–and facing prison for weed
The story of how Deborah Mash parlayed her discovery of ibogaine’s active metabolite nor-ibogaine into a patent that totally undermined Howard Lotsof’s original claims is too well known to detail here. He couldn’t get investment capitol, and she recently ended selling DeMerx and 20 ibogaine patents to ATAI for more than $20 million.
But where she really crossed the line when she instigated a criminal proceeding against Howard and Jan Bastiaans for the 1994 Leyden death–claiming it was an ibogaine death when it clearly was a heroin OD,
See https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:d2ae7367-d162-45a1-a8ae-71a31076440e She stripped Bastiaans–famous for giving LSD to concentration camp survivors—of his medical license and sent Howard to the hospital. All tomake nor-ibogaine look good by blackening the reputation of ibogaine, since at the time “hallucinations” were widely considered to be evidence of neurotoxicity
I’ve been using the first slide since 2007 (attachment 1). It shows how ibogaine rewires the brain, and I had already printed thousands of leaflets featuring it. But I was’t until I read and re-read Nestler’s MOLECULAR NEUROPHARMACOLOGY in a Nebraska prison that I related it to this significant passage in p. 221:
“Because GDNF, BDNF and other factors have enhanced the survival of dopaminergic neurons in animal models, the use of neurotrophic factors in the treatment of Parkinson disease is a top research priority.(Chapter 17). Experiments in a non-human primate model of Parkinson’s disease are promising. Clinical trials in humans, however, have demonstrated only modest benefits, and only when GDNF, or a viral vector expressing GDNF, is expressed directly into the striatum….
“A major challenge in all of these clinical trials is the difficulty of delivering neurotrophic factors directly to the CNS. Intracranial injection of these factors in slow-release preparations and injection of cultured cells or viral vectors that over-express these factors are currently under evaluation…..
“The challenge associated with administering neurotrophic factors have inspired hopes of developing small molecules that might promote or antagonize neurotrophin factor function.”
And there things sat until I came back in May of 2014 to New York upon being released. Sisko was already doing animal research at Columbia, but he was also putting out IBO-PLUS, an energy supplement containing 12 vitamins and 4 mgs of ibogaine. (Until this time Hattie & Patricks’s MAPS paper considered only 25 mgs as a micro-dose, but they were trying to keep the trip, instead of the neurotro-regenerative effects.) Based on an off-handed remark by Ken Alper that ibogaine might have a whole range off effects at an extremely low dose, I began bugging Sisko to give it to an actual Parkinson patient, since no one but us would give a Schedule 1 drug to humans.
It took a little while. Sisko reached out thru one of the original Yippies, Bob Fass, to Paul Krassner, who as his final psychedelic act (he was 85), put us in touch with Dean Quarnstrom. Dean was the brother of Lee Quarnstrom, who wrote a book about his life on the Further Bus with Ken Kesey called “I was a Dynamiter.” Dean also did prison time for making a movie about a pot smuggle, and assisted Nick Sands in making Orange Sunshine (ALD 52). He was facing looming death with atypical Parkinsons.
We hit the ball out the Park! This effect was achieved with 4 mgs twice-a-day for 28 days. (240 mgs) He kept improving –ultimately regaining about 75% after 2 months.
Word swept the ibogaine community. But not the Beckley Foundation in Oxford, England Amand Fielding was not interested even after being told about it in 2017–until I gave Joe Melon ibogaine at the Porto conference in Nov. 2018–and it worked.
Meanwhile Sisko had tried and failed to patent our invention because Olney mentioned Parkinsons in his patent of ibogaine for stroke (based on it’s ketamine-like nMDA properties–the GDNF effect was not discovered in 2003). But they said if he could perfect the patent he was first in line. Before he died I promised him I would refile the patent, and I recast it as a way to engender GDNF in the limbic system, where it’s good for MS and a whole host of degenerative diseases. Noah Potter found a stellar patent attorney, Graham Pechenik, who prepared the attached patent application. He said he could even get me a $50,000 licensing fee–but would not proceed.
Eventually he revealed that his prior client–Amanda Fielding–was now claiming that she had discovered it. We offered her to put her name on the patent, but she demurred, never filing it herself but claiming it on her CV when they sold part of Beckley to ATAI fpr $34 Million.
Graham insisted I sign something saying he no longer represented me and by the time I found an attorney who would submit it (see attachment 2), it’d grown stale. All this left me in a situation where I had to keep making money doing one more weed trip–and got busted in Idaho. Now I’m facing 10 mos in prison, and the only way people can help is to donate to https://gofund.me/b7bae92e
What folks have to appreciate is that all ibogaine discovery in the world today originates with Lotsof’s original patents and the foundation of the original ibogaine project by me and Norma and Howard on Dec 12, 1980. Sealed with $1500 I gave Howard. Remember, we were protesting Heroin Chic.
I still intend to start making an updated Ibo+ containing ibogaine for dystonia and cannabinoids for tremor. I’m already manufacturing the ibogaine in Ghana. But I still need $15,000 more to do the documentary on my case: the story of some one who comes along with something that will save thousands of lives from Parkinsons, fentanyl & meth, not to mention vets with traumatic brain injury (Idaho voters are 11% vets)…..and all they can think to do is jail him for pot! Because they can’t accept input from the marijuana movement, period.
Have to wait til Rick Perry gets around to them, I guess.
Right now I’m waiting to go to my Nov 4 status hearing with Kimmelot tv (ABC News) to see if I can get a better deal than the one they’re offering.
Ironically, I am now diagnosed with onset Parkinsons myself. It’s improving since i got my hands on rootbark. But I obviously can’t get it in jail, and in 10 mos I may deteriorate irreversibly. It seems a little unfair that I will be denied access to my own invention.
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