Beal pleads guilty, but med defense not up in smoke

BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Dana Beal, the patriarch of Village potheads, appeared before Judge Mary Gilibride in Saunders County, Nebraska, this week for a perfunctory bench trial — at which he pleaded guilty to possession of about 150 pounds of pot.

The Yippie activist is a longtime resident of 9 Bleecker St. and the organizer of the annual Million Marijuana March for pot ...

Marijuana advocate in a tough fight
By Paul Hammel
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

WAHOO, Neb. — Back in the ’60s, Dana Beal was one of the original Yippies — the radical, counterculture group known for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention and advocating legalization of drugs and a nation powered by people and not profit.

Years later, Beal organized marches calling for the legalization of marijuana and helped open a New York City clinic that dispenses pot to ...

Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?
By Stephanie Hegarty
BBC World Service

Since the 1960s a disparate group of scientists and former drug addicts have been advocating a radical treatment for addiction – a hallucinogen called ibogaine, derived from an African plant, that in some cases seems to obliterate withdrawal symptoms from heroin, cocaine and alcohol. So why isn’t it widely used?

For nearly 15 years, Thillen Naidoo’s life was ruled by crack cocaine. Growing up ...

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Celibate pornography addict ‘went through hell after Harley Street doctor gave him unlicensed hallucinogenic drug’

Australian-trained physician had claimed he would float in a ‘dreamlike state’ after taking Ibogaine
Man, 25, suffered paranoia, psychosis and insomnia
By Nick Enoch
Last updated at [7:14] PM on 12th October 2011

A Harley Street doctor who put a porn addict through ‘total hell’ by prescribing him an unlicensed hallucinogenic drug failed to fully explain the risks of the experimental treatment to ...

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9/22/2011 [12:43:00] PM
Beal gets prison, extended supervision

J. Patrick Reilly
Editor/Co-Publisher

Those who came to the Iowa County courthouse Tuesday to testify on Irvin (Dana) Beal’s behalf would not be shocked if he walked on water. Beal has that affect on those he has helped.

But the fact the 64 year old Beal was transporting 180 pounds of medium grade marijuana through Wisconsin when his 1997 Chevrolet Astro van was stopped last January 6 for expired registration, ...