Ibogaine: To Have or Have Not

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IbogaineTo Have or Have Not
Howard S. Lotsof Dora Weiner Foundation http//www
.doraweiner.org
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Why woulda root derived alkaloid
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Found in a West African plant
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Or itsChemical equivalent
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Lead to a user directed movement to demand a
treatment for chemical dependence?
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Because it works and is deemed effective by
usersbut, then
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QuestionsofEmpowerment Ethics Law
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Drug User Rights

• The right to use
• The right not to use
• The right to choose

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Failure to respondIbogaine Availability

• The medical community
• The pharmaceutical industry
• Government

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1. The right to assume control of
Ibogaine?2. The right to provide Ibogaine
to others?
Does such failure leave drug users
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Historical Precedents for Action

• Underground Railroad
• Needle Exchange

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Underground Railroad

• Direct confrontation to slavery
• An illegal activity

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Law Offered No Protection
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Some guides orconductors as they were
calledwere well known like Harriat Tubman
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Due to the nature of the work most guides
remained anonymous
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Railroad Routesto Freedom
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Needle Exchangenot dissimilar

• Direct confrontation
• Sometimes illegal
• Sometimes tacit approval
• Danger of arrest

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The Issues
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The Solution
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Conductors/Guides

• Jon Parker
• Dave Purchase

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Parker risked arrest continuously
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Purchase established a national needle exchange
network
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Ibogaine Precedents

• International Coalition for Addict Self-Help
  (ICASH)
• Dutch Addict Self-Help (DASH)
• Cures-Not-Wars

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ICASH logo
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Nico Adriaans founderRotterdam Junkies Union
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Organizing in the US
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Pressure placed on NIDAto support Ibogaine
research
Cures-Not-Wars action
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Mindvox Ibogaine List(user advocacy continues)

• We all got to help each other best we can. No
  one else gives a shit bout us hippy freak
  junkies?
• anon.
• To join send an email to
• ibogaine-subscribe_at_mindvox.com

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FM- I'm not really privy to what's happening in
that regard here in the US. Suffice to say,
nothing has worked which is why we're here. We
feel that continuing the focus offshore, outside
the US, has not served a majority of people
inside the US. Like many other grassroots
movement, which facilitated change, treatments,
sessions, need to be done where they belong, in
all major US cities, as cost effectively as
possible. http//www.drugwar.com/ibonyc.shtm
Ibogaine underground railroad appears
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Ibogaine Routesto Freedom
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Returning us toQuestionsofEmpowerment
Ethics Law