Taita Juan and Ending the Drug War

This is yet another example of the absurdity of the drug policy... the state totally over stepping it's boundaries... we as evolvers should have a strong stance about this... maybe we should prepare a petition or something of that sort...
We are free beings and what happens between out two ears is our right not the state's...
Monsanto's owners or whatever should the ones in fucking jail for playing mad scientist with our food!!!

In Freedom
SeRgIo

Once again it is proved that it is NOT a "drug war".
It is a war on humans waged by governments against the people of the planet.

Today, as it has been since the reign of Richard Milhouse Nixon, the greatest threat to Ethnobotanical & Entheogen research continues to be the “ War on Drugs ”.

That this “ war ” is actually a war against the citizens of this world, escapes the notice of many people.

That this “ war ” actually threatens our freedom to inhabit, to possess & to be nurtured by the natural resources of the world into which we are born, is concealed.

That this “ war ” on world citizens seeks to criminalize the use of all plants, to make nature itself illegal & unnatural, somehow also escapes notice.

Given that there is evidence supporting the hypothesis that animals gained cognitive self awareness through the ingestion of more evolved plants, these “drug warriors” can be seen as attempting to thwart evolution itself.

Given that evolution of the mind, intelligence & spirit seems required for restoring the integrity & sustainability of the ecology of our world, these “drug warriors” can be seen as recklessly endangering the safety & well being of our world.

These insights reveal the need to raise awareness of all of the deceptions of the “ drug war’s ” War on Humans.

Now, despite running a one – sided propaganda war since 1968, the “drug warriors” have not been as effective at altering private practice as public opinion.

This could be because human use of plants to alter perception is at least three times older than recorded history (15 to 25,000 B.C.).

However, it is the perception of a publicly accepted norm, - that human use of plants is bad, or dangerous, that allows the “drug warriors” to continue prohibiting & proscribing nature. These views are largely undisputed even by those who disagree.

Lacking the few billion in funds needed for a campaign to expose all the deceptions of the “drug war’s” War on Humans, we are left with the option of subverting their own pogrom against itself & they have left a huge lever for us to do just that.

STOP SAYING NO a simple sticker, white type on red background “SAYING NO” to be placed on every stop sign. As the “STOP” - the same typeface, perhaps even white reflective, to look as if it were always a part of the sign.

Why does this work ? It points out the very negative orientation. It suggests an escape from a double negative. It utilizes & subverts an existing & accessible billboard infrastructure.

It suggests the option of saying yes, which is a positive attitude & positive message, which suggests the possibility of co-operation, of pleasant & continuing discourse.

It cannot easily be misconstrued (thanks to the prevalence of “just say no”). It suggests that what we have been thinking & doing (saying no) is the wrong approach.

It advises us every time we stop our vehicle at an altered stop sign that just saying no is not productive.

It also indicates there is wide spread support for views other than the partnership for a drug free amerika .

So that’s my idea, I’ve thought about it quite a bit, for quite a while & have not had the resources to make it the big splash it needs to be. I realize the most likely immediate response, will be an increase in the penalties for possession of stickers & vandalism. However I really feel we must not discount the cumulative effects of small quantum experiences in shifting the paradigms.

We really must stop saying no.

" A rising tide - drowns those without boats " - Cee Are

I have to agree with Mateo, after all it was the Marihuana Tax Act that was the original wedge the federal(feral da)government used to pry it out of the people's hands to begin with back in the 1930's. We need to liberate ourselves in regard to this matter. Cannabis control needs to be in the hands of everyday people. This was how it was for eons intil the interfer(al fear)ing of the goverment for dubious reasons that have had little to do with public safety. that the gov't uses anti-cannabis legislation and drug control policy as leverage against ordinary citizens while creating a dangerous underclass of organized crime as a by-product should tell us enough to know their interests are not in our best interests. Add to this the obvious narrowmindedness and profit-driven interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and the prescibing of pharmaceuticals to everyday schoolchildren on ever larger scales for nebulous and tenuous reasons of inattentiveness or lack of focus coupled with a rise in abuse of pharmaceutical variations of narcotics among younger generations(the same generation who has been repeatedly told that "drugs are bad, but take this because we say it will help you")creates a blatant attempt to co-opt this generation into believing that anything produced by the established pharm-corps is good and harmless while anything natural(such as herbs) is dangerous and bad. This is an affront to our very capacity for reasoning and an attact on our ability for self-determination. These two elements of reasoning and self-determination are what I see as the very core of why people in the British colonies of N. America stood up to the British and defended their right to create a new nation! I am sure you can see where the next step leads...
"Be who you are. Say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

I was at my parents house a week ago and my brother asked my mom how she is voting for the legalize Marijuana law….she got really edgy, irritated, defensive and wouldn't tell him how she voted, although it was quite obvious. Both being republicans but totally different people, I watched on… he said the usual generic arguments of “it’s a plant” and “it helps people not feel pain.” A little while later in a completely different conversation, my brother told my mom that he wanted to go to the doctor to get a prescription for Xanax. She asked why and he said because he wants to just be able to take one and chill around the house and relax. My mom didn’t have much reaction to this and so I stepped up and said: “Mom! You just freaked out about the legalization of marijuana but you are totally causal that your son wants to get a random prescription for Xanax so he can “relax” around the house?? “ I got the deer in headlights look.

Just to note and to counteract the article which was just an obvious overlook, ethnogenic substances do have a place in our Native American societies and are quite legal for them to practice.

Most Amerikans don’t even know that they have double standards because they are force fed lies and bullshit don’t know how to step out of the box. I don’t think putting laws on anything will help the sheeple to break free. And do we want them to? Psychedelics should be illegal; let them be. I don’t want to have government control on my herbs or my psychedelics -they control everything else and make us sick. It’s almost the opposite by having them illegal – it has cultivated and created an alter-society of truly creative think-for-ourself’ers. We are integrating these practices in our own lives and mini-societies and that is enough to let the evolving continue. People are so caught up in mainstream crap and this or that, but underground is where the real power lies - even in our own countries “government.”

Back to the real issue here: a Shamanistic Columbian who is imprisoned and confined due to our countries ignorant control. I think the right thing to do would be to somehow fight for his freedom. I will be active on any suggestions to lighten his sentence. To judge or be distanced from the man is not acting with intention nor evolving our integrity.