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LET KEITH SMOKE HIS POT IN PEACE
Posted by admin on Friday, May 26 @ 08:12:40 EST (1351 reads) |
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 AN overwhelming majority of Advertiser readers believe Keith Thompson should be left to smoke his pot in peace.
As revealed on Friday, the 53-year-old dad of two has insisted he will not stop using cannabis, despite getting raided by police.
More than 1,500 readers voted in a phone and internet poll, with 92 per cent backing the joint-smoking Wootton Bassett man.
Only eight per cent thought he was in the wrong.
Mr Thompson, who is registered disabled and does not work, said: "I'm absolutely astounded at the response.
"I know there's a few of us out there and all sorts of people smoke it."
After Mr Thompson's pledge to keep on puffing, mental health charities warned of the dangers of the drug.
Kathleen Aitken, the manager of Swindon and District MIND, said continued use of cannabis had been linked to psychosis.
A spokesman for Druglink also said people who use hard drugs like heroin and crack cocaine often start on cannabis before moving on.
But Mr Thompson hit back, saying: "I've been smoking for over 30 years and I have not got on to the bad stuff so I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm not going to stop after 30 years and I'm not mad or paranoid like these people seem to suggest."
When Mr Thompson's home in The Rosary, Wootton Bassett, was raided last week police took his eight cannabis plants.
He said the drugs were purely for his own use but now he says the police have forced him to commit further offences.
"All the police have done by taking my plants is force me to go to dealers," he said.
"I don't know where that money is going. It could be spent on guns. I was just trying to be self-sufficient like Tom Good in The Good Life."
Mr Thompson also criticised those who are anti-cannabis but do not have a problem with alcohol.
"I would like to know how many fights the police have had to attend in the last three months because of drink and how many because of smoking," he said. "I'll bet it's none from smoking and lots from drink."
MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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UK: Book Review: William Burroughs: Jungle Fever
Posted by admin on Friday, May 26 @ 08:12:17 EST (604 reads) |
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A new edition of William Burroughs' book 'The Yage Letters' reveals how the writer was transformed by a trip to South America in search of 'the ultimate fix'. Tim Cumming reports
"Yage may be the ultimate fix," the writer and countercultural icon William Burroughs concludes at the end of his first novel, Junky, published in 1952. The man they called "el hombre invisible" is perhaps the greatest in the 20th century's gallery of cultural extremists; his novel Naked Lunch became the plat du jour of Sixties counterculture, and his revolutionary "cut-up" technique - on tape and film as well as on the page - presaged the viral, wireless, sampling culture of our own century by decades, and has influenced countless artists, writers and musicians through the decades.
More than half a century later, yage, the psychotropic jungle vine also known as ayahuasca ( "the vine of the soul" ) retains its status as the most mysterious and powerful of natural hallucinogens. Burroughs' book about his search for the "ultimate fix", The Yage Letters, possesses an equally strange and secret history. Published in 1963 but written a decade earlier, it has long been seen as a fascinating curio in the Burroughs canon, yet a new edition of the book, edited by Oliver Harris, places it more centrally in the list of key Burroughs texts.
Harris introduces the original edition, which was based around Burroughs' correspondence with the poet Allen Ginsberg, with an in-depth survey of the book's fragmented history, and expands the 96-page text with extensive appendices of new material, including unpublished articles by Burroughs that are considerably more revealing about his experience and understanding of yage than much of what was published in the book. The Yage Letters Redux is rounded off with previously unpublished excerpts from Ginsberg's journals from the trip he made in Burroughs' footsteps in 1960.
It was a harried and junk-sick Burroughs who left Mexico in early 1953, a little over a year after he had accidentally shot and killed his wife, Joan Vollmer, while attempting a "William Tell" act - firing at a glass she had balanced on her head. Racked as much by fear and guilt as by opiate withdrawal, and leaving virtually unprepared for what was to come, the author headed south to Colombia and Peru, in search of the ultimate yage fix - and a way out of his addiction.
Yage has been used for thousands of years - a ceremonial cup dating to 500BC is held in a museum in Quito, Ecuador. More recently, yage-based religions, such as the Uniao do Vegetal and Santo Daime churches, have battled in court to preserve their right to sacramental yage use, while drug companies such as Pfizer have embarked on legal battles of their own to exploit its active properties.
At the time of Burroughs' trip, little was known or understood about yage. It was lucky that on his arrival in the Putumayo region of Colombia in 1953, in search of the right medicine man, he encountered Dr Richard Evans Schultes, the famed ethno-botanist who would also contribute much to our understanding of the drug.
Both were Harvard men, and despite Schultes' evident misgivings at Burroughs' unorthodoxy, the two embarked on a 1,000-mile expedition that led to the author's first overwhelming contact with yage: he overdosed and went into convulsions. A second, more ecstatic series of encounters, in Pacullpa, Peru, would in due course unleash some of the most extreme works of fiction ever published.
The letters to Ginsberg are a restless mixture of anthropology, travelogue, paranoia, poetry, epiphany, cut-ups, satirical junkie cynicism and epistolary novel. "I stopped here to have my piles out," the first letter begins in January 1953, from the aptly named Hotel Colon in Panama, and much of what follows is more about the misadventures of the journey than the destination.
Until, that is, the letter describing the "composite city" - a vision that is uniquely Burroughsian, and runs through much of his work. "Minarets, palms, mountain, jungle. A sluggish river jumping with vicious fish, vast weed-grown parks where boys lie in the grass or play cryptic games..." In the letter's pin-sharp panoramas lay the seed not only of Naked Lunch but of the cut-up novels that followed. The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, Nova Express: each of them, arguably, has its roots in the riotous, disorderly effects of the South American vine.
In a detailed introduction, Harris reveals how The Yage Letters began as a manuscript typed on Burroughs' return to Ginsberg's apartment in New York in the autumn of 1953. Less than a fifth of the final manuscript came from actual letters. It's typical of Burroughs that what purports to be a casual and fragmentary travelogue is in fact a much more arranged and reconstituted entity. For Harris, it demonstrates that it was much more than a casual correspondence preserved for posterity: "It's the developing of his imaginative landscape out of the real one."
The book was finally published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights, who expanded the text with Ginsberg's 1960 letters from Peru, where, seven years after Burroughs' trip, Ginsberg, too, encountered the awesome spirit of the vine. "I light cigarette, blow a puff of smoke over cup, and drain," he writes. "Lay down expecting God knows what other pleasant vision and then I began to get high - and then the whole fucking cosmos broke loose around me, I think about the strongest and the worst I've ever had it."
Not that he hadn't been warned. "This is the most powerful drug I have ever experienced," Burroughs writes in an unpublished article he sent to Ginsberg in 1956. "Yage is not like anything else. It produces the most complete derangement of the senses." These include intense sexual hallucinations, flashes of phylogenetic memory, and full out-of-body experiences. "There is a definite sense of space time travel that seems to shake the room," he notes, and posits that the extreme nausea that accompanies the visions is a form of "time-space motion sickness".
The active ingredient in yage that produces visions is harmeline, once called telepathine, because of its supposed telepathic properties. Harmela alkaloids are present in the pineal gland, the "third eye" in the forehead, and it seems that out of all the psychotropic drugs, yage reaches deepest into the psyche, which may explain why so many users report near-identical Garden of Eden-like visions, as if there were some direct connection to the collective human image bank.
The bark of the vine is cut into lengths and stripped, pounded and boiled in water with the leaves of a plant called chacuna by the Indians, and which Burroughs was the first to correctly classify as Psychotria viridis. This is essential to achieve the full hallucinogenic effect, for without the DMT in the chacuna leaves, the harmeline alkaloids in the vine remain inactive.
The Yage Letters marks the point when Burroughs moved full-time into his own, fully realised universe.
'The Yage Letters Redux' is published by City Lights, price UKP 9.99
MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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UK: Mental Problems Soar Among Children Using Cannabis
Posted by admin on Tuesday, October 11 @ 16:29:44 EST (1235 reads) |
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The number of children treated for mental disorders caused by smoking cannabis has quadrupled since the government downgraded the legal status of the drug, according to a leading drug charity.
Since April last year, three months after police stopped arresting anyone found in possession of small amounts of the drug, the overall number of users treated for such conditions rose 42%, according to data from Addaction.
But it is the figure for children that will cause the greatest alarm. Addaction treated 1,575 cannabis users for psychotic problems between April 2004 and April 2005, of whom 181 were aged 15 or below -- a rise of 136 on the previous year.
Many experts blame the relaxation of the law and the wider use of skunk, a high-strength variant of cannabis.
"A minority of people who take it repeatedly and over a long period, particularly people who take it as adolescents, will suffer psychotic episodes. They may ultimately suffer schizophrenia," said Robin Murray, professor of psychiatry at King's College London.
Addaction's findings are backed up by recent government figures that reveal a 22% leap in hospital admissions attributed directly to cannabis. They show that 710 people were sent to hospital with mental illness caused by cannabis in the 12 months to April 2004, up from 580 in the two previous years.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is meeting next weekend to decide whether there should be a full review of the working of the cannabis law. It was set up by Charles Clarke, the home secretary, after research released earlier this year suggested cannabis may cause mental illness.
A New Zealand research project involving 1,000 people born in 1977 found that cannabis could double the risk of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. A Dutch study by Professor Jim van Os also discovered that frequent cannabis use during adolescence increased the risk of psychotic symptoms later in life, especially among those genetically vulnerable to mental illness.
A member of the committee said this weekend, however, that the panel was unlikely to recommend any revision of the law because there was still insufficient evidence to show any increased risk. One option it is considering is upgrading skunk but leaving "ordinary" cannabis as a class C drug.
Jonathan McDonnell, project manager for the Buckinghamshire branch of Young Addaction, said that last year 250 cannabis users under 19 were referred to his unit for treatment; 85% of those were skunk users.
He said that the higher street price of skunk -- UKP 20 for an eighth of an ounce rather than UKP 12 for normal cannabis -- meant that many users were now involved in "junkie crimes" such as burglary and robbery, traditionally the preserve of hard-drug users.
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SENIOR POLICE FEAR U-TURN ON CLASSIFICATION OF CANNABIS
Posted by admin on Tuesday, October 11 @ 16:29:10 EST (454 reads) |
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Senior police officers fear that the government is to use Dutch concerns over high-strength "skunk" to reverse the decision to relax the laws on possession of all types of cannabis.
The government's expert committee on drug abuse will meet at the end of the week to consider a request from the home secretary, Charles Clarke, that it look again at last year's decision to downgrade cannabis from class B to class C in the light of new studies linking long-term use with mental health problems.
Mr Clarke has also asked the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs to look at whether higher-strength, or "skunk", cannabis should separately be regarded as a class B drug. Possession of a class B drug means automatic arrest and charge, while class C drugs can be dealt with by a warning on the street and confiscation. It is expected that the council will confirm its longstanding advice to reclassify cannabis, making clear that it is a less harmful drug than heroin and cocaine.
The police fear a decision that more potent forms of "skunk" should carry heavier penalties will cause more confusion, as it will mean officers being expected to recognise the differences during a street search. "You cannot have a two tier approach," said one senior officer, who asked not to be named.
The source said there was a feeling that the home secretary was minded to reclassify cannabis "if he can". When the ACMD was asked to look again at cannabis, Tony Blair said the drug was not as harmless as some people had made out. He told MPs that if the experts recommended regrading cannabis to class B, he would act on it, and if they did not he would have to look at the situation again.
Tiggey May, a criminologist from King's College London, who was addressing a Royal College of Physicians conference yesterday, said the new policy needed time to settle down.
There was confusion among young people about cannabis as a class C drug and about police guidelines which meant children found in possession were treated differently from adults. "To start reclassifying cannabis in terms of strength would be extremely difficult. I would say it would be ridiculous to try."
Harry Shapiro of DrugScope, the drugs information charity, said "skunk" had been around a long time.
"We still do not believe there is new evidence since 2004 of dramatic change in the availability or use of more potent forms of cannabis that would warrant a change back from C to B."
He acknowledged there had been an unknown increase in the availability of "homegrown" cannabis, but said it was not necessarily stronger than imported resin. "Most people do not smoke cannabis to get so stoned that they do not know what day of the week it is. We should legislate for the typical cannabis user."
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UK: Grandmother Faces Jail
Posted by admin on Thursday, September 22 @ 17:10:24 EST (526 reads) |
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A drug-dealing grandmother is facing jail after police raided her home and found she was growing cannabis.
Patricia Tabram, 66, of Humshaugh, near Hexham in Northumberland, was given a six month suspended jail sentence for possessing cannabis with intent to supply earlier this year.
She was warned that a repeat offence would mean that she could be jailed and police said yesterday they had raided her home over the weekend and arrested her on suspicion of cultivating cannabis.
Mrs Tabram says she takes the drug to alleviate the symptoms of tinnitus, whiplash and depression.
In January she admitted possessing 8.5oz of skunk cannabis - the most powerful variety - with a street value of UKP 854 and told police she had clubbed together with a number of other pensioners to buy the supply to help them to relieve pain.
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