Errrrr? lol. Not 100% sure but think it might be the world history by
Ludwick. (not sure of spelling) But it was 'History of the Mediterranean.
Umm, googled and can't find.
He fled Hitler and wrote the book in Santa Barbara.
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> Whats the name of the monk, and or paper?
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> From: <micha...@midcoast.com>
> To: <cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About
> Hippie
> Trail -- Author Blasts the War on Drugs
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>> 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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>>>
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