Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:40:42 -0500
From: Dana Beal
Subject: GMM 2005 #4: Ibogaine Forum @ Alex Grey's, Feb 20-21;
Birmingham, Bristol, Cheltenham, Hull, Paia, Winona Make 116 Cities on
the Global Marijuana March May 7, 2005

Important: get your city on the list for the Global Marijuana March, May 7, 2005!

So far we have confirmed 116 cities:

Albany

Albuquerque

Asheville

Athens

Atlanta

Auckland

Bskersfield

Bergen

Berlin

Birmingham

Boone

Boulder

Bristol

Budapest

Buenos Aires

Burlington

Capetown

Cheltenham

Chicago

Chico

Christchurch

Cincinnati

Colorado Springs

Columbia

Darwin

Des Moines

Detroit

Dover

Dublin

Dunedin

East Lansing

Eau Claire

Eugene

Fayetteville

Frankfurt

Ft. Smith

Grass Valley

Hachita

Halifax

Hartford

Hilo

Houston

Hull

Jerusalem

Kansas City

Kristiansand

Lethbridge

Lexington

London

Los Angeles

Lyon

Mexico City

Minneapolis

Missoula

Montreal

Moscow

Nashville

Newark

New Paltz

New York

Nimbin

Ogden

Orlando

Oulu

Oslo

Paia

Paris

Peoria

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Portland

Portland

Potsdam

Prague

Raleigh

Rapid City

Reno

Richmond

Roanoke

Rome

Rosario

Rostock

San Antonio

San Francisco

Santa Barbara

Santa Cruz

Sarasota

Savannah

Spokane

Stavanger

Stevens Point

St. Louis

Stockholm

Tallahassee

Tampa

Tel Aviv

Thunder Bay

Toledo

Toronto

Traverse City

Tromsoe

Trondheim

Tucson

Tupelo

Turku

Twin Oaks

Upper Lake

Vancouver

Vienna

Visalia

Waikiki

Warsaw

Washington, D.C.

Wilkes-Barre

Wilmington

Winona

There is also some international MMM networking going on at
this CannabisCulture.com message forum:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current

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Million Marijuana March. Banners, posters, handbills,
flyers. From 2004 MMM. Use for 2005 MMM ideas! Adapt for

your needs! Due to software upgrade problems

only the full-size images and full-size image downloads

currently are working-- go here:

http://www.vienna2004.org/mmm/viewer.php?albid=510&stage=2
or if problems go to the home page URL:
http://www.vienna2004.org/mmm
and then click on "mmm2004"

and then "Banners Posters Handbills"
 

Many of the MMM 2004 banners, posters, flyers, and
handbills were converted from PDF files to the gif and jpg
images found here. The freeware Adobe Acrobat Reader and the
freeware IrfanView were used.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

http://www.irfanview.com  - IrfanView is a free image editor
that is useful for adapting these flyers and banners for
your needs. Download the full-size gif images since they use

far fewer kilobytes compared to the 640x480 and 800x600 jpg
versions of the same image. JPG image files are mainly for
photos and images with lots of color gradation. GIF image
files are much better for flyers and banners. IrfanView can
easily edit, reduce, or enlarge gif and jpg images.

These flyer and banner images were found elsewhere in the
photo gallery, and by following links on the MMM 2004 city
list pages, report pages, image pages, etc.. Flyers and
banners for other MMM years can be found through the first
link below: MMM images:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmmimages.htm
2004 city list:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2004.htm
2004 reports:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2004rep.htm

*****!!!Global Marijuana March--May 7, 2005:  Updates,  Reports!!!*****

From: jj.chemin@...

I do the local coordination ;

You can write us at  : CIRC Lyon
                                BP 3043

                                69605 villeurbanne Cedex.

our website is in swizerland, (in France, we have somme problem with the
law)

www.circ.ch.

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From: alun@...

High Dana

So far the response in UK has been slow.  I am told that the London march will
be on 7 (?) June but this is not confirmed

The other responses so far are

Bristol:  Alex,  alexb977@...  (0)7977 906985

Birmingham  Colin and Oz  ColinPreece@...  honcf@...  (0)121
449 3735

Cheltenham  Luke   glsto81@...

Hull  Carl  CarlWagner@...

They have all said that they would like to organise a March.  Hull and
Birmingham are, I would say, fairly certain, knowing the guys, the other two I

cannot confirm.

I expected a reply from Edinburgh, but nothing yet

all the best
Alun Buffry
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**  Sign in support of the LCA Challenge - this is an important petition to get

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**  Sign the new On-line "Legalise Cannabis Now!" Petition to the UK Home

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and
http://www.radicalparty.org/lia_paa_appeal/

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From: benziecountynorml@...

Dana,
  You may add the following contact info for Traverse City,Michigan along with Melody Karr's contact info because we do this together.
 

Rev.Steven B. Thompson
Director,Benzie County NORML
6215 Smeltzer Rd.
Benzonia,Michigan 49616

(231) 882-9721


Rev. Steven B. Thompson
Director, Benzie County NORML
Coordinator, Northern Michigan

Board of Directors, Michigan NORML

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From: saraemanz@...

Hi Dana-
My contact information as you have listed, is correct
and current for the chapter of WSU NORML and we are
very excited to participate here in Winona, MN.  We
are planning on holding a rally as well as a march
down one of our cities main thoroughfares on May 7th.
Thank you for contacting me.  Please forward any
further information I may need and have a great week,
Sara Manz

Winona State University NORML
470 1.2 Lafayette Street
Winona, MN 55987
Phone: (414) 587-9277
Contact: Sara Manz

E-mail: saraemanz@...

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From: bmurphy420@...

Aloha Dana

Well I have been in Maui for the past year.  I was thinking of doing a MMM in Paia HI.  Drop me a email with your phone or call me at 808 579 8971.

Aloha Brian J Murphy

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Please forward widely! Million Marijuana March. MMM.
The MMM 2005 city links are always clickable at these mirrors below.
MMM world map with many more links. Frequently updated:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2005map.htm and
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005map.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2005map.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2005map.htm
 
Click the region names in the left chart column to go to their city lists.
Click the "countries" link to go to the list of countries.

Worldwide.

With less than 5% of the world's population
the USA has over 2.2 million of the world's

9 million prisoners!:
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/rates.htm and
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/world.htm

MMM (Million Marijuana March).
City list and world map:
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005map.htm

Yahoo Group:

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

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From:     nick227@...

Subject:        RE: [Ibogaine] HCL (was: iboga experience & therapy)

-----Original Message-----
From: ekki [mailto:ekkijdfg@...]
Sent: 07 January 2005 10:12
To: ibogaine@...
Subject: Re: [Ibogaine] HCL (was: iboga experience & therapy)


hallo peter,
i donīt know if hcl is better. i got an email with the following info:

"The second option available, using Iboga extract seems to be the best
option available yet: it has not got the drawbacks of Ibogaine HCI,
which may be very effective, but is very hard on the body and requires
a higher degree of medical skill from those administering it. Among the
severe effects of HCI are respiratory problems, heart problems and
kidney or liver problems.


-   In fact, I am presuming that all of the
recorded deaths to date occurred as a result of the administration of
HCI.

Hey Ekki,

Just to mention that I wouldn't consider the opinion so much of someone who

makes a statement like "I am PRESUMING that all of the recorded
deaths...."[my caps]. I mean it's great they mention it's just a presumption
and don't try and pass it off as established fact, but basically if someone
doesn't even care enough to try and check out the information that is
available then that's someone who's opinion is not worth so much. Just my
opinion!

My knowledge is: 3-4 people have died after taking ibogaine HCl, perhaps
more; 1 person has died after taking the Indra iboga extract, perhaps more;
it's generally held that people have died, some would say regularly, after
taking whole rootbark. My opinion is that if you're going to take iboga or
ibogaine in any form then there is a basic risk of death. To minimize this
go for medical tests, you need liver and heart minimum.

If someone tells you that the extract or the whole rootbark or the HCL is
safe in the face of well established facts about ibogaine related deaths
then that person has a "hidden agenda" - something they don't want to tell
you. Maybe they're on a healer trip; maybe they hate non-medical settings;
maybe they have some pet theory about the universe that they don't really
want to examine too closely, but whatever it is it means you can't really
trust what they say so much.

I'm not trying to put anybody down, we've all got stuff we don't want to
examine, me along with everybody else. But I don't think you can really take
it that ibogaine is any safer in one form than the other. That's my reading
of all the ibogaine stuff I've seen over the last 5 years or so.

with love

Nick   www.ibogaine.co.uk

From:     jasenhappy@...

Subject:        Re: [Ibogaine]  free

Hello Angel,
 
I am still reading the posts and sitting on the sidelines at the moment.
 
Donna,..I feel  great,..my mind is so alive,..my senses are 
giving me goosebumps whenever I hear or see something beautiful.
 
I am clean and choose to stay clean. Yes,..a thought now and again
however very shallow. Methadone and heroin are not desirable anymore
as I can clearly see the consequence,..I can look further ahead
 
I really can't wait to hear your experiences. My mind is still not firing
at 100%,but clearer every day.
 
If you can, try to change your living environment before you take the
 treatment. Ideally moving to another area,..or at least residence.
 
It is now the 7th week,..still some of the flu hanging around,..not much though.
I am sleeping 6 to 8 hours a day.Still not as active as I will be.I am down to
4 sneezes at a time.(in a row)
 
I am still in love with everything,..most people cannot handle it,..i find this hard
to handle. I have some good friends that love it,..they say,..your eyes are so alive
you feel so different, yet the same.I can see who everyone really is,..it is so
 generating,..filling.
 
I look at my friend and see me,I look at the crows and see me, the flower and see me
I see the dictator and see me, the rock,the beetle it's all me and it is so freeing,I am
 the all of it, like you.
 
I still find it hard to work as my work needs a lot of mental energy. Studying or
 reading is much easier now than before.What Lee said about your mind taking
6 months to start firing properley makes sense.
 
Please let me know the day you start your treatment
 
Life just gets brighter and brighter.
  

                                             with love, Jasen.

From:     BiscuitBoy714@...

Subject:        Re: [Ibogaine]  free

Jasen, it's great to read your post and know that you are OK. When I read how you feel it gives me goose bumps too, because I know how you feel. It amazes me the parallels that come up with everybody. Some of my friends didn't know how to handle the new me either, but I have stayed the course and almost everyone excepts me now. The one thing lately that I have been thinking, (I do that sometimes), is how personal and introspective the whole experience is. I know before, if I tripped, the last thing I wanted to do is be by myself. With Ibogaine it wasn't like that with me, I wanted to stay there with myself and experience everything that came my way. I knew it was medicine and I knew that it was going to work. I don't know how but I knew that this was going to give me some choices that I have never had before. But when it comes down to it, Ibogaine doesn't take life's trials away, it just gives you a better outlook on it, we still have to make it work ourselves. Therapy, 12 step groups, Rock and Roll, Sex, everything we can think of to keep us on track, we have to follow through on. I'll leave no stone unturned because I don't want to go back to Hell. I don't use, and I walk through high cotton, all the time, and it ROCKS. The universe looks great from up there doesn't it?          

Donna, I came off of Methadone and it lasted a lot longer than 3 days. I would think that 3 days would be pushing it a little but, everyone is different. I think I could have done more than I did but, hindsight is 20/20. Do you have anyone to help you afterwards? How old is your son? You may very well be a lot stronger than I am, I think we all do whatever we have to do to get through it. None of this is easy but Heroin creates less problems afterwards from everything I have read about it. Please tell us when your treatment starts so that I can light a candle and send positive vibes your way. I think I can speak for most of us here and say that we are all with you on this, and I'm glad that you aren't going to do this alone. Welcome to the edge.              Randy

From:     ptpeet@...

Subject:        Re: [Ibogaine]  free

> i am very excited and a bit scared, were you well enough to work after 3 days?? I can not afford to be out   >  of action and my provider says i will be well enough to look after my son and work after 3 days its amazing > as every time i have stopped using heroin in the past the withdrawals peak on the 3rd day.

I think it depends upon the individual as to whether they're going to be up to working and watching children after JUST 3 DAYS. To me, wow, that doesn't sound like NEARLY enough time, but as noted, it probably depends upon each individual and the amount of drugs they're getting off of and how they react to the ibogaine itself.
   Personally? Not to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but 3 days sounds like an awfully short time to go right back into the thick of things. But that's just me. After 3 days I myself was up and about- all the way from Ave. A to 2nd Ave, on a walk up 2nd Street I took ON THE THIRD DAY, or heck maybe the fourth come to think of it, then realized that hey, that was a lot of walking and I'd better go home and take it easy for a couple more days. I think I went out to dinner the night of the fourth, STILL TRIPPING. So I myself would advise strongly having someone to help watch your child Donna. Again, this is just from my own experiences. You might be ok that first night or two, I don't know, but again, 3 days seems like a really very short time to go right back to work and child rearing.

Peace and love,

Preston Peet

From:     HSLotsof@...

Subject:        [Ibogaine] NY ibogaine alert

Cures-Not-Wars is in the final stages of organizing a two-day ibogaine forum
to be held Sunday, February 20 and Monday, February 21, 2005.  Just wanted to
give the list a heads up on the days.  I am hoping Dana will post the
preliminary schedule and look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it.

Howard

        From:     ptpeet@...
     Subject:        Re: [Ibogaine] NY ibogaine alert
        Date:   January 12, 2005 7:33:49 AM EST
To:       ibogaine@...
  Reply-To:         ibogaine@...

It's gonna be held at Alex Gray's Temple of Sacred Mirrors, which I HIGHLY recommend any and all to visit when in Manhattan.

It's a beautiful and awe inspiring place.

It's on 27St, between 10th and 11th, 4th floor, above the interesting (vegitarian-ownen) nightclub Spirit.


Peace and love,

Preston Peet

From:     dana@...

Subject:        [Ibogaine] Modafinil for coke--what about speed?

Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005



Drug offers cocaine addicts hope

Modafinil boosts alertness and may curb impulsiveness, a Penn study shows.

By Stacey Burling

Inquirer Staff Writer



After decades of failed attempts to find a drug that helps addicts kick cocaine, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they have finally found a medication that looks promising - a drug currently approved to treat sleepiness.

Addicts who took modafinil - used to treat narcolepsy and help pilots and night-shift workers stay alert - were about twice as likely to avoid cocaine in a given week as those who received a placebo pill, according to a small Penn study published this month in the Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Patients taking the medicine, marketed as Provigil, were also nearly three times as likely as unmedicated counterparts to stay off cocaine for a three-week stretch - 33 percent vs. 13 percent, said Charles Dackis, chief of psychiatry at Penn's Medical Center-Presbyterian and lead investigator of the 62-patient study.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse funded the Penn study and is paying for three longer, larger studies as well.

The institute is also funding similar studies of three other medicines: baclofen, which is used to treat spastic disorders; topiramate, an anti-convulsant; and disulfiram or Antabuse. Ultimately, the medicines may be targeted at specific subgroups within the nation's 1.5 million cocaine users, said Frank Vocci, director of the division of pharmacotherapies and medical consequences of drug abuse.

Modafinil, he said, has qualities that could "propel it to the top." Addicts don't mind its side effects and like its "alerting effect." It may also reduce impulsiveness, a key factor in addiction.

Given the high percentage of addicts in the study who still used cocaine, the drug clearly is not a cure for cocaine addiction, which is notoriously difficult to treat. But it may be an important, early step toward better drug therapies, said Robert Malcolm, a Medical University of South Carolina psychiatrist who heads another of the modafinil studies. "Is this drug a home run?" he asked. "No. Maybe it's a single or at best a double."

Nonetheless, he and Dackis said modafinil is the most promising drug they have seen for cocaine addiction in 20 years.

Dackis said researchers had tried as many as a 100 drugs against cocaine during that time with no success.

Modafinil, made by Cephalon Inc. of West Chester, earned $300 million in 2003 and has projected sales of $410 million for 2004. The company is awaiting word on its request to market the drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Dackis believes that modafinil helps restore function to the brain's pleasure center, which is thrown chemically off balance by long-term cocaine use. Addicts often say they don't "feel right" without cocaine. "You're craving something that will make you feel better," he said.

Modafinil, he added, "does promote a sense of well being but not euphoria and certainly not the rush of euphoria you experience with cocaine." One of his previous studies showed that the drug blunted the cocaine euphoria. The government lists modafinil as having mild potential for abuse. Dackis said he saw no evidence that modafanil is addictive.

A middle-aged man who participated in the Penn study believes the drug helped him go 14 weeks without cocaine, an unusually long time for him during 15 years of addiction.

"I had more energy to stay focused on things I had to do on my job, things I had to do at home, at church," he said. "I didn't have time to sneak off into North Philly and get lost."

The man, a professional with a college degree who asked that his name not be used, said he stopped taking the medicine when the study ended. He used cocaine again last week. Now, he has asked his primary-care doctor to prescribe modafinil for him. He also plans to go back into therapy. "I guess I need that crutch," he said.
Contact staff writer Stacey Burling at 215-854-4944 or sburling@....

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http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmmall.htm This page just created! Please forward and distribute widely.

 

348 MMM cities worldwide since 1999!

 

MMM. All cities 1999 to date. Million Marijuana March. Global Cannabis Liberation in May. Worldwide since 1999. Cannabis events on the first Saturday in May, or that weekend, or thereabouts. Marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, etc..

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To get on the poster for 2005--update your contact details & add your city to this New List:

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Million Marijuana March. MMM. World Cannabis Day!
The detailed MMM 2005 city list at the end of the above
forwarded email has been deleted since it has some private
postal info, etc. in [brackets]. Go to cures-not-wars.org
(eventually) for a detailed MMM 2005 city list for
May 7, 2005! http://www.cures-not-wars.org

A basic MMM 2005 city list with world map,
email addresses and webpage links is here:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005map.htm

Subscribe to get the detailed MMM 2005 city list:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmnet
To subscribe to that email list send a blank email to:
mmmnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

MMM webform for adding or updating MMM 2005 cities:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/webform.htm

Dana Beal's MMM email compilations are
publicly archived here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmworld
To subscribe to that email list send a blank email to:
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With less than 5% of the world's population
the USA has over 2.2 million of the world's
9 million prisoners!:
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/rates.htm and
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/world.htm

MMM (Million Marijuana March).
City list and world map:
http://corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005map.htm
Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction