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***Alchemind Society E-Mail Update for April 2002***
As a service to all those interested in cognitive liberty issues, our
bi-monthly updates present comprehensive and concise coverage of recent
events and noteworthy projects of the Alchemind Society and its Center
for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics. If you would like to support our work,
please visit www.alchemind.org/joinus.htm.
* Speaking Out for Cognitive Liberty
Alchemind Society co-director Richard Glen Boire received a standing
ovation for his keynote address delivered at the Students For Sensible
Drug Policy (SSDP) Midwest regional conference held at Chicago�s Loyola
University on the weekend of April 13-14, 2002. Mr. Boire�s talk was
titled �COGNITIVE LIBERTY: THE NECESSARY COMPLIMENT TO HARM REDUCTION.�
* Richard Glen Boire also spoke at a University of California, Berkeley
symposium on Religious Freedoms, Spirituality And Shamanistic Practices.
Mr. Boire�s talk �COGNITIVE LIBERTY, THE COURTS AND PSYCHEDELIC
SACRAMENTALS� examined the religious defense to psychedelic drug
offenses, and revealed the enormous structural similarities between the
American legal system and Bible-based churches. These engrained
similarities, said Boire, rest at the heart of why US courts virtually
always reject religious defenses to users of shamanic inebriants. The
symposium was organized by the Berkeley chapter of Students for Sensible
Drug Policy.
* Alchemind Society double-hitter in the Humanist Magazine
Richard Glen Boire and Zara Gelsey, Director of Communications, were
published in the May/June issue of Humanist Magazine. Richard Glen Boire
informed Humanist readers of the government�s recently revealed snooping
operations at drug reform web sites. Zara Gelsey critiqued the ONDCP�S
Super Bowl ad campaign and Drug Czar John Walter�s audacity in comparing
drug users to terrorists. Her scathing op-ed was additionally picked up
by many web sites, including AlterNet, SF Indymedia, The Conversation,
Cannabis News, and the Jefferson Review.
* Wrye Sententia�s article, �The Radical Environment of the Mind,� will
appear in Earth First Journal�look for it in the upcoming issue on
technology and the environment. Ms. Sententia is the Alchemind Society�s
co-director.
* Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol. 3 No. 1
The latest issue of our journal was received by Alchemind Society
members at the beginning of this month. Authors of essays in this issue
included Dr. Lester Grinspoon and John Perry Barlow. If you did not
receive a copy, please renew your membership or become a member today;
the current JCL will be mailed to you immediately. To become a member
online go to www.alchemind.org/joinus.htm. To learn more about the JCL
go to http://www.alchemind.org/JCL/jclabout.htm.
* Making Contacts at the National NORML conference
The Alchemind Society had a decided presence at this year�s National
NORML conference. The Society�s table provided educational brochures to
over 550 conference participants. Positive responses to the concept of
cognitive liberty as it pertains to the War on Drugs, were overwhelming.
Alchemind staffers and volunteers also had the opportunity to network
with other reform organizations as well as respond to several press
requests for interview or comment.
* Computers, Privacy and Cognitive Liberty
Co-director Wrye Sententia disseminated information about the Alchemind
Society and our Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) to
attendees at an Internet Privacy Conference in San Francisco. She also
solidified alliances with Fellows at Harvard Law School�s Berkman Center
for Internet & Society on projects related to Internet Privacy, Freedom
of Speech, and Cognitive Liberty.
* Cognitive Liberty Press Room � Now online
Reporters are encouraged to utilize the Alchemind Society�s pressroom to
connect with a diverse group of experts able to provide commentary on a
range of cognitive liberty topics. Visit the Press Room at:
http://www.alchemind.org/pressroom/index.htm
* Wrye Sententia was interviewed for a Crossroads Electronics
documentary film speaking out against the War on Drugs. Ms. Sententia
explains that what�s really at stake in drug prohibition is an
infringement on fundamental democratic principles and on the basic human
right to individual autonomy over one's mind.
* Defending Salvia Divinorum
Alchemind Society co-director Richard Glen Boire was quoted extensively
in an ABCNews.com story about the psychoactive plant Salvia divinorum.
(See: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/divinorum020401.html)
The ABCNews report is the most balanced story yet to appear about Salvia
divinorum in the mainstream media. The Alchemind Society�s Center for
Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) continues to monitor the fragile legal
status of the plant and will orchestrate a response should the DEA act
to outlaw the plant. To support these efforts please make a
tax-deductible donation to the Salvia Divinorum Defense Fund
http://www.alchemind.org/salvia_defense_fund.htm
* Fighting Forced-Drugging in the Courts
On April 1, 2002, Richard Glen Boire filed an amicus curiae (�friend of
the court�) brief in federal court on behalf of the Alchemind Society�s
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics asking the court to reconsider its
ruling permitting the government to continue forcibly injecting a St.
Louis dentist with mind-altering drugs. An abridged copy of the brief
has just been mailed to all members. Read more at
http://www.alchemind.org/DLL/sell_index.htm
* Brain Fingerprinting and Cognitive Liberty
Wrye Sententia provided a 48 Hours TV News Producer with educational
information on the cognitive autonomy issues at stake for an upcoming
segment on �Brain Fingerprinting� to be aired on CBS in June 2002.
* Ask Dr. Shulgin Online
Dr. Alexander Shulgin answered another question - MDMA (Ecstasy)
Tolerance - in our Ask Doctor Shulgin project. To read the latest
question and Dr. Shulgin's answer, or to browse the archive, blip to:
http://www.alchemind.org/shulgin/adsarchive/tolerance.htm
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