1. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ..4 NEW SCIENCE NEWS 46GLOBAL NEWS 6 A selection of interesting news and views from the A round-up of the news you probably did not see. underground science network. In this issue, we highlight Tom Watsons research into a geometricTHE PINAY CIRCLE 11 relationship between gravity and magnetism. By David G. Guyatt. A little-known transatlantic clique drawn from the intelligence communit}/t the AN ET IPERSPECTIVE ON EARTH-Part 2 49 military, politics and banking, Le Cercle is With Alex Collier. An ET contactee reports the implicated in destabilising and overthrowing freely Andromedan view on our genetic heritage, the elected governments since the 1910s. forces that would curtail and advance human evoMARIJUANA: A MEDlCINAL MARVEL? 15 lution, and the importance of self-responsibility. Dr Lester Grinspoon, interviewed by jana Ray. The THE TWILIGHT IONE 56 US Marihuana Tax Act of 1931 forced doctors to Strange stories from around (and off) the world. In stop prescribing cannabis despite its medicinal this issue, we consider an ET sighting and capture in benefits and minimal toxic side-effects. There is a Brazil that has been covered up by their military. strong case for reinstating it to the Pharmacopoeia. REVI EWS-Books 59THE HORMONE HERESY-Part 2 21 "Towards a New Alchemy" by Dr Nick 8egich By Sherrill Sellman. Oestrogen treatments are "The jesus Papyrus" by Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew dAncona linked with increased incidence of osteoporosis, "Valley of the Spirits" by Alan L. Kolata "Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden" by David Irving heart disease and cancers in women, yet doctors "Energy in the Red: Living with CFS" by jacqueline Finch still prescribe them. Whats more, chemicals "Power & Prospects" by Noam Chomsky which mimic oestrogens threaten our very survival. "Ether-Technology" by Rho SigmaWHITE POWDER GOLD-Part 1 29 "Natural Progesterone" by john R. Lee, M.D. "The Gift: The Crop Circles Deciphered" by Doug Ruby With David Hudson. White Powder Gold is a "The Secret of Healing" by Hans Holzer, Ph.D. substance which defies the textbooks with its "The Food That Would Last Forever" by Dr Gary Gibbs amazing properties and potentials. How it was "Help Your Child to Perfect EyeSight... " by janet Goodrich, Ph.D. discovered is a fascinating story in itself. "Cry in the Wilderness) by jean R. WilliamsTHE KEY TO HUMANITYS ORIGINS-Part 2 34 REVIEWS-l:ideos 65 "Voyagers of the Sixth Sun: UFOs and the Destinr of Mexico" By David Wood and Ian Campbell. Renne-Ie "The Mysterious Origins of Man" hosted by Charlton Heston Chateaus sacred landscape geometry bears the mark of an earlier advanced culture in France with REVIEWS-Software 66 "Natural Health & Nutrition Databank" from Hyperhealth links to ancient Egypt. The evidence is at odds with the authorised version of history. REVI EWS-Audio 67 "Doorways" by AymanWHO WAS VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER?-Part 3...........40 "Heaven & Earth" by Jah Wobble By Callum Coats. Soon after his US backers stole "Otway Spirit" by Simon Lewis his patents, Viktor Schauberger died, a broken man. "Celtic Woman: A Collection" Yet his legacy lives on, for his ideas are as relevant "Heaven on Earth" by Ray Oliver today as ever and their adoption is long overdue. NEXUS BOOKS, SUBS, ADS & VIDEOS 71AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 1

2. Editorial Feedback from NEXUS readers covers an extremely wide range of subjects and opinionsr but it is 99.9% positive in its encouragement of our efforts to continue publishing. Whilst most feedback is in the form of letters and phone callsr we are also attracting a lot of response through our Internet Web Pager which has now registered well over 50,000 hits since November last year and represents nearly every country on the planet. A special hello to all those readers in Iceland! The 7996 NEXUS Conference in Sydney was a huge success. Over 300 peo ple came from as far away as Germany, UKr USA, Canada r Fiji and New Zealand and had a thoroughly good time. During the Conference Discussion Panel on the Saturday nightr a person stood up and commented on how NEXUS had literally blown his mind when he first started reading it several years ago. He and many others vocalised that they felt NEXUS has provided them with information that totally shattered their perceptions of reality and left them in shockr until a new perceptual framework of reality emerged in their lives. It was an interesting discussion r with someone even suggesting that NEXUS could help cushion the blow with some sort of debriefing process each issue. I explained that for us to replace his shattered reality with another view point preferred by NEXUSr means that we would be robbing him of his own power to chose an alternative picture. Sure, NEXUS is happy to point out reasons why people should think twice about trusting the system and all its experts, but NEXUS will never tell you what is the right way-because we dont know ourselves! I might point out here that while NEXUS has also pub lished many positive alternativesr or solutionsr to various problems, the power to make the choice of what to believer what to dOr etc. r must be youts. Regularly double-check everything you believe. If it is working for you (i.e r you are happY)r then stick with it a while longer. If it is not working for you (j.e., you are not happY)r then change what you believe. What is the point of maintaining a belief system that makes you miserable? My joy in life is being able to bring readers of NEXUS into contact with ideas and information that empower them as individuals. Speaking of which, allow me to rave a while about the merits of various articles to be found in this issue. The Hormone Heresy article last issue generated huge interest across the planet so much so that we decided to continue it in this issue. This article is a classic example of information which can empower you. The lecture by Alex Collier in our last issue also attracted enormous response. We received three letters commenting that it was total and utter crap, and 7a times as many saying it was the best big picture they had read for a long time. This amazing tale of extraterrestrial and extradimensional adventure is taken up again this issue. For the last few months we have been tracking information on White Powder Gold which has been circulating various networks in the USA and Australia. It is an extraordinary story about an extraordinary set of substances. Please try to wade through the science as there are even more surprises in Part 2, next issue. Youre sure to be hearing a lot more about this in the future. As I type, the other big thing making the rounds is the story of the alien allegedly captured by the Brazilian military earlier this year. Weve run a reprint of this press story in TWilight Zone. Til againr happy reading! Duncan WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY IIAdvertisers upon and by lodging material with the Publisher for publication or authodsing or approving of the publication of any material INDEMNIFY thePublisher and its servants ana agents against alliliability claims or proceedings whatsoever arising from the publication and without limiting the generality of theforegoin& to indemnify ea~h of tnefTI in relation to defamation, sla~der of ritle, breach of copyright, infringement of trademarks or names of publicat!on titles, unfairllcompetitIOn or trade pradlces, royalties or Violation of rights or prlva-cy AND WARRANT that the mate-rial complies With all relevant laws and regulations and thatits publication will not give rise to any rights against or liabilities in the Publisher, its servants or agents and In particular that nOlhing itherein is capable of being lmisleading or deceptive or otherwise in breach of the Part V o~ the Trade Practices Act 1974. All expressions of opinion are published on the basis that they areno~ to be regarded as expressing the opinion of the Publisher or ilS servants OJ agents. Editorial advice is not specific and readers are advisedl to seek professionalhelp for Individual problems. NEXUS New Times 19962 NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996

3. British MoD UFO Admission such a ridiculous idea. The for me as I ,grapple with my per coupled with technological inter Dear Editor: Im happy to tell answer? Magazines like NEXUS, sonal experiences. The well ference directly into the brain,NEXUS ueaders that, contrary to of course. Thesc publications researched and presented articles began for me (as far as I am able towhat was said in a recent article would then be in somc deep doo on military malice and corporate register consciously) in earlyabout UFOs (NEXUS April-May doo for pr.oviding a simple, greed, such as the one on HAARP October 1994 and [l1ave continued96, vol. 3/03), I have not resigned impressionable and mentally and other such features on those unabated into the present. In havfrom the Ministry of Defence. unstable young lad with an excuse who utilise advanced technological ing to endure this, I am alone, terWna~ actually happened was this: to play out his wilde_st fantasies. devices and methods to modify rorised, disempowered and holdfrom 1991 !o 1994 U investigated Here is where this lline of think and man.ipulate environments, little hope of fighting back. Thus FUFD sightilJgS for the British ing gcts interesting. The public regions, gFOUpS and individual,s, felt the tears form when I read ofGovernment, and handled policy would naturally call for magazines truly merit our gratitude. Mr Akwei because mknow in detailon this fascinating subject. My like NEXUS to tone it down or get I, for one, urge you and your how wretchedly he must have sufbrief was ,to evaluate the phenome banned. This would happen I staff to maintain tne p.ath you are fered while living w,ithin a supnon, looking for any evidence of a whether or not the conspiracy on and the principles you demon posed liberal democracy. Strange,threat to the defence of the United thing was a reality. The end strate, as experience has taught me though: as II read about his pendKingdom. I started! my tour of r.esult? NEXUS would be gone there are still too few systematic ing court actron against his torduty as a sceptic, but became c.on and we still woul"dnt have any avenues available in print for peo mentors, hope was rekindled thatvinced that a small percentage of proof one way or the other-just as ple suoh as those whose voices are sometbing, just something, mightUFOs were indeed extraterrestrial semi-automatic weapons will soon heard in your magazine. Sadly, for be done.in origin. be gone and we wont know those who like silence or prefer to Please keep your ioformati.on In 1994 I was promoted anQ whether this is because of the evil duck their heads in the sand, too link on the subject of modern elecmoved Ito othcr duties within the NWO or benign NSE (natural many ,avenues prevail for them to tronic perse_cution and about MrDepartment. But I felt that the sociaM evolution). do so with impunity. Akwei alive ana flowing for othersUFO phenomenon was often being My oWn feeling is that semi Here in provincial Palmers ton JiJee me. Then maybe we canignored by my colleagues becal,lse automatio weapons arc not con Nortb I do not go to towl) ID.lcb begin to turn the tide LIJ favour ofof personal ,prejudices stemming ducive to the dawning of a spiritu these days; instead, I remain close justLce, agains~ -those who wouldfrom the phrase "UFO", and decid L ally-aware mew age. Further, I to horne. However, yesterday I secretly and surreptitiously smileed to write a book to set the recorQ Ibelieve in taking the middle road was in town attending to a few as tney kill.straight. Open Skies, Closed when chaos lies to the left and the thiags. It was raining buckets as I Yours sincerely, Jal)ine 1.,Minds, which is to be published by right. headed back to my car. I had just Palmerston North, New Zealand.Simon & Schuster in Junc, was not Finally, I will state an observa switched on the ignitiun when itpopular jn certain quarters, not I~ion. Inlilexible (dare I say it, flashed through my mind to run Doped Up and Defenceless?least because 4~ exposes unautho fanatical) people and. organisations across to thc bookshop to see if Dear Editor: There is somethingrised penetrations of heavily ,inevitably wind up painting theID your April-May issue had arrived. very wrong and fearful about adefended airspace by structured selves into a corner. I suppose If you have ever read The government that ,is s.eriously con~craft of unknown origin, whose what Im ,saying is try not to let this Celestine Prophecy, then this was sidering legalising heroin whilst attechnology is considerably in Ihappen to our beloved NEXUS. one of those coincidcnces the book the same time doing everythingadvance of our own. Yours sincerely, Peter H., speaks ot! ,possible to prohibit private owner Be that as iJ may, I am still work Queensland, Australia. I couldnt see NEXUS in the ship of firearms.ing at the Ministry of Defence shop, so in consolation I picked up The sicrk, pathetic excuse theyalthough I think its safc to say that Mind Machines Minefield the latest Time magazine (which use to cover up a governmentIm off the Christmas card list! Sirs/Madams: Wow! I am in the screamed a headline on the Ihuman pushing drugs is called "a harm Yours sincerely, Nick Pope, midst of perusing your rnagakine brain as a machine ... they wish 1). minimisatiol) model". The doLondon, England, UK. fGr the first time. Like I said, Then, as I was abo.ut to pay, the gooders and government flunkie.s wow! I love it! assistant confirmed that NEXUS chant, "People dont rob people,Conspiracy Confusion What I am wondering is how can had just arrived. I stuck Time Iback heroin robs people!", or "If heroin Dear Duncan: ~3eing a regular I know which of the hypno-pcriph on the shelf and obtained my right was not illegal, it would not kill!"rcader of NEXUS Magazine, I erall aco ustic-proces sing/sta te fiJI magazjne. Once home, I tore Sound familiar? Both these arguconsider myself more informed aUcring/life-cnr,iching/ability-acti off the brown-paper bag and ments are the opposite to what isthan the average Joe Blow when it vating mind machines is the one to scanned the cover: "Deadly Earth claimed by the anti-gunners. Bothcomes to conspiracy theories of all go with? Rays" and "Ultra-tech Spying". I camps claim to be able to create avarieties. The one that leaps to Sincerely yours, Colin T., East turned to the latter and began to peaceful, loving society.mind over the stupid, awful events Penh, Western Austra"lia. read about the NSA and what they They want to tum this societyat Pont Arthur is the one about dis (Dear Colin: The best mind do to p.eople. [See NEXUS 3/03.] into 3 defenceless mob of dopedarming the masses so they are machine is still your own! Ed.) I read and re-read in horror and up zombies. Just like sheep to theunable to defend themselves disgust, taking in the incredible yet slaughter.against the evil NWO-this being IElectronic Persecution totally believable content. Here it Yours faithfully, Michael K.,acco1]plished by wiring some poor D.ear Mr Roads: I am doing was: the trlIth, Ithe cruel reality, Richmond, NSW, Australia.stooge and instructing him to do a s.omcthing I have wanted to do for the fearsome. i.nvisible weaponrystupid, awflill ~hing so that Ithe some lime now: write to you. I of those whose mandate it is to Truth vs IPropagandamasses disann themselves, or giv Ihave been a reader of NEXlUS harass, manipulate, maim and sup Dear Duncan: I think your maging the stooge mind-altering psy Magazine since its inception and press, all in the name of security azine is great. Youre doing a greatchiatric drugs to accomplish the look forward to each new issue today. service to mankind by getting thissame end. oreacbing the booksellers here in Put simply, I wish you and your information out. How does your I started thinking on this. What Palmerston North, Ncw Zealand. I readers to know that, like Mr John ego feel now?!would happen if suner boy came see NEXUS being increasingly St Clair Akwei, F have been a tar Seriously, its great info. Ive gotout and told the worM that he was stocked by various retailers around get for continuous electronic perse a binder full of articles divided intowired and instructed ,to do this stu the city, which is worthy praise for cution for what feeh like a lifetime categories. I fax here, send there.pid, awful thing, or that >the drugs such a quality production as yours. (116 months now, I think). The Hopefully, my efforts will enlightmade him do it? People would NEXUS has been a constant horrible facts you carefully articu en others-then well all benefi~.naturally wonder where he got source of knowledge/linkagc/hope late, of remote neural monitoring You have stated before that you4 NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996

4. NB: PI"ease keep letters to approx. 100-150 words lin length. Ed.have enough articles to publish in it because they know that they to subscribe! Many of your peared. 1 got out of bed, checkedonce a month, but to do so would can achieve better and faster times reports are to do with amazing aroynd the house, checked on thebe a big step. in a swimming pool treated with cancer cures and conspiracies, new kids (my husban.d was on night Then, if you only publish bi- ozone. Ozone units can be fitted HIV research, and, my favourite, shift as usual). After what seemedmonthly, why put in "An ET to homes, showers, baths and urine therapy. These are very, like 10 minutes I returned to bedPerspective on Earth"? [NEXUS pools to purify wate.r and to very interesting. to see tbat it was still 12.24 am.3/04] Its totally untrue. I know. remove contantinants. I would like to know more about Feeling a little annoyed, as II rarelyIm from Onticron Ceti III. Were Pure ozone can also b.e used for urine therapy and the validity of fall asleep as quickly after beingat war with the Andromedans, and medical purposes, 100; keeping in the claims before I become a woken, I watched the clock to seethe article is pure propaganda. Get mind, balanced amounts (thera- gullible sucker who drinks his own if it was working, and before ,thethe idca? Anyone with an imagi- peutic window). Dr Otto urine because of someones twist- time changed I was asleep. 1111enation could write this. Please Warburg, who won the Nobel ed, imaginative sense of humour. next morning I talked to my fami-dont publish Part 2. You publish Prize in Medicine twice (1931 and Also, if Ithere are any researcher,s ly about it who disntissed it as justonly bi-monthly; there must be 1944) discovered that cancer can- in England currently working in a dream.better articles. Six pages x num- not grow in a high-oxygen envi- these fields who are reading this A week or sO later ~ was wokenber. of magazines = too many trees ronment. Also, Dr Warburg said letter, could you drop me a line as up again by someones housewasted. that if you deprive a ce.ll 60 per I am seriously interested and will alarm. Upon rising out of the bed, Also, the article, "New cent of its oxygen, it wm turn can- also pay for papers if needed! it was 12.24 am. I walked ,towardsRevelations on the Roswell UFO cerous. If these therapies are so good, my window, looked out and heardCrash": "A Friend" wants Let us thank the Divine Creator why arent they used more? And if the alarm quile clearly but cou.ldanonymity but gives so many for giving us oxygen. they are sup.pressed, why? not tell from where it w.as corillng.details about himself that the NSA Patrick K., Colac, Victoria, Being brought up in a shopkeep- I walked around the house,could figure who he is in less than Australia (f,irst published in The ing family, I was brought up to be checked on th.e kids, and decidedtwo seconds: "My grandfather Colac Herald). honest. I fail to see how therapies to get dressed, get a torch and gowas a member of the crash such as thesc could be held back, up the driveway with the dog toretrieval team ... died in 1974"; "I Free Nation, Free Energy? especially if thcy claim to save the see whence lthe alarm was coming.am passing through S.C. with an Dear Duncan and NEXUS: lives they say they do. Most doc- As I stood there all alone in theORME...mail from the Charleston First, the Waco massacre prompts tors train because t!)ey care and night, there was no alarlfi to bearea"; "Neil Armstrong, a good lawmakers to ban assault weapons want to help people, so why holdl heard. I shudderen at the thoughtfriend of mine"-truth or crap? in the United States. Next, the back stuff that saves lives? I can of being smy enough to be there Other than these oversights, keep Oklahoma born_bing happens and understand bosses of big drug alone. Once back inside, I lockedup the fantastic work. You inspire anti-terrorism legislature is rushed companies as they are fuelled by up and decided to go back to bed.others! through Congress, fittingly on Ithe greed, and I can understand UFO It was still 12.24 am. It felt much Paul S., Ajax, Ontario, Canada. anniversary of this unprecedented silence by governments UUSI!). longe.r but, fe-eling a touch (Dear Paul: You are massively tragedy. But this surely should be different! annoyed, I was asleep before theoutvoted on the Alex Collier story, Being tbe trendsetters that we Sorry to go on, but if it wasnt for time -changed.but your comments regarding the Americans are, another unsJable, people like you and your maga- Next morning I was euphoric,Roswell crash debris items are mind-raped ,individual is pushed to zine, the world would be full of feeling that lhis is somethirrg verysimilar to my own. Ed.) the breaking point in yet another wrongly-taught puppets. Keep up strange. I tried to get information allegedly democratic nation-this the excellent work! regarding this matter, but to noOzone vs Chlorine time, plaguing the fair shorcs of Yours sincerely, avail. Everyone thougbt I was ~ust Sir: Chlorine, which is known a your beloved Australia. An Andy Leeman, 16 Lansdall Ave, dreanting. I know that II wasnt.a deadly gas and has been used in assault weap.ons ban and registra- Lea or Gainsboro, Lincolnshire, Since then, a lot has happenedwar to kill people, is being put into tion of weapons uQ.der the public DN~I 5;JL, England, UK. but I cannot understand it all. Iour water supplies here in the ownership is quickly on the heels (Dear Andy: So many questions, would very much like someColac area-which is unaccept- of the worst singular mass murder so few answers. There are a enlightenment from persons whoable, unhealthy and plain stupidi- in the countrys history. growing number of open-minded may have had simiiar experiencesty. Chlorine causes side-effects Surely these are merely coinci- doctors, however. Maybe you or rom people who may knowand spins off trihalomethanes or dences and Im letting my imagi- should talk to olle of them. Ed.) what this is all about and where itchloroform which can inhibit cer- nation drift into paranoia? What may lead. I want answers and Itain bodily functions. could any government po.ssi1bly Strange Moments in fime will not rest until I find them. A healthy human body is around hope Ito gain by having a defence- Dear Duncan: Please, please, I started to read NEXUS-foumjfour-fifths water. Water is eight- less populace or by keeping strict somebody give me a clue as to it by accident on the newsagentsninths oxygen. So it is important records on the owners of weapons what is happening to me. A while shelves about eight months ago. lItwhat quality of water people in a free nation? back, a few years ago whilst hving is a wonderfufly explorative publi-drink. If you bathe in a liquid for Keep up the great work on in the Blue Mountains, one night I cation which I give to my friends IS minutes, your body, through informing folks about free-energy saw a pillow of light rise from my to read as a gift. I wish to con-the pores, picks up as much of the devices. With hundreds, perhaps lawn up past my window and over clude this letter by ,saying,liquid as if you would drink two thousands of innovative experi- the roof. As I ran to see what i.t "Excellent stuff!"; keep up th.elitres of it. Chlorine should not be menters working inl labs and was, iJ was gone. During my ltime good work, and make it monthlyin our water, and I advocate that garages around the world, this in this house, my home in the BJ.ue as I cannot stand the long waitwe take it out and then use a safe truth can,t be suppressed for much Mountains, strange things were between publications.and natural alternative in ozone longer. Thank you. happening. All in all, it made me Regards, Alis 1., Blackmans Bay,(0,), which is a highly effective Kory K., Los Angeles, feel safer=almost invincible. I Tasmania, Australia.water purifier. California, USA. was very happy there. (Dear Alis: There are many peo- Moreover, what is in water that One night I awoke hearing and ple who contact us with similarshould not be there, ozone will Cancer Cures & Conspiracies feeling something running around stories. All feel there is no oneeliminate. Dear NEXUS: El;cel~nt maga- my bed. My clock-radio was and nowhere to go to, to seek an Some international swimmers zine! I bought one, then was showing 12.24 am, and as I was understanding of what is going on.will not compete (swim) in a forced to buy a large amount of trying to take a better look at a Maybe one day this will allswimming pool that has chlorine back issues. Now Im threatening small, dark silhouette, it disap- change. Ed.)AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 5

5. .. MASSIVE PESTICIDE NO COTS, NO DEATHS TOXICITY INCREASE A study from Birmingham, WITH TWO CHEMICALS England, comparing white and PRESENT IN BODY Asian communities, has found that The lune 1996 edition of 30 per cent of white babies slept Science magazine has published a with their mothers, whilst in Asian new study showing that some families most (95 per cent) slept combinations of hormone-dis with their mothers. Cot death is vir rupting chemicals are much more tually unheard of in Asia and other powerful than any of the individ less-industrialised societies. ual chemicals on their own. lim McKenna, Professor of The study shows that combina Anthropology at Pomona Col1ege, tions of two or three common Claremont, Califofniia, points out pesticides, at low levels that that humans io westernised societies might be found in the en vi ron are the only mammals whose off ment, are up to 1,600 times as spring sle~p away from the mother. powerful as anyone individual This is despite the fact that hUl!Jans pesticide by itself. One chemical, produce the most helpless and chlordane, has no ability in itself underdeveloped babies. to disrupt hormones, but never Prof. McKenna says that babies theless greatly magnifies the abil are meant to sleep next to their ity of other chemicals to disrupt mothers so that Ithey can breastfeed hormones. by 10 per cent in industrialised countries, at will throughout the night. Being fre A combination of such chemicals and in Jess-industrialised countries it has risen quently wokel1l by their mothers move vaccines is thought by many to be the 67 per cent! ments, he suggests, may be a part of their cause of Gulf War Syndrome, which has Professor Peto of Oxford University pre development that helps them wake auto now killed several thousand people since olicts that, if current trends continue, smok matically if their breathing stops. the end of the Gulf War. ing will cause 10 million deaths per year in Similar research ~n Hong Kong, where The results of hormone-related imbal 30 yeaJs Itime. According to Ithe trends, the incidence of cot death is 23 times lower ances in the body are discussed in more deaths in the industrialised world would than in the UK, echoes research which has detail in the "Hormone Heresy" article in rise from two million to three million found reduced cot-dealth rates in Chinese this latest issue of NEXUS.

6. GL$BAL NEWS EXPERIMEN,TAL VACCINES USED Taking these additional uses into consider We also learn that a growing number of WITHOUT CONSENT ON KIDS ation, the total US pesticide use in 1994 farmers are zapping themselves to cure ill Last week, the Centers for Disease 1995 is estimated at 998 million to 1,043 nesses such as Ross River virus, by using Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, miUion kg per year. their electric fences! It all started when a Georgia, was forced to apologise to parents One of the reasons given for this increase ,farmer in Bunbury, in southwest Western who, in 1989, were not informed that their was that many pests are !becoming resistant Australia, was accidentally pinned by a children were given an experimental to pesticides and require further treatment. young buIll against a 7,500-volt electric measles vaccine, known as the Edmonston (Source: Green Left Weekly. 19 June 1996) fence. The farmer had contracted Ross Zagreb (EZ) vaccine. River virus several months earlier, as con About 900 children were injected with IT STARTS AT BIRTH ... firmed by Iblood tests, but his symptoms the vaccine, which was not approved for The UK Ministry of Agriculture caused have disappeared since his encounter with use in the USA. Although the EZ vaccine an outrage in May this year when it refused the fence. is licensed for use in other countries, tr[als to name nine brands of baby mi~k found Ito Two weeks later, a workmate, also diagfor its use in the USA were stopped in ~991 contain chemicals linked with declining nosed with Ross River virus, decided to try when it was found that a mink existed sperm-Ievels and testicular abnormalities. the same treatment. His symptoms have behween EZ and an increased death rate in The row was sparked by a Ministry state also disappeared! baby girls. ment saying scientists had found phtha (Source: The West. ,6 June 1996) (Source: New Scientist. 29 June 1996) lates-chemicals used to soften plastics in certain brands of baby formula milk. CYBER-SQUAD VERSUS THE PESTICIDE USE AT AN The Ministry refused to name the brands CYBER-TERRORISTS AH~TIME HIGH on the grounds that there was no proven Rumours are growing about gangs of Recent US Environmental Protection risk of harm and that the information was cyber-criminals who are using computerAgency (EPA) data document that US pes "commercially sensitive". networks worldwide to commit unspeakticide use reached an all-time high of 567 (Source: The Daily Telegraph (UK], 27 May able deeds.million kilograms in 1995. This is over 1996) For instance, a special report by Thetwice as much as was used 30 years ago Sunday Times (UK) reveals that majorwhen Rachel Carsons Silent Spring was ELECTRO-ZAPPING FOR HEALTH? financial institutions in the City of Londonpublished (245 million kilograms in 1964). More and more people are zapping have paid huge sums to sophisticated The data were obtained and analysed by themselves to get healthy. Whether it is "cyber-terrorists" who have threatened to the Natural Resources Defense Council one of the zappers that comes in a neat wipe out their computer systems.(NRDC) and US Public Interest Research case or whether it is a home-made zapper, The report also indicates that banks,Group (US PIRG). people are swearing by ,them. broking firms and investment houses in the The EPA draft document includes 1994 Zappers first came to the attention of USA have secretly paid ransoms to preventand 1995 figures for 30 chemicals, includ NEXUS when we discovered them men costly computer meltdowns and a collapseing acute toxins, suspected carcinogens and tioned favourably in Dr Hulda Clarks most in confidence among their customers.chemicals thought to disrupt the human rccent book (see NEXUS 3/1 Reviews; also The Sunday Times article claims thathormone system. The data show that 557.9 2/22 and 2/23). Most zappers seem to British and US agencies are examiningmillion kilograms of pesticides were operate with a square-wave outpuh ah a fre more than 40 "attacks" on financial instituapplied in ~994, representing a jump of quency around 29kHz and! an amplitude of tions In New York, London and othermore than 45 million kg from the previous 9V. They are usually powered by a 9V DC European banking centres since 1993.year, with 567 million kg in 1995. battery. These victims have paid up to 13 mil According to NRbc and PIRG, EPA We notice that people with colds and flu, lion a time, after the blackmailers demondraft data likely understate the true level of parasites and Candida, to name but a few, strated their ability to bring trading to a haltpesticides in the environment for several are all reporting amazing results. using advanced "information warfare" techreasons. EPA f,iguresinclude onlly active ingredients, and do not include socalled inert ingredients suchas petroleum, benzene andother toxic compounds.These inert chemicals canmake up over 50 per cent ofthe volume of formulatedpesticides. In addition, EPA figuresexclude non-conventionalpesticide uses, such as woodpreservati ves and disinfectants, wh,ich the EPA haspreviously .estimated at more s. _ ... ::~than 450 million kg per year.AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 7

7. " GL-$-BAL NEWS niques learnt from the military. number of senlor figures ~111 US military and sanctions on any nation that does not get According to the US National Security political circles who Ihave suddenly into line. Agency (NSA), t!hese cyber-criminals have "retired", "resigned" or "disappeared" over Unless consumers of dietary supplements penetrated computer systems using "logic the last few months. unite worldwide, lit is unlikely that health bombs" (coded devices that can be remote (Sources: New Scientist, 1 June 1996; The freedom will survive over the course of the ly detonated), electromagnetic f!ulses, and Australian. 4 June 1996, 18 June 1996, 27 next five years, as the multinational corpo "high-emission radio frequency guns" June 1996) rations and drug companies which domi which blow a devastating electronic wind nate the Codex Commission have devilsed a through the system. THE CODEX LNTERNATIONAL scheme through the GAIT treaty to make They have also left encrypted threats at THREAT TO HEALTH FREEDOM an end-run around US sovereignty in a the highest security levels, reading: "Now The German delegate to the joint determined effort to consolidate their do you believe we can destroy your com UN/WHO Codex Alimentarius power, puters?" Commission has made the draconian pro Thus, far, voting within the Codex Not only have the financial institutions posal that consumer access to dietary sup Commissions Committee on Nutvition and been targeted; the US has announced plans plements be hmited to the RiDA dosage as Foods for Special Dietary Use has gone 16 to establish a crack squad to deter and a maximum limit for vitamins (C, 60 mg; 2, and 10-1 in favour of the German pro locate cyber-terrorists who successfullly E, ID5 mg, etc). Supplements that dont posal, with only the US and UK taking a hacked into Pentagon computer systems have an RDA (such as coenzyme Q-lO, standi against it. (The US and UK are the last year. trace minerals and amino acids) would be worldls two largest manufacturers of The US General Accoun,hng Office illegal to seU as foods. They would all dietary supplements.) reports that every year there are an estimat become drugs. On 29th April, Reu ters news service ed 250,000 attempts to gain unauthorised In October 1996, the World Trade pubilished an article entitled, "US access to military computers. An unknown Organisation will vote on whether or not to Disappointed in Appeal of WTO Gasoline number of these attempts are successful. adopt the harsh German proposal. If Ruling". In this ruling, the United Stares is Even more intriguing are the reports accepted and enforced, it would create an being forced by the WTO to make changes scattered across the Internet claiming that intolerable regulatory climate very similar to its Clean Air Act because an appellate one group of cyber-terrorists is comprised to that existing in Norway, where the body of theWTO in Geneva found that IUS of disgruntled employees from within the health food industry Is in the process of lit clean-air gasoline rules discriminate intelligence community. It is claimed that erally being taken over by drug companies, against imports frOID Veoezuelll aDd Br~il. various US senators, congressmen, military [n Norway, vitamin C above 200 mg is This is the filrst time the WTO has figures, public service officials and other illegal. Very few herbal products remain imposed a ruling on the United States, and high-profile individuals have been targeted on the shelves of whats left of the health on the now-powerless group, Congress. witl1.threats of revealing sensitive personal food stores in Norway. You cant get vita Vitamin consumers had better taRe note information about them. min IE above 45 IllJ, more than 2.4 mg of because, if the WTO can force changes to It is claimed that the targets of this par vitamin B1 or more than tlte infinitesimal the US Clean Air Act, they can force accep ticular group of cyber-terrorists are public 4.2 mg of B6 in Norway. tance of a WTO ruling on dietary supple officials who are or have been involved in The New World Order want.s to reduce ments, even if Hcontradicts US law! major corruption, i.e., drug-money launder supplement availability worldwide in this (For further details: The Life Extension ing, bribery, etc. same t"ashion, using the World Trade Foundation, 1534 Polk St, Hollywood, FL What is also interesting, though, is the Organisation as a weapon Ito imp0se trade 33020, USA. Internet web page address: http://www.lej 0 rglleflindex.html) P~4.t~~ -- -- ~..c~-:;: CLINTON CORRUPT,ION Those stories of sex, drugs and money ;;0~&>,;--9.:=:::~_~ _ _ ~ ~~ .. =~-O:~~-~ "~=-""~-"-.c5~~_s::-. ~=--~ -- ~-~~ .c:?:?~-~ ~~~~_ ~ ~_ laundering involving President BiI1 Clinton just wont go away; in fact, theyre getting ~.:::-~~~~~~-~- ~~ .-z:..:z::~< . "" ( S ", ",c.. =C c.. C":. (, White House describes in a new book how President CHnton slips past his Secre~ ~:::C,.7,~ .~": .. , . Service detail in the dead of night, hides under a blanket in the back of a dark . ~" ~ . ~. -~. .....:=.. - . .. :: PlEASSWlM . coloured sedan and trysts with a woman, possibly a celeb-rity, at the the l.W . ....... ~. .. Marriott Hotd in downtown Washington. ~ ~ . .. . Mr Aldrich, a 3D-year FBI veteran who < -:-- -- .-: "-....:. spent nearly three years inside the Clinton White House as a permanen~ member of the two-man FBI post, makes several other .. ~ ~-:--. ..~. :. -- ~ ~~~~~d~(.:=-;-;o,,;;.::i s~~_-:,,~j~ astonishing disclosures in his book, Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the 8 NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996

8. GL$-BAL N:EWS Clinton White House, including: White House employees watched several Clinton staffers-both men and women-having homosexual sexual relations in offices and showers at the WhiteHouse. In what Mr Aldrich argues is in violation of the Constitution, Hillary RodhamCfinton has assumed presidential authorityover several offices, including those of theWhite House Counsel, the Chief of Staffand Personnel. The CIintons dismantled the existingsecurity system in the White House,"stonewalling" attempts by the FBI to conduct background checks and allowingemployees wi th no securi ty clearanceunfettered-and unmonitored-access toclassified material. Oem. Craig Livingstone, the head ofWhite House personnel security, now at thecentre of an investigation into why theWhite House reviewed more than 700 FBIbackground files, was hired because, asformer White House Associate CounselWilliam Held Kennedy III told the author,"Hillary wants him." Writes Mr Aldrich, who says he tookearly retirement from the FBI to get out ofthe White House: "I left the Clinton WhiteHouse thinking Id spent more than twoyears back on the streets, fighting a newmafia-this one from Arkansas." He said he wrote thc book-begun afterhis departure from the White House in thesummer of 1995 and complcted thatDecember-because he "thought theAmerican people had a right to know aboutit" and "my conscience compelled me towrite this book". On a separate matter, two of PresidentClintons former business associates, alongwith Governor Jim Guy in Arkansas, wereconvicted in early June of fraud and conspiracy centred around a complex loanswapping-or, accordmg to some, moneylaundering scheme. Hillary Clinton has also come under firefor her complicity in Whitewater, and herinvolvement in a top-level cover-up afterthe murder/suicide of Vincent Foster. Shefaces the possibility of criminal charges. More recently, President Clinton has puton hold a sexual harassment lawsuit againsthim by Ms Paula Jones, which could haveforced a medical examination of his genitals.(Sources: The Washington Times, 28-30 June /996; The GUilrdian Weekly, 9 June 1996; The Australian. 26 June 1996)AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 9

9. erhaps more sinister and certainly more shadowy ,than the Bilderbergers, the Pinay P Cirdc is an Avlanticist righl-wing organisation of se.rving and ret,ired intelligence operatives, military officers and politicians who have conspired to "effect" changes in government. Amongst other things, it claims credit for engineering the election of Margaret Thatcher in !the UK and may have been behind the ousting of Australias Gough Whitlam. Now almost forgotten, !the decade of the 70s was 11 time of immense political upheaval, dirty tricks and incessant rumours oj right-wing military coup detats in leading Western democracies. Amol)gst the long list (If resulting casualties of this decade of tension were Britains Prime Mini.sters Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, Australias Gough Whitlam, Swedens Olaf Pa!me, Americas Jimmy Carter and Frances Franyois Mitterand. The more southern flants of NATOs European axis-PoflmgaI, Spain, Turkey and Greece= converted rumour into chilling fact via the steel-blue glaze of gun-barrels. Italy, home of Pizza, the Pope and Propaganda Due (P2), came in for its own brand of political fixit, courtesy of Uncle Sams very own CIA. As t!tc decade of the 80s slowjy slipped above the now Iless-than-pink eastern horizon, right-wing beneficiaries of a coordinated international destabilisation programme gave their heartfelt thanks. Among them were Britains Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher Madonna of the armaments industry-and Americas less brittle, and considerably less acute Ronald Reagan-humble originator of the mega-tax-buck-swallowing SDI "Star Wars" programme and also, thus, a valued friend of the boys at Guns-R-Us International. These two decades saw a ptOliferation of right-wing, quasi-official and secretive groups that coordinated intelUgence and prop,!ganda and undertook covert black operations around the globe~ One of tbe most shadowy of all is the Pinay Circle, named after its founder, Antoine Pinay, Premier of France in 1951. Known more simply as Le Cercle (The Circle"), it is recognised as a more clandestine sister organisation to the already very secretive Bilderbcrg Group-a "bebjnd-the-scenes invisible influence" network. 2 Both groups share a familiar membership which includes Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller. Each of these three luminaries of the internatioQal power network is, in addition to the foregoing, an influential member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations as well as being a regular attendee al Britains Chatham House-the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RlIA)-shadowy twin to Americas CFR. Antoine Pinay was extremely influential in Europe and in the United States where he mad forged links with President Nixon. Pinay attended the inaugural Bilderberg meeting in Oosterbeek, Holland, in May 1954. By 1969, Pinay, together with Jean Violet, a lawyer wOFking fOF the French intelligence service SDECE, and Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, heir to the Austrian throne, formed Le Cercle and secretly began recruiting men of influence as members.! The intention was to shift the politic a] climate of Europe to the far right via a secretly financed campaign of propaganda and to establisn a private intelli gence service that would work, unofficially, with the existing security ap,paratus of the West. Auth0r Stephen Dorri! believes there are ser;pentine interconnections between Le Cercle and the Gladio network, a "stay-behind anti-Communist" military guerriHa force set up by NATOs Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) during the 50s and whiC:h was largely composed of ex-Nazis. Le Cercle has a different flavour to Bilderberg, however. The latter is an importanl link to the overt in-fiuGnce organisations cited ab0ve and almosl certainly focusses its effortsAUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 11

10. on the broader political issues, being careful to keep well away (b) in West Germany-to defend freedom of trade andfrom direct actions. Le Cercle has a much more hands-on role. of movement and to oppose all forms of subversioflInterestingly, its membership is more h.eavdy composed of serving including terrorism."OF former members of various intetHgence services, senior military In another secret memorandum dated 8th November 1979 andofficers as weU as politicians, bankers and! VIPs with right-wing addresscd "Personal, for the state minister only", LangemaIlnconnections. Le Cercle was unknown until 1,500 internal docu notes that "Crozier worked with the CIA for years." He conments of the rightist (and Cercle-fu.nded) Institute for the Study ofcludcs, therefore, "that they are fully aware of his activities, andConflict were leaked to Time Out magazine in 1975. goes on to observe that Crozier "ryas extensive connections w,ithSubsequently, tbe documents have gone missing. At the time, the members, or, more accurately, former members of the most imporISC was headed by CIA agent and tant western security and intelligence serCercle Chairman, Brian Crozier, vices". Further on he advises illlat Crozier,who was heavily involved in together with "Dickie" Franks, Directoranother covert action group known of Britains SIS, and Nicholas Elliott, asimply as "The 61".5 senior department head in MI6, "were Unknown to Crozier, Hans von recently invited to Chequers (the countryMachtenburg (a pseudonym), a home of the incumbent Prime Minister; insenior intelligence official of this case, Margaret f,hatcher) for a workGermanys intelligence service, ing meeting." Langernann continues: "InBND, and a member of Croziers must therefore be concluded that MI6 is"61", had been exchanging full fully awaJe of, if not indeed one of thereports on Croziers secret get main sponsors of Croziers "diverse cirtogethers with Hans Langemann, cle of f.riends in international politics."formerly a senior-ranking officer Additional subjects covered in theof Germanys BND and latterly Langemann papers include the "involvehead of Bavarian State Security. ment of the main intelligence and securityIn a fit of depression, Langemann blew the whistle on a number 01 agencies both as information sources and as recipients for inforalarming and sinister conspiracies to the left-wing German glossy mation in these institutions", as well as "undercover ,financialmagazine Kronket. Soon the story was picked up and featured by transactions for political aims" that would be utiUsed by conductDer Spiegel. One of Langemanns more sensationaF reports, dated ing "international campaigns aiming to discredit hostile personali1979, states: ties or events", tbe "creation of a (private) intelligence service spe Specific aims within this framework are to effect a change cialising according to a selective point of view", and the "estab of government lishment of offic_es under suitable cover, each run by a coordinator (a) In the United Kingdom-accomplished from the central office. Current plans cover London, Washington, Paris, Munich and! Madrid." Th~ plans also called for "pro visiQn of contributions by certain well-known journalists in Britain, tbe US and other countries" and the organisation of "public demonstrations in particular areas on themes to be decidedl and sclectcd."? Le CercLe and its Chairman, Crozier, clearly had lined up a whole strategy of political actions that were not only known about, but approved by the Western intelligence community in addition to leading political figures, ,includ ing Prime Minister Thatcher and US presidential candidate Reagan. In his autobiography, Crozier regales us with his repeat visits to the White House to meet senior administration fig ures. In 1980 he flew to California to meet Reagan and "brief ,him" on his network and offer his services when he became President. Crozier stayed! in close touch during the election with William Casey, Reagans campaign chief who was later appointed DCI of the Centra,l Intelligence Agency. After Reagans election victOFy he appointedl Californian friend William A. Wilson to act as a his liaison with Le Cercle and the related "6 I" group.g l& Cercle has intimate connections with a host of inter ,locking right-wing outfits including WACL, the Heritage Foundation, Western Goals, ISC, freedom Association, Interdoc, the Bilderbergers, Italys Propaganda Due (P2), Opus Dei, the MoonLes and the Jonathan Institute. Many of thcse arc funded fully or in part by the American Central Intelligence Agency. Members have included Nicholas The 1975 dismissal of AustraliaS Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam (left), may have been engineered by operatives within the P-il1ay Circle. Elliott (British SISIMI6 dept. head), the CIAs (ex) Director of Central Intelligence, Wi,liliam Colby, Colonel Botta12 NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996

11. (Swiss military intelligence), Franz Josef Sitrauss (German sensational story that the 03 section of the Swedish intelligence Defence Minister, head of the CSU party and Bavarian Premier), service, SAPO, was heavily involved ,in Pal mes assassination, fol Alfredo Sanchez Bella (head of European Operations for Spains lowing their fury at his policy of detente towards the Soviet Union Secret Service and close~y connected to Opus Dei), Giulio and possibly fearful that he might discover the extent of their Andreotti (former Italian Prime Minister, P2 member and Mafia implication in arms sales to Iran. confidant), General Antonio de Spinola (head of the Portuguese Other direct actions possibly include a coup detat in Belgium putschists), Silva Munoz (former Franco minister and senior Opus during W973, "planned by gendarmerie officers and extreme-right Dei member), Mon_signore Brunello (Vatican prelate and iBNG wing groups". By no means least were the allegations by Frances agent), and Stefano della Chiaie (leading member of P2 and Italys leading daily, Le Monde, Which, in 1978, revealed the activities of Secret Service, SID).9 This list is by no means complete. Cercle member and head of the S])ECE illitelligence service, Another major aim of The Circle Alexandre de Marenches. Le Monde was to ,~nluence West German claimed that de Marenches led a domestic elections to ensure that Franz campaign of terrorism and disinforma Joseph Strauss, the uhra-right tiOIl.14 It is fairly apparenh that these wing leader of the Christian Social activities were, "designedly", to keep Union Party, became Chancellor of Fran90is Mitterand ,from office during the Germany. In Ithe evenr, Strauss 1974 elections. However, with the was defeated, due, it is believed, to exception of the Langemann pap"ers and effective countermeasures taken by an ISC memo published in Lobster 17, Germanys security and intelli there are no other Cercle documents gence apparatus, the BND and available to confirm these allegations. BfV, whose "operational chiefs do Despite a strong focus on European not follow his political lines" .10 issues, the Pinay Circle was not unaware However, despite this setback, of the significance of establishing psyops other projects were more success action centres in North America. In ful. During Le Cercles meeting 1975, the Washington Institute for the herd on 28th to 29 th June 1980 in ZUrich, Swi tzerland, discussions Study of Conflict (WISC) was launched under the chairmanship of were focussed around "a series of appropriate m.eaSlres to pro George Ball. Characteristically, Ball, one-time Senior Managing mote the electoral campaign of Presidential candidate Reagan Director of the enormous WaH S1reet ,international investment against Carter. Elliott reported that, in this context, positive con bank, Lehman Brothers, and Under Secretary of State (1961-66), tact had Ibeen made with George Bush as well"I was a member of the Tdlateral Commission, on the Steer,ing Journalist David Teacher, a keen investigator of Cercle activi Committee of the Bilderberg Group, and a member of the Council ties, observes: "It is becoming more and more apparent that the on Foreign Relations. His association with the WISC marks him treatment reserved for Harold Wilson at the hands of the inteJlj as a close friend of Le Cercle. Others members of the WISC com gence services was only the UK end of an international phenome mittee were Zbigniew Brzezinsk,i and Kermit (not the frog) non. Around 1973-75 a surprising number of governments were Roosevelt of the CIA. Four years later, in 1979, Maurice Tugwell, targeted tby their own (or others) intelligence agencies because of former head of Information Policy, a black propaganda unit set their radical policies."12 He goes on to list a number of known up by British military intelligence in Northern Ireland, formed the "destabiilisation" programmes in which Le Cercle is known, or Canadian Centre for Conflict Studies. The CCS largely operates believed, to have been involved: on contract work for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCM?) - the UK: the concerted efforts by elements in the British and the Canadian Department of National Defence, plus others,ls intelligence and securi ty services, with CIA and BOSS3, to bring down Wilson, Thorpe and Heath - the USA: the CIAs Operation Chaos, the FBIs Cointelpro pro gramme and, of course, Watergate - Austral ia: the loans scandalll and other destabillisation of Gough WhitJam by the CIA and SIS An additional Cercle tar get may have been Olaf Pal liI1e, Swedens Prime J ) ) Minister. In 1987, the lead ing Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter carried a AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996 NEXUS 13

12. We have seen that one aim of the Pinay "ing that I think is very hopeful is .,:l! :,;,m,U ~I It. e. 1.. .: "- ,SC erQ.sls,,~l!1Jg~ameJ.< ,(Po. ;c ~ "". o, ~ e, toms and syndromes for which ,< .. cannabis can be used. Wethat doctors are gettin~ educate~. ~"gfaUdO)lla ~r~ ~si",g~~nn*~Js~ .wJiO.; ~now more a~o~t it than we ~id ".r;~ ~~~c~~~~7r~~~~~gg~~~h;~~ ;;~r,~miri:to;~~,~,tJ)~t ~~;~~1~~5{~~r:~!tfg!:, . :. ~i~:~~h ~~~;o~~e~~t s~h~~, b~~tnles or from pharmaceutical. ;~~+d", "......:"," :J:.,L!,n:.t,L...... ;.!~ :&:w.e/. .,,!".i;1: ". it"~ ....,me IClneanUlleV~Ue9tn:lOlWOnUer;. " ..... . not now.company sales people who go,., ":,i;(l, . ,~l,"f ..",~. "CrOfi;;H#~"!u,;(:", ;l:""i;~:";,!iil; ~:>. ;,,i,), : War on Drugs: A Peacetisements and promotio;al cam- ," ".1:;"P~(JpI~,a,t~;g~~J:n..g;:~~~i~!~d~;JrF >; Proposa,~", published in ThepaIgns from these drug compa- "hi ,. , , ",,~, >ci " " " i t ; ";~H: Il .... New England Journal of ",~~~:l.:~~. .~,~:2 .,g;~~~" -;-, _ .,nies. There are no drug compa- .if/>;,:;..,j,fl. .~ ..u~( i-"x:s .~:~ Medicine. In it you talk aboutnies interested in cannabis, so doc- harm-reduction strategies in thetors dont learn much about it. In my view, doctors have not only Nethcrlands and other countries. What do you think is holdingbeen miseducated like so many other people, but they have also back these governments in North America from making thebeen agents of that miseducation. What is happening now is doc- changes necessary for a truce in the drug war, specifically intors are learning from patients. This is a new way for doctors to regards to medicinal cannabis use?learn about a new medicine. They learn lots of things from their Dr G: Unfortunately, it is attitudes and fears that are unwarpatients, but generally not about new medicines. ranted. Take one harm-reduction approach; namely, clean nee- An example of this would be an AIDS patient who started using dies. Now, weve been saying for years that clean needles willcannabis for his wasting syndrome. Imagine him going into his ,reduce the spread of AIDS among drug users. The IV drug usersdoctors office and getting on the scales. The doctor knows hes are the group spreading it the most. There are people who arebeen losing weight all along and nothing that the doctor has given afraid! of needle:exchange programs because they think it willhim has helped. Suddenly, the doctor sees his patient has gained cause an increase In the use of intravenous drugs. I would say thisweight since the last visit and he asks, "Whats going on?" The has been going on now for four or five years. Now the data ispatient says, "It is the cannabis Ive been smoking: it has helped overwhelming. It clearly demonstrates that exchanging needlesme put on some weighl." This makes a powerful impression on a does cut down the spread of AIDS and! it does not cause andoctor who has been struggling to help his patient gain weight. increase in the use of these drugs. It is so convincing that someOnce this happens to a doctor, his attitude begins to change. locaf municipalities have gone ahead with needle exchanges, but JR: How can the average person work for changes in the drug the Federal government and President Clinton are all dead setlaws? against it. We could have saved a lot of people from AIDS by Dr G: Well, right now in the US, Congressman Barney Frank instituting this policy of clean needles early on. Even now we are dragging our feet because of this misapprehension about giving c ~ needles out. Ignorance and fear are not always corrected by data. The data on needle exchange is compelling whether its from Australia, New Haven or wherev er. Trnere is no question. You would think when you have this kind of data it would be translated :& LV E.Y into social policy, considering the cost of AIDS in human suffering. But were having an awful tough time persuading the authorities that we should go fuln steam ahead with needle exchange. There is an attitude here in the US that the only way to treat any one using a drug not approved of18 NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996

17. is to treat them as a criminal. Many of these people even go to published Marihuana Recoflsidered. The first letter I receivedjail. The costs of criminalising these people have Ibeen extr.eme. was a very nasty letter. As the years go on, though, the milil getsSince I started my work on marijuana in 1967, more than 10 mil much more positive.lion Americans have been arrested Oili marijuana charges in the JR: What do you see for the future of medicinal cannabis use?US. In 1994, the year for which we have the latest FBI data on Dr G: It strikes me