Free Jon Sloan and End the Attacks on Sacred Plants

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On February 4, 2010, 24 officers of the Food and Drug Administration, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and local law enforcement raided Bouncing Bear Botanicals, a legal botanical shop and warehouse in Lawrence, Kansas. With guns drawn, the officers burst into the building and handcuffed everyone, including senior citizens. Jonathan Sloan, the 29-year-old owner, was immediately arrested and jailed.

Officers confiscated $700,000 worth of products and property, and seized all operating accounts, including Jon’s personal and business accounts, as well as his six-year-old son’s savings. Jon was left with nothing in the bank, making it impossible for him to post bond or hire a lawyer.

The employees of Bouncing Bear hired a lawyer and Jon was released the following day. The conditions of his release state that he is not allowed in his place of business or talk to employees, associates, or customers. He is denied the ability to run his lawful business and generate income to mount a credible defense.

Jon faces 75 years in federal prison. Among the eight felony charges against him are:

• Unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances: Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), Mescaline, Lysergic Acid Amide.

• Unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances: Mescaline (San Pedro cactus), Dimethyltryptamine (Chaliponga, Chacruna, Illinois Bundleflower, Epena, Cebil seeds, Bufotenine), Lysergic Acid Amide (Morning Glory seeds, Rivea corymbosa).

• Unlawful possession of certain drug precursors and drug paraphernalia: Plastic jugs and filters used or intended for unlawful use to manufacture, cultivate, plant propagate, harvest, test, analyze, or distribute a controlled substance.

The State of Kansas has also imposed a $906,000 drug tax on Jon, although most of the controlled substances he was accused of selling are available at any gardening store and Wal-Mart. In Kansas, illegal drug dealers are required to attain a drug tax stamp to place on the illicit drugs they sell, or face the seizure of all assets including bank accounts and property, without being first convicted of the crime of which they are accused. This is a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution that states, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, … nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

Jon and Bouncing Bear Botanicals were not selling or in possession of illicit drugs. Sacred plants available from Bouncing Bear are not intended for conversion into usable drugs for human consumption. Disclaimers on the web site and purchase agreements state this very clearly.

For the past 10 years, Bouncing Bear Botanicals has earned a reputation as one of the most trusted online suppliers of sacred plants in the United States. In a day where many “legal highs” are advertised for sale at exorbitant prices, Bouncing Bear has respectfully offered sacred plants that are ecologically harvested, and at a fair price to the grower and end-user.

The attack on Bouncing Bear Botanicals and Jon Sloan affects every American who wishes to obtain rare and sacred plants. Many online retailers have already pulled Chaliponga, Chacruna, Mimosa hostilis, sacred cacti, and Morning Glory seeds from stock since the Bouncing Bear raid.

Jon Sloan is not allowed to leave his house, go grocery shopping, or pick up his son from school. His bank accounts are liquidated, and he is faced with $200,000 in legal fees to be represented in court. Your donations will help Jon in his legal battle, and all those interested in sacred plants. To learn more, visit http://www.savejon.org

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Hear hear!

This is fascism, pure and simple.

word. add: bullshit. San

word. add: bullshit. San Pedro isn't even illegal to sell or own (just ingest). I just had a beautiful visionary experience from a guy selling it off ebay.

1984 was a typo

While I may not believe that the ingestion of certain plants is necessary to spiritual development, I do recognize that many use plants to aid them on their quest for self-improvement and enlightenment. Obviously, the Gum-mint cannot have this and poor Jon is probably among many to feel the heel of American tyranny in his face with no just cause.
Whereas my own financial situation doesn't allow me to donate significantly, I will do all I can to pull for him spiritually.

Namaste

WAIT!

if only they KNEW what they were taking away... even weed can do...

this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8g4tg3WREY

we must help them

CODEX ALIMENTARIOUS TRADE COMMISSION

This activity seems to be forever increasing by the fda, some friends of mine told me that their organic food growing community was destroyed a year ago in the usa for not having a permit to grow organic food! I'm sure that these agendas are to do with the codex trade commission which has biotech and pharmaceuticals pushing to profit from patented seeds, promote genetically modified foods and to try to destroy herbs and organic food growing and distribution world wide. Codex was implimented into the european uniion 21st december last year.

http://sailingbeyondknowledge.podOmatic.com

unfolding an ever evolving humanity

Exactly! That's what S. 3002

Exactly!
That's what S. 3002 is all about, they are trying to now outlaw any plant or supplement, including food, that does not comply with the codex trade comission "guidelines"...i.e. anything that is not produced by a corporation like Monsanto.
I've long ridiculed people who talk about The NWO and conspiracy theorists, but this truly is sinister on a grand scale.
We HAVE to defeat this, folks.

codex

I agree, it is very strange this happened the same week there were international demonstrations world wide where thousands of people were out on streets in cities around the globe making a stand to get rid of corporate fascism.

We have to take some kind of strong action, if i was there in Kansas i would chain myself to the handrails outside where this guy is being kept! I feel that strongly, but I'm 5000 miles away right now, all I can do is let more people know on my podcast, and encourage more people to work together to push for justice!

It has been over a year since I found out about codex, I wrote articles all over the web last year about the implications of codex on the alternative food and health communities and got slandered for it, much skepticism...

This is a world wide issue and affects everyone of us on the planet-it is sad that things like this been allowed to get this far, where corporations have become so full of greed and power that they turn innocent people into framed false criminals overnight because our demand for organic produce and alternative health has become a threat to fascist corporate control.... even people who do not consume organic produce or alternative health products must start to question what is going on here?

Now, by force the FDA and codex trade commission are setting out to destroy our alternative living communities with these evil corporate powers behind them, there are so many implications on so many levels that this affects everyone...we must educate ourselves and others with this to fight these corporate fascists, we must take immediate campaigning action to get this man back to his life again. Petition, actively demonstrate en mass, or this will continue to happen to every organic food and herbal health market we have in our communities.

We are fighting a war here for our right to choose alternative health, we are losing alternative health practitioners/therapists and our right to growing herbs , we need educate people, this guy is being made an example of with this outrageous accusations and all his rights being taken away. Is there a petition to sign and pass on or an address to send letters to outline the skewed corruption behind this to the feds that are holding this guy? We do something to get these outrageous charges dropped.

http://sailingbeyondknowledge.podOmatic.com

unfolding an ever evolving humanity

Right On, Codex!

Right On, Codex!
There's currently no petition for Jon, just a legal defense fund,
but there is one against S. 3002 here:
http://www.anh-usa.org/new_site/?p=2326
Blessed Be!

Mafia Government out of control!!!

Let's face it the US Corporate government does NOT respect We the People! The ones that should be arrested are the banking cartels at the fed and all of the criminal gang in dc. The big pharma companies just want to feed the public their trash destructive drugs with loads of side effects that make people more sickly!

Yet another example of Corporate Fascism

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1400471


Medical Marijuana

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unfolding an ever evolving humanity

Free Jon !

Artificial mediation is require to separate humans from their natural environs.
This is done to dis-empower them, to literally disconnect them from the power source that is the planet. As all faiths & religions are entheogenic in origin, (plant based sacraments) current prohibitions are there to prevent direct human contact with the divine. The great news is anyone going outside & directly apprehending any sort of natural beauty can re-conect their spirit to it's power source. The difficulty is this is harder in an increasingly artificial "developed' world. All these threats to our continued evolution are only as real as we let them become. We need to laugh these controllers of others out of existence .
" A rising tide - drowns those without boats " - Cee Are

Beautifully said!

What you said is exactly what is going on in a deep way. They want to fix the mind on the concrete city, and gaudy lights, and all the entertainments which are like black magic spells cast to divert us away from the natural world.
Expand what you mean by "laugh them out of existence"? ;)

Thank you to all who

Thank you to all who responded!

What Jon needs the most right now is, sadly, money. So far they've raised $1025, and need $200,000 for legal fees.

Provided he can adequatly represent himself, none of these charges will stick.

Jon needs our help, so let's all take action and give the finger to the FDA and S. 3002, which I believe are both linked in a plan for a major power grab by the FDA, and in the process save Jon Sloan from 75 years in prison and give his son his father back, not to mention ensure a safe future for not only entheogens, but organic food, herbs and supplements.

Please visit http://www.savejon.org today and donate what you can...even 10 dollars will help.

Time To Pay The Piper

If you're gonna play, you have to pay. Jon Sloan enjoyed a better than average lifestyle by selling his "legal plants" for the purpose of people getting high.

These idiotic comparisons to Walmart are far off the mark. Walmart sells plants for the purpose of landscaping or for decorative house plants. Also, most of the plants they sell will not get people high. Jon Sloan sold only plants that had psychedelic or narcotic properties and openly discussed them being used for human consumption to alter consciousness on his own site.

He sold K2 as a blend of natural herbs and completely omitted the fact that K2 contained synthetic cannabinoids. As a result people in several states were hospitalized, most of them teenagers.

If he's going to break the law and enjoy the benefits, Jon shouldn't be such a crybaby now that it's time to pay the price. Are people's hearts supposed to break because the feds seized his six year old son's bank account? Drug dealers would be free to hide their money in their kids accounts if such seizures were not possible.

I believe Jon will be convicted. The FDA did not just bust down the door on a whim. They had to be certain they had a case and given Sloan's tendency to approach the sale of these plants as drugs for human consumption, he gave them the opening they needed. Intent is everything in this case.

Still, Jon Sloan wants people who will never have a fraction of what was in his bank accounts to donate and pay his legal bills. Since these charges are the result of his own indiscretions, I hope everyone will be wise enough to keep their wallets closed and let him fight his own legal battle that he created. Enough said.

so

you are a supporter of Wallmart, is that correct?

I mean errr what you doing here? Do you believe in the 'war against drugs'?
What do you think about the banning of the sale of magic mushrooms in Holland? Are you for THAT as well, or....?

The other side of the coin

No, I am not a Walmart supporter. I am simply pointing out how nonsensical it is to compare Jon Sloan's business to Walmart. The whole point of Sloan's business was to sell plants with psychedelic properties which people could use to get high. There is a huge difference between the two, yet everyone is trying to make the comparison by saying Home Depot and Walmart should be raided as well. As I said, intent is everything. Home Depot and Walmart are not selling any plants that are intended for anything other than landscaping or home decor. They don't post things on their websites telling you how to get a buzz off the plants they sell. Jon Sloan did.

As to why I'm here, there are two sides to every story and it seems everyone here has nothing but sympathy for "poor" Jon Sloan. He fed the entire enthogen community to the wolves because he refused to maintain a level of discretion that would have kept himself and others out of the spotlight. Think about that.

As for Holland, I really don't care what they do over there.

You...

don't care about what happened in Holland? Why not? That was THE only place in Europe where people could buy magic mushrooms. Why such apathy about THAT?
I think it is an important question because the authorities propaganda there for banning them was that tourists had harmed themselves after taking them. THE main propaganda was a woman had fallen ('flown'?) off a bridge after taking magic mushrooms and been killed.
In the 1960s the propaganda was Hippies staring in the sun till they went blind after dropping LSD, and trying to stop moving traffic. and so this propaganda is used as the reason WHY...for the 'war on drugs'.
So YOUR argument seems to be of the same ilk--you cited two kids who were harmed after ingesting Kat? This is the very same style of propaganda that keeps the war on drugs rolling on.

IF you cannot support someone who was bold enough to provide a service for people to have the fucking freedom to buy whatever vegetation they want then what is your purpose at evolver? What are you offering as an alternative to what is going down?

My purpose...

is to show the other side of this issue in an attempt to provide some balance to it.

As for people sickened by K2, there have been dozens hospitalized. I'm not going to cite every case but some quick research on Google will show several news stories regarding hospitalizations. When people are buying something that is marketed as a blend of natural herbs and are not told there are synthetic cannabinoids infused into it, how are they going to make an informed choice? They're not and the responsibility for that falls as much on the distributors of the product as the consumers themselves; maybe more so. I don't think people who thought they were going to catch a nice little buzz are too happy after being rushed to the ER with hallucinations, vomiting, and fluctuating blood pressure. One doctor alone reported treating 30 patients who suffered adverse reactions to K2. They are not all kids, but adults as well.

A more responsible approach by retailers is the only alternative I can suggest.
When Jon Sloan got involved with Neurosoup, it was a big mistake and cast a spotlight on him that he now wishes he could turn off. They need to be more discreet in their marketing and honest in their product descriptions if the entheogen community is to survive. One bad apple can ruin it for all and we are seeing this now. Sorry, but I just can't sing the praises of someone who just brought the entheogen world to its knees. It's sad, really.

the new Leary???

One thing I have heard for quite a while from people writing about the 'new resurrgence' of psychedelic studies with human subjects is that often in their praises about the possibilities of psychedelics they often usually mention Tim Leary, and accuse him of ruining the psychedelic dream in the 1960s because--they claim--he would not behave and keep quiet about psychedelics (as Huxley and other proposed. Keeping knowledge of them elitist). I may not have agreed with all of what Leary said, but I loved how he wanted EVERYONE to know about the magic of psychedelic experience, and encouraged the youth to Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out. When you look at how this world is going that saying makes even MORE sense than it did then!

PRE-'war on drugs' you could buy opium! Now as you know opium can also be abused as it was usually in the Opium dens of China, but used intelligently it is a great natural easer of pain. So my point is that it should be up to the adult what she or he chooses to ingest freely. This goes for heroin and all the drugs. The war on drugs has caused FAR more danger and death than would be the case if people could freely take what they want. From there whatever they chose to take could be regulated.

I dont know that much about K2. Perosnally I would not take it. I just had a quick Google about an experience someone had with it reported at Erowid, and the person doesn't seem to have had a bad experience. So I don't really know about the info your referring to. I'm not saying I disbelieve you, just admit I am not aware.

The point is, rather than venting all your venom at Jon Sloan, and treating him as scapegoat, see instead what this war on drugs has done and is doing. For example why WOULD kids choose this K2? Well errrm could it because they have demonized cannabis, and in doing so made it very cool. In fact dont you think this war on drugs has made the very ACTIVITY of 'doing drugs' cool with the youth? The drugs prohibited become the 'forbidden fruit', and as any fairy tale or myth shows. such a fruit becomes inevitablly desirable when is is forbidden.
Take cannabis---When I began smoking it (I have not toked now for 3 years) many years back you could get SO many varieities from all over the world--a MENU. But as the so-called war on drugs took hold, and these drugs became more and more into the hands of the gangsters, in order to make profits they started mixing the cannabis and weed with all kinds of crap. That and the need to make more and more profits and the law pushed the market onto super strngth Skunk. THAt is all I used to smoke because you could be assured it was not--usually mixed--because you saw the bud, and it was very potent.
But as you know this unnatural potency took its toll on those who would toke all the time.
So what I am getting at is see the real culprits in this crap--its not people like Sloan but the MAIN movers behind the 'war on drugs'. it was this 'war' which made dealers 'purify' opium into the afr more addictive heroin, and coca, into cocaine, and crack, etc.

It is a massive radical evolution needed to end this war on drugs, and first thing is freedom!
Check this out
http://www.youtube.com/user/zezt?feature=mhw4#p/f/21/DN5XHIOlzPE

inconsistency in fascism

Disease causing mainstream food and pharmaceuticals are not only sold in the market place but are even essentially forced upon the unwary.

Death by Medicine
http://www.encognitive.com/files/Part%20I--Death%20by%20Medicine.pdf

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See Jeffrey Smith ‘Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous'
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Published on Sunday, November 8, 2009 by the New York Times
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Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef
By Jennifer Poole, Daily Kos
Posted on January 1, 2010, Printed on January 3, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/144904/

Does Aspartame Cause Tumors and Pose Cancer Risks? The Jury Is Still Out
By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Posted on December 17, 2009, Printed on December 17, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/144617/

7 Diseases That Big, Juicy Steaks Could Give You
By Sara Novak, Planet Green
Posted on November 5, 2009, Printed on November 10, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/143691/

September 11, 2009
Monsanto: Public Enemy No. 1
By Siv O'Neall
The War of the Empire has many faces

For affirmation of amaranths

For affirmation of amaranths examples of bartering inconsistencies, in the assurance and ability of governance, Google the following: 640-553

See Jeffrey Smith ‘Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Adapted Foods as Dangerous' PMI-001

“Stop bistro alarming genetically adapted (GM) foods! That's the aftereffect of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position cardboard appear today.” (August 25, 2009) 642-892

Published on Sunday, November 8, 2009 by the New York Times

Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies 642-524

by Nicholas D. Kristo

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spam off!

The strong and potent

The strong and potent properties of these plants is well known. To allow their usage will only serve to guide people into levels of freedom that would have them recognize the folly of humanity as it currently is. They have demonized cannabis, and in doing so made it very cool. In fact dont you think this war on drugs has made the very activity of 'doing drugs' cool with the youth? The drugs prohibited become the 'forbidden fruit', and as any fairy tale or myth shows. Such a fruit becomes inevitably desirable when is is forbidden. I am a nursing home lawsuit intern and I am familiar with court cases and to think he is faced with $200,000 in legal fees to be represented in court is an understatment.

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