criminal charges.  But police would not return the pot or the
pipe.

Last month, Superior Court Judge Barry LaBarbera, intending to set a
local precedent, said the police had to return the marijuana within 30
days.

Koory said the police could have faced a contempt of court charge had
they not returned the pot by Friday's deadline.

Despite the difficulty in getting his pot returned, No Runner said he
wanted to set an example for others who need medicinal marijuana --
particularly those who have greater needs than he does.

"I'm glad this happened to me," he said.  "I'm physically able to fight
this."

Without a clear guideline, he said, police could confiscate marijuana
merely to keep legitimate users from smoking it.

"They can't just go around taking medication from sick people," he said.

----------------------

Pubdate: Fri, 03 Jan 2003
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
Webpage: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/102678_marijuana03.shtml
Copyright: 2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Contact: editpage@...
Website: http://www.seattle-pi.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/408
Author: Mike Lewis
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjparty.htm (Canadian Marijuana Party)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/renee.htm (Boje, Renee)

LEGALIZED POT SEEMS LIKELY UP NORTH

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The door-kicking has stopped, as have the asset
forfeitures and harassment. Chris Bennett hasn't been arrested in weeks, nor
have any of his friends.

Yet, the 40-year-old Bennett isn't inclined to say the battle is won.

He's seen the police relax before. He's seen pot achieve a tenuous level of
respectability when a more liberal-minded mayor or police chief takes over.
And he's seen the subsequent backlash.

"Every time we talk to the press, something happens," he said, sitting in
the store he manages, The Marijuana Party Headquarters.

Webpage: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/102678_marijuana03.shtml

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

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

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

Pubdate: Fri, 03 Jan 2003
Source: Boston Globe (MA)
Copyright: 2003 Globe Newspaper Company
Contact: letter@...
Website: http://www.boston.com/globe/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/52

Author: Thanassis Cambanis, Globe Staff

DRUG WAR DILEMMA

US Criticized For Discouraging Addicts From Seeking Treatment While
Collecting Evidence Against Them

Carol Bradley always talked about her desire to quit drugs, even when she
was dealing crack to an undercover federal agent and her other customers
would break into her Plymouth apartment to smoke on her couch.

Ultimately, Bradley says, she did kick her drug habit at a halfway house in
Western Massachusetts while federal prosecutors prepared a drug trafficking
indictment against her. But wiretap transcripts showed that the Drug

Enforcement Administration task force agent who made six undercover buys

from Bradley actively discouraged her from going to treatment programs,

saying they "never work."

Her unusual case highlights the debate over when treatment should enter law
enforcement's war on drugs.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03.n008.a08.html

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Ibogaine article in Vancouver's Georgia Straight ARTICLE
Status:  

Article above

One question;

"However, some preclinical studies have indicated that
the substance could cause lasting damage to the
cerebellum, leading to loss of motor coordination"

Show me the study that says HUMANS getting HUMAN DOSES
that are administered orally (eg 25mg/kg or less) have
shown the slightest indication of any brain damage
whatsoever. Not rats injected with ultra high (ie
2/3rds of a lethal dose), normal doses of ibogaine
given orally - which is less toxic than injected. Show
me any indication that of the millions of people who
have done ibogaine (including the president of Gabon)
there is anyone showing brain damage from ibogaine.
Show me where too little or too much oxygen doesn't
cause brain damage... Just a point, anything can be
toxic in the wrong amounts or in the wrong place. IN

fact harmaline (a closely related drug) does the very
same thing (excitotoxic reaction) and will cause the
very same brain damage that ibogaine does - IN TOXIC
DOSES, that is why you don't hear of millions of
people with brain damage from drinking ayahuasca
brew... duh.

That little piece of "information" came from Molliver

Why it causes brain damage

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9348351&dopt=Abstract

Ibogaine neurotoxicity: a re-evaluation.

Molinari HH, Maisonneuve IM, Glick SD.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8930373&dopt=Abstract

"The present study re-examined cerebellar responses to
the high doses of ibogaine used by O'Hearn and
Molliver (100 mg/kg or 3 x 100 mg/kg) and sought to
determine whether a lower dose (40 mg/kg), one
effective in reducing morphine and cocaine
self-administration, produced similar responses.....In
marked contrast, rats given the smaller dose of
ibogaine displayed no degeneration above the level
seen in saline-treated animals. When combined with
information on other compounds, these data suggest
that the degenerative and "anti-addictive' properties
of ibogaine reflect different actions of the drug."

Lets say that again "In marked contrast, rats given
the smaller dose of ibogaine displayed no degeneration
above the level seen in saline-treated animals"  That
is 40mg delivered I.P. not 20-25mg delivered orally, a
much less toxic and safer amount and route of
delivery.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10966515&dopt=Abstract

A dose-response study of ibogaine-induced
neuropathology in the rat cerebellum.

Xu Z, Chang LW, Slikker W Jr, Ali SF, Rountree RL,
Scallet AC.

"These observations affirm the usefulness of GFAP
immunohistochemistry as a sensitive biomarker of
neurotoxicity. None of the sections from the 25-mg/kg
rats, however stained, were distinguishable from
saline controls, indicating that this dose level may
be considered as a no-observable-adverse-effect level
(NOAEL)."


Humans take 25mg/kg max for addiction, far higher in
Bwiti rituals, there has been no sign of any "brain
damage" and testing at lower dosages in rats, dogs,
primates even at repeated dosages did not show any
indication of brain damage.

Any questions?

Brett


--- MARC <marc420emery@...> wrote:
> There is a very favourable article about ibogaine
> therapy and the Iboga
> Therapy House in the current Georgia Straight (Jan.
> 2 - 8),in the Health
> section by Gail Johnson. The Georgia Straight
> publishes over 100,000 copies
> each week.
>
> Titled 'Ibogaine a One-Way Trip to Sobriety, Pot
> Head says, facetious title
> notwithstanding, the article nonetheless is all

> accurate and details our
> Iboga Therapy House and information on ibogaine

> taken from ibogaine dossier
> off the net. On the cover is a small headline 'also
> featuring a NEW
> TREATMENT FOR ADDICTS'.
>
> I don't think they are on-line, and the article is
> about 2,000 words, but
> I'll see if it is available somewhere.
>
> Marc Emery
>

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From: Xiang Lee Chen <xiangleechen@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  


I have read this list for some week, these are
questions I sent in email and did not receive a reply
I don't know if it worked or not but if you could
reply please this is to Patrick Kroupa.

I understand most about ibogaine or what is known up
until now. I see mostly drug addicts who are from the
street level and had different exposure to persons at
the harm reduction conference from different
background.

what I have read on mindvox answers some questions in
parts but it's not a sensibile whole. You are very
very smart and write extremely well but it is like you
take pages and re arrange them in no right order. I
cannot follow, I think this is intentional but I don't
understand mindvox at all except art, not followable
information

My questions please.

At Seattle when asked about the 12 steps you gave a
nice reply and said that upward of 50% of addicted
persons who take ibogaine used the 12 steps. In this
issue of heroin times you are very negative about 12
steps. I know you do not use them but you gave very
nice reply at talk, then wrote a article which
completely invalidates them. I don't understand.

In JAMA article you are quoted as saying that on
ibogaine you "went to hell and got killed 1000 times"
which is same as you said at talk when you did
ibogaines to detox from drugs, but at your talk you
gave very dark experiences but it was very funny not
like you would not do ibogaine again, you said you
will do ibogaine again at talk. You also said ibogaine
very mild, not near as strong as LSD.

Thanks for talk and your time, for me you made it much
eaisier to understand difference between ultra rapid
and other detox and what ibogaine feel like, but you
confuse me with 12 step and if you like ibogaine or
not.

Thank you again

Xiang Chen

http://www.dom.washington.edu/sparx/

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From: "Patrick K. Kroupa" <digital@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle

Status:

I'm just incoherent.

What's in "this issue" of Heroin Times, is sumthin' I wrote 'bout 2 years
ago; he is simply recycling my material.  A lot of that particular space
in time, is just me working out my shit and venting, to sum it up, "HA!
Fuck all of you stupid fucking pieces of shit who ripped me off, handed me
lead weights while I was drowning and attempted to inflict psychological
damages on me while I was in an extremely vulnerable state.  Who's still
standing is me, and who has gone down in fucking flames are 95% of the
weak-willed idiots who ever got in my face with their bullshit." 

In short, it's an emotional response that represents my feelings about
being subjected to "drug treatment" and the comedy routine known as rehab.
But that was a while ago, and it's kinda like, okay, the sun rose in the
east today, and the 12 steps still suck, so what else is new.
 
The 12 steps are sumthin' to do -- other than drugs.  They're extremely
old eastern concepts for dismantling ego, rewritten and dumbed-down for
drug dependent individuals who are acclimated to western culture.
Somewhere along the way, all of that turned into the Cult of Eternal
Powerlessness where you can sit and spin, complain about shit for all
eternity, and shine up the altar you've built to your idealized former
self.

An organized alternative to the 12-steps, which many people on this list
seem to find useful is SMART.  I've never done it personally, but reading
through their spin control, I haven't found much I disagree with.

Uhm, I dunno their URL offhand, Randy does I'm sure. 

| ... at your talk you

| gave very dark experiences but it was very funny not

| like you would not do ibogaine again, you said you
| will do ibogaine again at talk. You also said ibogaine

| very mild, not near as strong as LSD.

Yeah I did, it wasn't much fun, but it certainly didn't deter me from
doing ibogaine again.  Ibogaine isn't a very strong "hallucinogen" it's
equivalent to no more than roughly 300-500mcg of LSD.  If the visions are
distressing, then just open your eyes, they will recede. 

This is both good and bad.  What it amounts to is walking into the lobby
where a movie is playing, you can go sit in the movie, or if you don't
like it, you can wander back out and land right on, "fuck this, it didn't
work, I knew it wouldn't, nothing ever does, where's my dealer at..."
Ibogaine isn't strong enough to FORCE you to confront anything, you can
avoid it.  On 3-5mg+ of LSD you really, REALLY do not have that option.
Whether you decide you want it or not at that point, you're going.

On the flipside, LSD ain't gonna do nothin' 'bout your habit.

I like ibogaine, the 12-steps are something that works out for some
people, and does damage to many more who are subjected to this bullshit as
the "only answer," to drug dependence, and confuse their failure to get in
tune with this cult, as having anything whatsoever to do with stepping out
of drug dependence.

What that means: if you actually WANT to get off drugs, and the 12-steps
don't work out for you, it does not mean you're damned, not ready, or
hopeless; it just means maybe you should find something else to do.

Patrick

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:57:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

Ibogaine isn't a very strong
> "hallucinogen" it's
> equivalent to no more than roughly 300-500mcg of
> LSD.  If the visions are
> distressing, then just open your eyes, they will
> recede. 

> Ibogaine isn't strong enough to FORCE you to
> confront anything, you can
> avoid it.  On 3-5mg+ of LSD you really, REALLY do
> not have that option.
> Whether you decide you want it or not at that point,
> you're going.

Ummmm, Patrick that is not fair. While I agree that
ibogaine is not as psychadelic as LSD you are
comparing normal ibogaine doses with super-normal LSD
doses - not regular LSD doses. Maybe you should do
40-50mg I.P. or 100mg/KG orally - what is that about
10gm or so of HCL for you orally??? which are also
more in-line with ritual dosages of ibogaine. Then
maybe you will find ibogaine to be "strong"... They
don't use the term "crack the skull" for nothing (lol)

Brett

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From: Xiang Lee Chen <xiangleechen@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

Thank you, my questions then would be if you don't
believe in the 12 steps then why did dr. mash say that
you take people to meetings sometime? My other
question would be then do you feel lsd therapy and
psychedelics are useful for helping people get
abstinence from hard drugs?

My question for Marc Emery of Iboga Therapy House is
do you plan to have any kind of spiritual use of
psychedelic drugs after the ibogaine?

Thank you

Xiang Chen

http://www.dom.washington.edu/sparx/

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From: "Patrick K. Kroupa" <digital@...>
To: ibogaine@...

Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle

Well, because no matter which of my realities they're culled from, it
seems that nearly everyone I know is either on drugs, trying to get off
drugs, or skidding back and forth.  While it is entirely possible to do
everything your own way, for most people it just reaches the stage of,
"well, ya know, it's been 6 months, I'm really not seeing any magic
happening here, hanging around with me is not sufficient to save you from
yourself, I'm not a treatment pimp who is leeching flow off you and I can
no longer deal with 25 phone calls a day whenever you're having a crisis.
Here's a meeting, it's completely filled with people bitching about shit,
so spread the codependence around.  Good luck with all that."

It's also important to give the people in my local "recovery community"

(aka: the Legion of Hall Monitors on Crack), new material every so often

so they can talk shit amongst themselves and exclaim, "yeah mahn, I saw
Patrick at a meeting, he sat in the back and was all fucked up and
relapsed."  And this still blows my mind.  That I can talk to someone in
"recovery" who will rattle off a list of places I have theoretically been
seen, meetings I went to, and things I "shared."  It's like, who the fuck
are you people, I don't hang out with any of you -- ever, why do you even
know that I exist much less keep track of my imaginary comings and goings.
I hate that shit.

Anyway, basically, I occasionally drag people to 12-step meetings because
I don't have any other place to take them to.  There is -- in theory --
some sort of SMART meeting around here, but I've never found it ... on the

flipside I've never really looked.  Perhaps I should.

| My other
| question would be then do you feel lsd therapy and
| psychedelics are useful for helping people get

| abstinence from hard drugs?

Uhm . . . well, absolutely and yes.  Plus, also, not really, and probably
not.

A pivotal moment for me was 'bout 2 years ago when a guy I was friends
with -- who actually was in traditional "recovery," working the steps,
going to therapy, all that shit -- asked me to get him acid.  And the
conversation was reasonable, it just amounted to "I want what you have,
help me get there."  And I was going to, then I thought about it, then I
thought about it a lot, passed it through the Purple Shit(TM)(SM)(Patent
Pending), and took a pass.

My conclusion at the time was, if I could hypothetically help you get
acid, then you go and take it, find God, realign your entire universe, and
live happier ever after...  Well, that's highly groovy.  But, see, if on
the flipside, you take acid, wreck your car, and take off on a 2 month
long crack run...  Then I just set all of that into play.  And I mean, no
*I* didn't do any of that, he would have, but I really don't need the
karma either way, whatever you're looking for I cannot imagine it'll take
you longer than a few hours to find it, so good luck, you really don't
need me for that.

And what he wound up doing was blowing out, and the downward spiral is
still going, he has not pulled back out of it.  Could it have been avoided
if he'd had the chance to do acid... probably not, and I would be left
holding the bag and wondering if I'm the reason all of that happened.

Without LSD, I personally, may or may not have made it.  Anything is
possible, but let's say I would strongly bet against it.  I also went
somewhere where the actions I was taking were regarded as highly positive
and full of great merit; people did not have a problem with the fact that
I left the planet and wasn't gonna be landing for a few months.

Had I done what I did in the United States, it would have taken a few days
at most for some helpful person to have me Baker-acted; I would have come
back to earth in a straitjacket, hosed down with sedatives and
neuroleptics, and then been dumped into some perpetual long-term endless
circle-jerk of bullshit "therapeutic community" where they'd let me out on
the playground to smoke a cigarette if I behaved really well.

I wanted reintegration; I got it.  Had I done it in the United States, I
would have gotten some idiot jotting down a few paragraphs in my medical
records, describing what I did as yet another manifestation of my lifelong
drug problem.

What I'm saying is: it wouldn't have worked out the same way.  Very wrong
setting.

I absolutely believe that entheogens used with the proper context, set,
setting, alla that, can provide a tremendous boost to nearly everyone.
The proper set, setting, and intent is prolly not handing someone acid at
a rave.  What I mostly see is people turning entheogens into an excuse to
go off and do whatever it is that they wanna do anyway (heroin or crack).
Left to their own devices, they turn it all to shit.

All of this sorta loops back to where it begins...  I can't make a
generalization about what <any given drug-dependent individual> should do.

Everyone is different.  I do not know where to send people who need
aftercare, but don't want the 12-step crap.  Going to an ashram is mostly

not going to work out.  If you go somewhere very straight, then wander
around and talk about how much you wanna smoke crack all day...  Well,
it's not gonna help you very much, and it's unlikely that anyone else
there will understand what you're going through.  If you go to a space
where drug use is accepted; there is a very high chance that in addition
to entheogens, there's also gonna be all the materials you are trying to
avoid.  Will most people make the scenario work...?  Nope. 

Will most people pick up self-help books like the SMART materials and try
to figure out how to help themselves?  Nope.  Will most people do
*anything* except stay clean by force of will for a few days or weeks,
then go back to doing <whatever>?  Nope.

The problem with all of this is that "drug treatment" sucks.  Period.  You
mostly have either a collection of pinheads with theories, who have never
done any drugs and have no idea how "addiction" works, and then on the
other side you have -- with some few exceptions -- the dumbest and most
fucked up; by which I mean to say doctors who are perpetually <this close>
to losing their license, and have lots and lots of experience with drugs,
plus, also, the One True Answer to everything.  In other words: whatever
they did to clean up (if they happen to actually be clean).  This is
nearly always the 12 steps.

I gotta go, this is getting long, but to sum it all up: from what I can
see of your web page, you are some program that students take classes in,
which tries to help street people get basic medical care, new syringes,
condoms, shit like that.

The main set of problems that *most* of the people you deal with are going
to have; is that they're broke, out on the street, have no skills, no
friends, and no hope.  Many of them will be mentally ill, and
self-medicating with narcotic analgesics works a fuckova lot better than
doing neuroleptics for most things, especially schizophrenia. 

Drug dependence is their solution, not their problem.  Even if you could
dose them all with ibogaine and then follow it up with some other kind of
entheogen-assisted therapy...  Nearly all of them will be right back where
they started, given a week or two tops.

On the flipside, a few will fly over the cuckoo's nest and loop out of
that spiral.  Go figure.

laters,

Patrick

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From: MARC <marc420emery@...>
To: ibogaine@...
X-Priority: 3
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

I have gotten suggestions that MDMA could be helpful after ibogaine, or DMT.

I have dosed more than 1,000 people in pure MDMA in my recent eight years,
and I have dosed over 200 people on DMT in the last 5 years (more than
anyone else I know), but I haven't considered it an adjunct to the iboga
therapy yet.

I'm still exploring the vast potential and varieties of uses for the
ibogaine, so it will be a while before I consider powerful psychedelics as
part of therapy, if ever.

Marc Emery

Iboga Therapy House

--------

From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle

Status:  

There was a report of MDMA hitting particularly hard
after ibogaine and 1 "ibogaine death" involved
possible use of MDMA and Ibogaine - not a good idea on
top of a bad ticker... Just FYI and likely due to
ibogaines effect on serotonin - well and XTC's... too.

Brett

-----

From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@...>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

One of my priests (who himself has conducted more than 80 initiations) suggests that around 2-3 weeks after IBOgaine one should get a dose of pure MDMA (absolutely NOT Extasy, that stuff contains anything and whatever!!).

The reason is that former addicts seem to have an emotional low during that period, and MDMA seems to be very useful to lift them. There is a problem with MDMA being illegal :-((

Brett, what do you think about MDMA some 20 days after IBO?

Another thing that seems to help during that period is Salvia Divinorum - but not smoked! A fresh leaf or two is rolled and put under the tongue - and kept there!

Marko

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From: Bill Ross <ross@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

> > > I have dosed over 200 people on DMT
> >
> > Marc, what form of DMT?
>
> Pure synthesized DMT and extracted Arcasia tree bark DMT

This sounds like a smoked or injected format? I understand
that the smoked/injected experience is rather 'interior' to the
person, very strong and short-lived compared to the oral,
DMT-plus-MAO-inhibitor experience afforded by ayahuasca. For
an ongoing follow-up treatment for addicts, I think the latter
might be worth considering, in that it is more social. In this
case it would be interesting to see which format of session
worked best, e.g. more ritual or less. From the MAPS link below:

  The ritualization of induced modifications of consciousness,
  with or without substances, establishes a universal symbolic
  frame within which these experiences acquire significance by
  allowing the individual to inscribe himself within a model of
  cultural integration.

(Remembering that the addict's post-ibo challenge is to come up
with a new model of cultural integration, this quote raises the
possibility that ritual alone may be useful - and may be part
of any success that 12-step programs can claim.. of course the
ritual would need to be appropriate to the situation.)

Some links on ayahuasca treatment of drug addiction:

  http://www.csp.org/nicholas/A32.html
  http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v12n2/12225mab.html
  http://yatra.yage.net/addict.htm

Bill Ross

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

There
> is -- in theory --
> some sort of SMART meeting around here, but I've
> never found it ... on the
> flipside I've never really looked.

The one in Miami isn't running any longer, there is
one in Ft. Lauderdale that I went to.

Look, everything HELPS and nothing HELPS. If you want
HELP for something to fix you, well, you ain't going
to get it, unless you want a "fix"... You just can't
sit back and let ibogaine, ACID, the 12 steps or some
treatment center to fix you, you have to fix you, you
have to be serious. So, if you are willing, will do
the work, sure, ibogaine, acid, 12 steps, Yoga... can
be used as a tool.  That said, ibo does some stuff
more like a medication than a cure/treatment - FOR ME
in that I take it more or less regularly (6+ months)
and I am happier, things work better... It is better
with the ibo though I don't have the same need for it
I did years ago, but what the hey, if it works keep
doing it... That said I don't think I would be here

without the ibogaine, but the ibo didn't do it all by itself.

-----------------------------------

From: "Joshua Tinnin" <krinklyfig@...>
To: <ibogaine@...>

Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:17:10 -0800

I'd just like to add that LSD worked brilliantly for me for addiction,
although at the time that wasn't my intention in taking it. Am not so sure
if it would work for other people like this without the person being ready
to accept the lessons revealed, and without the right set and setting, which
I was fortunate to have, even as the result was unintentional, if ... dare I
say ... miraculous. At the moment, that's about all I am comfortable saying
about it publically. But am following up with other therapy, and will share
that and a bit more with the group in time.

- jt

----

From: crownofthorns@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  


That was very restrained Patrick, what no top 100 reasons you hate Lance Gooberman list? ;-)

If I remember your little speech right bro, Richard Resnick was a wonderful doctor who is being persecuted for helping people and Lance Gooberman should be cut into little pieces. Resnick gave you a lot of drugs and all you got from Gooberman were 2 lousy urods ;-)

Bro, you and Brett, Randy, some others here and that includes me, should start a I was abused by treatment pimps list.

Speaking of which, I'm asking very politely without any stress or anything, that Mindvox system, you remember it? Will it open any time soon, it all seems to be there now. It all seems to have been there since November bro, what's the deal?

What I'm dying to know because you never answer, what is it like to do that much acid? You and JT now. you credit ibogaine for the detox but give all cred to LSD for letting you rearrange your head. Now I'm real curious because I don't like tripping that much, I would have never done acid before doing ibogaine but now when I think about it I've lost a lot of my fear and would like to try again. Not some whopping dose but 3 or 4 hits.

Peace out,

Curtis

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From: Vector Vector <vector620022002@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  


http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0213/lerner.php                

Indeed, bad doctors’ even those who have been successfully sued

for malpractice’ frequently escape discipline by the state.

"Negligence just doesn't get any sort of reaction from the board of medical examiners,"  

says William Levinson, a malpractice attorney representing the estate

of a New Jersey woman who died after a scientifically unproven treatment

known as ultra-rapid opiate detoxification (UROD). Seven patients have died

in the past five years after undergoing this unorthodox procedure, which
is supposed to cure heroin addiction almost instantly. But though

they've agreed to temporarily stop performing UROD, the doctors who provide it,
Lance Gooberman and David Bradway, still have their medical licenses.
(Adding to Levinson's outrage at the New Jersey board, Bradway, a
former addict, obtained his medical license after having served prison
time for manslaughter for injecting a lethal dose of a drug into a

friend and then dumping his body in a ditch.)  

Gooberman got his license back right around the time you were
delivering your rant in san francisco, if that's where it was.

http://lancegooberman.com/njlaw11-25-02.htm

Funny site I found while looking up Gooberman. They'll 'detox' you from
LSD. Wonder how they do that ;)

http://www.detox24.com/drug_information/LSD.html

All I found on Resnick was this and some hits for Dana's book where
he's mentioned in one paragraph.

A.T. Forum spoke with Richard B. Resnick, MD ‚ Clinical Associate
Professor, New York University School of Medicine and Executive
Director, Center for Psychiatry & Family Therapy, New York City ‚ who
was among the first researchers to perform Phase II clinical trials in
1973 to assess dosage efficacy of naltrexone. It was tested as a
therapeutic medication following opiate detoxification, but Resnick
quickly found that to be most successful naltrexone needed to be part
of an overall psychosocial treatment program.

http://www.cures-not-wars.org/ibogaine/chap05.html

The big drug companies were not interested, but Howard had one more
move before he started his own company. He called the Director of
Clinical research at NIDA, Barry Brown, who gave him introductions to
Herb Kleber, Richard Resnick and Arnold Washton--all prominent drug
researchers. He managed to get several of them to serve on his
foundation's advisory board: Doctors Kleber, Resnick (one of the
developers of naltrexone), and Robert Milman (director of the Substance
Abuse Unit at New York Hospital.

.:vector:.

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From: "Patrick K. Kroupa" <digital@...>
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

On [Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:57:51PM -0800], [Brett Calabrese] wrote:

| Ibogaine isn't a very strong
| > "hallucinogen" it's
| > equivalent to no more than roughly 300-500mcg of
| > LSD.  If the visions are
| > distressing, then just open your eyes, they will

| > recede.

|
| Ummmm, Patrick that is not fair. While I agree that
| ibogaine is not as psychadelic as LSD you are
| comparing normal ibogaine doses with super-normal LSD
| doses - not regular LSD doses. Maybe you should do
| 40-50mg I.P. or 100mg/KG orally - what is that about
| 10gm or so of HCL for you orally??? which are also

| more in-line with ritual dosages of ibogaine. Then
| maybe you will find ibogaine to be "strong"... They
| don't use the term "crack the skull" for nothing (lol)

Okay, you go first!  I'm right behind you.  In fact, since I like you a

lot, I'll operate the crash cart and make sure that Useful Things are
actually on hand and stuff.  Besides, research conclusively demonstrates
that brain damage is good for you; being smart only gives you many more
options for making yourself miserable.

NeXT on the MindVox Channel: Do-it-yourself open heart surgery, with your
host, Brett Calabrese!

Brett: "Okay, well, see, first you need to get some supplies.  Assorted
scalpels are great, but if you can't find those, really good Ginsu knives
and some X-acto knives from any hobby shop will do the trick.  Have a few
gallons of Fentanyl around just in case you need it, and some towels or
rags; fluids FLY out of everything when you really get going.  Plus,
also, try to sterilize stuff.  Oh yeah, before I forget, get a mirror or
something.  Now then, we begin the procedure by dosing ourselves with
2-3gms of ibogaine.  I'm not sure this helps anything, but it sure puts me
in a good mood!  Next..."

zo0m =)

Patrick

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From: "Joshua Tinnin" <krinklyfig@...>
To: <ibogaine@...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:20:21 -0800
X-Priority: 3
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Status:  

Hey, Curtis,

I can't really talk about it too much at the moment, so I hope you can
understand this. Maybe I could take it offlist or something ... it's just a
very personal situation at the moment, and I'm still trying to work through
it. But, just to clarify, I never had any addiction to opiates, although I
probably would have if I put myself in that situation, which I consciously
avoided. My addiction was to a different substance. Although LSD helped me
immensely, I'm not out of the woods, and I didn't take it intending to be
changed forever by it ... but, well, it happened anyway. I'm not by any
means new to the experience in general. This is why I'm afraid to advocate
for it, because it took more than just LSD for it to work, and I'm not quite
sure what all the elements were that did that. I think it was just the right
time for me, but didn't know it until it happened. It was a ton of bricks
and about a freight train hitting me at full speed ... LSD was the catalyst,
to be sure, but it required a very careful combination of other things (not
chemicals) to be in place for it to work that way. It's unpredicatble. It
left me with some lingering questions and problems, and some of them are
just my own lack of self esteem, but it takes time to sort it out.

As I said, I am going to be following up with other therapy. But would

prefer to leave it at that for the moment. I am not a brilliant communicator
as Patrick is, and haven't yet figured it all out for myself, either. But
this is something that I feel has to be shared at some point, because, if it
has the possibility of helping someone, then it will have been worth it. I
just don't want people dosing themselves thinking that's what I told them to
do, and then getting pissed because it didn't work for them, or because,
forbid, they got screwed up by the experience. Just gotta tread carefully
and take this a bit at a time, and later maybe can speak to it when I
understand it better, when it would be less likely to be misunderstood ...

- jt

------

From: "Joshua Tinnin" <krinklyfig@...>

Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:08:41 -0800

Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Freedlander" <jfreed1@...>

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ustanova Iboga wrote:
>
> > Another thing that seems to help during that period is Salvia
Divinorum -
> > but not smoked! A fresh leaf or two is rolled and put under the tongue -
> > and kept there!
>
> i wonder if that (it being helpful) might have anything to do with it
> being a partial opiate agonist. i forget what subtype it is tho; it would
> be interesting if it was the same subtype that ibogaine works on. which,

> or course, i also forget. =)

Salvinorin A, the active ingredient in Salvia d., is a kappa opioid

receptor (not opiate) agonist. So is enadoline. Not sure about ibogaine.

more info: http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia_info5.shtml

- jt

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Hi ,


It is a tricky treatment for benzo's ,Ibogaine Can work but it is too risky
to self -medicate for benzo's detox ,

 many of my patients who were taking Methadone daily  took  also benzo's ,
coming off in one treatment that takes 10 days  .

Sara

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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

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

mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/, http://www.iowanorml.org/

http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/index.html ; or Terry Mitchell

(515) 789-4442; 608 Dallas St., Dexter, Iowa 50070. 300 marchers, police friendly.

Detroit: "Professor Hemp" <newagecitizen@...> 313-563-3192 or "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.

Hartford:  Mike Bregg 860-309-9811 [310 S. Main St (Apt 2), Thomaston, CT 06787]

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 <parade@...> 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.

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

Location: Cafe Am Gr¸n 70 guests attended.

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@...

Munich: mmm-muenchen@...

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 <emanuel@...> phone: 0049-(0) 911-535433 http://www.gj-bayern.de

or 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 farid@... 06 148 156 79 ; 5, rue de Tombouctou 75018 PARIS 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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From: Jesse Silverman <atariuser_420@...>

Subject: Problems and Inconsistencies...
To: dana@...
Status:  

Dana:

(1) send the JAMA article here...and anything else
VERY IMPORTANT...

(2) Napa is DEFINITELY ON and wants to get the

leaflets as soon as possible with them on it!  He also
should get some Ibogaine info, he is interested...

Bruce Trask, (707) 253-9295

1020 Soscol Ferry Road,
Napa, CA 94558
he will have an e-mail for contact soon...

(3)
All we have is a dead or misspelled e-mail address for
Charlotte, NC- OnThatLevel@... name "Ragan
Tolbert" (spelling?)  I can find nothing for this...

Buffalo--neither of two spellings of the e-mail
contact work, left message on answering machine of
Phil Beavers...

Daingerfield - e-mail address rollinxoxo@...
bounces, apparently isn't good at all anymore...we
have a snail-mail address for "Johnny S. Chambliss"
only...

Germany - there are a few inconsistencies between our
printed material and cannabislegal.de:

http://www.cannabislegal.de/aktionen/mmm2003.htm

(1) phone number and e-mail for Bremen:
our 160 cities leaflet says "party@...,
0162-3399334 which is the number for Party-Project)

our contact list says the same as the cannabislegal.de
website.  Hopefully both are good.

(2) Soltau - cannabislegal.de agrees with our mailing
list which is NOT what is on our leaflet: number

should be 05191-975296, spelling should be

vandreike@... (misspelled on our leaflet)

(3) Leipzig - I believe the contact should be

parade@...

Marburg isn't listed on our leaflet--is that
intentional?

(4) Cannabislegal.de has:

N¸rnberg
Kontakt: <emanuel@...> Tel. 0911-535433,

http://www.gj-bayern.de
NOT what we have on the leaflet.

(5) Munich/M¸nchen is listed on their site but isn't
on our leaflet--noone volunteered a phone number yet?
-----------------------------

From: Jesse Silverman <atariuser_420@...>

Subject: Fwd: RE: contacts for Des Moines, Iowa Global March May 3rd 2003

To: dana@...
Status:  

dana--as we both mention below, there is no www. at
the beginning of:
http://iowanorml.home.mchsi.com/

otherwise, please read.  I talked to RJ, in 10 minutes
over there he should have usable graphics of a
reasonable size from what you guys had produced.

Jesse.
--- "Carl E. Olsen" <carl-olsen@...> wrote:


> From: "Carl E. Olsen" <carl-olsen@...>
> To: "'Jesse Silverman'" <atariuser_420@...>,
>      <tushona@...>,
> <qchemp@...>
> CC: <iowanorml@...>
> Subject: RE: contacts for Des Moines, Iowa Global
> March May 3rd 2003
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 06:42:00 -0600

>
> Hi Jesse,
>

> We have a new web site, http://www.iowanorml.org/

>
> I have an email address at that domain -

> carl@..., but we
> should probably set one up that is more generic.
>
> The other addresses are still valid, although there
> is no www in

> http://iowanorml.home.mchsi.com/ which we have
> repeatedly tried to get
> removed from the flyers without success.
>
> We need graphics for our web sites, so please
> provide instructions for
> obtaining the graphic images.
>
> Carl Olsen

> Iowa NORML

_____________________________________________________________

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

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

Napa: Bruce Trask 707-253-9295 1020 Soscol Ferry Rd, Napa, CA 94558

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

57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

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

_ _ ______

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

*MMM (Million Marijuana March) and Global Cannabis Action. Marches and

rallies, the first Saturday in May of each year. Worldwide (since 1999).

May 3 2003, May 4 2002. May 5, 2001. May 6, 2000. May 1, 1999. Over 200

cities so far ... and counting!!! Other multi-city cannabis and drug

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:

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

MMM Global Cannabis Action. Million Marijuana March. Annual rallies and

marches in over 200 cities. Worldwide since 1999. The first Saturday in

May. Cannabis Liberation Day. LINKS, event navigators, alphabetical city

contact lists, mailing lists and archives, flyers and posters, rally

report compilations, media coverage, MMM history, etc..

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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