June 29, 2006 - Washington, DC, USA

botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Tobacco - Herb Profile and Information http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/t/tobacc21.html

Excerpt from ---Constituents---: The most important constituent is the alkaloid Nicotine, nicotianin, *nicotinine*, nicoteine, nicoteline. After leaves are smoked the nicotine decomposes into pyridine, furfurol, collidine, hydrocyanic acid, carbon-monoxide, etc. The poisonous effects of Tobacco smoke are due to these substances of decomposed nicotine.

Excerpt from ---Medicinal Action and Uses---: "The leaves in combination with the leaves of belladonna or stramonium make an excellent application for obstinate ulcers, painful tremors and spasmodic affections. A wet Tobacco leaf applied to piles is a certain cure. The inspissated juice cures facial neuralgia if rubbed along the tracks of the affected nerve."

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I have maintained a theory for a long time that when nicotine is burned, it turns into oxidized nicotine. Niacin is nicotinic acid, or oxidized nicotine. Niacin, or B-3, is necessary for mental balance. Prolonged fasting and/or a diet lacking in niacin--like a corn-based diet of the North American Aboriginal people can cause a "schizophrenic"-like experience. Perhaps, schizophrenics are desperately seeking mental balance through the temporary effect of oxidized nicotine. Since the rest of the B-complex may be missing from their diet, due to over-refined flour made into white bread with a few synthetic vitamins added back in, the balance never becomes permanent and the sufferer never heals.

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nicotinic acid http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/nicotinic+acid

"One entry found for nicotinic acid.

"Main Entry: nicotinic acid Function: noun : an acid C6H5NO2 of the vitamin B complex found widely in animals and plants and used especially against pellagra -- called also niacin"

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nicotine http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/nicotine

"One entry found for nicotine.

"Main Entry: nic·o·tine Pronunciation: 'ni-k&-"tEn Function: noun Etymology: French, from New Latin nicotiana : a poisonous alkaloid C10H14N2 that is the chief active principle of tobacco and is used as an insecticide"

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nicotinine - Google Search http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-49,RNWE:en&q=nicotinine

Members - Institute for Ageing and Health - University of Newcastle http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iah/staff/publication/4873 Nicotinine binding in human striatum: elevation in schizophrenia and reductions in dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease ...

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Niacin : Nutrition : Active Low-Carber Forums http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-42279.html destruction of nicotinine does produce niacin. I know of no evidence that plants make niacin in any quantity. It's basically a manufactored substance made ...

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Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Schizophrenia and Nicotine http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000879.html Niacin either helps the brain produce or has a byproduct (cant remember which) of a substance called Nicotinine. A recommended therapy for people with this ... Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Complimentary Schizophrenia Treatments Archives:

Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Nicotine for Alzheimers, & Schizophrenia? http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/002767.html

Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Diet May Affect Outcome of Schizophrenia http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/002546.html

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Disproven (or Unproven) & Overmarketed "Schizophrenia Treatments"[*They*, the medical profession, want to disprove the niacin hypothesis because they are embarrassed and/or threatened by the implications and by the psychedelic researchers who first studied it.]:

Niacin http://www.schizophrenia.com/treatments.htm#niacin

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psychedelic

pp.3-7 Psychedelics Encyclopedia, first edition

What's "Psychedelic"?

Excerpt: "The word 'psychedelic' wasn't actually coined until 1956. How this came about is one of the fascinating stories that make up this saga.

"It begins back in the early 1950s, when Humphry Osmond--along with Abram Hoffer and John Smythies--began experimenting with mescaline. Osmond, an English psychiatrist, spent what he later called 'Peyote Night' out with the Indians of the Canadian Plains. During that night he recorded and participated in their religious ceremonies. He and Smythies had earlier written some papers on the mental effects of mescaline, which came to the attention of novelist Aldous Huxley. ...

"It was evident from Huxley's description of what he experienced the first time he tried mescaline sulfate that he was *not* going through some kind of imitation psychosis. In the literature then available about what we now call psychedelic the term most commonly used to describe their effects was 'psychotomemetic' (meaning psychosis mimicking). Yet Huxley described something he clearly though was akin to classic mystical experience. ...

"This distinction between the usual description of the drug and the actual experience also bothered Osmond and his colleague Abram Hoffer after they began to experiment with the use of LSD in treating acute alcoholism. They states they began producing in their subjects were not at all what they had expected. ...

"Their common interest in psycoactive drugs led Osmond and Huxley into correspondence. In 1956 they turned up the word 'psychedelic'--coming from psyche (mind) and delos (arising or manifesting)--as a proposed name for the type of experience engendered by certain mental drugs for which the language has no appropriate word. ...

"Especially noteworthy about the word 'psycedelic' is the presence of the first 'e'--which removes it effectively from most connotations with 'psychotic,' 'psycho,' etc."

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Competition by R. Cobb, My Fellow Americans (1967), IN Psychedelics Encyclopedia, Page 72 - Google Book Search http://tinyurl.com/ewbj5 [Scroll to the right to see the table of contents and some sample pages from the latest edition of Psychedelics Encyclopedia.]

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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Hemp, Indian - Herb Profile and Information http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hemind22.html

Excerpt:

"Botanical: Cannabis sativa (LINN.)

"---Synonyms---Cannabis Indica. Cannabis Chinense. Ganeb. Ganja. Kif. Hanf. Tekrouri. Chanvre. ---Part Used---The dried, flowering tops of the female, or pistillate plants. ---Habitat---India.

"---Medicinal Action and Uses---The principal use of Hemp in medicine is for easing pain and inducing sleep, and for a soothing influence in nervous disorders. It does not cause constipation nor affect the appetite like opium. It is useful in neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, delirium tremens, insanity, infantile convulsions, insomnia, etc.

"The tincture helps parturition, and is used in senile catarrh, gonorrhoea, menorrhagia, chronic cystitis and all painful urinary affections. An infusion of the seed is useful in after pains and prolapsus uteri. The resin may be combined with ointments, oils or chloroform in inflammatory and neuralgic complaints.

"The drug deteriorates rapidly and hence is very variable, so that it is best given in ascending quantities to produce its effect. The deterioration is due to the oxidation of cannabinol and it should be kept in hermetically-sealed containers.

"The action is almost entirely on the higher nerve centres. It can produce an exhilarating intoxication, with hallucinations, and is widely used in Eastern countries as an intoxicant, hence its names 'leaf of delusion,' 'increaser of pleasure,' 'cementer of friendship,' etc. The nature of its effect depends much on the nationality and temperament of the individual. It is regarded as dangerous to sleep in a field of hemp owing to the aroma of the plants."

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And a giggle...but seriously why we have such a sorry state of affairs... http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=70892

Gateway Theory: Over 72,000,000 people have tried marijuana. But only 600,000 have become hooked on cocaine, and even fewer on heroin. That is a ‘gateway’ rate of about 0.8%, or about 1 in 120. You would come up with a higher gateway rate by saying that Mountain Dew is a gateway to tobacco.

for the crime of sedition

may my useless wasted life

be placed at the foot of that abominable cross

Evidently so, since a short while back I recall reading, that Bush and his administration were pushing for some new law of the land, that children and citizens should be screened (that is tested) for mental illness, this so sounds like Herod, that issued a decree, that all the firstborn should be put to death.

I think you have hit the nail on the head, for it this change, strangeness that is so feared, for it is during that short period that the human mind (which has not been understood yet ..consciousness.. and the orphan soul ) experience Cannabis euphoria, that short time when ones mind glimpses its place in reality, the soul sees the vastness of Eternity, yet it can look down at its ankle and see the shackles that Ceaser has placed around its foot.

Fear not Cannabis, but fear Ceaser and all his blind mutant slaves, for they feed on lies and deceptions, ignorance and anger, may the Light that comes from the Heart of the Universe fill their minds and souls.

About 90% of 'schizophrenics' smoke tobacco, that could be a possible attack. The prohibs use tactics like that all the time. Rather than directly debunk the question, attack its relevence.

90% of schizophrenics smoke tobacco. Why is there no study to see if there is a direct causal effect from legal tobbacco?

Answer:predjudice

It is even deeper still, if you can't trust authority in the first place, you cannot really trust the certification by the 'authorities' of any other ones like doctors.

Since prescription meds are the 4th leading cause of death in the USA (heard, not verified) we can be reasonably sure that doctors are not GOD, nor is the system infallible. If doctors cannot be sure of their 'physical' models, how can pychiatrists be certain their 'mental' models are any more accurate?.

However many people are wrapped in a cocoon, swaddled in the comfort of the belief that 'ceaser can do no wrong'. When they get their rude awakening, everything comes into question. Everything you have ever been told has to be tested against your increasing awareness, perhaps many times.

Is there a huge upswing in the numbers of people being committed for being delusional, schizoprhenic? There has sure been an upswing in the numbers of people using cannabis.

It looks beautiful.

And yes, whig, the battle is about abnormal psychology vs. human potential psychology.

Address this one please:

1 - It's not safe - causes psychosis/schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals

Do we want to address this from the side of statistical data relying upon the psychiatric model?

Or do we want to reject the psychiatric model?

This is a hard problem, because to attack the psychiatric model altogether is to challenge a much more deeply held public belief than prohibition itself. We could wind up marginalizing our public support if we make them think we are anti-psychiatry.

But we are anti-psychiatry.

So how openly should we express this and in how much detail?

Maybe this is precisely the battle we should be waging, notwithstanding the political situation we cannot be trying to win through deception or material withholding.

Challenging that cannabis is related to "psychiatric effects" is very difficult because it is clearly a strongly psychoactive and it does change people's personalities in substantial ways (beneficial ways, in our opinion). But from the standpoint of the mainstream, these changes are abnormal, strange and might indicate an "illness".

And a lot of people go through an adjustment phase which is very much a land of confusion. Not all of us are well supported by people who can help us figure out what we should do or say when we don't know whether we are crazy or just discovering something new that we had never perceived before.

Excerpt:

The all-vegan, all-kosher "Jerusalem" kitchen will kick off its main celebration today at 6 p.m. with a 24-hour celebration of prayer, singing and dancing to welcome Shabbat, the Jewish holy day of rest.

"Our celebration works with the Rainbow idea of disconnecting and unplugging," said Rav Shmuel, a Jewish Orthodox rabbi who is vacationing from New York City.

The new risk is the 'potent pot' myth.

1) potent pot 2) gateway 3) becuase its the law 4) another drug in the mix.

perhaps we could compile a fact card for peppering candidates in public with. I am thinking they need to be cornered and exposed as freedom-haters because that is what all prohibitionists are. Maybe there is one somewhere already.

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PROUD TO BE A HIPPIE! Let's talk it up, y'all! It's just good, common sense!

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By Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times

June 14, 2006

Are we talking Jimi Gym Togs and Sly and the Family Stoneware here?

The original promoters of Woodstock announced Monday that they have licensed the name of the fabled 1969 music fest to a marketing group, which plans to create a "Woodstock lifestyles brand" -- fashion, accessories and home decor inspired by the old hippie era of peace, love and shamelessly garish colors.

"The three magical days of music and community at Woodstock has left a lasting and indelible mark on the minds of not only baby boomers, but all generations in the U.S. and around the world," said Dell Furano of the Signatures Network.

By Dorothy Vriend

June 24, 2006

Known as the voice calling for breakfast in bed for 400,000 at Woodstock, Berkeley's Wavy Gravy is still on stage at his Camp Winnarainbow north of Laytonville. A summer camp for youths, it opens each year with a week for adults.

After a three-hour drive north on Highway 101, campers leave the stresses of everyday life in the parking lot and are absorbed into a thick grove of oak and bay trees, where the motto is all play and fun.

Veteran booking agent Shelly Schultz recently teamed up with promoter Toby Ludwig and Tattoo The Earth production coordinator Ron Hausfeld to package a festival tour for what they believe is an underserved demographic. Namely, hippies.

The Hippiefest kicks off in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 3rd and hits several East Coast markets throughout the month. On board are Felix Cavaliere's Rascals, Mountain, Canned Heat, Lovin' Spoonful, Country Joe McDonald, Mitch Ryder, Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Rare Earth, Melanie, Badfinger, Janis Ian, Denny Laine, Terry Sylvester, Dr. Hook, and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

Hosting the event is counterculture icon Wavy Gravy. The idea was cooked up by Ludwig, who produced the Walk Down Abby Road show that featured Todd Rundgren, Alan Parsons, John Entwistle and Ann Wilson. According to Ludwig and Schultz, this is the first time a tour has been geared toward the flower children.

Because Ludwig came up with the idea for the festival in early May, this tour will be a short one.

"I think we're only going to do about a dozen dates this summer," Schultz said. "We want to be able to have this up and healthy, with all of the mistakes made this year without killing anybody. We may do 30, 40 shows next year."

Ludwig added that he was amazed that nothing has ever been done on this level.

"Well, thankfully," Schultz joked.

All kidding aside, the producers expect the tour to be a viable summer package that can bring in the younger crowd as well as the baby-boomers. Hippiefest launches August 3 at Asher Levy Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., and will continue through eight more cities in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Michigan.

"The period of the '60s is the equivalent of the Renaissance that occurred artistically in Europe. The same revolution in modern art, music and cultural awakening took place then as well," Felix Cavaliere said.

"The enduring fact is that it [the '60s and '70s] was an era full of new and beautiful works and thoughts. The generations that follow, however, still feel the beauty and richness of the period. The division in our country is worse today than it has been in many years. Music always bridged the gap; it cannot be suppressed."

Joe Reinartz / Pollstar

Copyright: 2006 Pollstar

However you feel about the institution of marriage, the issue of gay marriage has become the litmus test of our culture and acceptance of people that are gay. In reality, gay marriage means that same-sex couples can get all sorts of important financial and legal benefits. But, it's never been about those issues. To our politician masters, allowing gay marriage is a statement acknowledging that it they now think that being gay is OK. And the states that are banning it are clearly saying it's NOT ok in their state.

And, like it or not, cannabis is the bellwether issue for government's approval of hippies. No matter how much information we have on money wasted by Prohibition, kids losing college aid, people losing jobs because of arrest records, families torn apart, etc., none of that really makes any difference. No matter how many clean-cut, corporate workers use cannabis, or even presidents and supreme court justices smoke it. The government and rich elite never want to admit that the "hippie" lifestyle is OK.

When government get so big that the people in it are totally disconnected from the real world of working at a job to earn a living based on your productivity as a human, this is what happens. The political class lives in a make-believe world of fantasy. Where it's more important to satisify your own bloated ego, to not to "condone" the hippie lifestyle than ANY real world consideration. It doesn't matter if we run the deficit up so high that the country is plunged into Depression for 20 years.

It's almost like the government of today is using the Bill of Rights as a road map on which rights to take away in order to keep us down. The government is so huge and omnipotent now, you can't even flee to the wilderness to escape. Now their armed thugs reach to the darkest corners of our vast forests.

Sure, you're free to assemble, as long as it's at some corporate sports or music event with $100 tickets. Assemble all you want! As long as Ticketmaster gets a cut, it's A-OK!

I highly recommend reading Edward Abbey to anyone who hasn't done so. Start with "Desert Solitaire". He recognized that the government's lust to pave roads into as many forests as possible is driven by the urge to oppress and control. Once their is no place to physically escape the government, their control is complete.

He first figured this out back in the 50's, when the government would argue and haggle with every proposed penny of expenses from the US Park Service, but they would spend $100 million without hesitation to put roads into the same parks.

I'm scared for the Phamily. Authorities are still saying that they are all illegal campers and some seem to be bristling to do something. I hope those "bristlers" stay calm and don't instigate and incident.

CN AB: Court Overturns Drug-test Firing, Edmonton Journal, (29 Jun 2006) http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n849/a04.html?176

Made me a little sad for a minute because it could have been something excellent. But there are other excellent places for that kind of thing, so it's not really a big deal. Neil does what he does, through his music, and he is not someone that should be trying to build up a conversation online when other people can do that, and he can keep writing and performing his music.

I'm going to see what I can do. I don't want to break the conversation between us here in order to talk somewhere else, though. Nothing should detract from CNews, it's our home base for our group of people and it should remain.

I just wonder whether people who are casually looking at the site really have time to read through so many of the comments every day to keep up with the conversation and how we're thinking about things. Somehow we ought to be able to put those thoughts into articles that others can read to get the sort of condensed explanation, not just by finding Comment #3 in a thread entitled "NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- June 29, 2006".

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(Burbank, CA) June 29, 2006-Two exciting new additions to Neil Young's website make their debut today. Living With War Network will feature both brand new videos and documentaries for songs from the recent album Living With War, as well as rare archival material from the musician's past, including a live clip of "Mideast Vacation," filmed in 1987. Several other surprises are going to be available on the site soon, making it a not-to-miss interactive destination for everyone interested in world events.

Living With War Today, with its motto "All War All The Time," is a special online newspaper with an wide array of features, ranging from a unique Time Line Analyzer to reports from the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Freedom of Speech '06 tour. There will be continual tour info and updates, which starts Thursday, July 6th in Camden, NJ, continuing across the United States and Canada.

A unique feature of the newspaper will be a section for artists to submit their own protest or topical songs and videos for possible play on the LWW web network. Along with that is the LWW Today Questionnaire, which asks readers to share their thoughts on five questions regarding the war, with selected responses to be posted as they come in.

Other newspaper items include the exclusive Time Line Analyzer, which allows website visitors the ability to track events before, during and after the Living With War album throughout the media. The Great Debate section, which collects all the pro and con reviews of Young's Living With War album is also now available at LWW Today, allowing readers to fully trace all the critical reactions to the controversial release.

Other highlights include an exclusive travel section, as well as a series of features on each song from the album. The first story, "After The Garden," is written by noted scribe Jack Flak. Others will become available over the summer.

Two important icons are included near the masthead that provide links to both the USO, so readers can support those in the military needing assistance, as well as the League of Women Voters, for those seeking voting information regarding the upcoming election in the Fall.

The Living With War website will be updated regularly, so stay tuned and stay informed.

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