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Heroin
is "Good for Your Health": Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade
(May 10, 2007)
"The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which
brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence
agencies and Western financial institutions."
U.S.,
allies seen as losing drug war (May 7, 2007)
"The United States and its Latin American allies are losing a major battle
in the war on drugs, according to indicators that show cocaine prices dipped
for most of 2006 and U.S. users were getting more bang for their buck."
101-year-old
Zambian man nabbed over cannabis cultivation, trafficking (May 3, 2007)
"DEC spokesperson Rosten Chulu confirmed the arrest of Timothy Chilekwa,
a peasant farmer of Namembo village in Southern province who was born in 1906.
Chulu said the old man was nabbed for alleged unlawful cultivation of cannabis
weighing 1.2 tons. He was also found trafficking two sacks of cannabis weighing
6. 95 kg, Chulu said. The spokesperson said the 101-year-old would appear in
court soon."
Was
Timothy Leary Right? (May 3, 2007)
"Are psychedelics good for you? It's such a hippie relic of a question
that it's almost embarrassing to ask. But a quiet psychedelic renaissance is
beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought
to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case,
Ecstasy) since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963. But should we be
prying open the doors of perception again? Wasn't the whole thing a disaster
the first time? The answer to both questions is yes."
The
Farce of the War on Drugs (May 1, 2007)
"My brother Howard Wooldridge served as a decorated police officer and
detective in Lansing, Michigan for 18 years. During that time, he collared killers,
drunk drivers, child molesters, rapists, wife beaters and drug dealers. What
he learned launched him on a crusade to stop the federal government’s useless
35 year 'War on Drugs.'"
Coca
Growers Shake the Andes Once Again (April 27, 2007)
"During the last few days, coca growers, especially in Peru and Colombia,
have been in the news again, as their actions have given the media something
to talk about."
LSD as Therapy?
Write about It, Get Barred from US (April 27, 2007)
"BC psychotherapist denied entry after border guard googled his work."
No
Jail for Willie Nelson on Drug Charge (April 25, 2007)
While the editor of DrugWar.com applauds this decision by the judge, I can't
help but wonder how hard the judge would have thrown the book at me for the
exact same offense.
The
War on Salvia Divinorum Heats Up (April 14, 2007)
"Middlebury, Vermont, this week declared a public health emergency to prevent
a local business from selling it. It's already illegal in five states -- Louisiana,
Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Delaware -- and a number of towns and cities
across the country, and now politicians in at least seven other states have
filed bills to make it illegal there. For the DEA, it is a 'drug of concern.'"
Book
Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics (April 14, 2007)
"Normally when we publish a book review in our Drug War Chronicle newsletter,
it gets readers but is not among the top stories visited on the site. Recently
we saw a big exception to that rule when more than 2,700 of you read our review
of the new book Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis
of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy."
Plant
growers served search warrant (April 11, 2007)
"Three WSU students were surprised when a plant they were growing in their
closet was mistaken for marijuana."
California
in bid to impose 7.25% sales tax on cannabis (April 10, 2007)
"For decades, smoking marijuana has been an illicit affair, a key anti-establishment
ritual for America's counter-culture underground. But the legalisation of the
drug for medicinal purposes in California has presented its advocates with a
dilemma: to remain firmly on the wrong side of the law or accept a demand to
pay taxes on its sale."
The
Other War: Democratic Candidates are Deafeningly Silent on the Drug War
(April 9, 2007)
"There is a major disconnect in the 2008 Democratic race for the White
House. While all the top candidates are vying for the black and Latino vote,
they are completely ignoring one of the most pressing issues affecting those
constituencies: the failed War on Drugs, a war that has morphed into a war on
people of color."
Ex-officer
likens drug war to Prohibition (April 8, 2007)
"Retired police officer Peter Christ on Tuesday compared the contemporary
war on drugs to National Prohibition of the 1920s."
Minnesota
drug laws: Are they too harsh? (April 8, 2007)
Momentum gathers for review of sentencing rules
Drug
Czar Blasted for Lack of Leadership (April 8, 2007)
"During the course of research for this series, it became apparent that
many prominent players in the war on drugs don't have many compliments for the
current drug czar, John Walters."
Is
the Drug War Nearing an End? (April 8, 2007)
"Little by little by little there is some hope that the "war" on drugs
is becoming a political issue - the first step in undoing a set of policies
that make little sense no matter how you look at them."
Law
Enforcement Group Visits Maine To Advocate For Legalization Of Drugs (April
8, 2007)
"LEAP, or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, says it has 5,000 members,
made up mostly of retired and active law enforcement professionals. The group
tours the country speaking to various civic groups about what they call a $60
billion failed war on drugs."
Afghans
pin hopes on a new economy (April 8, 2007)
"As a competitive economy awakens in one of the world's poorest countries,
the residents of Kabul are jockeying to get ahead in a city flush with cash
from US soldiers, foreign aid workers, new investors, parliamentarians, and
drug traffickers."
Salvadoran
Murders in Guatemala (April 8, 2007)
"If the trip to Guatemala was a fiasco, Colombia was no better, Bush's
arrival in Bogotá couldn't have happened at a worse time as every moment ticked
off another scandal, some of them leading in the direction ofo President Uribe's
office, and nothing that Bush or Uribe president could say concealed the fact
that the Colombia phase of the U.S. anti-drug war was more dead than alive,
which was even more certain when it came to extraditing Colombian suspected
felons to the U.S."
Analysis:
U.S. anti-drug war in Afghanistan (April 8, 2007)
"In a bluntly worded letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, the lawmakers said inter-agency rivalry and U.S.
policy failures in Afghanistan risked allowing it to slide back into chaos."
Law
Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories (April 7, 2007)
"A Georgia fire captain gets caught peddling coke, a pair of New Haven
narcs lose their jobs, a former Mississippi police chief cops a plea, and a
former Ohio cop goes back to prison. Let's get to it...."
Methamphetamine:
Feds Make First Cold Medicine Bust Under Combat Meth Act (April 7, 2007)
"An Ontario, New York, man last Friday won the dubious distinction of being
the first person arrested under the 2005 Combat Meth Epidemic Act. According
to a DEA press release, William Fousse was arrested for purchasing cold tablets
containing more than nine grams of pseudoephedrine within a one month period."
Harm
Reduction: New Mexico Governor Signs Overdose Death Reduction Measure (April
7, 2007)
"New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) Wednesday signed innovative legislation
that would protect friends or family members who seek medical attention for
drug overdose victims. The law is the first of its kind in the country."
Pot-Growing
Takes Root in the Suburbs (April 1, 2007)
"In Coldwater Creek, a middle-class housing development outside Atlanta,
the neighbors mind their own business and respect each other's privacy - ideal
conditions, it turns out, for growing marijuana in the suburbs."
Bob
Barr Flip-Flops on Pot (March 28, 2007)
"Bob Barr, who as a Georgia congressman authored a successful amendment
that blocked D.C. from implementing a medical marijuana initiative, has switched
sides and become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project."
What
the heck is Sibel Edmonds' Case about? And why should I care? (March 28,
2007)
"Essentially, there is only one investigation – a very big one, an all-inclusive
one... But I can tell you there are a lot of people involved, a lot of ranking
officials, and a lot of illegal activities that include multi-billion-dollar
drug-smuggling operations, black-market nuclear sales to terrorists and unsavory
regimes, you name it... You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from
the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same
place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people."
Mexican
Envoy Highly Critical of U.S. Role in Anti-Drug Effort (March 23, 2007)
"The United States has contributed 'zilch' to Mexico's efforts to combat
the nations' joint problem with criminal narcotics gangs, Mexico's new ambassador
to Washington said yesterday."
Colorado
Has Song in Its Heart, and Not Drugs on Its Mind (March 14, 2007- Free NYTimes
registration required)
"The Colorado General Assembly wants to be quite clear on this point: When
the singer-songwriter John Denver praised the joys of Colorado and sang about
'friends around the campfire, and everybody’s high,' in 1972, he was not referring
to illicit drugs. Definitely not. Don’t even think it. The high in question,
lawmakers say, is really about nature and the great outdoors — the tingly feeling
you get after a nice hike, perhaps."
U.S.
faults friends, foes in drug war (March 5, 2007)
"The United States said top anti-terror allies Afghanistan, Pakistan and
Colombia had fallen short in the war on drugs despite enhanced counter-narcotics
efforts and it criticized perennial foes Iran, North Korea and Venezuela for
not cooperating."
Cuba’s
War on Drugs (March 5, 2007)
"A review of the main results of the Cuban efforts against illegal drug
trafficking as well as prevention during 2006, shows a marked reduction in the
presence of drugs on the island, with 1.7 tons of narcotics seized, the lowest
figure of the past 11 years and almost four times less than the amount detected
in 2003."
Drug
War Corrupting Cops In Hawaii and Elsewhere (March 5, 2007)
"Claiming to be the 'world’s leading drug policy newsletter,' the Drug
War Chronicle publishes a regular online feature called, 'This Week’s Corrupt
Cops Stories.' The typical Hawaii newspaper reader probably comes across these
cops-gone-bad stories pretty rarely. But, when hundreds of reports compiled
over the past year from around the nation are read at one sitting, they add
up to a hidden cost of America’s ill-fated drug war -- widespread corruption
inside local police departments, prisons and jails."
Drug
war rips apart Mexico (March 5, 2007)
"More than 250 people were executed last year in Acapulco as the sweltering
Pacific resort became the latest battleground between rival cartels battling
for supremacy of the multibillion-dollar drug trade."
In
Guatemala, officers' killings echo dirty war (March 5, 2007)
"The two sets of brazen killings set off a vicious diplomatic conflict
between Guatemala and El Salvador — heightened by news reports suggesting that
the congressmen were indeed drug dealers — and ignited a political scandal here.
It shed light on how corrupt the National Police has become, and raised questions
about links between drug dealers and high-level police officials, as well as
whether the government can contain drug trafficking without international help."
Collision
Course: Bolivia's "Coca, Si; Cocaine, No" Policy Runs Afoul of the International
Drug Control Board and, Probably, the United States (March 1, 2007)
"A confrontation is brewing over Bolivian President Evo Morales' effort
to rationalize coca production in his country and expand markets for coca-based
products....Now, the Morales government is also pushing for expanded legal markets
for coca products and, in a joint venture with the Venezuelan government, is
preparing to begin coca product exports to that country."
Ga.
Reconsiders No - Knock Warrant Rules (March 1, 2007)
"A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use ''no-knock''
warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes
officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs."
Here
we go again (Feb. 22, 2007)
"We're happy we could help with that, Mr. Vice President, but Colombian
cocaine is still readily available in U.S. cities, so we have a difficult time
thinking we got a good deal for our $4 billion. In fact, we don't believe Americans
are getting their money's worth for any of the cash the government has thrown
into the bottomless pit of the drug war. Court dockets are packed and prisons
are overcrowded, yet illicit drugs are still readily available to anyone who
wants them."
Latin
America: Mexico Moves to Decriminalize Drug Possession -- So It Can Concentrate
on Drug Traffickers (Feb. 22, 2007)
"Legislators from Mexican President Felipe's Calderon's National Action
Party (PAN -- Partido de Accion Nacional) have introduced a bill in the Mexican
Senate that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for
'addicts.'"
DPS
officials were told of lax lab security (Feb. 22, 2007)
"Texas Department of Public Safety officials were aware of security breaches
in the handling of their drug evidence as recently as 2006 and as far back as
at least 2003 — problems such as failure to log evidence out of storage, containers
of marijuana left open and the lack of a monitoring system for a high-security
drug vault — according to the agency's internal audits."
'Safest
city' now has drug war (Feb. 22, 2007)
"From the shopping malls and the fashionable clothes of its residents,
this could be any affluent U.S. suburb. Residents pride themselves on their
prosperity. But in recent weeks, drug-related violence has shattered the tranquillity."
Mexican
president gives soldiers pay hike as drug war intensifies (Feb. 22, 2007)
"Soldiers waging a nationwide offensive against drug traffickers will get
a pay hike of nearly 50 percent this year in a bid to insulate them from corruption,
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced Monday."
New Federal
Study Shows Methamphetamine Use Decreased Between 2002 and 2005 (Jan. 31,
2007)
"A new analysis of data from The National Survey on Drug Use and Health
(NSDUH) shows that past-year use of methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant,
declined between 2002 and 2005 among persons age 12 or older....The study also
shows that the number of persons who used methamphetamine for the first time
in the 12 months before the survey remained stable between 2002 and 2004 but
decreased between 2004 and 2005."
Tell
Governor Spitzer to Support Rockefeller Drug Law Reform (Jan. 31, 2007)
"The Rockefeller Drug Laws require extremely harsh prison terms for the
possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs. Most of the people
incarcerated under these laws are convicted of low-level, nonviolent offenses,
and many of them have no prior criminal records. Today 14,139 people are locked
up for drug offenses in NY State prisons, comprising nearly 38% of the prison
population. This costs New Yorkers over half a billion dollars a year. Send
a message to Governor Spitzer now, urging him to support real reform."
Mexico
eyes Colombian experience in drug battle (Jan. 27, 2007)
"Mexico's top prosecutor on Thursday looked to Colombia's experience in
counter-narcotics and conflict for lessons to help his government battle drug
cartels whose violence has engulfed parts of the country."
Rio
gang kills seven as drug war spreads (Jan. 27, 2007)
"The mutilated bodies of seven youths, some with their heads and legs chopped
off, have been found in an abandoned car in a notorious Rio de Janeiro slum.
They appeared to be the latest victims of a long-running drug war that has made
Rio, which depends heavily on tourism, one of the most violent cities in the
world."
Drug
Policy Reform Group to Partner with State of New Mexico in Federally-Funded
Meth Prevention Education Program (Jan. 27, 2007)
"In a first for drug reform organizations, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
New Mexico office has been designated to create a statewide methamphetamine
education and prevention program directed at high school students, thanks to
a $500,000 grant obtained by US Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) as part of a Justice
Department appropriations bill. The grant is the result of years of close collaboration
between DPA and New Mexico state and local officials dating back to the administration
of former Gov. Gary Johnson (R), a prominent voice for drug law reform."
Spot
in brain may control smoking urge (Jan. 27, 2007)
"Damage to a silver dollar-sized spot deep in the brain seems to wipe out
the urge to smoke, a surprising discovery that may shed important new light
on addiction. The research was inspired by a stroke survivor who claimed he
simply forgot his two-pack-a-day addiction - no cravings, no nicotine patches,
not even a conscious desire to quit."
Case
highlights medical-pot dilemma (Jan. 23, 2007)
"'If they didn't arrest me with 1,500, it's not likely they're going to
come back and arrest me for 50,' said Sarich, whose advocacy group, CannaCare,
says it has provided marijuana plants for 1,200 patients all over the state.
Some of his new plants, delivered by patients in Longview, Federal Way and Vancouver,
Wash., are descendants of the plants he lost."
Alleged
cartel members extradited to Texas (Jan. 23, 2007)
"A suspected Mexican drug lord whose cartel allegedly smuggled more than
4 tons of cocaine a month over the U.S. border will stand trial in Texas. Osiel
Cardenas-Guillen, the alleged kingpin of the Gulf Cartel, and three other alleged
drug lords appeared in a Houston court Monday. Mexican authorities delivered
Cardenas-Guillen and 14 other alleged Mexican drug dealers and criminals to
Houston late Friday and early Saturday, the Drug Enforcement Administration
said."
Burdened
U.S. military cuts role in drug war (Jan. 22, 2007)
"Stretched thin from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military
has sharply reduced its role in the war on drugs, leaving significant gaps in
the nation's narcotics interdiction efforts."
S.F.
area is No. 1 for regular drug use, study says (Jan. 21, 2007)
"The San Francisco metropolitan area has a higher percentage of people
who are regular drug users than any other major metropolitan area in the USA,
a study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found."
Executive Order 13420
-- Dismantling the DEA (Jan. 21, 2007)
"This is the order I will sign after delivering my inaugural address,"
says Steve Kubby, who is again running for office this time seeking the nomination
from the Libertarian Party as their Presidential candidate.
Cocaine
found on 99.9% of UK banknotes (Jan. 21, 2007)
"Pretty well every banknote in the UK shows traces of cocaine, forensic
scientists have claimed. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph, 99.9
per cent of the two billion notes currently in circulation have come into contact
with Bolivian marching powder."
A Legacy
of Torture: From Cointelpro to the Patriot Act (Jan. 21, 2007)
"In today's world, the US government's use of torture and complicity in
its clients' use of it is part of the headlines on a regular basis. Yet very
few US citizens believe that methods like waterboarding, beating, and electrical
shocks could be -- and have been -- used on US citizens." But the fact
that torture is used profusely in US jails and prisons is unsurprising to those
who've been inside the US "justice" system.
Reefer
Madness (Jan. 21, 2007)
"I was never an activist until I got busted [noted Tommy Chong]. But it
’s not so much my efforts as the substance itself. Pot lives and dies on its
own reputation....Years ago, people would do booze jokes. Then they start dying
of cirrhosis of the liver and all these alcohol-related car accidents. Alcohol
started out as a fun thing and ended up as this evil thing that kills people.
Pot is the opposite...."
In the
Costly War on Drugs, Who's To Say What Is Right? (Jan. 21, 2007)
"It seems like you lack a certain enthusiasm for the war on drugs, I said.
I do lack enthusiasm for the war on drugs, he said. I asked about legalization.
He shrugged. 'Monday, Wednesday and Friday I think they should be legalized.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I think they should be illegal. I don't like drugs. I
strongly disapprove of them. The costs are great. But it's expensive to incarcerate
somebody. The costs are enormous either way. I don't know what's right.'"
Democracy
and Plan Colombia (Jan. 21, 2007)
Just what effects are the massive spraying in anti-cocaine and poppy efforts
that are one of the main tenents of Plan Colombia, not to mention all the arms
and training given to the Colombian military and governments to combat Colombian
peasents...errr, I mean, dastardly narco-terrorists? No major advancement of
democracy it appears.
Drug
mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor (Jan. 21, 2007)
"As The Washington Post has plainly summarized, 'corruption and alliances
formed by Washington and the Afghan government with anti-Taliban tribal chieftains,
some of whom are believed to be deeply involved in the trade, [have] undercut
the [counter-narcotics] effort.'"
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| Daniel Pinchbeck- Modern Shamanism
and Reality Bending
By Preston Peet
Posted DrugWar.com
February 5, 2007
Published in High Times Magazine
February, 2007
To many, Daniel
Pinchbeck is one of this generation's closest thing
to Terrance
McKenna. Already well known and respected by many for
traveling the world ingesting just about every psychedelic,
mind-expanding substance known to man, [as detailed in his
first book, Breaking
Open the Head- a Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary
Shamanism] Pinchbeck is a leading visionary when
it comes to the possibilities inherent in exploring our
inner spaces, as well as an enthusiastic proponent of consciously
thinking a positive world into reality.
Pinchbecks latest book, 2012:
The Return of Quetzalcoatl , takes a good hard look
at the state of the world today-the massive destruction
humankind is doing to the planet, and the possibility that
we may be reaching the point where, as the Mayan
calendar predicts, a cosmic change or even the end of
time- could rapidly be approaching. Whether this means an
end to the human race or merely the end of our current destructive
habits and outlooks, has yet to be determined.
I had the pleasure of meeting with
Pinchbeck after an event at the Gershwin
Hotel in Manhattan, where he read selected excerpts
from his newest book, accompanied by a musical ensemble
playing trippy, ethereal music. The reading was followed
by an intense dialouge, during which he and the audience
discussed shamanism, apocalyptic visions, the evolution
of consciousness, and the end of the Mayan Calendar in the
year 2012.
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Alcohol Rehabilitation
Posted DrugWar.com
November 5, 2006
[Editor's note-While the editor of DrugWar.com may not
agree entirely with the 12-Step programs promoted by this
drug and alcohol rehabilitation service, he strongly believes
that any and all options for breaking free of addiction
and the threat of prohibitionist repercussions should be
available to anyone and everyone who finds themselves in
the position of being addicted to some substance or other(s).
Besides, different methods work for different people, and
there is no one method that works the same for everyone.
Therefore the editor of DrugWar.com gladly makes available
these advertisements for Passages Malibu Alcohol and Drug
Treatment Center.]
Sadly, millions of people suffer from
a drug or alcohol addiction. Overcoming an addiction is
very challenging. In many cases, the substance is used as
a means of numbing or attempting to forget mental pain.
Even if a person is able to overcome an addiction, they
may have a relapse when enduring a difficult time. Alcohol
rehabilitation is purposed to help people fight alcoholism.
There are many different types of programs available. Some
incorporate the 12-step program, whereas other programs
focus primarily on the psychological aspect, and attempt
to discover the root cause of alcohol abuse. Furthermore,
some alcohol
rehabilitation programs are religion based, which use
spirituality to help patients achieve a sober-free life.
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Something In The Way-
A True Life Misadventure Tale of
an Illicit Drug (Ab)user’s Life On and Off Streets Around
the World
by Preston Peet
Front and back covers of
Something in the Way
September 14, 2006. Finally, the day
has arrived!
My book Something in the Way is now "published."
I'm trying out this new fangled "internet" thing,
taking full advantage of
the archaic revival that takes the power out of the hands
of these nasty,
incredibly difficult to work with publishers, and puts the
power of
publishing, and selling, directly into the writers' hands.
So without further babbling, here is the link to my new
book Something in
the Way.
At $14.53 for a soft-cover hardcopy,
and $6.25 electronic download, this is not an expensive
book, but you will get one hell of a lot more than you pay
for, I guarentee.
PLEASE, feel free to pass this link
around, let all your friends know it's
finally available for their reading pleasure, Please.
Thanks all for your time and patience.
http://www.lulu.com/content/428724
Something In The Way- A True Life Misadventure
Tale of an Illicit Drug
(Ab)user's Life On and Off Streets Around the World
by Preston Peet
Description
Hard and soft drugs, legal and non-legal,
blood, violence, occasional peace, prostitution, pain, incessently
dodging
the Law, an addict toils harder than most Nine to Fivers.
Twenty-four hours a day, the need to stay well takes precedence.
In this book you take the trip to its deepest, darkest,
most graphic depths. Every word is true, every line lived
completely. No punches are pulled in this tale, told exactly
how it was for for one person strung out on the streets
for a number of years.
So prepare for a wild, harrowing, biting and sometimes humourous
no-holds-barred ride into and out of the depths of hell.
This is the story
of one young man who found himself living a life of misadventure,
from
Atlanta to London, Amsterdam to New York City, on the streets,
in squats, in stately manor homes, seedy and not-so-seedy
hotels, sofa surfing, all the while playing his guitar,
selling real and fake drugs, and whatever else he could
do to collect the money for every fix, every single day.
http://www.lulu.com/content/428724
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"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream.
The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe
the dream out of existence.
The dream is a spontaneous happening and
therefore dangerous to a control system set up by
the non-dreamers."
William S. Burroughs
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Psychedelic Horizons-
a Review
by Preston Peet
Originally published in High Times Magazine,
October 2006
posted DrugWar.com
August 25, 2006
Is it possible that extremely powerful,
positive psychedelic drug experiences can boost our immune
systems and strengthen our health? Can taking psychedelic
drugs help increase human intelligence and creativity? Is
the insistence by most modern science and those waging their
War on Some Drugs that ideas and perceptions formed under
the influences of psychedelics and other altered states
of consciousness are false and hallucinatory only wrong,
and has the reliance on only ideas and perceptions formed
during so-called normal states of mind limited our learning
about psychology, health, and the vast potential of human
thought?
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The Tripping Link-
Graham Hancock and the Origin of
Man
By Preston Peet
Originally Published in High Times Magazine, September,
2006
Posted at DrugWar.com August 16, 2006
photo by Santha Faiia
"One very plausible, and for me very
persuasive, explanation, in the school of Huxley,
James and Hoffman,"
writes controversial, internationally best selling author
Graham
Hancock in his new book, Supernatural: Meetings with
the Ancient Teachers of Mankind (Century, 2005, The
Disinformation Company, 2006), "is that there do
indeed exist 'separate, freestanding realities'-or 'parallel
dimensions' of the kind quantum physics predicts-that vibrate
at a different frequency to our own and thus are invisible
to us except when we approach them in altered states of
consciousness."
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| High Times Magazine's Freedom
Fighter for July, 2006
Paul Wright
By Preston Peet
(Originally published in High Times Magazine,
July, 2006 issue, pg. 20)
posted DrugWar.com June 12, 2006
PLN Founder and Editor
Paul Wright
When he entered the Washington State
penal system in 1987, after receiving a 304-month sentence
for shooting a drug dealer during a robbery (the jury rejected
his claim of self-defense), Prison Legal News founder and
editor Paul Wright immediately recognized a dire need for
a publication by and for prisoners, and despite having no
previous journalism schooling or experience, he set out
to fill the void. The first hand-typed, photocopied, 10-page
issue of PLN was published in Wright and Ed Mead, cooperating
from two different prisons, in May 1990. The first three
issues were banned in all Washington prisons, the first
18 in all Texas prisons. Still, the monthly magazine quickly
grew to 48 pages, and each new issue now enters prisons
and jails in all fifty states, despite frequent censorship
troubles.
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Robbing the Illegal Drug Store
By Preston Peet
For DrugWar.com
Posted May 2, 2006
Based on what might be a true story, heard
through the grapevine while researching War on Some Drugs
and Users news and events.
photo by John@
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumisky/
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Frank was riding high, his drug delivery
business going great guns, so he was feeling cocky and indestructible,
impervious to harm. Riding his bicycle all over Manhattan
six nights a week, delivering a hugely diverse array of
illegal narcotics and herbal substances to a wide assortment
of customers without a hitch his entire career, it simply
didn't seem feasible to him that he could be robbed or worse.
As most people believe when hearing or thinking about robberies
and disasters, he feels they only happen to other people.
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| Cocaine, Kate and the media:
Just who is the bad influence?
By Craig Morris
for DrugWar.com
posted at DrugWar.com
March 7, 2006
Apothecary Jar c. 1880.
Image from the Chicago Historical Society
(Archived at Erowid.org)
Once again, society is in the grip
of another media led, drug-related moral panic. This time
(in the UK specifically) the drug in question is cocaine.
However, similar waves of media hysteria can be seen historically
around drugs and young people-from reefer
madness myths around cannabis in the 1930s in the US
to acid house/rave and ecstasy in the late 1980s in the
UK. The truth is that especially in the tabloid press, social
anxiety sells and drug-related stories are among the best
sellers.
Whilst some journalists and newspapers
are better than others in terms of factuality and understanding
drug issues, most will have problems simply because they
do not make recourse to expert knowledge on the subject
(Coomber, Morris and Dunn, 2000). Much of what they think
is true about drugs and drug users is often nonsense. Journalists
are trained in finding and producing stories, they are not
experts in the field of substance use. Entertaining stories
they may often be, but factual insight may not often be
on top of the list of priorities. Much of the media (especially
in the tabloid press market) is far more interested in a
good story (i.e. one that will generate sales) than a factual/educational
one.
Whilst there has been an undercurrent
of concern in the British media about growing cocaine use
by young people for a few years now, the current wave of
cocaine media coverage seems to have begun with a front
cover photo story of the fashion supermodel Kate Moss and
her alleged cocaine use in The
Daily Mirror on September 15th, 2005. Whether or not
Kate Moss did or even still does use cocaine is not the
focus of this article. I am more interested in the consequences
of the media coverage and social anxieties which seem to
coalesce around the idea that Moss is a role-model for some
young people.
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Something in the Way-
an excerpt
Chapter 29-
The Entheogenic Bed and Breakfast Detox-
An Amsterdam Redux
by Preston Peet
all photos by Preston Peet
unless otherwise noted
posted at DrugWar.com
Feb. 20, 2006
photographer unknown
"Hey Preston, you can always come
here and detox at my home in the Netherlands if you'd like."
The first time I saw this invite from
Sara
Glatt in my email box, it was way back in 2000 when
I was kicking methadone. I had heard of the African
root iboga, which is the mainstay of Sara's detox treatment
technique, but I'd not been interested at all in leaving
the safety and security of my home, as I was already in
the midst of kicking when she wrote. I figured at that time
that I was already in withdrawals and that it was impossible
that there would be any way to entirely eradicate methadone
withdrawals, not even with iboga, the whole plant extract,
which contains all the plant's naturally occuring chemicals
in addition to the ibogaine molecule, that Sara uses to
help her guests detox.
Since that first invite, I'd
had the opportunity on a
number of occasions to take ibogaine
hydrochloride, the active molecule in iboga, in my own
apartment in NYC's Lower East Side. While very impressed
with its effectiveness in making any withdrawals from the
painkillers I was subsequently having problems with and
trying to repeatedly kick pretty much dissipate, and even
though I felt rejuvenated and strong after each experience
taking ibogaine, I would still be sitting in my same situation,
surrounded by the very same stresses and worries and lack
of space. I wasn't giving myself any break whatsoever after
such a tumultuous experience as ibogaine is, not to mention
my hard-core love of opiate painkillers, and the resulting
tolerance and repeated addiction to the same. Dealing with
the same situation and tempations over and over, without
giving myself any chance to gain a new perspective or to
gain any strength at all, I'd revert to the drug abusing
behavior I've been troubled with for years.
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IBOGAINE –
Rite of Passage
by Ben De Loenen
(Director and Producer)
posted at DrugWar.com
July 26, 2005
In September the documentary about the
use of Ibogaine
for the treatment of addiction, "IBOGAINE-Rite of Passage"
premiered at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ben De Loenen, of the Dutch film production
company LunArt
Productions,
produced and directed this film in co-production with Triomf
Productions. Since then the film has been showcased at several
film festivals and conferences, and in January of 2006 it
will play at the International
Film Festival in Rotterdam.
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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.
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| Marijuana Users In Treatment:
Unraveling the Federal Spin
By Doug McVay
Common
Sense for Drug Policy
For DrugWar.com
March 9, 2005
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) in March 2005 released
a report on the number of marijuana users referred to drug
treatment from 1992 through 2002. According to SAMHSA, "Admission
rates for primary marijuana increased nationally by 162
percent between 1992 and 2002." SAMHSA estimated that
"[T]he number of marijuana admissions per year more
than tripled in this time period. In the same period, the
proportion of marijuana admissions increased from 6 percent
of all admissions to 15 percent of all admissions."
Some officials have spun these numbers
to try and show that marijuana is a serious drug threat.
Unraveling their spin reveals the less-than-earth-shattering
reality behind the figures.
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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson-
Another Inspiration Gone
A commentary by Preston Peet
Posted at DrugWar.com
Feb. 21, 2005
"I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol,
violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked
for me." -
Dr. Hunter Stockton Thompson- born July 18, 1937; died Feb.
20, 2005
When eighteen years old, embodying the life of a bohemian
druggie in the streets of Paris, I was living in the Hotel
de' Nesle, a cheap hotel overrun with hippies, heads
and freaks in the center of the city, selling (and using)
lots and lots of LSD
and hashish
to supplement my meager cash flow. A voracious reader, I
would scour the hotel for books in English that other travelers
may have finished reading or have forgotten when they'd
continued on their roads. It was like this I found a tattered
copy of Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas by the man who would become
my driving inspiration, the main, number one source for
my desire to pick up a pen and write and publish, Dr. Hunter
Stockton Thompson.
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"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his
name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him".
Revelation 6:7
The Atrocities of a Pale Rider-
John D. Negroponte
by
Celerino Castillo 3rd
posted at DrugWar.com
Feb. 17, 2005
John Dimitri Negroponte
The above biblical quotation is the
only way I can describe John Dimitri Negroponte because
of the atrocities he's previously committed around the world.
From 1971 to 1973, Negroponte was
the officer-in charge for Vietnam at the National Security
Council under Henry Kissinger. During that period, former
DEA Michael Levine was conducting undercover operations
in Saigon, Thailand, and Cambodia where our government was
smuggling heroin into the U.S. Our government was utilizing
caskets and body bags of those "Killed In Action"
to smuggled the heroin.
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Racial Disparity in Drug Law Convictions
by Terry Gorski
posted DrugWar.com
Dec. 27, 2004
On October 20, 2004 a groundbreaking
coalition of black professional
organizations came together to form the National African
American Drug Policy Coalition (NAADPC). The NAADPC urgently
seeks alternatives to misguided drug policies that have
led to mass incarceration.
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Opening Pandora's Box:
Anti-Drug Vaccines Gather Momentum
by Cletus Nelson
for DrugWar.com
Nov. 16, 2004
Back in 2002, DrugWar.com addressed
a disturbing new strategy in the war on drugs: The development
of anti-drug "vaccines" capable of permanently
blunting the effects of mind-altering substances. The article
("Headshrinking
the American Addict"), discussed how the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in partnership with various
corporate and public entities was spending millions developing
this supposed "cure" for the "disease"
of addiction. The sheer scope of this neuro-political endeavor,
which sounds like something out of a futuristic science
fiction thriller, generated more than a few incredulous
responses from skeptical readers. Yet some two years later,
this far flung experiment in social control is gaining traction
among prohibitionists.
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Recovery in Russia:
Inside a Detox Gulag
by Cletus Nelson
posted at DrugWar.com
Oct. 9, 2004
originally published at
Points
of Departure
Victoria Malakhova could care less
whether you "work your steps," find your inner-child,
or connect with some unnamed "higher power." Instead,
the iron-fisted director of the most brutal drug treatment
center in Russia is interested in only one thing: results.
"Isolation, bread and water, that's
all one needs to deal with withdrawal," she informs
a western journalist.
Welcome to City Without Drugs (CWD)
and the sadistic world of Recovery---Russian style.
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| NORML Canada Press Release
Teen Marijuana Use Up-- Thanks to
the Prohibition of Marijuana
posted DrugWar.com
Oct. 7, 2004
White Shark
OTTAWA, Oct. 6 /SEDCWire/-- The National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Canada
(NORML Canada) is concerned that more Canadian teens are
using cannabis as opposed to alcohol. This comes after reports
of a study carried out by Queen's University in partnership
with Health Canada, as reported
today by Sarah Schmidt of the CanWest News Service.
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NYC's Guerilla Ibogaine Treatments-
a brief discussion
by Preston Peet
for DrugWar.com
posted at DrugWar.com
August 26, 2004
images taken from Meyaya, at iboga.org
Gathering ibogaine at the source in Africa
On a gorgeous sunny afternoon in Manhattan's
Lower East Side, between my own first and second sessions
on ibogaine,
an African root that has been reported useful in the
kicking of a variety of substance addictions and self-abuse
patterns in the West by many researchers and private individuals,
I carried out the following interview. I met in Tompkins
Square Park with FM, who for the month of August was leading
a band of guerilla ibogaine treatment facilitators, treating
an assortment of people with ibogaine for myriad reasons.
Having been one of the lucky few who
made contact with this group and was initiated and treated
with ibogaine
HCL, I was interested in hearing more about the man
who made this experience possible for me and many other
New York City addicts.
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Kicking Drugs with Drugs-
Taking the Left Hand Path
By Preston Peet
For DrugWar.com
Posted August 12, 2004
Ibogaine
"Watch for communications soon
from another friend of ours," the Voice said, almost
giggling with glee. "He's gonna have a number for you
to call, to get in touch with some folk doing underground,
guerilla ibogaine
treatments in NYC, this coming August."
Immediately I'm feeling all sorts of
conflicting emotions. Because here it is, no more talking
about wanting to do it, or wondering on this or that email
list what the effects are and if it really, really does
work to interrupt or cure or help people get over a wide
variety of addictions. If it is here in my own city and
I can get it at much cheaper rates than were I to fly to
some foreign country where it's either legal or simply not
regulated at all yet, how in the hell am I, a seasoned,
proud proponent of cognitive liberty and the free taking
of powerful mind expanding drugs, a veritable
Drug Expert, Author and psychonaut, going to live it
down if I chicken out and say, "oh, no thank you"?
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| How to Drink Absinthe
By Dave Walsh
Blather.net
posted at DrugWar.com
July 14, 2004
all images from Aberration
of Society
"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife
tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano.
The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture
that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
- Ernest Hemingway
So much has been written about absinthe,
yet it's so poorly understood. Absinthe literature is full
of yarns of ear loss, family murders and ruined livers.
Books and museums are dedicated to absinthe spoons and glasses.
There are reviews of the various flavorings and essential
qualities, and comparisons with other drugs and liquors.
We're told about the famous souls who drank Absinthe - Van
Gogh, Rimbaud, Wilde, Picasso, and others. Coffee table
absinthe books are piled with prints of absinthe advertisements
and admonishments, and paintings by the artists who drank
it, showing languid subjects with thousand-yard states.
Today's magazines advertise absinthe dealers, fake absinthe
and home made recipes. Websites chatter on about illegality
and availability.
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No Patient is Safe- the War
on Pain Relief
By Preston Peet
posted at DrugWar.com
June 24, 2004
US Drug Czar John Walters attacks pain
patients and their doctors
"I can't up your prescription,
because I don't want to get flagged by the DEA," said
a New York City doctor to a chronic pain patient, who described
the difficultly she's had obtaining adequate pain medication.
"My doctor has told me the DEA can stop by at any time
to check on individual patients and their prescription,"
said the pain patient, who specifically requested anonymity,
"so he is hesitant to give me the amounts I need to
really get on top of my pain. This can often leave me in
serious pain with no way out other than to either grin and
bear it or go buy illegal street drugs. This is not an option
for me personally due to all the hassles of not knowing
what's been cut into the street drugs, or worse, the possibility
of running into some overeager anti-drug squad fanatics,
but I know plenty of people who suffer chronic pain problems
who do not share my aversion to these risks."
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CONTRA-INTELLIGENCE
ON OLIVER L. NORTH
By Celerino "Cele"
Castillo, 3rd
Former Federal Drug Agent and Author
of:
Powderburns-
Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War
posted at DrugWar.com
May 12, 2004
...
For the past ten years, I've been invited
to lecture in different parts of this country in regards
to the criminal activities of Oliver North. This will be
the second time that I know
of that the Salvation Army has invited Oliver North to be
their key speaker for another Republican fundraiser.
During the McAllen fundraiser, the alleged reason for the
invitation was that the Salvation Army captain claimed that
North has saved his father life in Vietnam. I don't know
what the reason is this time around, but I do know that
he is once again being paid $25,000 for his lecture.
At the height of the Contra war, I
was stationed in Central America for 5 years as the lead
DEA agent in El Salvador. It was there that I came face
to face with the contradictions of my assignments. I started
to record intelligence on how known drug traffickers, with
multiple DEA files, were utilizing hangars 4 and 5 at Illopango
airbase in El Salvador, to transport monies and drugs. Those
hangars were owned and operated by the CIA and NSC. The
Contra supply operations utilized the most readily available
capabilities: drug-smugglers, who had the planes and pilots
to conduct clandestine flights from South and Central America
to all parts of the United States. "Guns down,
drugs back," was the formula.
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It's a Protest, Not a Pot-Fest-
MMM 2004
By Preston Peet-
for DrugWar.com
May 2, 2004
Ed "NJWeedman" Forchion and
DrugWar.com editor Preston Peet
May 1 was a beautiful Spring day, perfect
to spend outside in Battery Park at the lower end of Manhattan
in New York City, where an estimated one to three thousand
people attended the 2004 Million Marijuana March and rally
in support of medical marijuana and Drug War reforms.
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Economists on Illegal Drugs
by Mark Thornton
Originally published April 24, 2004
Posted at DrugWar.com April 30, 2004, with permission of
author
Author Mark Thornton
Economists are among the noteworthy
proponents of the "legalization" of narcotic drugs,
cocaine and marijuana. However, public proclamations have
been few in number, short on details, and muted by recommendations
such as Gary Becker from the University of Chicago who advocates
legalization combined with a heavy "sin" tax to
discourage use.
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| The Assault on Dr. Phillip Leveque:
Part II
An editorial by
Jack Dalton
posted at
DrugWar.com
April 6, 2004
We constantly hear from those in Washington,
D.C. that this is a country guided by the Rule of Law. We
hear a lot of carping from the same people, John Ashcroft,
John Walters, Karen Tandy, Rep Mark Souder (R-In) about
the rule of law and states rights. At the same time, when
states pass state laws that go against what they believe
they opt to follow their ideology and in the process trample
all over state laws…and sick people in the process.
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| Blair Talks Turkey
By Daniel Forbes
for DrugWar.com
posted March 16, 2004
By the way, the sex for drugs was with
men. Or - saying he was revealing details he'd told no one
else - so Jayson Blair told me Friday night, the two of
us alone on a Harlem sidewalk following his first public
reading. The drugs were primarily cocaine, sometimes crack
and "a little heroin" to come down on. But cocaine
was his decided favorite. Blair said he was "born a
decade too late" - that is, after coke's peak. Regarding
the sex-for-drugs, I asked only the gender involved and
whether any New York Times staffers participated. With yet
another of his grating, ingratiating giggles, Blair said
no about any Timesmen, "but that would've made a good
story, hunh?"
He told me his attitude about sex -
and indeed perhaps sex itself - was "really sordid"
and "twisted" and "fucked up." He declared
himself rife with inhibitions and said there were sexual
issues "I need to sort out." He added, "Drugs
are a way to make myself comfortable with sex."
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What Good Can a Drug Czar Do?
by Doug McVay
for DrugWar.com
posted March 13, 2004
Will Czar Walters finally do some good?
Sometimes, getting a federal official
to take a good stand and get involved in a policy debate
is simple. It can be about being at the right place, at
the right time, to ask the right question.
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AMERICAN JESUS
How the Son of God Became a National
Icon
By Stephen Prothero
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
343 pages
Reviewed by
Jules Siegel
posted at DrugWar.com
Feb. 26, 2004
snip-
He writes about the Jesus freak movement,
"As heroin replaced pot as the drug of choice and overdoses
multiplied, many came to associate drugs with captivity
rather than freedom." (127) Few in the Bay Area will
agree that heroin ever replaced pot as the drug of choice.
Heroin has never been an important drug numerically. In
the Federal 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,
75 percent of illicit drug users admitted using marijuana,
compared with 0.1 percent for heroin.
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LIGHTNING BOLT MEDIA-
Political News & Views 2004
BUSH'S GOP
CHALLENGER DETAINED BY U.S. SECRET
SERVICE-
DEMANDS CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY INTO 'CONSPIRACY
OF
HARASSMENT'
posted at DrugWar.com
Feb. 14, 2004
John Buchanan
WASHINGTON, DC - John
Buchanan, the Miami Beach journalist who ran as "the
truth candidate" against President George W. Bush in
the January 27 New Hampshire GOP primary, has issued a formal
demand for a Congressional inquiry into his February 4 detention
by the U.S. Secret Service at Baltimore-Washington International
Airport.
The incident is now being investigated
by Republican staffers of the U.S.
House Committee on the Judiciary, with whom Buchanan
met February
5.
Buchanan, 53, charges in a detailed
written presentation to the Judiciary Committee that his
two hours of questioning at the airport, as he was en route
to speak at The National
Press Club last Wednesday evening, were the culmination
of a still-unexplained series of false police reports filed
against Buchanan between October 19, 2003 and last week
as part of what Buchanan claims is "an ongoing program
of harassment and political dirty tricks."
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From VoteHemp.org
Press Release
February 2, 2004
CONTACT: Adam Eidinger
Vote Hemp Releases Voter Guide on
Presidential Candidates
Kucinich Scores A+ Rating;
Edwards Undecided but Supports Research
Clark, Kerry Not Men of Their Word:
Did Not Answer Survey Despite Promise
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Taking Back Ground Zero & Becoming
the Media –
a strategy to empower the populace.
by Michael Kane
posted at DrugWar.com
January 19th, 2004
The name of the game is resilience.
Every Saturday for three weeks now,
the New York Truth Movement has been in front of Ground
Zero with multiple signs and literature to disseminate
to the public. Next week, January 24th, 2004, will mark
our fourth week of many more to come. NY Truth activists
are showing support and coming onto the streets in small,
but consistent and growing numbers. Citizens are telling
us what they know about 9-11, including many who were there
when the tragedy struck. At times, verbal confrontations
break out which don’t even involve us, but rather involve
passing citizens who have opposing viewpoints.
I love democracy! It can get messy,
but no one said it was easy.
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Earth Day Founder
Sees Renewed Hope
by John Buchanan
The
New Hampshire Gazette
Posted DrugWar.com
November 25, 2003
John
McConnell
DENVER - When 88-year-old John McConnell
was a boy in Iowa, his mother used to sing songs to him
about peace and love. He never forgot the spirit of those
songs, and later in life he went on to meet and form friendships
with A-bomb genius Edward
Teller, sociologist Margaret
Mead, journalist Edward
R. Murrow and former UN
Secretary General U Thant, who later dubbed him one
of "the great peacemakers" of the 20th century.
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Reading to End the War on Some Drugs
and Users
Poetry Reading to Benefit NORML
Features Sam Abrams,
Bob Holman, Chi Chi Valenti and Preston Peet
On November 21, 2003, in NYC, The Slipper
Room will host a poetry reading from 8-10pm to benefit NORML.
A suggested donation of $10 will be charged at the door.
Please click here
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There's No Stamping Out This
Magick
No
matter how hard they try
By Preston Peet
For the November issue
of the New
York Waste
posted at DrugWar.com
October 22, 2003
Ketamine molecule
...Kelly is thinking along the same
lines though, knowing there isn't any more coke. She makes
a suggestion that Thomas will always remember.
"Ever done Ketamine?" She
asks through her coke-clenched teeth.
"Nope, never."
Kelly climbs off the bed and goes to
her closet. Reaching up onto the shelf, she pulls out a
small white box with printing on it.
"I got this yesterday from a friend.
It's straight from the vet's office."
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Thank You Jeb and Jim
by Stephen Heath
posted DrugWar.com
October 8, 2003
A happy Florida Governor Jeb Bush
Elected officials do jobs that are
often thankless. Well we're here to thank Governor Jeb Bush
and his drug czar James
McDonough for their
drug policies, now in effect for almost five years.
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