Each year the Office of National Drug Control Policy publishes a report called The National Drug Control Strategy. Those reports are supposed to provide information about trends in drug use and assess federal programs that are aimed at reducing the supply of and demand for illegal drugs....
Dr. John Halpern, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research at McLean Hospital and Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist based in Charleston, SC on WNYC radio discuss possible medicinal uses of banned substances
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Recorded September 1978 in San Francisco
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Hofmann recounts the tale of his discovery of LSD and gives a detailed history of its chemical compound and medical uses.
After 30 years and billions of tax dollars, America's war against drugs rages on, unabated and across many borders. Combatants from both sides of the drug war - traffickers, informants, money launders, federal agents,...
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NZ News
28 June 2007
Full press conference audio with Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton announcing this Afternoon that BZP is to be banned.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WINNABLE. That's the message from a government report released today. It's arguing for a turnaround in Australia's drug policy to drop harm minimsation and that people who argue for harm minimisation are effectively pro-drugs. It...
Callers chime in with yet more of their experiences with all sorts of entheogens. Mr. Bendix is forced to chastise the callers repeatedly, unfortunately. This is not the drug bulletin board, this is the trip report! (What, are they on drugs or something?) Dr. Grof provides some ...
a 5:53 clip from PBS "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer"
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Cash Strapped California Towns Eye Tax Hikes for Medical Marijuana
With budget woes causing cuts to essential services across California, several communities in the state are weighing whether to raise additional revenue...
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A widely-distributed talk about why marijuana was made illegal in th states. It makes you wish that Chomsky would do more research into drug policy and the war on drugs because he very insightful. (BTW, Chomsky is not a smoker!)
Kajuyali Tsamani (COL) - Shaman, initiated by Bernardo Moscote, Master Shaman of the Kogi Nation, indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
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These articles were never written -- a great loss since Crowley succinctly anticipates (by at least thirty years) the main trends in sociological and pychopharmacological thought as they developed, often
painfully, in the 1960s and 1970s. Although this synopsis appears to have been written in...
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and advocate of the use of psychedelic substances for enriching people’s intellectual, psychological and spiritual...
Episode 75 of the Lew Rockwell show. A discussion of prohibition from the viewpoint of market anarchists. Guest is Mark Thornton, author of The Economics of Prohibition.
An almost 9 minute piece on KPBS San Diego on the current situation of the enforcement of medical marijuana laws in San Diego and a general call for legalization of marijuana.
Enforcing Medical Marijuana Laws
The San Diego City Council appointed an 11-member task force to develop...
Find out why mushrooms can be both delicious and dangerous. Gary Lincoff is author of several books including The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. He’s also taught botany and mushroom courses at The New York Botanical Garden since the 1970s. Chef Jawn Chasteen of The Sea...
The show begins with some introductory material, and the Professor gets things rolling with a lecture on the historical and sociological background underpinning contemporary psychedelic culture.
Now, more on unusual states of consciousness from Stan Grof. The linear concept of space is destroyed, the fetus in the womb becomes a whole galaxy as you move in the psychedelic property. What are my dimensions?
Jeremy Narby is anthropologist and writer who spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon cataloging indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction. Narby has written three books, as well as sponsored an expedition to...
Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legends - 1B
Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legends - 2A
Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legends - 2B
Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legends - 3A
Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legends - 3B
LSD. Capitol Records, n.d. [c. 1966-67]. Subtitled "A Documentary Report on the Current Psychedelic Drug Controversy." Actual recording of people on acid and "the sounds of the Acid Test," along with the voices of Leary, Ginsberg, Laura Huxley and Sidney Cohen.
LSD Psychotherapy - An interview with Dr. Stanislav
A 2.5 hour whopper of an interview.
In this episode I interview Dr. Stanislav Grof, the world's foremost expert on LSD research, as well as one of the original founders of the field of Transpersonal Psychology. ...
From Thursday August 28th through Saturday August 30th, MAPS hosted a psychedelic lecture series in Entheon Village at Burning Man. Hundreds of Black Rock City Citizens attended talks by Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex and Allyson Grey, Rick Doblin, Charles Shaw, Andrew Sewell, Amanda...
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