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Winterfest Deutschland – es kann so schön sein…

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Happy Holidays – Fröhliches Winterfest Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Es kann so schön sein.
Bekifft mit den Liebsten unterm Weihnachtsbaum, nach einem
gesunden Schlaf fit in den Dienst.
Stattdessen saufen mit der kratzigen Verwandtschaft, zur nächsten
Schicht verkatert in die Arbeitsuniform.
Unabhängig von der aktuellen Gesetzeslage bevorzugen bereits viele
Menschen in der Welt, auch in Deutschland, die etwas effizientere
Medikamentierung mit der verbotenen Substanz Cannabis.
Gesetzestreuen bleibt nur der Griff zur Flasche oder eine Verschreibung
vom Arzt, um die nicht selten bis zum Anschlag gereizten Nerven mit
Painkillern auf die Feierlichkeiten einzustimmen.
Fein wäre es gewesen, noch vor dem Fest von der Bundesregierung
eine Gesetzesreform zu erhalten, welche zum unbeschwert fröhlichen
Feiern Anlass gibt.

Weihnachtsmarkt Karlsplatz Wien, Jahr ~2010 (?) , mit CIA TV

8 Jahre nach der Regulierung von Cannabis im US-Bundesstaat
Colorado gilt für Cannabis das gleiche wie bei der deutschen Bahn:
Nordamerikaner und Schweizer haben die deutlich besseren Konzepte,
aber abschauen tun sich die Deutschen grundsätzlich nichts. Bei den
Klassenbesten abschreiben ist pfui, oder was.

Der Schlingerkurs mit dem neuen Gesetz fing an mit der unsinnigen
Ausklammerung kommerzieller Cannabis Geschäfte, welche nach US-
Vorbild leicht als Drogerien schnell die Arbeit aufnehmen könnten.

Dann wurde das Cannabis Club Modell zu Anbauclubs geschrumpft,
vom Cannabis Social Club bleibt nur Anbau und Profitfreiheit übrig, mit
Streichung des gemeinschaftlichen Konsums fällt der soziale
Kontrollaspekt weg, die gegenseitige Zuwendung wird eliminiert, alles
was die Idee gut und wirksam macht eingestampft.

Dynamik, Mut und Tatkraft steht der Regierung bei fossilen Projekten
zur Verfügung, bei progressiven Projekten Fehlanzeige.
Das ganze Theater ums Kraut scheint auch nur ein Schattenspiel zu
sein, so wirklich ernst ist es wohl damit niemandem an leitenden
Positionen unserer Gesellschaft.
Für uns ist der Kampf ums Kraut auch Teil des Kampfes für unsere
Demokratie.

GMM Wien 2019

Der “Krieg gegen Drogen” ist in Wahrheit nur eine Kampagne im Krieg
gegen Menschen.
Mit Herz und Verstand können wir das Elend beenden, nur müssen wir
dafür zusammen stehen.
Die Zeiten werden zunehmend härter, gebt den Menschen etwas
zurück.
Wenn es entspannend wirkt, ohne aggressiv zu machen, umso besser.

Wo ist eigentlich das Problem?
„Im Rausch samma z’haus“ singt Wolfgang Ambros.
Was legales Rauschgift ist und was nicht bestimmt wer – und warum
bitte?
Was ist Droge, warum sind die einen erlaubt und die anderen nicht nur
verboten, sondern obendrauf mit sozialem Stigma belegt?
Am Erscheinungsbild und Verhalten schwer berauschter Personen kann
es nicht liegen, siehe Oktoberfest.
Schauen wir im Duden nach, zur Klärung der Definition des Begriffs
„Droge“.
Damit wir sicher die selbe Sprache sprechen, sonst reden wir
aneinander vorbei.

Die Droge Alkohol ist ein körperfremdes, gefährliches Nervengift, mit
schnell erreichter tödlicher Dosierung.
Dieses Rauschgift darf in unbegrenzter Menge überall privat vorrätig
sein und relativ frei verwendet werden.

Hier funktionert der Jugendschutz, oder nicht?
Wenn der Jugendschutz beim Alkohol greift, könnte unsere Jugend vor
Cannabis auf die gleiche Weise geschützt werden, auch wenn
Cannabis nicht tödlich ist.
Cannabis in der Drogerie erhältlich, in elektronisch gesicherten Gläsern,
gleich neben dem Regal mit ebenso gesichertem Schnaps.
Denken wir gleich weiter und packen die harte Droge, das Rauschgift
Alkohol, auch in die Drogerie.
Verkauf nur an berechtigte Personen, im Zweifel Ausweis vorzeigen.
Geht nicht, warum?
Schweden macht es vor, gemeinsam mit Putins Russland zählt es zu
den beinharten Prohibitionisten, welche mit ignoranter Unmenschlichkeit
von einer drogenfreien Welt fabulieren.
In Schweden wird Alkohol nur in staatseigenen Drogerien zur Verfügung
gestellt. Wollen wir auch nicht wirklich, keine Sorge.

Family Cannabaceae – Hops & Hemp

Die nicht profitorientierten Cannabis Social Clubs bieten eine
Ergänzung zu den kommerziellen Geschäften an.
Was ein CSC ist, ist genau definiert.
Es soll und darf gerne andere Modelle geben, aber die nennen sich
dann nicht CSC.
Es gibt keinen Grund für Konflikte, wir wollen alle eine effiziente und der
Gesellschaft dienende Legalisierung/Regulierung von Cannabis.
ENCOD steht gerne zur Verfügung, um bei auftauchenden Streitigkeiten
zu vermitteln.
In der Absicht, eine gemeinsame politische Kraft aufzubauen, um nicht
in Kleinstgruppen zu bleiben und somit unsere Energie zu verpuffen.
Was wir jetzt brauchen ist ein Schulterschluss der gesamten Cannabis
Bewegung.
Lasst uns zusammen stehen!

Die kreative Energie der Straße, die demokratische Leidenschaft der
Grassroots Bewegung, die organisierte Sozialstruktur der Social Clubs,
die Schubkraft kommerzieller Unternehmer –
sollten jetzt ihre gemeinsamen Interessen in den Fokus nehmen und
eine politische Macht werden.
Somit in Zukunft keine Großmutter eine ärztliche Bewilligung braucht,
um ihre Altersleiden mit ihren Gartenkräutern zu lindern.
Somit in Zukunft die therapeutische Wirkung von Cannabis für alle zur
Entstressung und Vorbeugung schwerer Leiden ohne Probleme
erhältlich ist.
Somit in Zukunft die Pflanze Cannabis mit ihren überragenden
Eigenschaften uneingeschränkt genutzt werden kann, von den Wurzeln
über die Stengel bis zu den Blüten.
Somit in Zukunft unsere Polizei keine harmlosen Bürger mehr verfolgen
muss.
Somit dieselbe Polizei nach Dienstschluss zur Entspannung auch ein
gemütliches Rohr durchziehen darf.

Zum Universellen Neujahr, am 22. Dezember 2023, liebe Grüße von
ENCOD an unsere deutschen Mitmenschen.
ENCOD steht seit 1993 auf internationalem Parkett in der Debatte um
den Drogenkrieg, in unzähligen Konferenzen formte sich unsere
Position.
An der UNO gilt ENCOD als “unbeherrschbare Nichtregierungs-
Organisation”, berichtet unser amtierender Präsident, UN und WHO
Diplomat, Vorsitzender Cannabis Sans Frontiers Frankreich, Farid
Ghehioueche.
ENCOD ist nicht käuflich, sieht aber Handel grundsätzlich als wichtiges
Werkzeug des Friedens absolut positiv.
An dieser Stelle herzlichen Dank an unsere treuen Geschäftsponsoren.
Lasst uns handeln.
Wir schreiben den Kalender neu.
Es ist heute das Jahr 3,2 Millionen nach Lucy. Zirka.
Cannabis ist seit Urmutter Lucy mit uns Menschen, es ist Teil unserer
DNA, unseres Körpers, unseres Erbes.
Die 100 Jahre Prohibition sind dagegen nicht mal ein Wimpernschlag.
Einfach zu erledigen.

ENCOD bedankt sich bei all seinen deutschen Unterstützern.
Ihr habt viel erreicht.
Gemeinsam fegen wir den rechts-konservativen Unfug endgültig vom
Tisch.
ENCOD gedenkt der Opfer aller Kriege.
Wir wünschen Euch allen eine gerechte und wirksame Drogenpolitik.

Copyright all images Erec O. Kozàr. Xmas Santa: Mario Danne, CIA TV

 

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ENCOD Address Germany December 2023

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to German Policy Makers in the drug law debate

We, as ENCOD are closely looking at the development occuring in Germany, as we already supported some groups of citizens who are trying to set up Cannabis Social Clubs in conformity with our CSC guidelines published in 2020.

FILLER

Since 1993  we, as ENCOD have been engaged to promote human rights and health through drug policy reforms based on scientific evidence and the will of policy makers to implement laws and rules that are just and effective.
Our advocacy work is based on the claim and on the grassroots initiative of peoples who are first concerned or affected by drug policy laws and policies. 

We, as ENCOD are closely looking at the evolutions occuring in Germany, as we already supported some groups of citizens who are trying to set up Cannabis Social Clubs in conformity with our CSC guidelines published in 2020.

We, as ENCOD are deeply concerned by the lack of seriousness – or at the opposite the extreme need to overrule having appeared during the last months, with proposals leading more and more into a very negative path of regulation of the cannabis market, a little bit unrealistic. It seems that German policy makers would like to ensure that it will not work before it is voted!

ENCOD will fight any attempt to build a prohibition 2.0 model, which will surely lead to more problems than one century of prohibition had already caused to societies. 

Here below, we’d like to propose to you the following roadmap, with the hope that it will help to clear the way and avoid some extremely useless measures. 

Our roadmap proposal is based on many principles for which we hope you’ll share their motives : 

  • We need a liberal approach to drugs, not trivalising drugs, not calling drugs free of danger, but on the opposite, drugs should be monitored smartly.
  • We need a pragmatic approach that first gives priority to scientific data and good practices that can be testified. For instance, the Dutch approach in the 70’s with the coffeeshops and the Harm reductions measures has ensured a real prevention of drug use among the youngest, which still makes the Netherlands to remain one of the lowest EU countries’ prevalence among minors.
  • We need to ensure that it can help to empower the healthcare system by avoiding the misuse of financial resources and by spared taxes to fund adequately health care system needs. A real regulation of the cannabis market could help to save a lot of budget for the health care system !
  • We need to diminish the social costs due to drugs, with alcohol and tobacco, and ensure that cannabis products are safely used with harm reduction measures. 

At least, the German new law and new policy towards Cannabis could remain on experimental path e.g. for 3 to 5 years, so the laws and the policy can be adjusted if necessary. The CSC model is also an excellent place to run long-term evaluation studies for a lot of fields of study.

Our roadmap for the future is based on the Potsdam spirit, and we should be clear that we speak the same language.

Framework of regulations for the Cannabis market

General overview of the Roadmap plan

  • Decriminalization of drugs use
  • Regulation is possible under C61 art 2.9
  • Homegrow best to tackle black market ; CSC for the concerned “who deserve a place to exist”
  • Need to debate on the rules for society: no to the minor ; Responsible adult use; public use; advertisement, publicity, incomes use of taxes; harm reductions measures; 
  • Consumption and production issues : 
    • Production : limited surfaces but unlimited number of license to grow ; Rules for cultivation and sanitarian obligations ; 
    • Consumption : out of homegrow for self supply, and Cannabis Social Clubs for the “connoisseurs”, need to establish Cannashops / Cannabars / Drogueries store where adult people can buy Cannabis products – but a control should remain over the products which should avoid byproducts made with neocannabinoids. 

Roadmap for regulation of Cannabis sativa L. in full compliance with international law : Full article

Steps to take at the national level by German government

Following the example of Malta, German government legalization bill could suggest the reference to Article 2(9) indirectly, by:

  • Defining adult use/recreational use as “use for other than medical and scientific purposes”
  • Defining “abuse” as “substance use disorder”
  • Defining the sector created as “cannabis industry”
  • Enacting strong measures of harm reduction
  • Adopting a system to collect data towards yearly submission to INCB

Taking these steps and adding such language in the law (for example, in the “definitions” section or preambular section) has “considerable probative value” because it contains a “recognition by a party of its own obligations under an instrument.” 

Like in Malta and Uruguay, the “non-medical cannabis industry” regulated can take the shape of Cannabis Social Clubs or any other model: the concept of “industry” and “non-medical” is not tied to any economic or organizational model. 

Cannabis Clubs are just a local non-profit industry model.

Give it a try! Start models and evaluate! As a country of brilliant scientists this is one of the strengths of Germany – use brains not muscles!

I want to thank all our German friends and all supporters of ENCOD.

Thank you for your attention. 

ENCOD
European Coalition for
Just and Effective Drug Policies

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Ukraine Legal Medicinal Cannabis Petition

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pdf ENCOD Letter to Ukrainian parliament

Honorable members of the Ukraine parliament,
worldwide, thousands of patients have been treated with cannabis medicines so far.
According to what the doctors stated, overall, they suffered from more than fifty different diseases. There are mainly 5 indication areas.
These are:
– Chronic pain, such as pain due to nerve injury or migraine.
– Psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and sleep
disorders.
– Neurological disorders, such as epilepsy or spasticity due to paraplegia.
– Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis.
– Nausea and loss of appetite due to various causes.
Knowing this and having in mind the vulnerable situation Ukraine is in, we kindly ask you to support your president Zelenskyy in legalizing medicinal cannabis.

As per the academic study Farmability and Pharmability “Cannabinoids were considered easy to cultivate/manufacture.”
Knowing this, Ukraine can easily produce this kind of medicine without depending on foreign countries with little logistic effort and thus saving a lot of money. Medicinal cannabis provides an inexpensive, quickly accessible benefit for the brave people of Ukraine. Disciplined use is mandatory in any case.
We are no medical doctors, but we believe in the effects thanks to testimonies of patients from all over the world.
We focus on Human Rights.
Health is a fundamental human right, indispensable for the exercise of many other rights, in particular the right to development, and necessary for living a life in dignity.
The realization of the right to health is also a fundamental goal of State’s policies and programmes, regardless of their economic, social, cultural, religious or political background.
From a human rights perspective, access to medicines is intrinsically linked with the principles of equality and non-discrimination, transparency, participation, and accountability.
States are obliged to develop national health legislation and policies and to strengthen their national health systems.
For this purpose, key issues related to access to medicines must be taken into account such as: sustainable financing, availability and affordability of essential medicines; price and quality control; dosage and efficacy of medicines; procurement practices and procedures, supply chains, etc.
Against this background and as requested in Human Rights Council resolution 12/24, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) convened an expert consultation on 11 October 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland, “for an exchange of views on human rights considerations relating to the realization of access to medicines as one of the fundamental elements in achieving progressively the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” (para. 7, HRC res. 12/24).
The expert consultation focused on: (1) access to medicines as a fundamental element of the right to health; and (2) emerging issues, existing obstacles to providing accessto m edicines, and ways forward.
The consultation contributed to gathering and focusing expert opinions on the legal interpretation of the above issues, the need for increased policy coherence between human rights obligations and other areas of government policy-making, as well as strengthening the global partnership for development, institutional coordination and collective action towards enhancing access to medicines.

As member of UN VNGOC with ECOSOC status, we condemn/oppose the war waged by Russia.
We appeal to all UN member states to uphold international law with utmost respect.
The world needs peaceful solutions, instead of wasting lives and resources for war, which adds to the spiral of catastrophic events the whole world is facing.

We wish you a productive voting on legalizing medicinal cannabis in Ukraine and
may peace come to your country soon.

ENCOD
European Coalition for
Just and Effective Drug Policies

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Free Sara Glatt 2023

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UPDATE: Sara Glatt is now released, we wish her all the best for her future.
July 2023: Sara Glatt is now incarcerated in The Netherlands. According to informants she will be released in September.

Iboga Healer Sara Glatt arrested in Norway, to be extradited to Dutch authorities.
Erec O. Kozàr
26.06.2023

Alternative medicine healer Sara Glatt was arrested in Norway and is to be extradited, as a result of an international arrest warrant by the Dutch authorities, according to whom she still has to serve 2 years and 3 months of a sentence she received some ten years ago.
Sara Glatt was sentenced to prison in The Netherlands. Incarcerated as punishment for the accidental death of an alcoholic she treated, but who unfortunately decided to quit the addiction treatment many days prematurely.
There was also the death of a woman in Sweden, the circumstances of which seem opaque, please see our article In dubi pro reo: Free Sara Glatt, written by Maja Kohek.

Sara Glatt treated the man in The Netherlands with the psychedelic iboga root .
Tabernanthe iboga is an evergreen rainforest shrub native to Central Africa, for more info we recommend to look at sites  Global Iboga Therapy Alliance and ICEERS Iboga and Ibogaine.

Iboga is ideally being used in specialized clinics, where possible, in order to cure people from often life threatening substance addictions. Sometimes, like in Sara’s case, the procedure takes place in private homes.
Mrs. Glatt says she has cured around one thousand individuals of their substance addictions.
 
Iboga treatment is proven by many successful treatments to be one highly efficient way of curing people of their addictions, it helps to erase the need of continued substance use and thus opens the path to a normal, healthy life in society.
Prohibition prevents this kind of treatment in many countries, so like any illicit substance, iboga is taken in secret, where safety sometimes is lacking.
Iboga treatment centers exist in some places where Iboga is not or kind of not prohibited.
Those clinics have special trained medical staff, who assist patients and can help them through difficulties. The procedure is not without dangers, requires discipline from everybody involved. The treatment might take many weeks to complete, depending on the individual needs.

 

Patients with the necessary financial funds may easily travel to a country, where Iboga treatment centers are available. Sara Glatt has decided to offer her services, forced by authorities to operate under maybe not ideal conditions.
What to this author’s thin knowledge happened in the case in the Netherlands 2012: Sara treated an alcoholic in her own home. The man got aggressive, as alcoholics tend to do, demanded to be released to a nearby hotel. Two days later he walked onto a highway and was overrun by a truck.
Killed by a truck, the Dutch authorities ruled it must be the psychedelic substance iboga to blame, not the lethal neurotoxin alcohol, which may or may not made the man lose his life to a moving vehicle.
We can observe it in connection with mixed consumption of alcohol and cannabis. mixing legal and illegalized drugs. The illicit substance is usually easy to blame, ignoring the well known brain- and nerve damaging effects of the drug alcohol.
Sara Glatt probably violated the privileges of established doctors and pharmacologists in The Netherlands, which could well be the true secret reason why they wanted the “Witch of Kockengen”, as she is titled in Dutch media, behind bars.
Patient’s death in established academic medicine is regrettably nothing unusual, doctors lose patients. It is a terrible thing for any practitioner, a pain they all have to live with.


Sara Glatt lives to heal people. She is an exceptionally courageous individual, who is willing to take a lot of personal risk to her own safety and well being when helping people.
Taking that risk may well be the worst thing she can be accused of.
Many people thank Sara Glatt for helping them to gain a life in peace, to be free from pressure and stigma, having gained or regained control and joy of their lives.

It is ENCOD’s position that both Sara Glatt and her deceased patients are victims of prohibition, victims of the inhumane War on Drugs, which has been officially declared by US president Richard Nixon in 1971 and has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since, destroyed families, ravaged communities everywhere in the world.
“War on Drugs” is war on people, as people have always been traditionally cultivating drugs.

We at ENCOD are convinced that bad drug laws do more harm to people and society than the drugs themselves, if drugs were legal and regulated.

 

 


Therefore ENCOD – European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies, member of the VNGOC at United Nations Organization, with ECOSOC status, formally protests against the judgment of the Dutch authorities: we oppose the demand to extradite Sara Glatt, an extradition which is scheduled to proceed these days.
We appeal to the Dutch authorities to pardon Sara Glatt, considering her honorable wish to heal people from their drug related suffering. 


We appeal to all European countries to review their drug laws immediately, focusing on the needs of their citizens, not blindly defending the privileges of an established system.
ENCOD invites all recipients to enter the public dialogue about treatment with psychedelics, by participating in civil society, discussing the latest scientific developments and discoveries in this field. Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies.

ENCOD appeals to Norway please stop the extradition of Sara Glatt. In the spirit of justice and human rights, a spirit which we know is strong in Norway.
This is a little late to appeal to Norway, the decision about Sara Glatt’s extradition has been made. But any decision can be revoked quickly, embracing human rights at heart.

In many places in our world war is a terrible reality.
“War on Drugs” – Prohibition is a terrible failure. If the intention was to bring peace in the first place, why not declare “Peace on Drugs”.
Prohibition kills thousands of people every day. How many drug related murders happen because of greed and obedience to inhumane laws?
Declare peace, to immediately end suffering, humiliation, death.
To punish a healer so severely shines an interesting light on the cynicism of modern society.
Please free Sara Glatt.

Our condolences to all victims of the War on People.

Erec O. Kozàr
26.06.2023