NO DRAMA OCCUPIES UNDACUVA

Millions were spent, possibly billions, on how to dismantle the 99% protests and once again the tiny one pub village Nimbin showed the way. In fact our local Undacuva initiatives have been nominated for TOY, Tactics Of the Year, again. It was so simple you probably wont get it.

“Get out of the way,” was our advice, “and let the street people take over.
Let the homeless, lost and the mentally unstable invade the 99% kitchens.
They wont be able to feed them all.”

The Boss told us a long silence followed as the idea settled in at the New York crisis meeting. Then he was able to tell them how he’d used those very tactics for years in the Bin and he flew home like a king with his TOY nomination. In fact he did little but read my reports which told him he could save a fortune by letting nature take its course.

“The kindness of the hippies is their weakness”, he says on Facebook to the Yanks. “They share what they have and inevitably run out.” He didn’t tell them about the loaves and fishes which I put in my report, but he did say how they believed in turning the other cheek so often they had sore necks. He was the only one who laughed.
When I claimed a share of the TOY Prize he sent me to Canberra.

Obama’s people outnumbered the hippies about twenty to one down there on the lawns at Parliament House but they still hit the grass with guns drawn when one of the hairy Polites announced loudly,”time to blow up the joint”. Relief all round when it turned out to be just the giant inflatable scoob.

We heard from them the Prez had mentioned his favorite herb to Julia, who retorted,” we drink beer down unda Barack, you want one for lunch?” It was the only time he looked at our PM with pity apparently.
The man doesn’t even drink coffee they told us.

The Big Two discussed war tactics and the Bin came up in a lot in conversation they said. “We copied your method of sending in the mad and homeless to drown the occupy movements, but were dismayed they just built bigger kitchens and managed to feed everyone. These people prefer a crowded smelly tent to a warm bed alone.”

Julia went on and told him about the ‘War on Work’ that yours truly made Canberra aware of recently. “It’s very popular in the Bin and other occupy camps.

Several thousand recruits have signed a pledge to, can you believe it, ‘only do work we love and respect and nothing that hurts the Earth.’”
No Drama was fascinated. “The hippies aren’t dead yet.” He seemed delighted. “That’s similar to what they were saying in Wall Street and they do have a point. We can’t keep growing forever, something has to give.”
Julia was puzzled and he saw her worried look.

“I’ve been looking at that giant joint too long eh Jewels (as he called her). Starting to think like a stoner again. Better get me that beer after all.”
Later she disturbed No Drama and Tim enjoying an in depth discussion about bongs versus jobs.
There was an even bigger dilemma discussed that evening the CIA boys told us, the slow down in consuming.

Apparently the last big buying was the flatscreen rush but a new satiation point has been reached now and clear signs are emerging that people are sick of forcing themselves to go to work on Monday just to update their toaster!

Why not work less and stay in bed and watch movies teased No Drama. Jewels was sure he was flirting.

HipiLeaks; Nov 2011. The new experiments treating depression with ecstasy and lsd have sent shockwaves through the pharmaceutical heavyweights because people are being cured in one or two sessions.

The trials must be stopped or they will be bankrupted. There are no profits in healing people they claim, they must be allowed to manage their pain, ideally so they need lifetime medication.

History Channel, Sex in 69: The Sexual Revolution in America.

Travel back to 1969 and uncover fascinating trends, people and events that forever changed the way Americans think about and have sex.

Viewers will travel from the Playboy Penthouse in Los Angeles to San Francisco’s Hippie crash pads, the boardwalk in Atlantic City, a court room in Miami, and other spots across America to meet some of the women and men who found themselves caught between old values and new desires in 1969, and decided to do something about it.

Some of them, like Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, actor Jim Brown, and Ray Manzarek of The Doors, will be famous.

Others will be average Americans whose lives were transformed by the sexual tides coursing through the nation as the Sixties came to a close. But they will all have one thing in common–they will all have fascinating stories to tell.

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Clearing the Smoke, reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy and potentially even cancer.

MontanaPBS Presents: Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis. 

Extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics detail the promises and the limitations of medicinal cannabis. Even though the video has an American perspective, marijuana use is illegal throughout many countries of the world for reasons that are not clear. 

This video is important because it mainly investigates the scientific basis underlying the medical benefits of marijuana use instead of focusing on the social, political and legal hysteria that have been attached to it.

The paper mentioned in this video, Marihuana Reconsidered, was published in book form.

The author, Dr Lester Grinspoon, is the world’s leading authority on marijuana. In this book, Dr Grinspoon examines — and debunks — many of the common misconceptions about marijuana.  

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Former Mexican President’s Passionate Call to the US: Stop Bloodshed And Legalize Drugs

AlterNet / By Tony Newman
October 22, 2011  

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox made a passionate and powerful call for an end to the war on drugs and called on the United States to legalize drugs to help reduce the violence in Mexico in an interview with BBC TV his week. Fox is critical of current Mexican President Calderon and the US government’s counterproductive “drug control” strategy – and says they are responsible for the 50,000 prohibition-related deaths in Mexico in just the last five years.

Fox explains that the United States should learn from the history of alcohol prohibition and that the answer to today’s violence is to legalize drugs and treat them as a health issue, rather than a criminal issue.

When the BBC reporter implies that he is naïve to think the US will legalize drugs, Fox points out that public opinion is changing rapidly. He mentions that a Gallup poll this week showed for the first time that 50 percent of Americans support making marijuana legal.

President Fox is part of a growing choir of world leaders speaking out against the drug war. This summer, the Global Commission on Drug Policy made worldwide news when they called for far-reaching changes in the global drug prohibition regime – including not just alternatives to incarceration and greater emphasis on public health approaches to drug use but also decriminalization and experiments in legal regulation. The Commission is comprised of former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan; Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group; four former presidents, including the commission’s chairman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil; George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State; Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; and several other distinguished world leaders. 

Building on the Global Commission, there will be a major event on November 15th, organized by the libertarian CATO Institute, called  “Ending the Global War,” featuring heavy hitters like former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castaneda, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Anastasia O’Grady and others.

The voices rising up against the failed drug war are not only at the “grasstops” level.  Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed earlier this year in drug war violence, has mobilized tens of thousands of people across Mexico to demand an end to the war. Sicilia is participating in the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Los Angeles, where more than 1,000 people from around the world – including many formerly incarcerated people and other victims of the drug war – are going to meet on November 2nd- 5th.

President Fox and Javier Sicilia are pointing out the obvious: the war on drugs has failed. We need to join them. We need to find an exit strategy from this un-winnable war.

Former Mexican president: ‘US must legalise drugs to stop violence’

BBC
19 October 2011

The former President of Mexico has told the BBC that he holds the United States responsible for the violence in his country.

Vicente Fox, who was president from 2001 to 2006, said consumption of drugs in the US was at the root of the problem and he called for the legalisation of drugs in America.

Forty-five thousand people are estimated to have been killed since Mexico’s current President Felipe Calderon launched his war on the drug cartels five years ago.

Speaking to the BBC’s Katty Kay, Mr Fox said it was time to withdraw the military and to seek an alternative strategy.

Watch here (2:40mins): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15379360

Calderon comments spark Mexico drugs war row with PRI
BBC
16 October 2011

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sparked a political row by suggesting the main opposition party, the PRI, might consider deals with drugs gangs if it wins the presidency in 2012.

Mr Calderon made the comments in an interview with the New York Times.

PRI politicians have dismissed the suggestion as absurd, and demanded a retraction and apology.

The PRI ruled Mexico for 70 years until 2000, and is favourite to return to power at elections in 2012.

The party has previously been accused of making secret deals with drugs gangs while it was in power to keep the peace in Mexico, though it denies this.

The PRI has been critical of Mr Calderon’s policy of deploying the army to fight the cartel, saying it has fuelled drug-related violence in which more than 40,000 have been killed during his five years in office.
‘Irresponsible’

In the New York Times interview, Mr Calderon was asked whether the PRI might fall into a corrupt relationship with organised crime if it won the presidency.

“It depends on who it is,” he replied.

“There are many in the PRI who think the deals of the past would work now. I don’t see what deal could be done, but that is a mentality that many of them have”.

The PRI’s spokesman in the senate, Carlos Jimenez Macias, dismissed the accusation as electioneering.

“it is absurd and irresponsible to make a statement of that kind,” he told the Mexican newspaper El Universal.

President Calderon should either present evidence or withdraw the remark, he added.

Correspondents say Mr Calderon’s comments are unusual, as Mexican presidents are expected to remain above party politics.

Mr Calderon is not standing for re-election as Mexico’s constitution limits presidents to one six-year term.

But he has stepped up his defence of his military approach to tackling the drugs cartels, which is widely seen as the defining policy of his presidency.

Asked by the New York Times if he would be remembered for the spiralling violence, Mr Calderon said it was possible that some would remember him that way.

“But if Mexico triumphs as I am sure it will, if Mexico subdues the criminals and reconstructs its social fabric, there will also be those that remember me as the president who dared take on the criminals”. 

Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15330399