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Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
From: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:18:30 -0400
Subject: [mayday] GMM 2005 #23: Stop H.R. 1528!; Castlegar, Havazu City, Helsinki,
Jyväskylä , Kingstown, Knoxville, Marseille, Nettleton, Potsdam, Rochester, Steamboat
Springs, Sulphur Springs, Summit, N.J. Make180 Cities on the Global
March May 7!
Important: get your city on the list for the Global Marijuana March, May 7, 2005!So far we have confirmed 180 cities:AlbanyAlbuquerqueAmsterdamAntwerpAshevilleAthabascaAthensAthensAtlantaAucklandBskersfieldBaselBermudaBernBiel/BienneBergenBerlinBirminghamBooneBoulderBristolBudapestBuenos AiresBurlingtonCalgaryCapetownCastlegarCheltenhamChicagoChicoChristchurchCincinnatiClevelandColorado SpringsColumbiaColumbusCopenhagenCordobaDaingerfieldDallasDarwinDes MoinesDetroitDoverDublinDunedinEast LansingEau ClaireEugeneFayettevilleFlintFotalezaFrankfurtFt. SmithGenevaGrass ValleyHachitaHalifaxHartfordHavazu CityHelsinkiHiloHoustonHullIndianapolisJerusalemJyväskyläKalugaKansas CityKievKingstownKnoxvilleKristiansandLausanneLawtonLeipzigLethbridgeLexingtonLimaLjubljanaLondonLos AngelesLuganoLyonMadridMarseilleMexico CityMinneapolisMissoulaMontrealMoscowNagaokaNashvilleNettletonNewarkNew OrleansNew PaltzNew YorkNicosia/ LefkosiaNimbinOgdenOrlandoOsakaOsloOuluPaiaPalm HarborParisPeoriaPhiladelphiaPhoenixPortlandPortlandPorto AlegrePotsdamPotsdamPragueRaleighRapid CityRecifeRenoRichmondRineyvilleRio de JaneiroRoanokeRochesterRomeRosarioRostockSacramentoSalemSan AntonioSan FranciscoSan MarcosSanta BarbaraSanta CruzSao PauloSapporoSarasotaSavannahSionSofiaSpokaneStavangerSteamboat SpringsStevens PointSt. GallenSt. LouisSt. PetersburgStockholmSulphur SpringsSummitTallahasseeTampaTampereTel AvivThunder BayToledoTokyoTorontoTraverse CityTromsoeTrondheimTucsonTupeloTurkuTwin OaksUpper LakeVancouverViennaVisaliaWaikikiWarsawWashington, D.C.Wilkes-BarreWilmingtonWinonaWinterthurZagrebZürichThere is also some international MMM networking going on at
this CannabisCulture.com message forum:http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current-------------------------
Million Marijuana March. Banners, posters, handbills,
flyers for 2004 and 2005 MMM. Adapt for your needs! Click:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2004flyers
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers
Or go to this other big MMM photo gallery. Click:
http://gallery.encod.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.htmlhttp://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 usefar 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 citylist 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: hempembassy@...Press Release Plus: Nimbin HEMP Embassy : 20th April '05NIMBIN'S THIRTEENTH MARDIGRASS READY TO ROLL!The tiny village of Nimbin's 13th Annual Cannabis Law Reform gathering, the MardiGrass, is on the April 30- May 1 weekend with up to ten thousand hempsters expected.In typical Nimbin style there's some confusion over the MardiGrass dates because we've often advertised over the years MardiGrass happens on the first weekend of May. This year we went with the weekend of Sunday May 1 as its the traditional day of solidarity. For those who get it wrong and come the following weekend, Saturday May 7 is the global Million Marijuana March, happening in a couple of hundred cities and towns around the planet, including Nimbin."Nimbin's unique festival hasn't stopped gathering fans, particularly from overseas as well as around Australia" said Andrew Kavasilas, President of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy and the Nimbin Chamber of Commerce. "The new high flier this year is the Marijuana Music Awards attracting over one hundred entries. The Herballist are so keen they're flying out from Philadelphia to play. This year's awards will be hotly contested with the finals judged by the crowd at the Rally on Sunday."There's a smorgasbord of other events and attractions throughout the weekend with the ever popular Hemp Olympix hosted by S and Alan Glover guaranteed to pull the biggest crowd. The Joint Rolling contests are in the Town Hall, while the Bong Throw and Yell and the gruelling Grower's Iron Person Events are held in Peace Park.The Hemp Bar's 4.20 World Record attempt at lighting as many joints at once as possible is sure to attract a big crowd.
The "Just Say Know" Forum in the Town Hall features a presentation each day by Dr Keith Bolton on the potential of Hemp in Industry. His Government licensed three acre crop this year will be made into two hemp brick houses on the Gold Coast. An exhibition of hemp brick making as well as paper making and spinning yarn from cannabis will be in the Hemp Expo tent over the weekend.
Other forums include medicinal cannabis with a paper on psychosis to be presented, pot politics, legal advice and a grow-well forum.
Organiser Chibo Mertineit says, "The MardiGrass is a unique meeting of heads from around the globe who have a lot of experience with many aspects of the cannabis plant and we aim to share the knowledge as much as possible."Alan Salt, another organizer, says" Pot psychosis is a key issue and we think many mentally disturbed people who were once institutionalised are now let out into the community and cannabis is getting the blame!"Other highlights include the Cannabis Cup, Pickers Ball, Ganga Faeries, Kog and the Growers Forum, the Reggae Club, the Bush Theatre program, Oasis Comedy nights, and local author Gerald Taylor who will officially launch his Random House published novel 'Jesus Weed' which is selling well in the U.K.The Hemp Embassy is looking for people to donate old Harvey Norman white-goods, especially washing machines, to make a 'Nimbin On Nimbin' float for the Rally Parade. Michael Balderstone from the Nimbin Museum said ," Byron Green's Councillor John Lazarus is a speaker at the Rally and we're hoping he'll dress up as Shiva and dance on top of it in the Parade! We hear consumer king Gerry Harvey reckons Nimbin people need clean undies and a good wash like Cr. Lazarus. Doesn't he know real hippies don't wear undies; they wash their bums like most of the world? It's cleaner than using sliced rainforest which he obviously does."For the first time Nimbin's popular local community radio station NIM FM 102.3 will be broadcasting live from the streets and venues of MardiGrass. "We've borrowed the gear and we're very excited by the potential", said Marie Cameron from the station.Police are expected to keep a low profile and focus on public safety as they have in recent years. They are sure to be on the road outside the village breathalysing but fortunately not saliva testing, though this is probably the last MardiGrass without that. Next year we expect a lot of walkers and horse riders!www.nimbinmardigrass.com has the latest programme which is notoriously being added to up until the last day. There is plenty of camping available though rooms have long been booked out. An all weekend pass to the main MardiGrass events costs only $20 ($15 for one day) keeping with the Nimbin Hemp Embassy's policy of MardiGrass being primarily a protest which everyone has access to.We aim above all to educate people to the truth about this amazing plant which all our ancestors ate, wore, wrote on and used for just about everything else for centuries. Most people have forgotten how its illegality came about, and we will be reminding them its another unwinnable and unending war, like the one on terror, which they've involved everyone in. Now we have the Indonesians, a culture which has lived in harmony with nature for centuries, so sucked into this war, our young people are lining up for their firing squads. Many people will be thinking of Schapelle Corby during the minutes silence at the lighting of the "Victims of Prohibition" Olympix Flame, at the Opening Ceremony, Friday, at sunset.Meanwhile we are held to ransom by pharmaceutical giants with their global monopoly on pain management, probably the safest business on the planet. They, along with the private prison guards union and others who profit from prohibition, will make sure all the traditional herbal pain relievers remain illegal: the opium poppy, the coca plant and the most popular, the cannabis plant.
Further information and musings
Nimbin HEMP Embassy
02 66 891842
hemp@...
A.H. Andrew: 0427891968Home. Michael: 02 66 897525----------------------From: billder@...http://atlanta.indymedia.org/newswire/display/37574/index.phphttp://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/australian_community_service/schapelle_corby.htm----------------------From: liorji@...hello and happy holyday!
im sorry for the late notice, and would like to let you (and by you -
everyone) that the marijuana day in tel aviv is organized this year by
:
lior@...eran@...
and our web site is:http://www.alternative.org.il
if it will be possible to put it in your page, it will be great.
thank you good people.
p.s. have you sent any posters to israel (to boaz wachtel maybe)? if
so, we need some...--------------GoldyZ <goldyz@...> wrote:
Hi, eco!
Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2:42:08 PM, you wrote:
> Click for 2005 world map: http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2005map.htm
> Compact 2005 MMM city list: http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2005list.htm
> ....
> *St. Petersburg, Russia. goldyz"at"yandex.ru
Correct, please, this info to"St. Petersburg, Russia. vampipe"at"mail.ru"
--
Best intentions
GoldyZ--------
From: info@...In Finland there are demos in 5 cities this year: Helsinki, Turku,Tampere, Jyväskylä and Ouluhttp://www.sky.org/marssi/2005/Helsingissä:
Suomen kannabisyhdistysKokoontuminen Hesperian puistossa Töölönlahden rannalla kello 14:00.
Turussa:
Vihreet Pantterit
Kokoontuminen Puolalanmäellä kello 14:00.
Tampereella:
Kokoontuminen Hämeenpuistossa pääkirjastotalo Metson vieressä kello 14:00.
Jyväskylässä:
Kokoontuminen Kolmikulman edessä klo 13:30 alkaen;kulkue lähtee klo 14:00 etenemään kohti Lounaispuistoa.
Oulussa:
contact: vmieli@...---------From: sarosip@...Dear Dana,
we announced in the media that this year Million Marijuana March will be organized on 8 May in Budapest. This will be the final day of our "civil obedience movement" (see in detail on this site: www.drugreporter.net), which is a campaigne to press the government to change drug laws. We started a negotiation with a member of the European Parlament, Marco Panella, who is interested in this movement and willing to come to Hungary on 8 May to let himself arrested by Hungarian police for smoking pot. Up to now several celebrities joined our movement, among them musicians, scientists, film directors. One famous 65 years old female novelist, Julia Langh also reported her 40 years of cannabis use to the police. More than 50 experts (psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, doctors etc.) published an open letter to support the activists. So it seems we achieved a lot in the past couple of weeks.
However, the organizer, Hemp Seed Association has budgetary problems in organizing the MMM this year. The event costs 6000 USD (all the permissions, electricity, workers, security etc.). We have already received 2000 USD from Hungarian supporters, we need further 4000 USD. I would like to ask you if you know anybody or any organization which could contribute to the Marijuana March in Budapest. Please let me know as soon as possible if you can help us.
I am looking forward to hear from you soon.
Bests,
Peter Sarosi
HUNGARIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
H-1114 Budapest, Eszék utca 8/B. fszt. 2.
tel/ fax: (36) 1 279-22-36, (36) 1 279-0755Mail: sarosip@... www.drugreporter.net--------------------------------From: "Hendrik Hoeftmann" <hehoe@...>To: <encod@...>Subject: MMM 2005Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:29:58 +0200Hallo,i´m from potsdam (germany). We start at 7.may 2005 an action for the global liberation day. Please list our aktion on your website.Our link:Potsdam, Germany, http://www.chillout-pdm.de, chillout@...Thanx a lot and stay tunedhendrik.---------From: tents444@...
"dr.diamba" <dr.diamba@...> wrote:
São Paulo City, SP, BRASIL !!!
how did you get that message anyways?
peace
Dr.Diamba
De:"eco man" tents444@...
Para:dr.diamba@...
Cópia:
Data:Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
Assunto:MMM. Need info for Brazil city. Global Marijuana March.
> Hello,
>
> What city does this forwarded email excerpt refer to?
I don't read Portuguese or Spanish.
>
> >> Brazil -
>>
>>
>> PASSEATA MUNDIAL PELA CANNABIS
>> V?o Livre do MASP, na Av. Paulista
>>
>> 14 horas
>>
>> TRAGA SEU CARTAZ E SUA GOELA! VAMOS BOTAR A BOCA NO MUNDO!
>>
>> INFO: dr.diamba@...
>
>
Thanks,
> eco man,
> An MMM webmaster for this 2005 MMM city list and world map page:
> http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2005map.htm
>> ----------From : tents444@...
Thanks Luiz for the Sao Paulo info. I also heard from dr.diamba@... too saying that it was for Sao Paulo.
Have you heard anything about Fotaleza? I deleted it from the city list for now until I get some kind of confirmation from you or others. I need some kind of contact info too. A phone number or email address.
regards,
eco man
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Luiz Paulo Guanabara <luiz@...> wrote:
It refers to Sao Paulo, i suppose last years's manifestation that is called Passeata Verde, realized last November, that was their place of meeting.
Luiz-------From: edith_del_c@...hOLA A TODOS:
Seguimos avenzando en la organización de GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH de ahora en más GMM.-
Los recursos económocos son escasísimos, casi nada, pero no importa, Córdoba presente y de pie, así que a preparar los trapos, las banderas y la indumentaria, ya que se hará una exposición y concursos a los mejores trapas y las mejores indumentarias. OJO, quien presente ropa interior deberá exponerla. . . . . espero que hayas buenas perchas JI, JI, JI!!!!!!.-La marcha es el sábado 7 de Mayo en Parque las Heras a las 16:20 hs (después les contamamos porqué este horario), con encuentro de tambores y batucadas, se pasará en el cierre de la marcha la película GRASS.-
Pasen esta info a los amigos.-
De nuestra fuerza dependen los logros . . . . . QUEREMOS LA DEPENALIZACION YAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
SEGUIMOS EN CONTACTOS.-
la negra-------New Listing by Phone--Summit: Adam Wells 908-868-6900-----------From: njweedman@...http://www.njweedman.com/dna.htm
Two years ago (2003) the state of New Jersey passed a new DNA law that required anyone convicted of any crime (1st degree-thru-4th degree) to surrender a sample to the State's DNA data-bank. Previously this was only done to Sex offender's, now it is everyone including POTHEADS.
When I received my letter ordering me to surrender my DNA I refused. I wrote a letter to the NJ Gov and the New Jersey Attorney general telling them to "KISS MY ASS and RETREIVE MY DNA FROM YOUR LIPS". -- I was indicted for contempt. I fought it in court and never did give up my DNA.
I've now won twice. Once at the law division level where Judge Milensky threw out the Camden County Prosecutors contempt indictment. Which the the State Attorney general appealled to the NJ Appellate Court and I've again won.
I've beat the state at the Appellate Court level too read below stories, it hasn't been decided yet if the State will appeal to the N.J. Appellate Court.
Most in the Marijuana reform movement just don't understand that this DNA collection right now is in New Jersey but soon it will be nation-wide. Anyone convicted of a "marijuana" offense will be ordered to surrender a DNA sample to your state and federal governments.
The Government claims DNA sampling is nothing but a identification system, which is a lie. DNA is a blue-print on how to destroy you as well. The Government need not march "us" into oven like the Jews, were if it had everyone's DNA.
The Government could use it's prisoner base as a control group and develop "genocidal" measures using DNA to destroy "us" or sterilize "us". I don't want the Government to have my DNA. -This weeks NEW-COVERAGE:
(1) - http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-04132005-475495.html
(2) - http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14321461&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6--------
C.A.M.P.
Coalition for the Abolition of Marijuana Prohibition
CAMP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
PO Box 5718
Atlanta, Georgia 30117-5718
CAMP HOTLINE 404-522-2267
NEWS RELEASE: April 20, 2005
ATLANTA JOINS GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH
Marches scheduled in 200 cities worldwide
The "Million Marijuana March" has been scheduled for
Saturday May 7th, in downtown Atlanta. This annual
marijuana legalization event is organized by the New
York City organization "Cures Not Wars" and is
sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of C.A.M.P.,
Coalition for the Abolition of Marijuana Prohibition.
The cannabis activists plan to assemble at 11:00 a.m.
in HURT PARK adjacent to the Georgia State University
campus, at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland
Avenue. The march is scheduled to pass the Georgia
State Capital, Atlanta City Hall, The Fulton County
Government Center, Woodruff Park, and continue up
Peachtree Street to International Boulevard, and then
to continue down to the CNN Center, where they will
demand that the media giant cover this worldwide
event.
The MMM is a variety of organizations joining in
protest against present laws governing cannabis, with
regard to medicinal marijuana, hemp, legal status as a
controlled substance, and the reform of present
penalties for possession and personal use of cannabis
in the City and the State of Georgia.
CAMP is presently involved in a Federal Court Case
against the City of Atlanta concerning the City's
Outdoor Festival Ordinance. CAMP argues that the
ordinance is restrictive and acts as a form of prior
restraint of free speech and assembly, one argument
being that the statutory 90-day advance application
requirement is unconstitutional. The CAMP Legal
Defense Fund, Inc. is presently pursuing a appeal in
Federal court against the City of Atlanta over other
provisions of the City's Festival Ordinance.
This year's Global March is to be held in 200 cities
worldwide on the same day, The target of the march in
Atlanta is the Fifth Estate, mainly CNN NEWS CENTER,
downtown Atlanta. The international promoter of the
event is CURES NOT WARS in NYC. www.cures-not-wars.org
A benefit rally and concert is scheduled after the
march. The location for the event is the IAG, TheInternational Artist Guild at 345 Memorial Drive SE.
It starts at 3 p.m. and will go late!
Our information number is 404-522-2267. Email:info@... www.worldcamp.org-------From: Dustin ??? <thereverendeg@...>
What's up, this is Dustin Fineout, president of Rochester Cannabis
Coalition, Rochester, NY. We are planning to promote the Million
Marijuana March here in Rochester and prompt local students to turn
out on their college campuses (Rochester Institute of Technology,
University of Rochester, Monroe Community College, Brighton Community
College) at 1 pm and for the entire city to converge on Monroe Ave. at
3:30 pm around Amherst Ave. My e-mail address isthereverendeg@.... Our website is rochester.norml.net and more
information will be made available there. The RCC group e-mail isrochestercannabis@.... Thanks a lot!!-----------By BETH DUFF-BROWN
Associated Press Writer
April 20, 2005, 8:28 PM EDT
TORONTO -- Canada has become the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based painkiller for patients suffering multiple sclerosis, a move applauded by those with the disease and proponents of medical uses for marijuana.
Health Canada, the federal agency that oversees medical care for Canadians, announced on Tuesday it had approved the prescription painkiller Sativex, made from components derived from the cannabis plant that have been shown to ease pain.
The British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed the drug, said Canada is the first country to grant regulatory approval for Sativex, which will be marketed in Canada by Bayer HealthCare and could be in pharmacies by summer. The drug can be sprayed under the tongue or inside the cheek, avoiding the carcinogenic dangers of smoking pot.
Medical professionals voice high hopes for the drug's success.
"The pain (of multiple sclerosis) can be absolutely excruciating and very debilitating," said Judith H. Watt-Watson, a professor at the University of Toronto's Center for the Study of Pain. "There's an urgent need for more options."
Many people with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system, treat their pain by smoking marijuana. But the dose is hard to regulate and the drug is difficult to obtain legally.
About 50,000 Canadians and 400,000 Americans have MS and some 2.5 million people are believed to be afflicted worldwide, according to the New York-based National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
About half of MS patients suffer from chronic pain.
"It's hard to explain to someone who has never felt this type of pain," said Steve Walsh of Ontario, who suffers from MS and was eager to try the new drug. "It's like being plugged into an electric socket all the time. At times, putting on clothes or anything touching me can be too much to take."
He told The Globe and Mail that he's smoked marijuana in an attempt to ease his pain, but didn't like the feeling of being out of control.
Dr. Allan Gordon, a neurologist and director of the Wasser Pain Management Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said that because Sativex is administered as a spray, it provides controlled doses and allows the patient to decide how much he or she needs.
Proponents of legalizing medicinal marijuana are hailing the new drug.
"This confirms that virtually everything the U.S. government has told us about marijuana is wrong," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.. The organization is fighting to have marijuana legalized for medical use. "This product offers patients and doctors a new option and we hope Americans will have access to it soon."
In the United States, the federal government has classified marijuana as a drug that is as dangerous as heroin, although 10 states have passed laws that allow its use under medical supervision.
In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a system regulating the medicinal use of marijuana for people suffering from terminal illnesses and chronic conditions.
* __
On the Net:
Details of clinical trials: www.gwpharm.com
Marijuana Policy Project: www.marijuanapolicy.orgCopyright (c) 2005, The Associated Press-----------Colorado Daily
http://www.coloradodaily.com/
April 21, 2005
420 nearly 86ed
By JOSEPH THOMAS and STEPHANIE OLSEN Colorado Daily Staff Writers
Neither rain nor sprinklers could extinguish marijuana smoking at the
University of Colorado at Boulder Wednesday.
For almost a month, the campus has been dealing with school policy on the
celebrated "4/20" marijuana holiday. In years past, the university has
been criticized for not strictly enforcing local laws and campus policies
concerning drugs and contraband on April 20.
This year CU, to the chagrin of many students, took a proactive approach
and tried to deter the pot smokers.
Cat-and-mouse conflict
"We have tried to discourage illegal activity (today) while not escalating
the situation," said CU spokesperson Pauline Hale before a backdrop of 200
of marijuana smokers congregating in the parking lot of the Leeds Business
School.
Traditionally the celebration is held on Farrand field, but this year
police blocked the field off. Without access to their traditional meeting
place, marijuana smokers moved to both the business school field and theobservatory area adjacent to the Coors Event Center.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., minutes after the pot protesters flooded their
new location, the university answered by turning on the sprinkler system.
Students fled to the safety of parking lots where they were out of the
range of the sprinklers.
"No one can rain on the nug parade. All the sprinklers in the world will
not stop what goes on at this school," said Alley Gordon, who was giving
away face paint on the business field when the sprinklers initially were
set off.
"I came to school to smoke weed," she continued.
Gordon said her home is in Chicago and she heard about the 4/20
celebrations even before she came to CU.
After the sprinklers were turned on, Mason Tvert, executive director of
Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), a group that has
lobbied CU to make school penalties for smoking pot equal to those for
drinking, shouted to the crowd via a bullhorn saying, "CU can shuffle
people around, but they can't make people go home."
The crowd filled the Leeds Business School parking lot, almost to the
point where vehicles could not exit or enter.
A little less than an hour before 4:20 p.m., the climax of the event,
smoke could be seen rising from the crowd in the parking lot.
"It's a day event, and University of Colorado Police Department will not
make a difference ... yeah, I am smoking a joint, it is a political
statement," said Jon Knox, a CU student.
While students were partying in the parking lot, police roamed the crowd
taking pictures of all participants.
Students left the parking lot and charged Farrand field, where police
stood waiting at the entrance, acting as a human blockade. Students
flanked the police and jumped the small chain-link fence that surrounds
Farrand field.
Smoke got in their eyes
Thousands of onlookers, in dorm-room windows, on balconies, the street andalong the perimeter of Farrand field just outside the fence watched as
approximately 2,000 participants celebrated the climax of the holiday
while dodging sprinklers.
"I came here last year for 4/20 and there are many more people here this
year despite the University's efforts because of all the press it has been
getting," said Theo, a CU student who was holding a sign that read,
"Nervous?" and on the flip side, "I will C.U. in Hell."
Soon after 4 p.m. the sprinklers were turned on at Farrand field as well.
Hoots and hollers emanated from the crowd as flocks tried to avoid getting
wet.
Many students tried to disarm the sprinklers by kicking or stomping on
them. One reveler even put a Nalgene bottle over one to cover the spray.
One ambitious student named Steve grabbed a gray plastic trash can from
the dorms, set it over a sprinkler centrally located in the crowd and sat
on it as he shouted, "Don't worry, you can keep on smoking." The crowd
cheered as participants lit up fresh joints.
Isaiah Lechowit, chair of the CU College Republicans, acting on his own
behalf as a "concerned student," toted a sign, reading "Junkies with the
munchies? - We got what you want!"
Lechowit said he was trying to sell chips, but was stopped by the police -
who claimed it was illegal because he did not have a permit.
"I think these people out here are crazy," said Lechowit. "We want to
capitalize off of their stupidity by selling chips."
There were other entrepreneurs in the crowd as well. Brady Johnson was
selling T-shirts reading, "CU - Best seven years of my life," after the
rally for $10 a piece.
One partygoer even offered to barter for one of the shirts.
"I will give you a few nugs for a T-shirt," he said.
Johnson declined the offer.
Students protest
Before the pot-smoking festivities officially started, students gathered
with SAFER leaders to condemn the university's actions to ignore the
recently passed student marijuana referendum, which asked university
officials to consider making marijuana penalties no greater than alcohol
penalties.
"For the school to come out and make such a big deal about one day sends a
negative message," said Tvert.
Students joined SAFER to protest the university's actions against thereferendum and against the crackdown on the 4/20 celebration.
"I wouldn't be here protesting if it wasn't for the university and the
police," said Benny Kaplan.
Many seemed disgruntled by the lack of communication surrounding the
marijuana celebration. Some seemed confused and didn't know Farrand field
was closed down.
"The university did a poor job of communication with the students about
Farrand field," said Tvert. "When you take a bunch of students who don't
know what is going on, and mix in a bunch of cops, you are asking for
trouble."
After all the confusion and chaos of the day, one student characterized
the marijuana celebration as a reflection of the drug war.
"The drug war doesn't work," said David Cox, a member of the Students for
a Sensible Drug Policy. "It just goes to show you people will do as they
please."
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For more information, contact:
SAFER
P.O. Box 1852
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Friday :: April 15, 2005
5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill NowRepublican Congressman James Sensenbrenner has launched his next assault on freedom. The full House Judiciary Committee is set to vote as early as next week on H.R. 1528, which creates a new group of mandatory miniumum penalties for non-violent drug offenses, including a five year penalty for passing a joint to someone who's been in drug treatment.
That's right: Passing a joint to someone who used to be in drug treatment will land you in federal prison for a minimum of five years.
The "Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005" (H.R. 1528) was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) on April 6, and it has already passed out of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
We warned you about this bill last September. It's now coming home to roost. Please visit here to e-mail your U.S. representative and two U.S. senators today. Stop this bill in its tracks.
Marijuana Policy Project reports:
In addition to the shocking joint-passing provision described above,the bill would also create a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time conviction of distributing a small amount of marijuana to a person under 18 years of age ... and a 10-year sentence for a second offense of distributing marijuana to a person under 21. By comparison, the average time served by convicted rapists in this country is about seven years.
MPP does not condone the distribution of marijuana to minors, nor do we advocate the use of marijuana by people recovering from substance
abuse problems. But we do believe that judges should have discretion to determine whether or not offenders in these circumstances deserve to be imprisoned for sentences as long as five or 10 years. If these mandatory minimum sentences are enacted, judges'hands will be tied.
This bill has traction because it also contains a section that serves as the House Republican leadership's response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made the Federal Sentencing Guidelines advisory, rather than mandatory.* The Republican leadership is highly motivated to pass this bill -- and with it, the harsh new penalties related to marijuana.
The bill will now be debated and voted on by the full House Judiciary
Committee and -- if the committee passes the bill -- the full House
will then vote on it.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) also has an action alert on this bill. Here are the gory details, courtesy of FAMM:
Makes the federal sentencing guidelines a system of mandatory minimum sentences through a "Booker-fix" provision.
Creates new mandatory minimums that further erode judicial discretion.
Eliminates the safety valve for low-level drug offenders.
Makes virtually every drug crime committed in urban areas subject to "drug free zone" penalties that carries a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.
Punishes defendants for the "relevant conduct" of co-conspirators that occurred BEFORE the defendant joined the conspiracy.As written, H.R. 1528 would:
Effectively make the federal sentencing guidelines a system of mandatory minimum sentences through a "Booker-fix" provision. This provision forbids judges from departing below the guideline sentence in all but a few cases.
Make the sale of any quantity of any controlled substance (including anything greater than five grams of marijuana) by a person older than 21 to a person younger than 18 subject to a ten-year federal mandatory minimum sentence.
Create a new three-year mandatory minimum for parents who witness or learn about drug trafficking activities, targeting or even near their children, if they do not report it to law enforcement authorities within 24 hours and do not provide full assistance investigating, apprehending, and prosecuting the offender.
Create a new 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for any parent committing a drug trafficking crime in or near the presence of their minor child.
Mandate life in prison for persons 21 years or older convicted a second time of distributing drugs to a person under 18 or convicted a first time after a felony drug conviction has become final.
Increase to five years the federal mandatory minimum sentence for the sale of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, college, public library, drug treatment facility (or any place where drug treatment, including classes, are held), or private or public daycare facilities - in short, almost anywhere in cities across the U.S.
Eliminate the federal "safety valve," granting it only when the government certifies that the defendant pled guilty to the most serious readily provable offense (the one that carries the longest sentence), and has "done everything possible to assist substantially in the investigation and prosecution of another person," and would prohibit the federal "safety-valve" in cases where drugs were distributed or possessed near a person under 18, where the defendant delayed his or her efforts to provide substantial assistance to the government, or provided false, misleading or incomplete information.
This is absolutely sickening. As we said last week,
Sensenbrenner is a one-man disaster for justice. He's been the driving force behind the Real ID Act and bills to strip judges of their discretion in sentencing and subpoena judges' records. In 2004, he wanted to add mandatory minimum penalties to non-violent drug offenses (one example: a five year mandatory minimum sentence for passing a joint to someone who had been in a treatment center.)homepage: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/010374.html------------------------------------------Clinton Foe Admits Impeachment Was Payback
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Attacks Reflect "Sophisticated, Extremely Mature Insurgency"http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041905Z.shtmlNew Pope Intervened in US Election in Bush's Favorhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042005Z.shtmlNon-Christian Air Force Cadets Cite Harassment
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042005D.shtml
Public Shut Out of Whistleblower's 'State Secrets' Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042105Y.shtmlRobert Kuttner | An Economy Going Nowhere
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042105M.shtml
The End of Oil Is Closer Than You Think
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042105N.shtml
Bolton Losing Senate GOP Support
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042105C.shtml
Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns
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Expert: Apes May Be Key to Human Nature
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War Costs Climb to Over $300 Billion
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Press conference demands extradition
of anti-Cuban terrorist
Send a letter to President Bush & Congress today!
See below for detailsMiami, Florida, April 21 - Today, a Miami press conference to denounced the asylum petition of notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is widely suspected of entering the United States with the help of his longtime handlers in the White House and the CIA. He arrived under cover in late March and his supporters in the ultra-right anti-Cuban community are demanding that asylum be granted because he was a CIA agent.
Among the news media that attended were Telemundo, Fox TV, Agence France-Presse, NBC affiliate Ch. 51, Mexican agency Notimex, the Miami Herald, the Sun-Sentinel, and Telemiami 21.
Miami press conf
From left to right, Gloria La Riva of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition; Andres Gomez,
coordinator, Antonio Maceo Brigade; Max Lesnik, Alianza Martiana.
Opening the event was Andres Gomez, coordinator of the Antonio Maceo Brigade and leader of the Cuban progressive community in Miami. He said, "And now we have the case of Luis Posada Carriles. We have to remind the president and the rest of public opinion of this country and the world what the United States government claims is its war against terrorism. For how long will the Bush administration continue covering up, protecting and supporting these terrorists." He called for the immediate arrest of Posada, saying the U.S. authorities know full well where Posada is hiding.Gloria La Riva told the press that over 10,000 letters have been sent to Bush and Congress demanding no asylum and for his immediate arrest. "Miami is the only city in the world that would shelter Posada, but Miami is part of the United States and the people of the U.S., including the people of Miami, are demanding justice for the victims who were murdered, disabled and maimed by the acts that Posada has committed."
Max Lesnik, well-known Cuban political figure, said, "We are witnesses to this terrorism because we suffered from it ourselves. When I directed the magazine Replica, 11 bombs were exploded in our offices not far from here. Those bombs were placed simply because the extreme-right Cubans considered that we had no right to express our point of view."A statement from the National Lawyers Guild was read at the press conference. The National Lawyers Guild President Michael Avery stated in the written press release, "President Bush has said that in his view any government that harbors terrorists is complicit in murder and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. Allowing Posada into the U.S. and entertaining an asylum request from a confessed terrorist is an open acknowledgement of accomplice liability in the crimes against Cuba."-------------
Urgent Alert - Take Action Now!
Stop the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
from gaining asylum in the United States
Support Venezuela and Cuba's demands on Bush
to extradite the murderer Luis Posada to Venezuela.
Tell George W. Bush and Congress:No asylum for the fascist criminal in the United States!No safe-haven for the terrorist Posada in the U.S.
On April 12 Luis Posada Carriles, the notorious anti-Cuba terrorist and killer, appealed for asylum in the United States through his attorneys in Miami. The planner of terrorist acts that have killed dozens of Cubans and other people, Posada was in hiding in Central America for the last seven months after being prematurely released from jail by Panama's right-wing puppet president Mireya Moscoso at the behest of the Bush administration.
Posada was convicted in Panama after being caught in November 2000 with 33 pounds of C-4 explosives intended for assassinating Cuban President Fidel Castro. Now, the U.S. government is entertaining inviting this man, who poses such a great and vicious danger, to receive safe haven from prosecution in the United States.
Undoubtedly assisted by the U.S. government to enter the United States, Posada has been in Miami since the end of March. His three other conspirators, Pedro Remón, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo and Guillermo Novo Sampol, were also pardoned in Panama and flew into Miami last August. They are implicated in several murders in the United States, including the 1976 Washington DC car-bombing that killed Chilean Orlando Letelier and American Ronnie Moffitt.
Posada was a CIA agent in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and possibly to the present. He was trained in explosives and sabotage at the notorious School of the Americas in the CIA's "Operation 40" for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
What are some of his other crimes? Posada and his accomplice Orlando Bosch were the masterminds of the bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 on October 6, 1976 that killed 73 people. Posada and Bosch plotted the crime from Venezuela.
The Justice Department moved to deport Bosch from the United States in 1989. In the deportation order, U.S. Asst. Attorney General Joseph D. Whitley said: "For 30 years Bosch has been resolute and unwavering in his advocacy of terrorist violence. Š His actions have been those of a terrorist, unfettered by laws or human decency, threatening and inflicting violence without regard to the identity of his victims."
These words hold true for Posada, his partner-in-crime.
However, Bush Sr. overrode the deportation order in 1990. Bosch lives in Miami.
Posada bragged to the New York Times in an interview (July 12 & 13, 1998) that he directed the 1997 bombings of Havana hotels. A 32-year-old Italian tourist, Fabio Di Celmo, was killed at the Copacabana hotel.
These are only some of the shocking crimes carried out against the Cuban and other peoples.
While in Venezuela in the 1970s, Posada oversaw the killing of Venezuelan leftists as head of the Intelligence and Prevention Services Division (DISIP) of the national police. In the 1980s Posada commanded the supply of munitions to the Nicaraguan contras from the CIA's Ilopango airbase in El Salvador.
Today, the presence of Posada, Bosch and other terrorists in Miami is proof that the U.S. government is fully behind the terror attacks on Cuba.
Since the 1959 Cuban revolution, more than 3,400 Cuban people have died by violent attacks perpetrated on the island by anti-Cuban paramilitary groups that operate freely in Miami.
It is time for justice for the victims of Posada's crimes. Peace-loving people in the U.S. and all who believe in justice must make it clear that Posada is not welcome here, and we must demand that this government reject his asylum claim.
The fact that the Bush Administration and the CIA are clearing the way for Posada to take up residence in the U.S. is evidence of the extreme hypocrisy and outright lie of Bush's so-called "war on terror." They have engaged in a calculated and cynical manipulation of the term to claim to be fighting against "terrorism" when in truth, they are waging a political war for conquest and empire.We urge everyone to send a letter to Bush and Congress now to say:
1. No asylum for Posada2. Honor the extradition demand of VenezuelaSeveral members, including William Delahunt (D-MA) and Jim McDermott (D-WA), have protested Posada's asylum petition.Free the Cuban Five
Instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI prosecuted the anti-terrorists: five Cuban men who were sent by Cuba into Miami to monitor the actions of the paramilitary groups, to protect Cuba from terror attacks. Known as the "Cuban Five," they were unjustly tried and convicted in Miami in 2001 and are serving lengthy sentences in U.S. prison. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González.For more background information on the Miami terrorists and the freedom campaign for the Cuban Five anti-terrorist activists, visit: www.freethefive.org****!!!IBOGAINE TREATMENT NOW EURO 1500 IN HOLLAND--CALL SARA, 0113134-624-1770 !!!****From:freedomroot@... Subject:[Ibogaine] On HBO telly tonight - not sure if just U.S. or what
Also in today's NYTimes is news that the Supreme Court has agreed to
hear the ayahuasca church's case. But if you're still watching t.v.
these days -- was it on this list or another that someone's signature
line said television is like black spraypaint over your third eye? --
and have cable, thought you might be interested in the review below.
Hope all are doing well out there!
When Lost Weekends Become Lost Lives
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: April 18, 2005
The dirty little secret about addicts is that they are boring.
Movies like "The Lost Weekend" and "Sid and Nancy" have a way of
ennobling the alcoholic's or heroin user's torment. Even fictional
depictions of detox, from "28 Days" and "Clean and Sober" to "When a
Man Loves a Woman," zero in on the drama of loss and redemption.
Advertisement
Documentaries, on the other hand, expose just how banal, self-absorbed
and tiresome most users become once they're hooked.
"Rehab," on HBO tonight, provides an unsparing, unsqueamish look at
five young addicts in Santa Cruz, Calif. The camera comes in close as
they shoot up, zone out, try to detox and relapse. And at that
intimate proximity, viewers' compassion quickly hardens into
impatience and despair. "Intervention," a documentary series on A&E
that is halfway through its 13-episode run, is easier to take: each
Sunday, cameras follow addicts as they reach a nadir that pushes their
families and friends to stage a cathartic intervention. The messier
consequences, like a relapse or an overdose, are told in brief endnote
messages.
Both examinations of addiction are disturbing, but "Rehab" is a more
conventional documentary, letting the subjects' jagged stories steer
the narrative rather than trimming them to fit a reality-show format.
The film begins by stating that there are an estimated 23 million drug
addicts or alcoholics in the United States, a figure that makes
substance abuse seem less a personal tragedy than a national curse:
the downside of an affluent, free-market society with ever-slackening
standards of behavior.
Addiction is considered a disease, but to the untrained eye it looks a
little more self-inflicted than multiple sclerosis or cancer. And what
is most striking about the likes of Brannon and Tiffani at the Camp
Recovery treatment center is how unremarkable their lives seem. All
five addicts are relatively healthy and attractive. They grew up in
suburban comfort and still have parents or siblings who stand by them
and help pay for their treatment. Some are children of alcoholics or
divorced parents, but none seem abnormally deprived, underprivileged
or under intolerable stress. Low self-esteem and easy access to cash
and drugs seem as much a root cause as anything else.
"It not fun to even get high anymore," Tiffani, 21, tells her mother
during a visit at the center. "It hasn't been fun for the last year
and a half. You just do it because you can't think of anything else to
do."
A documentary can show the addict's lies and self delusions, it can
track a parent's anguish and explain the workaday routine of
treatment, from counseling and group therapy sessions to methadone
distribution and cafeteria meals. It can reveal the squalor of the
addict's lifestyle: stealing sodas from a grocery store, shooting up
in motel rooms, sleeping in cars, and eventually court appearances and
jail. "Rehab" is stark and unblinking, with many scenes of addicts
methodically mixing and injecting heroin in their arms, hands and even
feet.
But no matter how intently focused, the camera can never adequately
convey the pleasure or release that drugs provide: from the outside,
users seem merely sleepy and inarticulate. The craving is brought home
best by showing how hard it is to kick; what "Rehab" demonstrates most
chillingly is how difficult it is for addicts to stay sober, even
after repeated stays at one of the country's better treatment centers.The director, Steven Okazaki, and his crew followed the five subjects
for two years: by the film's end, only one was still clean.
"Intervention" has a major advantage over "Rehab": while "Rehab"
focuses on five young people of similar age and background seeking
treatment at the same center, "Intervention" follows new addicts each
week, a college student who is an obsessive gambler; a gay man
addicted to methamphetamine (crystal meth) and promiscuous,
unprotected sex; a welder and aspiring singer who cuts herself; a
social worker who is addicted to Vicodin and owes $30,000 to the
I.R.S. and collection agencies.
No matter how different their backgrounds - the addicts include a
former White House intern and a Minnesota housewife - their
compulsions destroy their lives. According to A&E, the subjects agreed
to participate in a documentary about drug abuse without knowing that
their families and friends were planning an intervention, supervised
by a counselor, in which they are presented with a stark choice:treatment or permanent expulsion from the nest.
"Intervention" does not go as deep as "Rehab," but in offering more
variety and melodrama, it teaches a broader lesson. Drug addiction
happens to all kinds of people in all walks of out of control.
"This wasn't supposed to happen,"
Sara, a 24-year-old from a small town in Minnesota who lost her house,
her husband and custody of her child to crystal meth, quietly told thecamera. "This wasn't supposed to be my life.From:sara119@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Re: On HBO telly tonight - not sure if just U.S. or what
James Arthur was an inspiration to me, this is a very sad Day!
Sara
James Arthur Dies, World's Foremost Ethno-Mycologist
http://www.rense.com/general64/james.htm
4-16-5
It is with regret that we announce the loss of James Arthur under
circumstances which remain clouded and suspicious. A terse news report,
disputed on a number of counts by his associates and family, states he was
'found dead in jail with a sheet around his neck.' His death has been ruled
a 'suicide' according to police. No other details were released. He was
arrested on charges of alleged 'sexual misconduct' with a minor...charges
his associates claim were conveniently made by a recently-terminated
'secretary' who had reportedly been hired to type the manuscript of a new
book...and then fired.
There is much more to this story and we will present further information as
is becomes available.
James Arthur made his first appearance on national radio on our program and
his extraordinary knowledge of human history and Ethnomycology were truly a
marvel.
James subsequently became a regular and anticipated special guest every
Christmas season and made a fascinating illustrated presentation on how the
little red-capped amanita muscaria mushroom has been not only a staple of
Christmas cards since the first cards were produced, but has, in fact, been
pictured in illustrated history since Roman times. James' visits were
always fun and intriguing, and unquestionably opened new doorways through
which to reconsider many fundamental aspects of human experience for over
two millennia.
James Arthur was a unique and gifted researcher and will be missed by many.
The work he leaves behind, however, will continue to enlighten and
stimulate all those who seek the truth of our history on this troubledplanet. -Jeff RenseFrom:nick227@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Re: James Arthur
God, this is really a bolt out of the blue. I never met James but
communicated with him quite a bit for a while. He was a great guy and a
great researcher and libertarian. It sounds suspicious as anything, given
his views on Jesus, and given the current US regime and their covert war on
psychoactive plants. I hope more details are released and we can push for a
proper investigation. Does anyone know more?
Checkout www.jamesarthur.net for details of his work.NickFrom:ptpeet@... Subject:[Ibogaine] (ibo report) Taking the Left Hand Path.Again
http://www.drugwar.com/lefthandpath2.shtm
Taking the Left Hand Path.Again
By
Preston Peet
posted at DrugWar.com
April 19, 2005
(Remember Waco!)
"Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness"- Richard Davenport-Hines, The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
"Ugh, hey man," I gasp into the cell phone between the pounding throbbing of my head and the retching of my guts, "you have to come over right now, right away. I am so sick right now, we cannot wait any longer. Come right now." I hang up the cell phone and lean back over the side of the bed, throwing up yet more dinner from the night before into the small green bucket V has put next to the bed. She's not doing a good job at even pretending to be very sympathetic either. "I told you you shouldn't have done that last one," she points out as I heave miserably into the bucket, my long hair dragging through the sick.
The Reason and Rhyme This Time
The night before was Wednesday, April 13, 2005. V and I had gone out with her mom to eat at Red Bamboo, my favorite restaurant in NYC, a vegan place that makes the best food ever. Afterwards, we'd gone to Madison Square Garden to see Duran Duran play an excellent show, taking all three of us right back to 1982, where I for one hoped to be leaving a lot of very heavy luggage behind.
Having taken ibogaine, a very strange, amazingly beautiful and awesomely hallucinogenic African root with extremely beneficial anti-addictive qualities twice in two weeks back in August of 2004, the use of my pain killers had gotten out of control yet again within scant months, with me going back to dissolving and banging much of my meds, once more-and very quickly this time too I noticed right away-running out of cooperative veins into which to fix, losing any sense of pain relief from the use of the opiates, shooting right past pain relief into nodded out dolphin headedness, to the point where I often find myself waking up with my forehead lying on the beeping keyboard of my computer and my back and leg still killing me even at that overloaded level. I was trying to edit my current book project each day, all day, with just one eye open because I was having trouble keeping both my eyes open simultaneously, much less focused. I take the pain meds so I can sit and work at my desk without wanting to leap out the window in pain, but it's no good if I can't stay awake to work because I'm doing too many meds at a time. So I've decided to do another ibogaine session, to do a re-set basically, to start my body and mind over at square one again, cutting my tolerance and giving myself a clean slate upon which to again try to maintain a semblance of normalcy and control.
The Terror!
But even though I've made the plans, set everything up perfectly timing it out so that when I get the sufficient and surprisingly hefty amount of money needed to obtain the ibogaine in hand, the ibogaine is weighed, ready and waiting, and although I have already taken ibogaine twice before already, I'm terrified, both of the actual ibogaine session itself, and of the thought of giving up the needles again.
snip-
More at this URL: http://www.drugwar.com/lefthandpath2.shtm
Peace and love,Preston PeetFrom:freedomroot@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] (ibo report) Taking the Left Hand Path.Again
I don't know how any of this would go down with a compromised liver.
But a bodyworker friend of mine from California sent us Julie Ross'
Mood Cure, which has the following detox suggestions for coming off
painkillers. Please, if anyone with more scientific training knows
whether anything below might interfere with the metabolisation of
nor-Ibogaine, please speak up:
In her chapter on Nutritional Rehab, see p. 279 for "The Detox Box"
which advises a list of "natural strategies you can use at home to
help through the discomforts of early withdrawal from opiate and
benzodiazepines. Do not go thru a potentially dangerous detox
without medical backup and reliable people in the house with you."
A) Two baths per day for three to four days, then once a day until
detox discomfort is over. Include 4 cups of Epsom salts, digestiveenzymes (empty 4 capsules or 2 enzyme teabags in the bathwater), 3
droppers of Kava extract if you feel agitated, and 2 bags of Detox Tea
by Traditional Medicinals. (That's from Sebastopol, and is in the
health food store). Baths are not only soothing, they help your skin
detox along with your liver, and reduce the overacidity of your body,
which causes much of the distress in detox Scrub well under a shower
afterward. [It seems odd to put Kava in the bath rather than the
body, but what do I know? maybe she means take it if you feel agitated
while sitting i the bath]
B) Take Alka-Seltzer Gold to furth alkanize (deacidify) your system.
C) If you have or can find a holistic doctor who is set up to
administer IV drips, ask for daily infusions of vitamins and vinerals
for your first week of detox with extra Vitamin C (and Amine Free, an
amino acid injectable blend). The Meyers Cocktail is a good basic
recipe that such docs are familiar with. Otherwise, take vitamin C,
1000 mg. per hour, powder or capsules, to bowel tolerance (until your
bowels become loose).
D) GABA 500 mg capsules, (1-2 at a time) as needed, up to four times
a day, specifically to help with early detox symtpoms (anxiety,
cramping, insomnia). WATCH FOR BLOOD PRESSURE DROPS IF YOU GET TOO
MUCH GABA!
E) Noni juice (medicinal juice from a tropical fruti) -- 2
tablespoons (it's nasty tasting), then 1 tablespoon every four hours
until detox is over.
F) Daily massage
G) Ear acupuncture: raises endorphin levels and reduces some of the
early, and lots of the later, detox discomfort.love from ny, rachelFrom:mattzielinski@... Subject:[Ibogaine] Hi Hi guys
Thats great!!!! Just wondering what kind of ibo did you get, how much, and how>?
Pam i would say the most important thing you should do during the session is keep absolutly quiet. No Noise whatsoever!!!. turn everything off, make sure the kids are out for at least 6-10 hours. keep the place as dark as possible.......keep a bucket handy if Patrick has to puke.......keep some water or juice close by during the session.........i guess you know a bit of what to expect so dont be alarmed if he wont be able to speak etc........
Before the session-------i think the most important thing is to be at least 24 hours without H.....make sure that when Patrick takes it he will be in full wd.....i would take a normal hit in the morning then go all day and night wihtout and if possible the next afternoon .....he has to go through that shit ....it will make the journey a bigger success becuase ibogaine has to breakthough the opiates first to cause any visions.........make sure he drinks lots and i mean lots of water about 6 hours before the session....this is really important because during ibo he will go to the washroom 200hundreed times and he will SURELLY beomce dehydrated.....after the session it is even more importatnt to drink shit loads of fluids....he will definetly not want to but he has to....no fucken joke:}....u have to nag him after the session.......i dont know how spiritual Patrick is and i dont mean in the Christian sense but medidating on the whole journey would be beneficial but i know during wd's its impoosible......tell Patrick to go with the energy....especialy in the begening when the energy takes over it can be overwhelming but if you dont fight it if you go with it just follow it fuck all let whatever might happen happen---it should be much better..if he gets doubts reservations during the first moments after the enrgy starts to set in why he took it in the first place it will be just the ego talking trying to still put control and fear in him.......Pam make sure Patrick wont use after the session.....if he has to but i trust he is stronger than that but if he really has to tell him to do only a bit...the one person that died after ibo treatment propably did her ususal hit of H and over dosed.......
Im really excited too...please keep me posted and tell me exactly when the session is going to be so i can send some positive energy your way........
i think it would be a good idea to ask the list of any suggestions they might have prio/during/after the session........i think i mentioned the most important factors if i remember anything else ill let u know.....
Best of luck.....keeping my fingersed and i will be sure to keep u both in my thoughts:}}}}}}}}]
Namaste
Matt
From:mcorcoran27@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] this not sleeping thing is beginning to drive me nuts !!!!!!!! I should be kind of a veteran at this point and have a good idea what to expect but this time have just been so different. Still only getting 3 or 4 good hours of sleep and still tons of sweating in my sleep and very strange post ibo dreams. Tried to give back a bundle of dope becasue I didn't want it and was confronted by bill clinton and arrested. Thats one of the ones I'm recalling right now.
Anyway its kinda weird. its like I almost feel sick at points throughout the day and then at other points I can't believe how freakin good I feel.
Going back to work this fast hasnt made it any easier but who knows myabe thats why I'm even getting that much sleep to begin with.
Howard once told me that you might not need as much sleep after ibo but I gotta say I'd love to sleep a full 8 or even 6 hours.Okay off to work. 14 days out and feeling pretty damn good though. -M.To join the Mindvox ibogaine list just send an email to ibogaine-subscribe@... if you please.Nothing more to it. You don't have to write anything in the subject or text area.-------------------------------------------------------------From: tents444@...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..******************************************************************************The following list is for internal use of Million Marijuana March Organizers. Many [personal addresses] in brackets are listed so that our affiliates can mail posters, buttons, etc. to each other, BUT are not for posting on websites. If you wish to put this list up on a website, consult with www.cures-not-wars.org to see what we've actually displayed. To get on the poster for 2005-update your contact details & add your city to this New List:[---snip---]
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The detailed city list has been deleted from the bottom of
this forwarded email, and will not be sent separately since
it contains private info meant only for the main organizers
of MMM.Million Marijuana March. World Cannabis Day.
Cannabis Liberation Day. Global Marijuana March.
First Saturday in May or thereabouts. Important:
To get on the MMM posters for May 7, 2005, update
your contact details and add your city to the list. Your
postal info helps organizers send you posters by mail.
Basic 2005 city list with cities, states, nations,
email addresses, and links:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005.htm
2004 and 2005 posters, flyers, and banners are here:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2004flyers
MMM 2005 world map of cities:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2005map.htm
MMM webform for adding or updating MMM cities worldwide:
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:
mmmworld-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Subscribers also receive the detailed city lists.
If you send MMM city info to Dana Beal, etc.,
and do not get a reply, and find that the info is not listed
in the city lists after a few days, then please resubmit the
email and city info as often as necessary to:
dana@..., cnw@...,
tents444@...
Please be sure to put "MMM" somewhere at the beginning of
the email subject-title so that it is not mistaken for spam
and deleted.
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Photo galleries. Cannabis events worldwide. Free MMM posters by mail.
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm
MMM (Million Marijuana March). First Saturday in May.
Hundreds of different cities worldwide since 1999.
2005 city list, links, world map:
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2005map.htm
Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
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