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Drug Bust Nets Leader Of Big Island Marijuana Ministry
Drug Bust Nets Leader Of Big Island Marijuana Ministry
A two-year investigation led to the arrests of 14 people on the Big Island in connection with an alleged marijuana growing and distribution network.
The leader of the group has openly said cannabis is a religion for him and that he's proud to spread what he calls the sacrament. How he did it, though, appears to have run afoul of federal authorities.
Roger Christie of Hilo speaks openly about what he calls his religion -- his THC ministry, and of the wealth that has flowed from it.
"The nickname for it is ganja-nomics,” he says on web videos he made promoting his services, “the natural economy that happens when you have freedom and cannabis together."
He claims a state license to be a wedding minister is his license to provide the drug. For donations of varying amounts The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry based issues a “Religious Use of Marijuana” ID card, ordainment, legal defense kits, and what the founder calls the sacrament -- marijuana
"We use cannabis religiously, and you can too," Christie says. “Raise the level of acceptance for having the blessings of cannabis in our life. I know you want it. I wanted it, I was hungry for it. I got it."
Thursday he got arrested, along with more than a dozen others, picked up in various locations from Hilo to Honokaa. Drug enforcement agents, sheriffs, county police, immigrations and customs and even postal agents were part of the bust. Sources say 14 people in all were taken into custody. | The full story can be read by clicking this link.
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Creating a new culture based on tribal values
Wahkon writes "Inter Caetera denies indigenous peoples some of their fundamental human rights. If Pope Benedict XVI would be so kind to publicly revoke this papal bull, or apologize for it, and then write and publish a document that states that indigenous peoples have the same fundamental human rights as all other peoples, this would go a long ways toward helping to create a new U.S.A. culture based on traditional tribal cultural values. "
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COOL News: Albert Hoffmann Enters Bardo Realms at 102
Albert Hoffmann, the discoverer of LSD, passed on to the Bardo planes at the age of 102.
This marks the END of an ERA.
The first person to ever trip out on LSD has finally taken the ultimate trip.
He lived a very long and productive life, despite having done ACID! Which puts to lie every b.s. claim that Acid is dangerous and ruins lives.
Yes, I hope he got to transition to the bardos with his favorite child, LSD.
That man changed the world probably more than ANYONE ELSE in the last millennium. Think about that!
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COOL News: New Medical Uses for Marijuana, LSD, Psilocybin, Ketamine!
Could Ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms one day be legitimate prescription
medicines? It sounds unlikely, but doctors and researchers in the US and
across Europe believe it is possible and that new science will prove the
case.
Second chances are rare in science. In the Fifties and Sixties, hallucinogenic
drugs, such as LSD, were hailed as the magic bullet to everything from
alcoholism to migraine. But they became caught in the crossfire of the
cultural wars of the times. Western politicians banned the use of
psychedelics in research once they started to be used recreationally, and
became associated with flower-power and the counter culture. The drugs were
dangerous; the science was flawed; the researchers biased.
But a comeback has been under way for more than a decade. A new generation of
researchers say that psychedelic drugs can treat conditions such as
addiction, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and a type of headache
called cluster headache.
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COOL Archives: Metta Prayer
This beautiful prayer is derived from the Metta Sutra. I found it in Lama Surya Das' Awakening the Buddha Within, an excellent book on Buddhism.
This may be one of the most powerful and self-transformational prayers one can utter.
The Metta Prayer
May all beings be happy, content and fulfilled.
May all beings be healed and whole.
May all have whatever they want and need.
May all be protected from harm, and free from fear.
May all beings enjoy inner peace and ease.
May all be awakened, liberated and free.
May there be peace in this world, and throughout the entire universe.
The Buddha has said that this prayer will be great benefit to those who recite and meditate upon this.
According to Lama Das, you will "sleep easily, wake easily, have pleasant dreams, people will love you, celestial beings will love you and protect you; poisons, fire and other external dangers will not harm you, your face will be radiant, and your mind concentrated and serene; and you will die unconfused and be reborn in the happy realms." What more could a Buddhist or human being ask for?
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