tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35179612008-05-09T20:17:54.449-07:00War on DrugsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag: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.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-90733778796879548752007-05-07T14:34:00.000-07:002007-05-07T14:48:58.913-07:00Last Objection to Medical Marijuana Removed by Volcano Vaporizer
(Bruce Mirken, AlterNet, May 2, 2007)
Anyone who advocates for medical marijuana sooner or later runs into arguments about smoking: "No real medicine is smoked." "Smoking is bad for the lungs; why would any doctor recommend something so harmful?" It's a line of reasoning that medical marijuana opponents have used to great effect in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-68663926799295890022007-05-03T10:04:00.000-07:002007-05-03T10:15:07.225-07:00LSD Researcher Denied U.S. Entry Under Terror Laws
(Linda Solomon, The Tyee, April 25, 2007)
A Canadian psychotherapist who conducted research with LSD was denied entry to the United States after a border guard Googled his work. . . . Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, rolled up to the Blaine border crossing last summer as he had hundreds of times in his career. At 66, his Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-13951593421399555882007-05-03T09:56:00.000-07:002007-05-03T10:02:48.927-07:00POT vs TOBACCO
(R Givens, DrugSense.org)
Tobacco Contains Ionizing Radiation
Prohibitionists scare people with comparisons between marijuana and tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke is bad, therefore all smoke is bad the reasoning goes. If somebody suggested that burning PCBs (dioxin), high sulphur coal, firewood, nuclear waste and natural gas all produced the same combustion products and all were Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-60995590960248260602007-04-16T16:13:00.000-07:002007-04-16T16:27:41.468-07:00LSD Educational Video
Thanks to our friends at DoseNation, I got to see a really great video. At least I thought it was great ... funny, educational, and what I liked best, it was really in your face. From what I understand, these guys were given a class assignment to give a presentation on LSD. Well, as you can see from their video report, these guys actually do have a very good understanding ofLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-80956425999079242342007-04-11T12:55:00.000-07:002007-04-11T13:13:27.679-07:00Human LSD Research to begin in San Francisco
Good news from the Beckley Foundation!
We have at last obtained the final permissions to start the Beckley Foundation/University of California LSD Project in San Francisco. This will be the first study using LSD on human subjects since prohibition blocked all such scientific research in the 1970s. Since then, great advances have been made in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-71460646623527412912007-04-07T19:45:00.000-07:002007-04-07T19:50:41.304-07:00UK Research Testing LSD as Anti-War Drug
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-63056952172828627592007-02-22T14:24:00.000-08:002007-02-22T14:31:40.756-08:00Survey of Medical Marijuana Recommending Doctors
Dr. Lucido
I HAVE SURVEYED THE PRACTICE STANDARDS OF ABOUT 2 DOZEN of the more visible medical cannabis physicians, and find: The MAJORITY to be knowledgeable, ethical, and credible. (Remember: according to California NORML, over 1500 doctors in California have written at least one recommendation.) Unfortunately, as in any field, whether medicine, Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517961.post-42761292679836365202007-02-14T07:42:00.000-08:002007-02-14T07:45:36.737-08:00Terence McKenna Library Lost to Fire
(Erik Davis, Techgnosis, February 14, 2007)
Last Wednesday, February 7, a 5-alarm blaze erupted in an old building in downtown Monterey. The fire started in a Quinzo’s sub shop, that exemplar of tasteful dining, and went on to thoroughly destroy a number of joints, including Goomba’s Italian Restaurant, a Starbucks, and some storage offices belonging to Big Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com