Some great nation of cannabis ceteceans

Some great nation of cannabis cetaceans
by Steven 'fly agaric 23' Pratt.


In following the trajectory of the war on some people who use some drugs, over the last 20 years, I recently noticed a similar situation to that of the (WOSPWUSD) in the plight of those who wish to recognise a cetacean nation, or some rights and freedoms that humans enjoy.

The strategy for aquiring  a kind of nationhood for Dolphins and Whales reflects, to my mind, the on-going battle between medical Marijuana activists and recognition, officially, of the benefits and culture surrounding Marijuana, effectively reversing the current laws and punishments for members of the cannabis community so that they become endowed with a kind of spirit-hood thing, and enjoy protected freedoms to live a proud and fearless life like other minorities or previously oppressed groups such as women, people of colour, homosexuals and a growing list of animals, vegetables and plants, cannabis people strive for at least equal rights and the pursuit of happiness as a Gorilla would!

Jane Goddard seems to me to have kickstarted the quest for individual sovereignty through her work with the United Nations (dometicated primates) and her work with Apes (primates). And, as mentioned above, Dr John Lilly with a host of other scientists, thinkers and imaginative activists have outlined what a sovereign nation for cetaceans might look like, why we should have such a thing, and what we can do, collectively to work towards building and maintaining it.

The cannabis nation also has such outlines and plans, research projects and evidence to put forward their case, but, (rising organ music please) with cannabis there are hundreds of thousands of such data sets pointing towards changes in the forever biased and bloody bigoted laws and punishments handed out to any member of the cannabis nation participating in their non-violent lifestyle e.g; ingesting cannabis in one form or another.

In both cases, however, I come across a similar set of problems and in my humble opinion-- misunderstandings--on behalf of those who fight for such equal rights and government recognition, in the same way other diverse groups are now protected, legalised and left up to their own devices, to the extent that humans are supposed to have irreducible rights based upon finding oneself in a lucky incarnation: that of a sentient human being.

There are many different angles to the cannabis nation argument, and billions of Angels, based upon the wide strata of human culture, not least coming from the artistic and innovative music community world-wide. Whereas, the cetacean nation arguments usually come from a somewhat small and specialised area of scholarly research, although cargo cults often get on board the Dolphin and Whale boat to nationhood, adding a sometimes humorous, sometimes frustrating glossing to the concept of a cetacean nation. In my opinion, it is the definition and evidence amassed by Dr John Lilly in particular that best describes the case for cetacean rights and nationhood on par with that of human beings. Read him!

As any reader of Dr John Lilly may know, he also wrote extensively on altered states of consciousness, cognitive liberty and the therapeutic, neuro-psychological uses of some drugs (in particular Ketamine and LSD). As a scientist, however, John did not follow the slightly more popular legalise cannabis, and other drugs battle in the streets, he rebelled through his research and feedback, both amplifying his brilliance and genius. John made tools and maps to help us navigate psychedelic space that maybe more important today than before based on the similarity between navigating psychedelic space (as defined by Lilly) and navigating cyberspace (as defined by Norbert Weiner and Tim Berners Lee). Cyber = to steer, remember?

Techniques for navigating non-ordinary states of consciousness are very helpful in navigating through the Internet and our hyper-connected futures or science fiction futures as I like to call our multi-dimensional futures.

I imagine a situation where inner space--the world behind our eyelids and the private space of one’s thoughts--spills out and over into outer-space or the human perceived space-time world, via Internet, social networks, web sites, games, movies, music and cyber-culture: the digital universe.

Although this may seem a slight digression from the similarities in the process of recognition of both a cetacean nation and a cannabis people’s nation, the result of some carfeul investigation and a little research into non-ordinary states, reflects the descent or accent, depending how you view the idea of the world and reality made and manipulated primarily by language, to high weirdness!

However, I must add that all this talk of nation-hoods and sovereignty runs contrary to my intuition about how to really solve the big problems of greed driven civilisation, the swelling global village,  and a peaceful cooperative future.

I recognised that Buckminster Fuller nailed it when he implied that until the sovereign nations have been de-sovereignized (effectively decentralised) we cannot have open world around trade and balanced communication. I agree whole heatedly, although for the purposes of the arguments above I must drop such a notion, for some great nation of cannabis cetaceans.

--Steve Fly

MO MOWLAM on the War on Some people who use some Drugs.

Thankyou MO MOWLAM: a voice crying in the wilderness.


Mo' introduces some ANTI PROHIBITION wisdom with a paragraph we should pay close attention to for clarity upon the DOPY Terrorism inflicted by our Czarist government upon us every day. To me now, in 2009: INVESTMENTS, BANKING, PROHIBITION & TERRORISM seem connected to the MILITARY and INTELLIGENCE agencies, based on the new data since MO passed away. The FALSE and so miss-information of NUKES being in IRAQ to hypnotize and dazzle.

"While the United States and Britain continue to assert that toppling Saddam
Hussein's regime in Iraq is the best next step in the war against terrorism, I
would like to suggest a more productive course of action. The problem with
terrorism, as has been recognised from the beginning of this campaign, is that
it does not occupy a particular territory nor own clearly identifiable assets
that can be attacked and destroyed. Many terrorists live in the United States
and Europe; their assets are the funds they keep in conventional investments,
and the only means of detection is through good intelligence."

MO then goes on into her LEGALIZATION strategy and i'll quote her to the end, as i feel its so good, progressive and amazes me that it comes from a BRITISH politician as it sounds nothing like LINDA WALL THROW or Maggie Thatcher to me, or like the chest beating M.P's, except one or two - George Galloway and maybe another?

"Even President Bush has made the connection: "It is important for
Americans to know that the traffic in drugs finances the work of terror,
sustaining terrorists, that terrorists use drug profits to fund their cells to
commit acts of murder."
May I suggest that rather than bombing civilians in
various Muslim countries, the United States and Britain begin to take a more
intelligent approach to the international drugs trade: namely, to legalise it.
For by doing this, not only will we help solve one of the major problems facing
the world today, the unregulated growth of drugs trafficking, but it would also
further isolate the terrorists.
It is hard to assess the size of the
international drugs trade, but in 1999 the UN Human Development report estimated
it to be around $400bn a year, equivalent to the GDP of a country the size of
Spain and representing, at that time, about 8% of world trade. This makes it
second only as an industry to the arms trade at $800bn a year, and ahead of oil
and gas, and chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Not only does this point to the
existence of widespread criminal activity, it also indicates that a large amount
of corrupt money is being fed into the world economy on an annual basis. There
is a corrosive effect where money derived from crime is introduced into the
legal economy - who is to say that large-scale financial decisions are being
made not for the most efficient use of such funds, but because they will
facilitate their most efficient laundering.
But it is not just corruption
that is the issue. The harmful effects of drugs are multiplied around the world,
as traffickers pay "mules" and others involved with heroin and cocaine,
spreading both addiction and HIV. It has been estimated that there are 190
million addicts worldwide.
It is clear that the present approach to drugs is
not working, and if the war against drugs fails then we can be sure that the war
against terrorism will also be unsuccessful.
From my experience of being
responsible for drugs policy in the previous government, I came to the
conclusion that legalisation and regulation of all drugs was the only way to
reduce the harmful effects of this unstoppable activity. There are many reasons
why I reached this conclusion, which are too extensive to go into here.
One
of those reasons, though, is that we need to detach the international drugs
business from criminality - not least because it would further isolate
international terrorism by removing the finance and other resources, such as
places for training, and money laundering facilities. It would be a big step
forward in reducing criminality in the world's financial system.
Drugs and
terrorism are linked and are set to become more so. Legalisation of drugs would
stop this connection: it would begin to solve problems caused by drugs today and
would isolate the terrorists.
· Mo Mowlam was in Tony Blair's cabinet from
1997-2001 and was responsible for the government's drugs policy from 1999-2001.
Her memoirs, Momentum, were published in May.
MoMwlm@aol.com

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PIM is for Pharmacratic Inquisition on Marijuana.

ROBERT ANTON WILSON: What I'm really afraid of is when they decide to legalize it and they come up with a pill, some squib, probably Eli Lilly - as the Bush family own a lot of Eli Lilly - they come up with a pill that contains the derivative of cannabis that kills pain, but it doesn't get you high and then they'll charge about 50 dollars a pill, so for real relief from pain it'll be out of reach for most of the population and they will still go on suffering or buying from black market dealers, meanwhile they'll have a better excuse to close down the medical marijuana cooperatives - "Hey we got a legal form here and it doesn't produce that terrible euphoria that's bad for you" [laughs, smiles] They all complain about euphoria as one of the bad side effects of cannabis, apparently you're not in your right mind in this country unless you feel vaguely miserable, apprehensive and depressed. If you start feeling euphoric there must be something wrong with you, what the hell! I think euphoria is part of the treatment! There's a hell of a lot of evidence and a hell of a lot of books starting with Wilhelm Reich on, Prescott, DeMeo, oh there's ton's of evidence that feeling good is good for your health. So their attempt to take the joy out of marijuana just means they want you to take longer to heal whatever you use it for if your using it for medical purposes. -- http://www.maybelogic.org/maybequarterly/08/0801FlyRAWInterview.htm

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FROM WIKIPEDIA...2009

"Synthetic THC is known as dronabinol. It is available as a prescription drug (under the trade name Marinol[46]) in several countries including the United States and Germany. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced on June 29, 2008, the U.S. launch of the authorized generic version of dronabinol in the 2.5, 5 and 10 mg once daily dosage strengths. Dronabinol is the generic version of Marinol(R)(dronabinol) CIII Capsules. In the United States, Marinol is a Schedule III drug, available by prescription, considered to be non-narcotic and to have a low risk of physical or mental dependence. Efforts to get cannabis rescheduled as analogous to Marinol have not succeeded thus far, though a 2002 petition has been accepted by the DEA. As a result of the rescheduling of Marinol from Schedule II to Schedule III, refills are now permitted for this substance. Marinol has been approved by the FDA in the treatment of anorexia in AIDS patients, as well as for refractory nausea and vomiting of patients undergoing chemotherapy, which has raised much controversy as to why natural THC is still a schedule I drug.[47]
An analog of dronabinol, nabilone, is available commercially in Canada under the trade name Cesamet, manufactured by Valeant. Cesamet has also received FDA approval and has began marketing in the U.S. as of 2006; it is a Schedule II drug.
In April 2005, Canadian authorities approved the marketing of Sativex, a mouth spray for multiple sclerosis patients, who can use it to alleviate neuropathic pain and spasticity. Sativex contains tetrahydrocannabinol together with cannabidiol. It is marketed in Canada by GW Pharmaceuticals, being the first cannabis-based prescription drug in the world. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol


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