I loved reading this..put a smile on my face. Yeah its really hippie-ish and idealistic, but once you give up dreams, then what is left?

Source: [ deoxy.org ]


The Declaration of Evolution

When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared.
We hold these truths to be self evident:

That all species are created different but equal;
That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;
That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;
That to protect these God-given rights, social structures naturally emerge, basing their authority on the principles of love of God and respect for all forms of life;
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and harmony, it is the organic duty of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social structure, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its power in such form as seems likely to produce the safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient beings.
Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures long established should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the same destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving social structures.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems of government.

The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet earth is a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature, all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young, the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the judgement of generations to come.

These old, white rulers have maintained a continuous war against other species of life, enslaving and destroying at whim fowl, fish, animals and spreading a lethal carpet of concrete and metal over the soft body of earth.

They have maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the young. Genocide is their habit.

They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth's abundance and God's endowment.

They have glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.

They have claimed private, personal ownership of God's land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.

In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of people.

In their lust for control they have set up systems of compulsory education to coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and innocence of the playful young.

In their lust for power they have controlled all means of communication to prevent the free flow of ideas and to block loving exchanges among the gentle.

In their fear they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.

In their anger they have coerced the peaceful young against their will to join their armies and to wage murderous wars against the young and gentle of other countries.

In their greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.

For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.

In their impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.

In their aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age over youth.

They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence of thought.

In their greed, they have instituted political systems which perpetuate rule by the aging and force youth to choose between plastic conformity or despairing alienation.

They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.

They have enlisted an army of informers.

In their greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly tars and sugars and employ cruel and unusual punishment of the possession of life-giving alkaloids and acids.

They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed and war. In their advertising and in their manipulation of information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity and pious self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them to greater error and noisier self-approval.

They are bores.
They hate beauty.
They hate sex.
They hate life.
We have warned them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only force and money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall no longer talk in these grim tongues.
We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God's creatures - in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to life.

We, therefore, God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving, fun-loving men and women, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority of all sentient beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly publish and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping ourselves into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to live and move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and minds in the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all Acts and Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right do without infringing on the same rights of other species and groups to do their own thing.

And for the support of this Declaration of Evolution with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, and serenely confident of the approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak, do we now mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.

by Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D."

Taking Ecstasy found to affect long-term memory 15-01-2004 15:45

PEOPLE who take Ecstasy are in danger of suffering long-term memory loss, a study has shown. Those who take the drug regularly are 23 per cent more likely to report problems with their memory than non-users, according to researchers from five English universities.
Ecstasy users who also take cannabis face “myriad memory afflictions” that could represent “a time bomb” of cognitive problems in later life.

Users say Ecstasy heightens awareness, intensifies emotions and makes them feel good. But in extreme cases it can cause surges in body temperatures severe enough to be fatal.

“Users may think that Ecstasy is fun and that it feels fairly harmless at the time,” the lead researcher, Dr Jacqui Rodgers, of Newcastle University, said. “However, our results show slight but measurable impairments to memory as a result of use, which is worrying.”

The survey team based their findings on responses from 763 participants in a web-based survey that questioned people from Britain, continental Europe, the US and Australia. They also looked closely at a sub-group of 81 “typical” Ecstasy users who had taken the drug at least ten times. The study is published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

The typical users showed long-term memory 14 per cent worse than the 480 people who had never taken Ecstasy and 23 per cent worse than the 242 who had never taken drugs at all. Additionally, the typical users made 29 per cent more mistakes on the questionnaire than people who did not take drugs.

“The findings also suggest that Ecstasy users who take cannabis are suffering from a double whammy where both their long-term and short-term memory is being impaired,” Dr Rodgers said.

The charity DrugScope said it was unlikely that the study would persuade Ecstasy users to stop taking it.

A spokeswoman said: “What is needed is a longitudinal study into Ecstasy use, following users over years to find out the long-term effects. Then we would have much more information to talk in an informed way about the long-term effects.”

and here's a critiscism of the above study

I haven't seen the journal article itself yet, but the early account from the MAPS clan: Online web survey of 1200 people. More than a third of the survey resposes were discarded out of hand because the authors felt they were 'suspect' (could be people just yanking their chain.) Of the remaining 282 people who claimed to have used ecstasy, almost a third of the responses were rejected because the authors felt the respondents might be 'biased' in their responses. Of these remaining 'researcher approved' people reporting ecstasy use, there was a greater rate of self-reported memory problems.

"Men should not know how their laws or their sausages are made." And perhaps not their science, either. :-) I actually agree with the basic idea that current regular ecstasy users have more memory problems; the drug changes serotonin receptor densities, which would almost certainly affect memory if used with any frequency. However, I would like to beat them with a length of pipe for offering this research as evidence of neurotoxicity (or even permanent memory problems.) This is low-grade work, and as is so often the case, they appear to have over-reached the significance of the data/research methodology in the conclusions they reached

with a name like vaginal croutons you don't even half to play good music. peaple will show up just to buy their t-shirt

and petit campus is the same place as cafe campus, on the prince arthur cobblestone

great party.
l'x has that dark, underground vibe that was perfect for drum'nbass. the cracked out movies playing on the projector was a great addition (Galaksy + Mana + Fear & Loathing = brilliant insanity). one of the best and most diverse crowds I have seen at a party.

haha props to yasmine!

on a more serious note, i think any person that goes around shoving drugs in kids faces to make money is pretty sick. but as far as i'm concerned, i am EXETREMELY GRATEFUL for drug dealers, cuz without them i would not have had access to plants and chemicals that have been very useful to me.

so to all the battered, persecuted drug dealers of the world, risking your liberty and life for the noble persuit of cognitive liberty (and monetary gain), I HEREBY SALUTE YOU!!

With the American public's attention firmly directed toward the daily events of the Bush Administration's "War on Terror," the US-led and exported "War on Drugs" continues to exact crippling costs to taxpayers, minority groups, the environment, civil liberties and struggling democracies around the world.

While terror alerts rise and fall and states struggle to fund their law enforcement budgets, the total number of marijuana arrests far exceed the total number of arrests for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

As the Drug War enters its 90th year, it continues to be characterized by contradictory laws, arbitrary enforcement, massive wealth and racial disparities, questionable covert operations and general media timidity.

Here are 10 of the top stories from Drug War 2003:

1) Afghanistan is now the world's leading supplier of opium for the heroin trade. Under the Taliban regime, which banned opium, annual production bottomed out at 77 tons in 2001, produced only in areas controlled by the Northern Alliance. American military, as part of its "War on Terror," allied with Northern Alliance warlords to overthrow the Taliban regime and keep Al Qaeda at bay. Afghan opium production has since skyrocketed to about 3,600 tons of opium this year, or 75 percent of global production.

Early in December 2003, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Afghanistan and publicly embraced warlords Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ustad Attas Mohammed, for calling off armed struggle with the fragile government in Kabul headed by Hamid Karzai. Abdul Rashid Dostum was rewarded by being named Deputy Secretary of Defense for the Karzai government.

Dostum has been described as a "war criminal" by groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, for killing thousands of civilians in the Afghan civil wars of the 1990s and for his merciless treatment of prisoners and, occasionally, his own soldiers.


2) While the United States declared war on Iraq for supposedly harboring biological weapons, the US-funded War on Drugs in Colombia plans to use an untested pathogenic fungus – fusarium oxysporum – to wipe out coca. Critics say the plan proposes illegal acts of biological warfare, poses major ecological risks to Colombia – one of the world's most bio-diverse countries – and will increase suffering, by wreaking havoc with human health, water quality and food crops.

3) On February 12, a federal jury in Philadelphia awarded $1.5 million in compensation to two narcotics agents – John McLaughlin and Charles Micewski – who claimed their boss – the Pennsylvania attorney general – retaliated against them because they uncovered a drug-trafficking ring that diverted profits to a CIA-backed Dominican presidential candidate.

Pittsburgh's Tribune Review reports: McLaughlin and Micewski said they had uncovered a Dominican drug-trafficking ring operating in Philadelphia, New York and other Eastern cities that funneled drug profits to the Dominican Revolutionary Party, which they claimed was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department.

4) Switzerland's Addiction Research Institute calls tobacco the number one killer addiction, responsible for 71 percent, or 4.9 million of the world's 7 million annual drug-related deaths. About 1.8 million deaths, or 26 percent, were attributed to the use of alcohol, while illicit drugs caused about 223,000, or 3 percent, of all worldwide drug-related deaths.


5) The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report reveals that police arrested an estimated 697,082 persons for marijuana violations in 2002, or nearly half of all drug arrests in the United States. This amounts to one marijuana-related arrest every 45 seconds.

The total number of marijuana arrests far exceeded the total number of arrests for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

Of those charged with marijuana violations, 88 percent were charged with possession only. The remaining 12 percent were charged with "sale/manufacture," a category that includes cultivation for personal and medical use.

6) With America incarcerating the highest percentage of its own citizens of any nation in history, Former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese suggests tapping prison labor as a way to slow the exodus of jobs overseas.

September's issue of Fortune Magazine reports: Prominent conservatives have been encouraging prisons to put inmates to work for years. The benefits are difficult to ignore: Businesses get cheap, reliable workers; inmates receive valuable job training and earn more than they would in traditional prison jobs; and the government offsets the cost of incarceration and keeps jobs and tax dollars in the US.

7) Two of America's leading conservative moralist pundits, William Bennett and Rush Limbaugh, are chastened by the exposure of their secret habits. Former chain-smoking Drug "Czar" and puritanical author of The Book of Virtues, Bennett was exposed for gambling away millions of dollars of his family's fortune in Las Vegas casinos in the past decade.

Limbaugh, America's Number One conservative radio talk show host, has rarely missed an opportunity to vilify drug addicts, even calling for an increase in the incarceration of white drug users to offset the nation's massive racial disparity in prison. He is currently under investigation for illegally obtaining up to 30,000 narcotic painkillers from his housekeeper and from doctor shopping. In his defense, (Ultra-Conservative) Limbaugh has retained the services of (Ultra-Liberal) defense attorney Roy Black.

8) Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Washington's most stalwart ally in South America, is living in exile in the United States after being toppled in mid-October by a popular uprising, a potentially crippling blow to US anti-drug policy in the Andean region.

Last year, Lozada asked President Bush for more money to ease the impact on displaced coca farmers. Otherwise, Lozada explained, "I may be back here in a year, this time seeking political asylum."

The coca problem is intimately tied to issues of poverty and disenfranchisement. In Bolivia the backlash has strengthened the hand of the political figure regarded by Washington as its main enemy: Evo Morales, head of the coca growers' federation, who finished second in the presidential election last year.

9) Attorney General John Ashcroft limits judicial sentencing discretion and the freedom of prosecutors to strike plea bargains in criminal cases. He insists that US attorneys must seek the toughest punishment possible in nearly all cases, using plea bargains only in special situations.

10) RAID! On May 16, New York City police tossed a stun grenade into the home of 57-year-old Alberta Spruill, city worker and church volunteer, who died from a heart attack during the mistaken drug raid. On May 23, NYC police accidentally raid the home of teacher Joe Celcis. Police smashed open the door, handcuffed several people, pointed a gun in the face of a 12-year old girl and ransacked the house for 90 minutes before realizing they had the wrong address. On Nov. 5, cops in a Charleston, SC, suburb burst into the mostly white Stratford High School at 6:45 a.m. with guns drawn and ordered mostly black students to get down on the floor while cops searched lockers and book bags for marijuana; students who didn't move fast enough were handcuffed. No drugs were found in the 45-minute raid. Seventeen of the students are suing the school district.


Kevin Nelson is the editor of AlterNet's weekly column Drug War Briefs.

bahahaha...now back to designing my superhero outfit

no one knows for sure exactly how lsd/mushrooms interacts with the brain to cause its effects

"MECHANISM OF ACTION

The biochemical mechanism of hallucinogenic drugs is unknown, but probably involves a complex stimulation of serotonin, dopamine and tryptamine receptors, from the cortex to the spinal cord. Some of the best studies involve agonistic actions at presynaptic receptors for 5-HT (serotonin) in the mid-brain. An earlier view that the subjective effects of LSD were due to blockade of 5-HT, now seems unlikely, since these neurons continued to fire even after being bathed in LSD (Jaffe 1985).

There are at least two distinct receptors for 5-HT in the CNS, i.e., 5-HT1 and 5-HT2. Heym et al (1984) have demonstrated that the behavioral and possibly the psychoactive effects of the hallucinogens appear to be attributable to an action at 5-HT2 receptors presumably located postsynaptically. Haloperidol, which can block the hallucinogenic actions of LSD and mescaline, has a 400-fold greater affinity for the 5-HT2 receptor than the 5-HT1 receptor (Peroutka and Snyder 1983)."
[ www.vh.org ]

Unless you have a background in neurochemistry, the above will likely be as meaningless to you as it is to me.

best movie i've seen lately has been the belleville triplets

my bday is august 19, so i guess feb 19 would be my half birthday?

Originally posted by DAMAGED PERSON...

no they don't care if you live or die.. they care about $$$... providing an addict with drugs is basically helping them die quicker...
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yeah, so let's go around trashing every dep that sells cigarettes. the owners make money off other people's addictions. they don't care if u get lung cancer or not. word is they even sell to minors sometimes. so surely, all dep owners deserve to die.

hey, sounds great that your enjoying university (wish i could say the same..meh).

best of luck!

bahaha...soyfunk u were there? damn so many people were there that i didn't see

soup is yummy in the tummy

Thanks fred :)

yah i got a computer, but no internet. i'm at my school's computer at the moment

i LOVE my new digicam! check out this picture i took on st laurent..

dj mana has insane skills. count me in fo sure

It was a totally surreal night. The good was celebrating new years among some awesome people, not to mention DJ Mana's unbeleivable turntablist skills and Stabba's heavy beats. The bad was the basement shutting down and the top floor getting absolutely packed. The ugly....well, let's just say that me walking out of that party with my pants absolutely soaked and muddy was not a pretty sight.

It was certainly an ambitious idea to bring many different crews and styles of music together. Did it work? Well...I have to say not quite. I found myself enjoying some of the music tremendously, but there just wasn't an overall sense of what the party was about. There seemed to be people expecting a rave, people showing up to hear the sounds of the Kops crew, and even a crowd of people who seemed to be there mainly to hear the Rythm Mercenaries, and the end result was very different vibes at different times in the night. This might come off as kinda harsh, which I don't intend to cuz I did enjoy the night, and I have much respect for the people who put together this party..just didn't work for me as well as I woulda hoped.

yeah, this winter has been pretty mild so far. now its back with a vengence

bahaha. so the candy kid sheds its outer layer of skin, revealing the inner emo child hidden beneath

yah that is cool. i'm trying to get into it myself

no one ever does

excuse me while i go bite off my own tongue

why is t-dot a dot. makes it sound all small and cute, when the OPPOSITE is true! i say from now on we refer to the city of toronto as t-sprawl, cuz its like a humungous urban and suburban sprawl that extends endlessly in all directions

hey, i dont blame mj for putting paper bags over the kids heads, gotta protect them from the pedophiles in this world y'know

pie in the face

let's not forget the ALL IMPORTANT ONE..

37. posting on ravewave

and soyfunk, you need not fear, there will be available custom T-shirts, coffee mugs, and (the all-important) lunch boxes at all cult events

1. The waking condition of uninterupted work and performance of duty

2. Alcohol intoxication

3. Sleep

- Walter Vogt, Mein Sinai Trip

are you sure? going rate is usually $30-40 for a ride from what i've seen

BAHAHAHAHA i know that type. sitting all day eating banana pancakes swapping travel tales. never occured to them that the real traveling occurs far out of range of the nearest banana pancake.

oh and my soul is on sale, fo' 50 cents biaaatch.





(thats twice as much as i got for it in elementary school)

yeah, that sylvain.

i just realized that this will be my third winter in a row, since i spent the last summer in s.america where the seasons are reversed. damn, i miss warm weather.

hehe i think the lurkers are afraid to post. we intimidate them too much

after reading more of the datura trip reports on erowid, i'm staying FAR away from this plant. too much bad shit could happen. like people go absolutely insane for several days.

on the other hand, if I ever get the oppurtunity to try n,n-DMT i would absolutely jump at it

what kind of "high" does that technique resemble? do you enter a half awake, half asleep state?

BAHAHA..and then julie (the bride) who miraculously survives would then hunt you down and exact a most brutal revenge.

i know what you mean. the heating in my place is terrible.

that fucking sux. do you think its people you know, or just some random retards / drunks?

I never made the choice to be born into this society. The only reason that society claims me as its member is because I was born on a piece of land that the Canadian government claims jurisdiction over. And this government has laws in place that endorse and support a capitalistic economy. Now I'm not saying this with total bitterness, because by every measure our system is more benevolent than most. BUT it is a system just the same, and whether or not I choose to be a part of this system or not is a CHOICE that I should be free to make. I have NO obligation to contribute anything to this society if I choose not to. If I choose to work all my life for some corporation and persue happiness through the consumption of material goods, then that's my choice. Similarly, if I choose to not work and travel or live in a commune, then that's also a choice, and one that I have every right to make. And frankly, for any person that finds their needs unfulilled by the role that they occupy in society, then withdrawing from society is perfectly logical and may be the best possible choice. Call it 'running away' if you will, but theres plenty of things that I'll run away from in an instant, such as a grizzly bear or an alligator. And there are many sides of society that can be pretty damn harmful for a person, that might make perfect sense to run away from.

And as for the whole "money buys happiness" debate, hey, if you get your happiness from money I may think your a little shallow but it's all good, I don't consider you any less of a person. But alot of people (and psychological studies) suggest that rich people aren't any happier than the middle class. People think of drugs as how the destitute class escape the reality of their miserable conditions, yet you have piles of celebrities with unlimited wealth that ironically enough persue their happiness through the same means as the homeless junkie. So I guess that money didn't buy happiness for them.

i think before we begin our final assault, we should empty all the zoos and bring the animals with us. then we could march on the white house with like herds of elephants, gorillas, tigers...and unleash the fury!

cloak, thats awesome! hope you have a great trip

its not so hard, but most people are afraid of not having money. cuz in this society we equate consumerism with happiness.