Therapeutic Uses of Iboga/ine and It's Outdated U.S. Legal Status

Iboga/ine has proven therapeutic use.

For example, studies of opiate detoxification assisted by dosing with it show the African rainforest root blunts withdrawal symptoms and cravings

It should not be Schedule 1!

The Americans' conservative criteria for this scheduling under the anachronstic Controlled Substances Act reads as follows in 21 USC Section 812(b)(1):

Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act

SUBCHAPTER I — CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT

Part B — Authority to Control; Standards and Schedules

§812. Schedules of controlled substances

(b) Placement on schedules; findings required

Except where control is required by United States obligations under an international treaty, convention, or protocol, in effect on October 27, 1970, and except in the case of an immediate precursor, a drug or other substance may not be placed in any schedule unless the findings required for such schedule are made with respect to such drug or other substance. The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:

(1) Schedule I.—

(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.

(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.

(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. 

Potential for abuse is up for debate.  Sacred use and medical use are more like it.  But items (B) and (C) are decidedly wrong!

Join the SITAR benefit, IBOGAINE FOR THE WORLD, to help spread this message.  We are holding an educational panel, with a reception, fundraising auction, recovery meeting, and then rock concert.  Several medical doctors with unique experiences and clinical expertise to share are scheduled to speak and take questions.  And other special guests are expected to join them.

We need to put up a deposit to throw this exciting event.  It will be held just north of San Francisco, California on Saturday December 12, 2015.

Funds raised will be directed toward the Safety First! message, and go to support an important international conference coming up in March 2016, sponsored by the Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance (GITA).

To book the prospective venue and musical talent, we urgently need to show some movement on our crowd-funding effort, http://bit.ly/1JWnPfO.  $150 gets you an early bird VIP ticket to the panel, reception, and rock show!  Please help us crystallize this effort!

If you can not contribute by PayPal or Credit Card, or choose to contribute in some other way (media, art and visionary culture items to auction off for the benefit of GITA 2016 conference needs?), feel free to email the organizer at freedomroot@gmail.com for a U.S. mailing address.

We anticipate having a Post Office box by September 1st.

You can also follow us, and see more media links, on our Facebook Causes page.

Thanks. And Love All Ways.  Free the Root!