tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35179612008-08-15T15:09:22.278-07:00War on DrugsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-26072227682048288592008-08-15T15:08:00.000-07:002008-08-15T15:09:22.293-07:00The Drug War in 100 Seconds
A new video from the Marijuana Policy Project.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-42549654137106593862008-08-15T14:46:00.000-07:002008-08-15T14:59:25.863-07:00LSD Therapy Trials Underway in Switzerland
(James Randerson, The Guardian, August 12, 2008)
First test [(sic)?] of "psychedelic psychotherapy" since the 70's. Researchers hope effects will improve quality of life. . . . Scientists are exploring the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD to treat a range of ailments from depression to cluster headaches and obsessive compulsive disorder. . . . The Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-49869335373379742422008-08-12T21:20:00.000-07:002008-08-12T21:21:10.968-07:00Marijuana Media Minute Special Report: Death by Marijuana
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-4037550951171854712008-08-04T19:32:00.000-07:002008-08-04T19:40:23.703-07:00A case in defense of Salvia divinorum
(EROCx1, August 3, 2008)
[Please Note: EROCx1 is a friend of mine, and I highly respect his opinions and judgment. ... Lorenzo]
I was recently approached by some journalists who are currently performing research for a report they are producing on Salvia divinorum, with a focus on its legal status. . . . I asked the journalist interviewing me if he had tried Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-60116695285746878312008-08-04T18:49:00.000-07:002008-08-04T19:28:08.418-07:00The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High
(Jack O'Brien, Cracked.com)
Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD
For the few Cracked readers not versed in the history of human genetics, Francis Crick is the closest that field gets to a rock star, which is pretty fucking close as it turns out. In 1953 in Cambridge, Crick burst through the front door of his home spouting what his wife OdileLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-60446268897254537682008-07-29T21:40:00.000-07:002008-07-29T21:45:40.911-07:00Legal Prescription Drugs Most Deadly of All
(Bruce Mirken, Marijuana Policy Project, July 29, 2008)
A new study just published in Archives of Internal Medicine shows a 360.5% increase in the death rate from fatal medication errors (FMEs) from 1983 to 2004, vastly outstripping most other causes of death. Notably, most of the increase in deaths took place at home, not in medical settings or other Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-906580969429874022008-07-26T16:20:00.000-07:002008-07-26T16:32:27.163-07:00The Myth of Drug Addiction
(Bruce K. Alexander, Simon Fraser University)
Most Canadians believe that certain drugs cause catastrophic addictions in people who use them. This conventional belief is reflected in such familiar phrases as "crack cocaine is instantly addictive" or "heroin is so good, don't even try it once". It is also implied in the professional literature which routinely describes Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-55854528134241200712008-07-06T15:55:00.000-07:002008-07-06T16:06:19.474-07:00WHO Documents Failure of U.S. Drug Policies
(Bruce Mirken, AlterNet, July 2, 2008)
The United States has some of the world's most punitive drug policies and has led the cheering section for tough "war on drugs" policies worldwide, but a new international study suggests that those policies have been a crashing failure. A World Health Organization survey of 17 countries, conducted by some of the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-68718227596308865832008-04-29T22:35:00.000-07:002008-04-29T22:40:38.789-07:00Dr. Albert Hofmann Dies at 102
(Adam Bernstein, Washington Post,April 30, 2008)
Albert Hofmann, 102, a Swiss chemist and accidental father of LSD who came to view the much-vilified and abused hallucinogen he discovered in 1938 as his "problem child," died April 29 at his home in Burg, a village near Basel, Switzerland, after a heart attack. . . . Lysergic acid diethylamide, thousands of times Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-90769747540624030202008-04-18T21:34:00.000-07:002008-04-18T21:35:10.163-07:00A Few Good Words About Cannabis
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-74541683235424569332008-03-11T16:46:00.000-07:002008-03-28T21:19:47.714-07:00Psychedelic Researcher Turns DEA Informant
(JEANE MacINTOSH, New York Post, February 18, 2008)
A Harvard-educated Manhattan jet-setter has been pegged as the money-laundering mastermind behind a massive LSD drug ring run out of a Kansas missile silo, The Post has learned. . . . Stefan Wathne, a 39-year-old scion of New York's socially prominent Wathne apparel family, surrendered to federal agentsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-47267830286716285362008-03-09T12:13:00.000-07:002008-03-09T12:25:06.384-07:00Penn & Teller - Bullshit - War on Drugs
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-57511841536256940272008-01-30T20:07:00.000-08:002008-01-30T20:11:34.614-08:00Psilocybin & Cancer Anxiety Research Video
The following two videos are from a news special by CBC in Canada and feature Dr. Charlie Grob who has also been a featured speaker in the Psychedelic Salon.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-70885457435166850862008-01-18T09:19:00.000-08:002008-01-18T09:23:42.181-08:00Mescaline Experiment on Human - Video by Dr. Osmond
This is an extremely interesting video of a 1950s experiment by one of the world's leading psychedelic researchers of the time. Included is an interview 30 years later with the test subject who by then was a member of the UK House of Lords.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED VIEWING (by Lorenzo)
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-4143508093285439602007-12-05T05:32:00.000-08:002007-12-05T05:34:55.823-08:00Television: The Most Dangerous Drug On The Planet
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-21653904477804341812007-11-28T20:01:00.000-08:002007-11-28T20:02:29.402-08:00Video: "In Pot We Trust"
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-21064175419522005032007-11-27T20:16:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:30:42.524-08:00The Peace Drug Being Used to Treat PTSD
( Tom Shroder, Washington Post, November 25, 2007)
PTSD is usually triggered by combat, rape, childhood abuse, a serious accident or natural disaster -- any situation in which someone believes death is imminent, or in which a significant threat of serious injury is accompanied by an intense sense of helplessness or horror. Not all or even most trauma Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-42026218670212963242007-11-22T07:27:00.000-08:002007-11-22T07:28:17.023-08:00Why War and LSD Don't Mix
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-36990336320789249992007-11-06T20:32:00.000-08:002007-11-06T20:54:49.576-08:00Medical Marijuana and Drew Carey on CNN
Drew Carey's reason.tv Medical Marijuana spotLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-41131344753019021802007-11-04T19:59:00.000-08:002007-11-04T20:00:38.599-08:00Revelations About Drugs by Bill Hicks
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-75494819377755816312007-11-04T19:55:00.000-08:002007-11-04T19:57:08.443-08:00Bill Hicks Talks about the War on Drugs
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-58023454510631656422007-07-20T22:49:00.000-07:002007-07-20T22:50:22.618-07:00Bill Hicks - Positive Drug Story
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-33717942367845264922007-07-20T22:40:00.000-07:002007-07-20T22:41:30.950-07:00Bill Hicks - Drugs and Evolution
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-5302062895797774732007-06-29T16:57:00.000-07:002007-06-29T16:58:27.708-07:00Multidisciplinary Association for Getting High
(MAGH)
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-26061967937938091072007-06-02T06:33:00.000-07:002007-06-02T06:41:46.199-07:00Marijuana and Music...a brief history
(Margaret Moser, The Austin Chronicle, May 25, 2007)
Who wrote the first song about smoking pot? . . . It's been lost to history, but here's a political side note to the 4:20 generation: During the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thousands of native Mexicans moved north across the Rio Grande, many settling around San Antonio. With them came a curious song called Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com