1. Ibogaine: To Have or Have Not Howard S. Lotsof Dora Weiner Foundation http://www.doraweiner.org

2. Why would a root derived alkaloid

3. Found in a West African plant

4. Or its Chemical equivalent

5. Lead to a user directed movement to demand a treatment for chemical dependence?

6. Because it works and is deemed effective by users but, then…

7. Questions of Empowerment Ethics & Law

8. Drug User Rights The right to use The right not to use The right to choose

9. Failure to respond “Ibogaine Availability” The medical community The pharmaceutical industry Government

10. 1. The right to assume control of Ibogaine? 2. The right to provide Ibogaine to others? Does such failure leave drug users

11. Historical Precedents for Action Underground Railroad Needle Exchange

12. Underground Railroad Direct confrontation to slavery An illegal activity

13. Law Offered No Protection

14. Some guides or conductors as they were called were well known like Harriat Tubman

15. Due to the nature of the work most guides remained anonymous X

16. Railroad Routes to Freedom

17. Needle Exchange not dissimilar Direct confrontation Sometimes illegal Sometimes tacit approval Danger of arrest

18. The Issues

19. The Solution

20. Conductors/Guides Jon Parker Dave Purchase

21. Parker risked arrest continuously

22. Purchase established a national needle exchange network

23. Ibogaine Precedents International Coalition for Addict Self-Help (ICASH) Dutch Addict Self-Help (DASH) Cures-Not-Wars

24. ICASH logo

25. Nico Adriaans founder Rotterdam Junkies Union

26. Organizing in the US

27. Pressure placed on NIDA to support Ibogaine research Cures-Not-Wars action

28. Mindvox Ibogaine List (user advocacy continues) “We all got to help each other best we can. No one else gives a shit ‘bout us hippy freak junkies? ” anon. To join send an email to ibogaine-subscribe@mindvox.com

29. “FM- I'm not really privy to what's happening in that regard here in the US. Suffice to say, nothing has worked which is why we're here. We feel that continuing the focus offshore, outside the US, has not served a majority of people inside the US. Like many other grassroots movement, which facilitated change, treatments, sessions, need to be done where they belong, in all major US cities, as cost effectively as possible. “ http://www.drugwar.com/ibonyc.shtm Ibogaine underground railroad appears

30. Ibogaine Routes to Freedom

31. Returning us to: Questions of Empowerment Ethics & Law