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Moderate Cannabis Use Improves Health for Opiates Dependency
According to clinical research at the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia University in New York moderate cannabis use improved retention in naltrexone treatment of patients suffering from dependency on opiates such as heroin.
63 opioid dependent patients, admitted for inpatient detoxification and induction onto oral naltrexone accompanied by six months of behavioural therapy were classified into three levels of cannabis use during treatment based on biweekly urine toxicology: abstinent (0 per cent cannabis positive urine samples); intermittent use (1 to 79 per cent cannabis positive samples); and consistent use (80 per cent or greater cannabis positive samples). Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist used primarily in the management of alcohol dependence and opioid dependence. Intermittent cannabis users showed superior retention in naltrexone treatment (median days retained = 133), compared to abstinent (median = 35 days) or regular users (median = 35 days).
Intermittent cannabis use was also associated with greater adherence to…
Bilderberg Fears Losing Control In Chaos-Plagued World
One of Bilderberg’s main topics of conversation at this year’s meeting was whether to oversee a long period of economic stagnation or to quickly sink the economy with a rapid depression.
Estulin called the “bank stress tests” recently conducted as being “little more than a shameless hoax based on the irrational assumption that the economy wont get as bad as it already is.”
Bilderberg are also intent in pushing through the Lisbon Treaty despite it being rejected by countries in Europe who allowed their population to vote on the issue, and are prepared to manufacture demonization campaigns against anti-EU pressure groups, namely the Libertas organization fronted by Declan Ganley.
One of Bilderberg’s primary concerns according to Estulin is the danger that their zeal to reshape the world by engineering chaos in order to implement their long term agenda could cause the situation to spiral out of control and eventually lead to a scenario…
A Broad Look at Psychedelics
Manifesting the Mind is a broad look at psychedelics. Why are psychedelics so brutally suppressed in our culture? What exactly are some of the psychedelic plants and chemicals and how can they benefit us? With philosophy and insight from Dennis McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, and many others, this film is not to be missed by anyone interested in psychedelics and shamanism.
Marijuana Lobbyist’s Testimony to Congress
MPP Director of Government Relations Aaron Houston breaks down his testimony to Congress on April 2, 2009:
Space Storms Can Damage Electrical Systems
The 11-year maximum and minimum cycle of sunspot activity has been known about, and studied for centuries, but recent breakthroughs by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), have given scientists confidence that they can predict the strength of future Sunspot cycles with 98% accuracy.
Their forecast for the latest cycle (No.24) is for it to start about a year late, but to be 30-50% stronger than the last cycle at its‘ peak in 2012, making it one of the strongest in centuries. The Sun remains quiet at time of writing, suggesting that the first part of this forecast, at least, is coming true.
A number of factors are combining to make the year 2012 a prime candidate for a major electro-magnetic storm affecting North America. Sunspot activity will be at its’ peak, and any resulting Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) will be magnetized north, making it more likely to breach the Earths’…
Understanding the Santo Daime (Ayahuasca) Case in Oregon
On March 19th, the day after ruling in favor of the Oregon-based Santo Daime group Church of the Holy Light of the Queen, district court Judge Owen Panner set out the terms of a permanent injunction allowing the CHLQ to import and use Daime in its religious rituals.
The injunction is based on the temporary order that has structured UDV use of ayahuasca for the last few years, which itself is grounded in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) regulations for importers of controlled substances.
Global Cannabis Commission | Vienna
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug, making it the mainstay of the ‘War on Drugs’. The UN has estimated that cannabis is used by 4% of the global adult population. The number of users has risen by 10% since their last estimate in 2005, despite the call for a drug free world. This compares to a figure of 1% for the use of all other illegal drugs combined. However, the focus of international attention has concentrated on that 1% which causes the most harms leading to cannabis being largely ignored in international drug policy discussions while.
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Magic Mushrooms and the Legal Battle
Reputation of Mushrooms got distorted:
The National Smartshop Association (www.VLOS.nl) wants to have the distorted reputation of Shrooms corrected.
That’s what the lawyers said at the court in The Hague. They were referring to the incidents in Amsterdam that were said to have links with mushroom use. For example: the Frenchman who killed his dog ['famous' government example] on mushrooms, never used mushrooms. He was psychotic. Health minister Ab Klink repeatedly referred the incident to mushroom usage (in the parliament and media), the lawyers said. But it hasnt been proven that mushrooms were involved.
“We’re dealing with incidents that are expected to have something to do with shroom usage. That is fundamentally different than what the minister implies: that the incident was caused my mushroom usage. According to the lawyers the connection was never established [in fact, official psychiatric reports + a courtcase finding declared that this man did not use mushrooms].
Moreover, the…
Ecstasy’s Long-Term Effects Revealed
Enough time has finally elapsed to start asking if ecstasy damages health in the long term. According to the biggest review ever undertaken, it causes slight memory difficulties and mild depression, but these rarely translate into problems in the real world. While smaller studies show that some individuals have bigger problems, including weakened immunity and larger memory deficits, so far, for most people, ecstasy seems to be nowhere near as harmful over time as you may have been led to believe.
The review was carried out by the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), an independent body that advises the UK government on drug policy. Its headline recommendation is that, based on its harmfulness to individuals and society, MDMA should be downgraded from a class A drug — on a par with heroin and cocaine — to class B, alongside cannabis.
Nobody is arguing that taking ecstasy is risk-free:…
Ecstasy’s long-term effects revealed
Enough time has finally elapsed to start asking if ecstasy damages health in the long term. According to the biggest review ever undertaken, it causes slight memory difficulties and mild depression, but these rarely translate into problems in the real world. While smaller studies show that some individuals have bigger problems, including weakened immunity and larger memory deficits, so far, for most people, ecstasy seems to be nowhere near as harmful over time as you may have been led to believe.
The review was carried out by the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), an independent body that advises the UK government on drug policy. Its headline recommendation is that, based on its harmfulness to individuals and society, MDMA should be downgraded from a class A drug – on a par with heroin and cocaine – to class B, alongside cannabis.
Nobody is arguing that taking ecstasy is risk-free:…
Albert Hofmann Contacts Friend in Felix Group Physical Seance
The Felix Circle is a group of people, specialized in physical mediumism. For a recent seance, the group invited also Lucius Werthmueller (Basel Psi Association, Gaia Media Foundation). To the greatest surprise of all participants, Lucius had been contacted by the late Albert Hofmann via an extraordinary rapport. In advance a report by the circle; an elaborate personal report by Lucius himself will follow:
UPS Delivers 30-Pound Brick of Marijuana to Wrong Address
I don’t know what the lead story is here. UPS delivers pot; or UPS delivers pot to wrong address?
UPS delivers, but not always to the right address, a Denton man discovered Monday when he found a lot of green inside a package dropped on his porch by the men in brown. The man took the package to Denton police later that night, police spokesman Officer Ryan Grelle said. It contained a 30-pound brick of compressed marijuana with a street value of $10,500.
UPS mistakenly delivered it to the Denton house about 8 p.m., Grelle said. The resident was not at home at the time and opened it when he returned. “He was expecting tools that he had ordered from Sears,” Grelle said. “He opened it up and thought, ‘Oh my.’ He loaded it up and brought it to the police department.”
Sigh. Nobody ever mistakenly delivers a 30-pound brick of pot to…
A Gallery of Medical Marijuana
Positions on the medical use of marijuana vary, but thousands of patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other diseases claim marijuana provides them relief from devastating symptoms such as intractable nausea, vomiting.
In a 1997 article for the the New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., wrote that physicians who prohibit prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patient are misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane.
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Marijuana Reduces Memory Impairment
“Could people smoke marijuana to prevent Alzheimer’s disease if the disease is in their family? We’re not saying that, but it might actually work. What we are saying is it appears that a safe, legal substance that mimics those important properties of marijuana can work on receptors in the brain to prevent memory impairments in aging. So that’s really hopeful,” Wenk said.
“When we’re young, we reproduce neurons and our memory works fine. When we age, the process slows down, so we have a decrease in new cell formation in normal aging. You need those cells to come back and help form new memories, and we found that this THC-like agent can influence creation of those cells,” said Yannick Marchalant, a study coauthor and research assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State.
The Psychedelic University
The purpose of the Psychedelic University is not to polemicize, but to make an example of the psychedelic movement, displaying its radical commitment to the responsible and constructive use of psychoactive substances. Referring to the future of the psychedelic movement, Terence McKenna said, “Pointing back to my notion that the responsibility always rests on us and that you don’t want to go out and really form a movement to change those guys or that bureau — I think the thing that should be done is: people who are involved in psychedelics should live life of such examplitude and impeccability that the notion that there was anything shay or wrong or curious about this phenomenon would be ludicrous.”
China Has 2,700 Year-Old Stash in Tomb of Blue-Eyed Harpist
Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odour.
Classification of Illegal Drugs Should Be Free From Political Influence, According to UK Government
The power to decide the classification of illegal drugs should be taken out of the hands of the home secretary and given to a small, independent committee of experts, according to a proposal being considered by the government’s top advisory body on drug classification. The new group would act rather like the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which since May 1997 has decided interest rate levels.
Under the proposals discussed couple of days ago, by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a “classification committee” of scientists, social scientists and experts in the drug field would decide which class a drug should occupy based on evidence of the harm it causes to individuals and society.
Classification of illegal drugs should be free from political influence, according to UK government
The power to decide the classification of illegal drugs should be taken out of the hands of the home secretary and given to a small, independent committee of experts, according to a proposal being considered by the government’s top advisory body on drug classification. The new group would act rather like the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which since May 1997 has decided interest rate levels. Under the proposals discussed today by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a “classification committee” of scientists, social scientists and experts in the drug field would decide which class a drug should occupy based on evidence of the harm it causes to individuals and society.
