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MySpace Layouts MySpace Codes MySpace Backgrounds Welcome to ILLINOIS - CANNABIS ACTION NETWORK (Midwest Regional Referral) ====================================================== The Mission of the Illinois Cannabis Action Network is to aid in reducing the harm associated with cannabis consumption and to educate the voting population regarding the need to reform cannabis laws. The Cannabis Liberation Movement is a global struggle. We need to act locally but think globally. What campaigns of reform others have been successful with - we must use to create our own reform. To lobby as others have, in order to change laws that that the public no longer supports. And for those others who struggle, the successful can reach down to lift them up as we reform laws together. ======================================================
WHO WE ARE: The Illinois Cannabis Action Network is a chapter in a nationwide team working to make cannabis legally available for medicinal, industrial, and personal uses. This action network unites over 250 groups, from 50 states and around the world, in a powerful grassroots coalition, driven by education first initiatives. Our national headquarters, located in Berkeley, California, serves as an information clearinghouse, and a support center for activist campaigns.
CAN believes that ending the war against our fellow citizens starts with everybody getting educated and involved from the grassroots level up to the White House.
WHAT WE'RE DOING:"MOBILIZE TO LEGALIZE" CAMPAIGN Sponsoring over 250 educational events and organizer training conferences across the nation. *****
CITIZEN-LOBBYIST PROJECT Tracking legislation, and mobilizing citizens to interact with their elected officials. *****
INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE AND ACTIVIST SUPPORT CENTER Providing educational materials, training kits, and we are looking to develop an activist hotline, for legal and activist Action Alert information. *****
GET INVOLVED Sponsoring and organizing awareness & educational presentations, media campaigns, membership drives, promotional fundraisers and other activities. (If you would like to sponor an event in your area, please contact me for more info.)*****
EDUCATE YOURSELF Read books and articles about cannabis to stay informed. Attend ralleys and seminars, listen to speakers and presenters. Network with like-minded organizations, attend pro events and keep on top of pressing current issues. *****
VOTE: Vote to elect sympathetic candidate. Make sure you (and your friends) are registered at your current address, and support anti-prohibition candidates and initiatives. *****
GET ACTIVE Failed drug laws will not change until they hear from enough of their constituents. Pick up the phone, write a letter and attend a rally. *****
ORGANIZE IN YOUR HOME TOWN Start a local CAN chapter to mobilize like-minded people in your area. From Shawnee National Forest, to Effingham to Zion, Illinois.

My Interests

YOU KNOW WHEN CONSERVATIVES LIKE FOX NEWS BILL O'RIELLY OPENLY FAVOR DECRIMINALIZATION YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHY INNOCENT POT SMOKERS ARE STILL BEING PUT IN JAIL & VILLIANIZED AS CRIMINALS.

What do you think?

This network of friends, family, medical practitioners, lawyers, business owners, activist and humanitarians is for smokers and non-smokers alike that understand that decriminalization of marijuana is about protecting liberty by rejecting governmental lies in favor of protecting human lives and rights. The primary purpose of America's current policy is protection of the plastics, alcohol, criminal system and other profit driven affairs. Yes, "nothing changes on New Year's Day" ... as my economics teacher used to say everyday before we'd start class "money, money, money makes the world go round." So I hope you all dissent from government propaganda at least on this most clear issue. Any reasonable person who is even partially aligned with the truth can see the insanity of America's hypocrisy on this issue. The toxic drug nicotine and the countess lives lost to that addiction or the problem alcohol reeks is devastating on Americans, while the better and safer alternative is villianized and becomes a PRETEXT for GOVERNMENTAL ABUSE against the people, their families and liberties.
Gee "I'm glad to be an American where at least I know I'm free." Who the hell wrote that song admidst the backdrop of centralization of government and the rapid erosion of civil liberties in America. Always an ignorant 'Yes' man to help keep people in a state of collective delusion.
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural? You know what I mean? It's nature. How do you make nature against the fucking law?" --Bill Hicks
Ordinarily, political views are motivated and controlled by culture, religion, social standards and the like (supported by an underlying theme of what is "practical" or "just" amongst the brainwashed minds of society). This obviously leads to illogical decisions, which feed off each other, creating even bigger and more complex problems. When aristocratic parties and groups who manipulate these social standards of cultural morality are granted positions in government, it quickly leads to an excess of their empowerment in the economic system. And those who rule the economy ultimately control society through religion, entertainment, etc. This causes an economy that can be ridiculously manipulated by a highly organized and intelligent form of greed, due to unawareness and inaction of the mentally subdued population. My (or Our Organization of Pro-Legalization/De-Criminalization) motives are different from this in the fact that we base our political views off of logic and scientific fact vs. cultural opinion, and it only makes since that all excess wealth is to be recycled to the lower economic classes, educational system, scientific foundations and small entrepreneur based business to better our economy as a whole, and multiply technological, medical and social progress.
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The Illinois Cannabis Action Network, IL-CAN, is an organization for people of Illinois and residents of other states who want to see Marijuana Decriminalized. Our intent is to send out educational or action bulletins to encourage you to take action in your community and our nation.
I encourage you to comment my site because review and reflection is necessary in order to better serve the cause. I have a personal account, my other profile is www.myspace.com/rev_smiley. I encourage you to examine the information I have up concerning ethogens and other interesting blog comments on psychedelic research, politics and of course psychology, among other things.
I am partial to REAL friends, not myspace friends only, but people who are serious and concerned for the change in the education, media portrayal, and misinformation surrounding marijuana & 'psychedelic' consciousness. I am not an avid comment leaver - unless it's to convey some visual information necessary to make a significant point.
BECOME AN ILLINOIS-CANNABIS ACTION NETWORK MEMBER:
To join the ILLINOIS Cannabis Action Network just add yourself as a friend to my friends list. Your membership at this point, is considered anonymous. Your support is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Movies:

Alex Jones: Using corruption to influence terrorrism To view the full length feature in super quality go to the following link (cut and paste)http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=786048453686176 230

Television:

Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11, George W. Bush & the Iraq war

Heroes:

An amazing true story... 4 min documentary, on world famous cannabis grower Scott Blakely, please enjoy!
With a Masters in Biology and a love of cannabis, Scott Blakey's (aka Shantibaba) track record is world class. He established his reputation working for the Sensi Seed Bank, where he developed Northern Lights # 5 x Haze and Big Bud, multi award winning varieties of cannabis and two of the best known strains available. Scott then moved on to co-found the Greenhouse Seed Company, where he developed the "White" line: White Widow, White Rhino, White Shark, etc. His undoubted ability and breeding expertise made the Greenhouse Seeds Company what it is today.
In 1999 Scott and Howard Marks decided to team up and start their own Seedbank. The Mr Nice Seedsbank was established in Switzerland following the Dutch governments changing of the law in Holland which made professional, above-board indoor breeding illegal.
Scott was one of the first of the seed breeders to make this move. His company, Gene Bank Technology, had a $2m contract with the Body Shop to supply cannabis essential oil for their hemp cosmetics and also produced the vital ingredients for a top brand of hemp beer.
At the beginning of 2003 Scott Blakey was in jail in Switzerland serving time for developing more potent cultivars (a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation) of cannabis.
On the 3rd of October Shantibaba was freed after serving 14 months in jail for growing cannabis within Swiss borders.
Movie trailer from "L'Erba proibita?" 2002.

My Blog

Let the Media War of Love Begin...

Inspired and reconstructed by original post over the last few days by;Anthony is a GreenSacred Grounds CoffeehouseDate: Dec 26, 2007 10:56 PMNovember 19, 2007http://artofmentalwarfare.com/pog/the-art-...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:58:00 PST

The entire ceremony is an offering.

The main goal during this time was to experiment in new ways and create something so different that was so popular and widespread, that its integration into the collective would result in potential or...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:48:00 PST

Cannabis may help "Cure Cancer"

BBC NEWS 24, exclusive report: Wednesday, 15 September, 2004Cannabis may help combat cancer --> --> --> --> --...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:04:00 PST

Psychedelics & Religious Experence: by Alan Watts

Hello Again Friends, It's really interesting and worth the time to read this material. If you don't have the time now, might I suggest that you copy it and print it out so you can take it with y...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:46:00 PST

A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis

A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis ..> 7000-8000 B.C. First woven fabric believed to be from hemp. 1619 Jamestown Colony, Virginia passes law requiring farmers to grow hemp. 170...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:03:00 PST

Drug Money Corrups Law Enforcement

Coordinated Drug War Raids as Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying .. begin content --> by: stop the drug war Posted in Chronicle Blog by David Borden on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 11:49am .. google_ad_sect...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Wed, 16 May 2007 02:25:00 PST

The Heartland Remains Resistant!: Medical Marijuana Bill Killed in Illinois Senate

Medical Marijuana: Illinois Bill Killed in Senate .. begin content --> Printer Friendly Version Email this Article from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #485, 5/11/07 A bill that would have allowed for t...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:40:00 PST

Start Your Own Religion

SANTO DAIME: Founded in Brazil 1945 by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known to followers as Master Irineu. Serra, a rubber extractor whose work brought him into contact with native religious practices, began...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:43:00 PST

Do you smoke pot everyday?

If you thank you might have cannabis dependence, if you smoke pot everyday, then you might want to consider reading the following. If you find as you read the article, that it describes you...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:56:00 PST

Marijuana and I have a relationship

Medical Marijuana 1. Since 1996, eleven states have legalized medical marijuana use: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ME, NV, OR, RI, VT and WA. Eight of the ten did so through the initiative process, Hawaii's ...
Posted by Illinois_Compassionate_Action_Network on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:17:00 PST