Whats the name of the monk, and or paper?
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Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About Hippie
Trail -- Author Blasts the War on Drugs
> This was discussed and plans put forth for action many hundreds of years
> ago. About 1000 AD a monk outside of Rome wrote a paper in Latin. the
> paper, circulated everywhere, showed that the best way to control a
> population was through 'soft' addictions. Sugar seems to be the biggest.
> Tea was the biggie then. Our systems have changed and it effects us less.
> This paper spread around the known world. It was the basis for the East
> India Trade Company. East India Trade was formed over 100 years prior to
> building their first ship. During that age many of the "Mayflower" type
> ships were lost. Samuel Elliot Morrison estimated that for every
> 'Mayflower' 400 were lost at sea.
> In grade school you were taught that early seamen went to sea for the
> 'spice' trade. Sure. They went out and risked their lives for some
> stupid oregano.
> Michael Donovan
>
>> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:35:41PM -0000, manzikertca wrote:
>>>Drug based cultures always seem to be unable to compete
>>>with non drug based ones.To much muddied thinking
>>
>> The mainstream U.S. culture is based on the drugs alcohol,
>> fluoride, and tobacco. Alcohol and fluoride inhibit, and
>> eventually destroy, the areas of the brain that enable
>> higher consciousness, empathy, morality, altruism, rational
>> intention, independent thinking, etc. (Tobacco is a short-
>> acting and extremely addictive tranquilizer mixed with a very
>> potent carcinogen.)
>>
>> Americans are programmed by their religions and educational
>> system to believe and obey authority, and are punished for
>> independent thinking. The incessant flood of TV and radio
>> advertising damages our ability to think rationally and
>> make emotional contact with others.
>>
>> This is why most Americans don't care that our government
>> (along with Israel's) perpetrated the 9/11 attacks,
>> subsequently murdered 2,000,000 people in Afghanistan and
>> Iraq, and is now poised (with Israel) to murder many millions
>> more in Iran, using nuclear weapons.
>>
>> Cannabis and other psychedelics have the opposite effect
>> on the brain from alcohol and fluoride. Used with proper
>> set, setting, and dosage, they can reawaken people's humanity
>> that has been suppressed by social programming, and enable us
>> to re-integrate our fractured personalities and recover the
>> true selves that we lost after childhood ("become as little
>> children"). They can help us question authority and think
>> for ourselves. This is what happened in the 1960s, leading
>> to major opposition to the Vietnam War. The murderous
>> psychopaths who control our government, media, and economy
>> were astounded and frightened when one of their mass-murder
>> operations ("wars") was actual stopped by the American people.
>> That's why the government banned these drugs with very harsh
>> penalties at that time.
>>
>> These are the drugs that Kris Millegan and author Joseph Pietri
>> are talking about. We would be much better off with easy access
>> to marijuana and hashish again. Listen to the music of the
>> Jefferson Airplane and Starship. We need that spirit today!
>>
>>>--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Kris Millegan <roads...@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.prweb.com/releases/drug_smuggler/drug_wars/prweb4336634.htm
>>>>
>>>> Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About Hippie Trail --
>>>> Author Blasts the War on Drugs
>>>>
>>>> Jimmy Buffet was one. The Eagles sang about them. The
>>>> intrepid men (and sometimes women) who braved unpredictable
>>>> associates, constant fear of apprehension and threats
>>>> of violence in their daring exploits. Who were these
>>>> people? Secret agents? Mercenaries? Even better. Drug
>>>> smugglers!
>>>>
>>>> The war on drugs is simply the war on some drugs, the ones
>>>> they can't patent or control, the drugs that anyone can
>>>> grow at home.
>>>>
>>>> Walterville, OR (Vocus) August 3, 2010
>>>>
>>>> During the freewheeling days of the Sixties, marijuana
>>>> and hashish were in high demand, and a number of dealers
>>>> were willing to risk everything to supply the goods. One
>>>> of the most outspoken of these entrepreneurs is author
>>>> Joseph R. Pietri, whose new memoir "The King of Nepal,
>>>> Life Before the Drug Wars" goes into fascinating detail
>>>> into the life of a smuggler.
>>>>
>>>> The book, mainly written while Pietri languished in a
>>>> Laotian prison, paints a vivid picture of his life on the
>>>> hippie trail that led from London to Amsterdam, with stops
>>>> in India, Afghanistan and Laos. It details an exciting time
>>>> of exotic locations, drug-fueled orgies, brushes with the
>>>> law and meetings with colorful characters like Big Eddie,
>>>> Sunshine James, Afghan Ted and the Birmingham Boys. He
>>>> recounts ingenious methods of smuggling weed in custom-made
>>>> suitcases and in animal containers, and includes accounts
>>>> of complicit governments, such as the Nepalese royal family.
>>>>
>>>> Marijuana was legal and even considered a sacrament in many
>>>> countries until the US forced other nations to outlaw its
>>>> use. The DEA, CIA and other agencies allowed the trafficking
>>>> of the drug by the mujahideen to finance their fight against
>>>> Communists. As a direct result, prices of marijuana and
>>>> hashish skyrocketed while the price of heroin decreased
>>>> dramatically. Now, Nepal is literally awash in heroin,
>>>> and Pietri puts the blame for the thousands of new addicts
>>>> squarely on the US government.
>>>>
>>>> The war on drugs is simply the war on "some drugs, the
>>>> ones they can't patent or control, the drug that anyone
>>>> can grow at home," Pietri states. "It's war being waged
>>>> by the pharmaceutical companies and their puppets the US
>>>> government who do not want you growing your own medicine."
>>>>
>>>> "The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars" is a
>>>> fast-paced and highly entertaining journey through Pietri's
>>>> life, where hundreds of thousands of dollars were made
>>>> and lost, friends died and years were spent in prisons in
>>>> foreign countries and even worse ones in America. All for
>>>> a plant that the author now grows legally as a supplier of
>>>> medical marijuana in Oregon!
>>>>
>>>> "The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars" is released
>>>> by TrineDay Books, the country's largest publisher of
>>>> inconvenient truths.
>>>>
>>>> Joseph Pietri is available for interviews. Contact
>>>> Kent Goodman at (541) 954-8142 or write to
>>>> kgoodman(at)amselmedia(dot)com to make arrangements.
>>>>
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