I'm starting a new organization here with the aim of pushing for legalization of kava in nothern Europe.
I've grown weary looking at the current progress and state of affairs in my own country and I get the feeling many other are experiencing the same, so let's get together and make a group effort to organize all the knowlegde, willpower and support i know each one of us has for this cause.
For me kava is more than medicine, it represents healing and community and today when most people's diets consist of sugar, alcohol and caffeine collectively this is heading for dissaster which is also shown in the statistics of mental health, abusive and selfish behavior and divisiveness of important fractions in society.
The coming together at the tanoa or kavabowl to drink was beforehand not only seen in kavadrinking countries, but then often got adminstered collectively in big bowls of water laced with herbs and later beer and wine combined with all the herbs and we have been doing so for much longer than most historians will have us think so.
I've been working hard these last years, handing out and sharing knowlegde about natural medicine, especially kava and adaptogens for some time now in another non-profit and I'm seeing medicinal extracts that in studies outperform every known antidepressant, even ADHD medication, Alzheimers, and so much more, and this knowlegde gets supressed as well as the knowlegde of kava, all the while profitseeking companies now are destroying the trust in the field, by selling hyped capsules, placebo medicines, microdosing and what have you, so that the real efforts get's drowned in incompetence of companies now busy greenwashing, not to mention healthwashing and even pridewashing their images.
My background is as a intercultural and international socialworker and have been studying anthropology these last years, and now focus most of my attention on innovative social disruption and have become inspired by David Graebers work, I have also started a kava-club here in Copenhagen, as well as non-profits working with adaptogens extracts, therapy etc, and I volunteer alot doing addicitonsupport, as well as teach and write about circular sustainable theory and systemic approaches.
The core principles of this approach lies in aiding, teaching and working for something that is so good, altruistic and useful yet still bordering illegal, as to one ends up shifting public opinion to one's and the publics own, advantage and creates debate and positive skepticism to the established systems who are in a stagnating process and thus cannot undergo the same transformation alone.
Alternative methods is then used by organizing efforts, though still methodically and the data are collected to show the differences between pre-existing and the new, for example a freer approach to natural medicines, kava etc.
If there is an intervention from the governments, a lot of collectively organized noise is then made through channels such as newspapers, social networks, lectures and demos and the previously collected data is set up in black and white so that the people turn against the interventions in exactly the same way as politicians ride on waves of outcry at individual cases for popularty, which always then turns into meaningless laws with no science to back it up.
The difference here is that one is ruled by politicians with the people in affect, the other is controlled by the people with politicians / the stagnant established in affect.
Not only in academia but also natural medicine even psychedelic therapy we're seing patent-based land grabbing, which is only a continuation of the issue so this most be non-profit with altruistic motives to have any effect.
We will at first meet virtually an hour or so once every second Week to share knowlegde, methods and inspiration as to how we're working locally to push our governments to take kava seriously.
Later funds can be applied for, to make and support events, send out materials, create multilingual websites, and help alcohol addictioncenters learn about kava and support and inspire grassroot communties in other countries struggling for the same obejctives with knowlegde, flyers, kava to hand out etc,
I've already bought domains dedicated to spread facts about kava, and also got a meeting coming up to teach a group about adaptogens and kava, and I made a folder about the benefits of kava to our freecity Christiania, which is an old part of Copenhagen Denmark, where hippies occupied a large part of the downtown in the 60's, which later got donated to them to continue living and organizing for themselves.
Today there's a lot of cannabis being sold, but they're looking to shut it down due to the unrest it has brought and still do and many people here are addicted and both alcohol and cannabis are keeping them unproductive, paranoid, and often mentally ill.
Therefore my first objective is to help them set up a way to sell or distibute kava there dispite our laws, as police most likely will look the other way focusing on the cannabis.
This is a good setup for the approach mentioned but the general principles can be applied in many ways and when working together sharing, know-how, studies, and give each other moral support because it will not be easy swaying our legal systems by ourself, then this might actually work.
I incourage everyone living in these lattitudes to get in touch and come join our firs meeting this next Sunday local time 20.00/08pm (Zoomlink will be sent out shortly before)
Get in touch:
Email me on [email protected]
Add me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stefan.johansen.98/
Telegram/Signal number: +4528936032
Look forward seing you, bula!
I've grown weary looking at the current progress and state of affairs in my own country and I get the feeling many other are experiencing the same, so let's get together and make a group effort to organize all the knowlegde, willpower and support i know each one of us has for this cause.
For me kava is more than medicine, it represents healing and community and today when most people's diets consist of sugar, alcohol and caffeine collectively this is heading for dissaster which is also shown in the statistics of mental health, abusive and selfish behavior and divisiveness of important fractions in society.
The coming together at the tanoa or kavabowl to drink was beforehand not only seen in kavadrinking countries, but then often got adminstered collectively in big bowls of water laced with herbs and later beer and wine combined with all the herbs and we have been doing so for much longer than most historians will have us think so.
I've been working hard these last years, handing out and sharing knowlegde about natural medicine, especially kava and adaptogens for some time now in another non-profit and I'm seeing medicinal extracts that in studies outperform every known antidepressant, even ADHD medication, Alzheimers, and so much more, and this knowlegde gets supressed as well as the knowlegde of kava, all the while profitseeking companies now are destroying the trust in the field, by selling hyped capsules, placebo medicines, microdosing and what have you, so that the real efforts get's drowned in incompetence of companies now busy greenwashing, not to mention healthwashing and even pridewashing their images.
My background is as a intercultural and international socialworker and have been studying anthropology these last years, and now focus most of my attention on innovative social disruption and have become inspired by David Graebers work, I have also started a kava-club here in Copenhagen, as well as non-profits working with adaptogens extracts, therapy etc, and I volunteer alot doing addicitonsupport, as well as teach and write about circular sustainable theory and systemic approaches.
The core principles of this approach lies in aiding, teaching and working for something that is so good, altruistic and useful yet still bordering illegal, as to one ends up shifting public opinion to one's and the publics own, advantage and creates debate and positive skepticism to the established systems who are in a stagnating process and thus cannot undergo the same transformation alone.
Alternative methods is then used by organizing efforts, though still methodically and the data are collected to show the differences between pre-existing and the new, for example a freer approach to natural medicines, kava etc.
If there is an intervention from the governments, a lot of collectively organized noise is then made through channels such as newspapers, social networks, lectures and demos and the previously collected data is set up in black and white so that the people turn against the interventions in exactly the same way as politicians ride on waves of outcry at individual cases for popularty, which always then turns into meaningless laws with no science to back it up.
The difference here is that one is ruled by politicians with the people in affect, the other is controlled by the people with politicians / the stagnant established in affect.
Not only in academia but also natural medicine even psychedelic therapy we're seing patent-based land grabbing, which is only a continuation of the issue so this most be non-profit with altruistic motives to have any effect.
We will at first meet virtually an hour or so once every second Week to share knowlegde, methods and inspiration as to how we're working locally to push our governments to take kava seriously.
Later funds can be applied for, to make and support events, send out materials, create multilingual websites, and help alcohol addictioncenters learn about kava and support and inspire grassroot communties in other countries struggling for the same obejctives with knowlegde, flyers, kava to hand out etc,
I've already bought domains dedicated to spread facts about kava, and also got a meeting coming up to teach a group about adaptogens and kava, and I made a folder about the benefits of kava to our freecity Christiania, which is an old part of Copenhagen Denmark, where hippies occupied a large part of the downtown in the 60's, which later got donated to them to continue living and organizing for themselves.
Today there's a lot of cannabis being sold, but they're looking to shut it down due to the unrest it has brought and still do and many people here are addicted and both alcohol and cannabis are keeping them unproductive, paranoid, and often mentally ill.
Therefore my first objective is to help them set up a way to sell or distibute kava there dispite our laws, as police most likely will look the other way focusing on the cannabis.
This is a good setup for the approach mentioned but the general principles can be applied in many ways and when working together sharing, know-how, studies, and give each other moral support because it will not be easy swaying our legal systems by ourself, then this might actually work.
I incourage everyone living in these lattitudes to get in touch and come join our firs meeting this next Sunday local time 20.00/08pm (Zoomlink will be sent out shortly before)
Get in touch:
Email me on [email protected]
Add me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stefan.johansen.98/
Telegram/Signal number: +4528936032
Look forward seing you, bula!
