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Articles Full text articles alphabetically by subject... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:19:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 Policy on drugs runs up against insuperable problems https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/policy-on-drugs-runs-up-against-insuperable-problems.html Policy on drugs runs up against insuperable problems by professor Brouwer of the University of Groningen (translated from Dutch by Mario Lap and Richard Cowan The long awaited letter containing the Dutch government’s plans for the coffee shops was sent to the Lower House on the 27th of May. If the government has its way, coffee shops are to be private clubs for just the local market: only members will have access. The maximum number of  members is to be stipulated... Articles Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:19:26 +0100 International and European Perspective https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Law-and-treaties/european-integration-and-harmonization.html European integration and harmonization by Ybo Buruma translated from Dutch by Mario Lap & Richard Cowan 1. The Facts. / International crime? The discussion over a yes or no decision on the regulation or legalization of cannabis cultivation is dominated by the international obligations of The Netheriands. Before discussing them in detail we should first consider that most of these obligations are motivated from on the one hand by the wish to reduce major organized crime, and on the other h... Articles Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:49:00 +0100 Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs: a review of recent experiences https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Various-general/options-for-regulating-new-psychoactive-drugs-a-review-of-recent-experiences.html <a href="http://www.ukdpc.org.uk/index.shtml"><img alt="ukdpclogo1" src="images/stories/articles/ukdpclogo1.jpg" width="141" height="78" /></a>  <a href="http://www.ukdpc.org.uk/index.shtml"><img alt="ukdpclogo2" src="images/stories/articles/ukdpclogo2.jpg" width="156" height="40" /></a> Forword This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popularity and of harmfulness within a wider project being undertaken by the UK Drug Policy Commission and Demos, the outcomes of which are presented in <a href="index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=300:ukdpc-report-taking-drugs-seriously&Itemid=10">Taking Drugs Seriously: a Demos and UK Drug Policy Commission report on legal highs (Birdwell et al., 2011).</a> The review considers the international context, current approaches to t... Articles Fri, 20 May 2011 07:54:33 +0100 Wikileaks: Breaking the UNGASS Impasse on "Harm Reduction" https://abuse-drug.com/lib/International-national-drug-policy/breaking-the-ungass-impasse-on-qharm-reductionq.html UNCLAS UNVIE VIENNA 000031 SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: <a href="tag/SNAR_0.html">SNAR</a> <a href="tag/KCRM_0.html">KCRM</a> <a href="tag/UN_0.html">UN</a> <a href="tag/PGOV_0.html">PGOV</a> <a href="tag/AORC_0.html">AORC</a> <a href="tag/UK_0.html">UK</a> <a href="tag/CO_0.html">CO</a> <a href="tag/RS_0.html">RS</a> <a href="tag/JA_0.html">JA</a> <a href="tag/CA_0.html">CA</a> <a href="tag/FR_0.html">FR</a> <a href="tag/SW_0.html">SW</a> <a href="tag/GM_0.html">GM</a> EI, IT SUBJECT: Breaking the UNGASS Impasse on "Harm Reduction" REF: A) UNVIE 00001, B) Tsai-Pala 1/23 email <a id="par1" href="#par1">¶</a>1. (U) This is an action message for INL/PC and IO/T. Please see paragraph 7. ------- Summary ------- <a id="par2" href="#par2">¶</a>2. (SBU) Negotiations for the UNGA special session have hit an impasse, created by EU insistence on adding the controversial term "harm reducti... Articles Thu, 12 May 2011 12:27:01 +0100 Buying cannabis in ‘coffee shops’ https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/buying-cannabis-in-coffee-shops.html KARIN MONSHOUWER1,2, MARGRIET VAN LAAR1 & WILMA A. VOLLEBERGH2 1Trimbos Institute (Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction), Utrecht,The Netherlands, and 2Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht,The Netherlands Abstract Issues. The key objective of Dutch cannabis policy is to prevent and limit the risks of cannabis consumption for users, their direct environment and society (‘harm reduction’). This paper will focus on the tole... Articles Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:49:25 +0100 Cannabis social clubs in Spain https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/cannabis-social-clubs-in-spain.html A normalizing alternative underway By Martín Barriuso Alonso 1 TNI (Transnational Institute) and FAC (Federation of Cannabis Associations) 2011 Conclusions & Recommendations. The appearance of cannabis social clubs (CSC) in Spain in 2002 has enabled thousands of people to legally grow their own marijuana supply for personal consumption and ensure that it is good quality.• Clubs began to appear throughout the country, due to a grey area in Spanish legislation, and through a legal... Articles Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:34:47 +0100 Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health https://abuse-drug.com/lib/International-national-drug-policy/right-of-everyone-to-the-enjoyment-of-the-highest-attainable-standard-of-physical-and-mental-health.html <img src="images/stories/articles/unlogo1.jpg" border="0" alt="unlogo1" width="487" height="177" /> A/65/255Distr.: General6 August 2010Original: English Sixty-fifth sessionItem 69 (b) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health Note by the Secretary-GeneralThe Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the members of the Gener... Articles Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:48:32 +0100 Into the vortex: linking armed conflict to drug trade https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Crime-police-trafficking/into-the-vortex.html Introduction Drugs cause a large number of fatalities every year. Not because they used the drugs and overdosed, but as the result of the violence that seems inherent to the contraband. Despite its increased importance – opium is an essential link in the Afghanistan conflict, the escalation of the Mexican cartel war – the drug trade has received little attention in the field of political science. The central question in this work is why drug trade and armed conflict are so often ass... Articles Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:06:43 +0100 From coercion to cohesion: Treating drug dependence through healthcare, not punishment https://abuse-drug.com/lib/International-national-drug-policy/from-coercion-to-cohesion-treating-drug-dependence-through-healthcare-not-punishment.html From coercion to cohesion: Treating drug dependence through healthcare, not punishment Discussion paper based on a scientific workshopUNODC, ViennaOctober 28-30, 2009Draft2 March 2010 AcknowledgementsThis draft discussion paper has been prepared by Gilberto Gerra, UNODC, Health and Human Development Section, and Nicolas Clark, WHO, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, based on the deliberations of a group of international experts present at a scientific workshop held at Vienna in O... Articles Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:23 +0100 An evaluation of the quality of medicinal grade cannabis in the Netherlands https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/an-evaluation-of-the-quality-of-medicinal-grade-cannabis-in-the-netherlands.html Arno HazekampLeiden University, Department of Pharmacognosy, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, The Netherlands Cannabinoids 2006;1(1):1-9 AbstractSince 2003 medicinal grade cannabis is provided in the Netherlands on prescription through pharmacies. Growing, processing and packaging of the plant material are performed according to pharmaceutical standards and are supervised by the official Office of Medicinal Cannabis (OMC).The quality is guaranteed through regular testing by... Articles Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:33:51 +0100 Diversion of prescribed drugs by drug users in treatment: analysis of the UK market and new ... https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Treatment/diversion-of-prescribed-drugs-by-drug-users-in-treatment-analysis-of-the-uk-market-and-new-data-from-london.html RESEARCH REPORT Diversion of prescribed drugs by drug users in treatment: analysis of the UK market and new data from London JANE FOUNTAIN, JOHN STRANG, MICHAEL GOSSOP, MICHAEL FARRELL & PAUL GRIFFITHSNational Addiction Centre, Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK AbstractAims. To review the available knowledge about the diversion to the illicit market of drugs prescribed to drug users in treatment in the United Kingdom, and to identify aspects of the London market in more... Articles Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:18:58 +0100 Introduction by Tod Mikuriya https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/introduction-by-tod.html Introduction by Tod Mikuriya, M.D. The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report*, comprising some nine volumes and 3,698 pages, is by far the most completed and systematic study of marijuana undertaken to date. Because of the rarity and, perhaps, the formidable size of this document, the wealth of information contained in it has not found its way into contemporary writings on this subject. This is indeed unfortunate, as many of the issues concerning marijuana being argued in the United States tod... Articles Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 WAR ON DRUGS https://abuse-drug.com/lib/International-national-drug-policy/war-on-drugs.html WAR ON DRUGS“If anyone wants to understand why drugs flourish, one has to keep in mind that every thousand lire that are invested in drugs on the first of September, will give a return of one hundred million on the first of August of the following year.” The murdered Italian judge Giovanni Falcone"Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade”. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State during her flight to Mexico City on May 26, 2009. The U.S.A. is the most powerful country in... Articles Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Centenial thoughts by Tod Mikuriya https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/centenial-toughts.html Centennial Thoughts Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D. This monumental study exposes the overriding and pervasive powers of contemporary collective denial and moral failure underpinning policies of cannabis prohibition. Motivated by convenient moralism, questions are repeatedly disingenuously raised concerning the harm of hemp drugs, cannabis, or marijuana. The engine of agitprop bureaucratic ire fires up. Hearings are scheduled, witnesses heard, proceedings transcribed, summarized, presented to the ... Articles Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 Successes and new challenges for Netherlands' drug policy https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/successes-and-new-challenges-for-netherlands-drug-policy.html Cannabis to be regulated in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by Eddy L. Engelsman Former Director on Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Policies, of the Netherlands' Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport<a name="_ftnref" href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Farewell symposium “The disease addiction” for Jan van Ree, Professor Psychopharmacology Aula, University of Utrecht, Academiegebouw, Utrecht, 1 April 2010 Introduction Total abstinence from drugs is the best way to avoid trouble. In a perfect world I'd say: yes... Articles Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Observation about cannabis use and cannabis policy https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/observation-about-cannabis-use-and-cannabis-policy.html Observation about cannabis use and cannabis policy Dr Donald P. Cohen <a href="#i CV">(i)</a> This memorandum was prepared for the Constitutional Court of Korea on request of Dr Moon, Director of KORIP, Mr Jeong Ho and Mr Jo Donghwan, september 2009 Cannabis use in the adult population of Europe is reported by EMCDDA. Its latest report shows like earlier reports that life time cannabis use in European countries varies between 5% and about 35%. Countries that are next to each other can be very dissimilar( Denmark ... Articles Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:04:53 +0100 Review on clinical studies with cannabis and cannabinoids 2005-2009 https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/review-on-clinical-studies-with-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-2005-2009.html Review on clinical studies with cannabis and cannabinoids 2005-2009 Arno Hazekamp, Franjo GrotenhermenInstitute Biology Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlandsnova-Institut, Chemiepark Knapsack, Industriestralle, D-50354 Hürth, Germany Abstract To date, a large number of controlled clinical trials have been done evaluating the therapeutic applications of cannabis and cannabis-based preparations. In 2006, an excellent review was published, discussing the clinical trials performed in the per... Articles Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:31:41 +0100 North - American Bias and Non - American Roots of Cannabis Prohibition https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/north-american-bias-and-non-american-roots-of-cannabis-prohibition.html Sebastian Scheerer North - American Bias and Non - American Roots of Cannabis Prohibition There is something like a North American bias in both drug policy and drug policy research. This bias takes many forms and contains a number of contradictions. Global drug policy, for instance, is being marketed to the general public as an emanation of the global villagers' volonté générale, while serious analyses convincingly show that it really rests on a highly coercive consensus masterminded by just o... Articles Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:15:57 +0100 Heroin Addiction - A Metabolic Disease https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Opiates-heroin-methadone/heroin-addiction-a-metabolic-disease.html Heroin Addiction - A Metabolic Disease Vincent P. Dole, MD and Marie E. Nyswander, MD, New York Arch Intern Med;Vol 120, July 1967 (An emulation of the original article) THE METHADONE Maintenance Research Program began three years ago with pharmacological studies conducted on the metabolic ward of the Rockefeller University Hospital. Only six addict patients were treated during the first year, but the results of this work were sufficiently impressive to justify the trial of maintenance treatment ... Articles Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:52:58 +0100 Through The Lens Of Perception https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/through-the-lens-of-perception.html Through The Lens Of Perception Hal Zena Bennett Shaman's Drum, A Journal Of Experiential Shamanism: Fall, 1987 "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." —I Corinthians Nearly thirty years ago, I spent a summer in Mexico, much of it in a small village two hours by bus up the coast from Acapulco. As far as I know, the village had no name but was referred to as "the turnaround" (in Spanish, of ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:33:00 +0100 The Church Of Father Peyote https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-church-of-father-peyote.html The Church Of Father Peyote Carl A. Hammerschlag, M.D. from: The Dancing Healers, Harper & Row, San Francisco ©Carl A. Hammerschlag 1988. The first time I attended the church of Father Peyote, I got quite sick—and I was only sitting outside listening to the music. They passed some tea around. I tried it and became violently ill. I thought that was the end of my relationship with Father Peyote. There was no way that I would sit up all night just to get sick. On that first visit to a ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:32:18 +0100 A Real Commitment https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/a-real-commitment.html A Real Commitment Omer C. Stewart excerpted from Peyote Religion: A History University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK ©1987 Peyotism today echoes the long-standing problem of its opposition by the dominant population—the Spanish in Mexico and other Americans in the United States, government officials, Christian missionaries, educators, and U.S. senators and representatives. Legally, peyotists today have won their fight for religious freedom in the United States. Since 1978, with the passa... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:31:42 +0100 Supreme Court Decision https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/supreme-court-decision.html Supreme Court Decision U.S. Supreme Court Report Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon, et al., Petitioners v. Alfred L. Smith et al. [No.88-1213] 494 US 872,108 L Ed 2nd 876,110 S Ct 1595 Argued November 6, 1989. Decided April 17, 1990. Decision: Oregon's prohibition of use of peyote in religious ceremony held not to violate free exercise of religion clause of Federal Constitution's First Amendment. SUMMARY Two drug rehabilitation counselors, both of whom ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:31:03 +0100 Texas Court Decision https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/texas-court-decision.html Texas Court Decision Judge Maloney of the Fifth Circuit Court ruled against the Peyote Way Church of God in Arizona on October 28, 1988 stating that: 1 ) There is a limited supply of the Holy Sacrament peyote, and all of it is needed for the Native American Church of North America. 2) The government is authorized to make laws to protect the public even if those laws infringe on the Church's religious rights, therefore the Federal and Texas State drug laws are legitimate. 3) Federal and Texa... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:30:19 +0100 California Law https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/california-law.html California Law 11352. Transportation, sale, giving away, etc. of designated controlled substances; punishment for peyote. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this division, every person who transports, imports into this state, sells, furnishes, administers or gives away, or offers to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, or give away, or attempts to import into this state or transport (1) any controlled substance specified in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 11054, o... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:29:46 +0100 Peyote And The Law https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/peyote-and-the-law.html Peyote And The Law Guy Mount The Peyote Book, A study of Native Medicine, Sweetlight Books, ©G. Mount 1993. We need spiritual freedom in America. The peyote religion has been a lifeline from the past for native people. I believe it can be a lifeline to the future for many others. But the truth is the Peyote Religion has been suppressed by laws which discriminate against followers according to their race, and by ideas which discredit the Good Medicine by classifying it as a dangerous drug. ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:29:13 +0100 Antibiotic Activity of an Extract Of Peyote https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/antibiotic-activity-of-an-extract-of-peyote.html Antibiotic Activity of an Extract Of Peyote David L. Walkington Economic Botany, 1960 The use of peyote in religious rites by many Indian tribes is common knowledge. In addition, curative properties for such varied ailments as toothache, pain in childbirth, fever, breast pain, skin diseases, rheumatism, diabetes, colds, and blindness, among other things, have been claimed for this plant by the same peoples...The U.S. DISPENSATORY lists peyote under the name Anhalonium and indicates its use ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:28:34 +0100 Apparent Safety of Peyote https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/apparent-safety-of-peyote.html Apparent Safety of Peyote Robert Bergman American Journal of Psychiatry, 1971 Several states have passed laws against possession and use of peyote. However, very little evidence has been reported on this subject...My familiarity with the Native American Church has resulted from the day-to-day work of the mental health program on the Navajo area of the Indian Health Service working with the 125,000 Navajo Indians, the largest tribe in the United States...We provide consultation to many commu... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:28:00 +0100 Shamanism and Peyote Use Among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/shamanism-and-peyote-use-among-the-apaches.html Shamanism and Peyote Use Among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, and Harry W. Basehart from: Hallucinogens & Shamanism, Edited by Michael J. Harner ©1973, Oxford University Press In a volume devoted to the study of shamanism and hallucinogenic drugs it is important to include data concerning a group whose experiences with the hallucinogenic peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) in shamanistic rituals resulted in serious conflict and, ultimate... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:26:52 +0100 The History of Peyotism in Nevada https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-history-of-peyotism-in-nevada.html The History of Peyotism in Nevada Omer C. Stewart from Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Vol 25 No 3, 1982 USING ONLY THE TRADITIONAL methods of history, which heavily depend on published or unpublished written records, or ethnography, which rely on data collected by interviews with native informants and knowledge obtained by participant observation, would leave a very incomplete and distorted picture of Peyotism in Nevada Notwithstanding the fact that Peyotists have always been a small ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:26:08 +0100 Omer C. Stewart Crusades for Indian Religious Freedom https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/omer-c-stewart-crusades-for-indian-religious-freedom.html Friend to the Ute Omer C. Stewart Crusades for Indian Religious Freedom Colorado Heritage, The Journal of the Colorado Historical Society, 1982, issue 1. "Strange as the religion of Peyote may seem to some people, it is, nevertheless, their form of worship, and it should not be banned." OMER C. STEWART, distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology at the university of Colorado at Boulder, is a recognized authority on Native American cultures. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1939, he has de... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:25:20 +0100 Recollections of the Peyote Road https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/recollections-of-the-peyote-road.html Recollections of the Peyote Road George Morgan From Psychedelic Reflections, edited by Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar, Harvard Medical School. ©Human Sciences Press, 1983 My thoughts about Peyote are closely interwoven with the religious context of the Native American Church, the Peyote religion of the American Indian. In my experiences with this sacred plant, Indian Peyotists have been my companions. I am grateful to them for their patience and understanding, and their willingness... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:24:38 +0100 Peyote Night https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/peyote-night.html Peyote Night Humphry Osmond This article originally appeared in Tomorrow magazine, Spring 1961. The Native American Church is a religious movement which originated among the Indians of the Southwestern United States. Its main features involve the use of peyote, a psychedelic, or mind-manifester, drug obtained from the dried tops of a cactus that contains mescaline, in a ceremony combining Indian religious motifs with certain Christian themes. The drug and the ceremony are fused together in a... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:23:57 +0100 Botany of Peyote https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/botany-of-peyote.html Botany of Peyote Edward F. Anderson Chapter 8, Peyote, The Divine Cactus, ©1980 The Arizona Board of Regents Published by The University of Arizona Press ISBN 0-8165-0680-9 Until the 1950s there had been no careful and extensive botanical studies of peyote. Plants which were brought into the chemist's laboratory—or the horticulturist's greenhouse—had little or no documentation, available only at the site of collection, about the place of origin or other important characteristics. As a ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:23:12 +0100 Introduction to the Peyote Wisdom Collection https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/introduction-to-the-peyote-wisdom-collection.html Introduction to the Peyote Wisdom Collection Guy Mount from The Peyote Book, Sweetlight Books, Cottonwood California, 1993. ©Guy Mount At this moment in American History, the practitioners of alternative herbal medicine and religion are the most persecuted and prosecuted members of society. Peyote itself is under attack from oil well development companies, dry land ranching techniques, and an ever increasing number of consumers. There is an immediate need to 1) pass laws in each state that... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:22:14 +0100 Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/human-psychopharmacology-of-hoasca.html Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, A Plant Hallucinogen Used in Ritual Context in Brazil Charles S. Grob, M.D., Dennis J. Mckenna, Ph.D., James C. Callaway, Ph.D., Glacus S. Brito, M.D., Edison S. Neves, M.D., Guilherme Oberlaender, M.D., Oswaldo L. Saide, M.D., Elizeu Labigalini, M. D. , Cristiane Tacla, Ph.D., Claudio T. Miranda, M. D., Rick J. Strassman, M.D., And Kyle B. Boone, Ph.D. ©Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 184:86-94, 1996 A multinational, collaborative, biomedical inves... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:17:14 +0100 Hallucinogenic Drugs in Psychiatric Research and Treatment: Perspectives and Prospects https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/hallucinogenic-drugs-in-psychiatric-research-and-treatment-perspectives-and-prospects.html Hallucinogenic Drugs in Psychiatric Research and Treatment: Perspectives and Prospects Rick J. Strassman, M.D. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 183, No. 3, pp. 127-138. ©1995 Williams & Wilkins Clinical research with hallucinogens has resumed after a generation's hiatus. To place these new studies in context, this article reviews the history of hallucinogens' use and abuse, discusses their pharmacological properties, and highlights previous human studies. Research with Iy... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:16:33 +0100 The Secret of the Kykeon https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-secret-of-the-kykeon.html The Secret of the Kykeon Peter Webster The original hypothesis of The Road to Eleusis suggests that the ergot species Claviceps purpurea, collected by the hierophantic priests from its natural and common parasitisation on barley growing in the Rarian plain adjacent to Eleusis, was the probable active ingredient of the kykeon, the psychoactive potion used in the yearly Rite at Eleusis. It was further suggested that the hierophants would have processed the C. purpurea ergot by dissolving off th... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:15:52 +0100 Toward a Psychedelic Medicine https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/toward-a-psychedelic-medicine.html <a id="back1" name="back1"></a>Toward a Psychedelic Medicine<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/yensen.htm#foot1">1</a> Richard Yensen, Ph.D. Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, Issue 1, 1992, pp51-69. ©VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1995. Introduction and Goals This paper seeks to delineate the need for a fusion of many existing areas of study into a new discipline that focuses on practice, research and study of the use of psychedelic substances as medicine. For the duration of this paper I will call the new disciplinepsychedelic medici... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:14:54 +0100 Has the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries been solved? https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/has-the-mystery-of-the-eleusinian-mysteries-been-solved.html Has the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries been solved? Ivan Valencic Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, Issue 3, 1994, pp325-336. ©VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1995. 1 In ancient Greece near Eleusis, about 20 kilometers north-west from Athens, a special event was celebrated every September. According to the tradition the goddess Demeter was said to have been reunited here with her daughter Kore, who was also known as Persephone, after she had been k... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:13:09 +0100 Consciousness Alteration as a Problem-Solving Device https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/consciousness-alteration-as-a-problem-solving-device.html <a id="back1" name="back1"> Consciousness Alteration as a Problem-Solving Device: The Psychedelic Pathway</a><a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/baker.htm#foot1">1</a> John R. Baker, Ph.D. Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, Issue 3, 1994, pp51-89. ©VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1995. Abstract In "normal" states of consciousness, an individual is able to perceive, interpret, and react to events occurring in the "real" world. As experience accrues, a person constructs a "personal universe" to explain the "general universe" and provide a fra... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:12:09 +0100 ibogaine in the treatment of chemical dependence disorders: clinical perspectives https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/ibogaine-in-the-treatment-of-chemical-dependence-disorders-clinical-perspectives.html ibogaine in the treatment of chemical dependence disorders: clinical perspectives H. S. Lotsof Dedicated to the work of J. Bastiaans and N. Adriaans, in memory of N. Kribus The primary purpose of this paper is to provide general information to the clinician who will be using the Lotsof Proceduresm (Goutarel, 1993) developed by NDA International, Inc. in which Ibogaine is administered to treat chemical dependence disorders. This is a preliminary report. The patient base upon which my conclu... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:11:05 +0100 Swiss research with psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA and other psychedelics https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/swiss-research-with-psilocybin-ketamine-mdma-and-other-psychedelics.html Swiss research with psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA and other psychedelics Franz Vollenweider Franz Vollenweider Psychiatric University Hospital Research Department P. O. Box 68 CH-8029 Zurich Switzerland phone: 0041-1-384 21 11 Fax: 0041-1-383 51 14 e-mail: <a href="http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v06n1/%22mailto:vollen@bli.unizh.ch%22">vollen@bli.unizh.ch</a> At this time (Fall 1995), our Swiss research group includes the author as coordinator and project leader/head, a post-doctoral candidate in neurobiology and seven doctoral candidates in medicine. Since January 1995 we hav... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:10:11 +0100 MDMA Neurotoxicity: New Data, New Risk Analysis https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Dance/party-drugs-clubbing/mdma-neurotoxicity-new-data-new-risk-analysis.html MDMA Neurotoxicity: New Data, New Risk Analysis Rick Doblin Readers of the MAPS newsletter may have come across recent articles in the media claiming that new evidence shows that MDMA may cause permanent and potentially harmful brain changes even in typical recreational doses. As in most other news reports involving research about illegal drugs, the stories oversimplified the scientific findings, took data out of context, exaggerated the dangers, and ignored possible counter-balancing benefits... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:09:19 +0100 Marijuana Water Pipe and Vaporizer Study https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/marijuana-water-pipe-and-vaporizer-study.html Marijuana Water Pipe and Vaporizer Study [Revised February 2000] Dale Gieringer, Ph.D. California NORML, 2215-R Market St. Suite 278 San Francisco CA 94114 tel: (415) 563-5858 E-mail: canorml@igc.apc.org September 21, 2000 update: MAPS and CA-NORML are sponsoring a <a href="http://www.maps.org/support.html">new vaporizer study</a>. Testing and data analysis have been completed. A detailed report will be issued soon. The design and cost of additional studies are currently being discussed with the analytical lab. The new study is a $25... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:08:18 +0100 LSD: Completely Personal https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/lsd-completely-personal.html LSD: Completely Personal speech delivered to the 1996 Worlds of Consciousness Conference in Heidelberg, Germany Dr. Albert Hofmann translated from the original German (LSD Ganz Persönlich) by J. Ott One often asks oneself what roles planning and chance play in the realization of the most important events in our lives. With respect to a given event, this involves the question, just how much was destiny, how much free will? This question has preoccupied me again and again in relation to one ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:07:40 +0100 Hoasca and the União do Vegetal (UDV): A Comparative Study with Adolescents https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/hoasca-and-the-uniao-do-vegetal-udv-a-comparative-study-with-adolescents.html Hoasca and the União do Vegetal (UDV): A Comparative Study with Adolescents Jodi Lang Santry, M.Ed., M.A. Highlights: Reaction toward the use of psychotropics by adolescents is diametrically polarized between Western cultures and indigenous groups. It appears upon informed observation that the adolescents within the UDV population employ Hoasca in a way that it is positive and life enhancing. Funding support is greatly needed to move this research project forward. The findings hold the po... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:06:59 +0100 Psilocybin's effects on cognition https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psilocybins-effects-on-cognition.html Psilocybin's effects on cognition: Recent research and its implications for enhancing creativity Matthew J. Baggott Research Associate, Drug Dependence Research Center University of California, San Francisco <a href="mailto:mbagg@itsa.ucsf.edu">mbagg@itsa.ucsf.edu</a> <a href="http://itsa.ucsf.edu/%7Eddrc">http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~ddrc</a> For an updated list of psilocybin studies, <a href="http://www.maps.org/research/psyprojects.html#PSILOCYBIN"> click here</a> For Rick Doblin's long-term followup studies to psilocybin research originally conducted or supervised by Timothy Leary at Harvard from 1960-1963, see the <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/doblin.htm">Good Friday experiment follow-u... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:06:20 +0100 On the Crest of a Wave: A Brief Review of the BBC's Horizon Special Psychedelic Experience https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/on-the-crest-of-a-wave-a-brief-review-of-the-bbcs-horizon-special-psychedelic-experience.html On the Crest of a Wave: A Brief Review of the BBC's Horizon SpecialPsychedelic Experience Simon G. Powell Program notes and a transcript of the show are available at <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/96-97/psyched.html"> http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/96-97/psyched.html.</a> Reach Simon Powell at Simon@biocom.demon.co.uk One would not expect Britain's traditionally conservative and oft-staid BBC to screen a 50 minute film on the new wave of psychedelic research in humans. Yet, astonishingly enough, such a state of affairs recently came to pass. Bef... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:05:34 +0100 Update: LSD Research at Orenda Institute https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/update-lsd-research-at-orenda-institute.html Update: LSD Research at Orenda Institute Richard Yensen, Ph.D. and Donna Dryer, M.D., M.P.H. Orenda Institute Baltimore, Maryland <a href="mailto:ryensen@orenda.org">ryensen@orenda.org</a> The dream behind forming the Orenda Institute was to continue psychotherapy studies with psychedelics that began at Spring Grove State Hospital (1960-1965) and were carried forward at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (1965-76). I (Richard Yensen) joined the research psychotherapy team at MPRC in 1972. When the MPRC was closed to furthe... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:04:42 +0100 Conference Highlights: Hallucinogenic Drugs in Experimental Psychiatric Research https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/conference-highlights-hallucinogenic-drugs-in-experimental-psychiatric-research.html From the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies MAPS - Volume 7 Number 3 Summer 1997 - pp. 31-36 Conference Highlights: Hallucinogenic Drugs in Experimental Psychiatric Research Vaals, Netherlands - March 13-15, 1997 <a href="mailto:jholland@inch.com">Julie Holland, M.D.</a> Bellevue Hospital, NYC Faculty, New York University Hospital Medical Center March 13th through 15th, 1997 at the Hotel Casteel Bloemendal in Vaals, Netherlands, I attended a three day workshop entitled Hallucinogenic Drugs... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:03:47 +0100 Introduction - Time Horizons https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/introduction-time-horizons.html From the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies MAPS - Volume 7 Number 3 Summer 1997 - p. 3 Introduction - Time Horizons Time horizons is a concept that refers to the length of time that people consider relevant to their particular decisionmaking processes. I first heard the words used by a friend who was working as an aide to a U.S. Senator. He described Senators as having the longest time horizons of any elected officials due to their six year term of offi... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:02:57 +0100 Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens: What have we learned? https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychiatric-research-with-hallucinogens.html Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens: What have we learned? Charles S. Grob, M.D. Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, Issue 3, 1994 ©VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1995 Abstract After a twenty-five year period of virtual prohibition, formal psychiatric research with hallucinogenic drugs has resumed. This article reviews the process by which hallucinogens came to be viewed as beyond the pale of respected and sanctioned clinical investigation, and dir... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:00:38 +0100 History of LSD Therapy https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/history-of-lsd-therapy.html History of LSD Therapy Stanislav Grof, M.D. Chapter 1 of LSD Psychotherapy, ©1980, 1994 by Stanislav Grof. Hunter House Publishers, Alameda, California, ISBN 0-89793-158-0 <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec1">The Discovery of LSD and its Psychedelic Effects</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec2">Early Laboratory and Clinical LSD Research</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec3">Therapeutic Experimentation With LSD</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec4">Studies of Chemotherapeutic Properties of LSD</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec5">LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#sec6">The Need for a Comprehensive Theory of LSD Therapy</a> <a id="sec1" name="sec1"></a><a id="back1" name="back1"></a>THE DISCOVERY OF LSD AND ITS PSYCHEDELIC EFFECTS<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofhist.htm#note1">*</a> LSD-25 (or diethyl... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:51:47 +0100 Realms of the Human Unconscious - Preface https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/realms-of-the-human-unconscious-preface.html Realms of the Human Unconscious - Preface Stanislav Grof, M.D. Realms of the Human Unconscious was first published by The Viking Press ©1975 by Stanislav Grof and Joan Halifax Grof This volume is the first of a series of books in which I plan to summarize and condense in a systematic and comprehensive way my observations and experiences during seventeen years of research with LSD and other psychedelic drugs. Exploration of the potential of these substances for the study of schizophrenia, f... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:50:56 +0100 The Withering Away of the Revolution https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-withering-away-of-the-revolution.html The Withering Away of the Revolution Robert Hunter Chapter 10 of The Storming of the Mind McClelland and Stewart Limited, ©Robert Hunter 1971 As promised, no attempt has been made to examine all of the causes of the restructuring of consciousness which is taking place. Neither has any attempt been made to examine all the ways in which it manifests itself. Such an effort would have to range far beyond the rock phenomenon, the use of psychedelics, the effects of urbanization and mass media a... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:50:12 +0100 The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-strange-case-of-the-harvard-drug-scandal.html The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal Andrew T. Weil Look Magazine, November 5, 1963 ON MAY 27 1963, President Nathan M. Pusey of Harvard University announced that an assistant professor of clinical psychology and education had been fired. This was the first faculty firing since Pusey took office in 1953, and it had overtones of the sensational. The man dismissed was Dr. Richard Alpert, a young psychologist, member of Harvard's Social Relations department and son of George Alpert,... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:49:26 +0100 The Door in the Wall - Part II https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-door-in-the-wall-part-ii.html The Door in the Wall - Part II Jay Stevens Psychedelics in the 1950s. An excerpt from Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. Harper & Row Publishers, ©1987 by Jay Stevens. ISBN 0-06-097172-X Huxley was jubilant. Mescaline was "the most extraordinary and significant experience available to human beings this side of the Beatific Vision," he cabled his New York editor, Harold Raymond, adding that he was working on a long essay that would raise "all manner of questions... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:48:06 +0100 The Politics of Consciousness - Part II https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-politics-of-consciousness-part-ii.html The Politics of Consciousness - Part II Jay Stevens An excerpt from Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, Harper & Row, Publishers, ©1987 by Jay Stevens. ISBN 0-06-097172-X Had you suggested, at the 1962 White House Conference on Narcotics, that in just four short years America would resemble what Time magazine described as a "psychedelic smorgasbord," you would have been laughed from the podium. Marijuana and heroin were the chief concerns back then; LSD barely rated a footnote... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:47:07 +0100 The Politics of Consciousness - Part I https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-politics-of-consciousness-part-i.html The Politics of Consciousness - Part I Jay Stevens An excerpt from Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, Harper & Row, Publishers, ©1987 by Jay Stevens. ISBN 0-06-097172-X "The whole goddamn climate changed. Suddenly you were conspirators out to destroy people. I felt like Galileo. I closed my practice and went to Europe. I felt violated." That was the way Oscar Janiger remembered the change in mood that began in the summer of 1962. Suddenly LSD was no longer innocuous. It was a... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:46:25 +0100 The Door in the Wall - Part I https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-door-in-the-wall.html The Door in the Wall Jay Stevens Psychedelics in the 1950s. An excerpt from Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens. Harper & Row Publishers, ©1987 by Jay Stevens. ISBN 0-06-097172-X There is no way of determining who was the first American to take LSD. But one of the earliest was a Boston doctor named Robert Hyde, who practiced at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. One of Hyde's colleagues, a psychiatrist named Max Rinkel, had obtained some LSD and was curious ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:45:26 +0100 Psychedelic Pioneers https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychedelic-pioneers.html Psychedelic Pioneers Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain Chapter 2 of Acid Dreams, The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond, New York: Grove Weidenfeld. ©1985 by Lee & Shlain. Note: Excerpts from Acid Dreams appear in this library under the "Fair Use" rulings regarding the 1976 Copyright Act for NON-profit academic, research, and general information purposes. Readers requiring a permanent copy of Acid Dreams for their library are advised to purchase it from thei... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:44:41 +0100 The Hallucinogenic Fungi Of Mexico https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-hallucinogenic-fungi-of-mexico.html The Hallucinogenic Fungi Of Mexico An Inquiry Into The Origins of The Religious Idea Among Primitive Peoples R. Gordon Wasson This paper was first given as the Annual Lecture of the Mycological Society of America, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1960, and later published in the Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, 1961, 19(7). WHEN I RECEIVED in Mexico your President's invitation to speak here today, I knew that your Committee had made an unorthodox choice, for I am not a professional myco... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:43:47 +0100 The Soul-Searchers https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-soul-searchers.html The Soul-Searchers Alan W. Watts An excerpt from In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915—1965 ©1972 by Alan Watts. Pantheon Books On returning to America [in 1958] I was introduced to psychiatric adventures of a very different order, for Aldous Huxley had recently published Doors of Perception about his experiment with mescaline, and had by this time gone on to explore the mysteries of LSD. Gerald Heard had joined him in these investigations, and in my conversations with them I noticed a ma... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:41:25 +0100 The Discovery of LSD and Subsequent Investigations on Naturally Occurring Hallucinogens https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-discovery-of-lsd-and-subsequent-investigations.html The Discovery of LSD and Subsequent Investigations on Naturally Occurring Hallucinogens Albert Hofmann, PhD. Director of Research, Department of Natural Products, Sandoz Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. Chapter 7 of Discoveries in Biological Psychiatry, Frank J. Ayd, Jr. & Barry Blackwell, eds., ©J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970 <img src="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/hofmannphoto.jpg" border="0" hspace="14" width="172" height="180" align="left" /> IT IS OFTEN STATED in the literature that LSD was discovered by chance. The following account will show that LSD was not the fruit of a chance discovery, but the outcom... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:40:23 +0100 Psychedelic Reflections — Afterword https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychedelic-reflections-afterword.html Psychedelic Reflections — Afterword Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar Psychedelic Reflections &copyHuman Sciences Press 1983 One of the people we asked to write for this book replied that after long thought he had to decline, because he feared the effect on his ability to support himself and his family if he said what he really thought about psychedelic drugs. This may be an unusually strong expression of a feeling that is more common in milder forms. Anyone, whatever his views ... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:36:05 +0100 A Psychedelic Experience - Fact or Fantasy? https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/a-psychedelic-experience-fact-or-fantasy.html A Psychedelic Experience - Fact or Fantasy? Alan Watts This essay appeared in LSD, The Consciousness-Expanding Drug David Solomon, Editor, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York ©David Solomon 1964 Since at least 1500 B.C. men have, from time to time, held the view that our normal vision of the world is a hallucination—a dream, a figment of the mind, or, to use the Hindu word which means both art and illusion, a maya. The implication is that, if this is so, life need never be taken seriously. It i... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:35:32 +0100 Commentary on William Braden's Mescaline Experience https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/commentary-on-william-bradens-mescaline-experience.html Commentary on William Braden's Mescaline Experience by Peter Webster How is it possible for two persons of such obvious intellectual talent as William Braden and Aldous Huxley to have such radically different experiences as a result of ingestion of a similar quantity of mescaline? Both Huxley and Braden brought to their first psychedelic experiment a wide knowledge and understanding of science, religion, mysticism, literature and fine arts, yet Huxley's initial psychedelic experience was a r... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:34:53 +0100 The Private Sea https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-private-sea.html The Private Sea William Braden Postscript "Four o'clock, and all's wrong." So says the voice on the tape recorder as I listen to it now. My voice. Having been reminded often enough of those schoolmen who would not look through Galileo's telescope, I participated in a psychedelic experiment on May 16, 1966, at the Ridgeway psychiatric hospital in Chicago. Present were Dr. A. I. Jackman, a psychiatrist; Dr. Herbert Maltz, clinical director of the hospital, and a psychedelic guide I shall refe... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:34:09 +0100 "BAD TRIPS" may be the BEST TRIPS https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/qbad-tripsq-may-be-the-best-trips.html "BAD TRIPS" may be the BEST TRIPS Walter Houston Clark FATE Magazine, April 1976 A unique blend of Freudian analysis and Mexican shamanism may represent a breakthrough for psychotherapy. NEARLY A century has passed since Sigmund Freud revolutionized our understanding of mental illness and its treatment. Many significant thinkers—such as Carl Jung—went considerably beyond Freud in plumbing the depths of the human psyche. But none of the myriad psychotherapeutic techniques developed duri... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:33:24 +0100 PSYCHOSIS: "Experimental" and Real https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychosis-qexperimentalq-and-real.html PSYCHOSIS: "Experimental" and Real Joe K. Adams<a id="back1" name="back1"></a><a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/adams.htm#foot1">1</a> Psychedelic Review No. 2 —Now is there something wrong with this entire circus. Carl Giese —Consistency, thou art a jewel. Origin unknown I SHALL ATTEMPT to present a theory of psychosis centered around the topics of cognitive structure, emotion, role, cultural norms, and communication, and to relate my theory to the cultural revolution through which we ale now passing, with comparative references to past revolutions. The contributio... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:32:41 +0100 A Note on Adverse Effects https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/a-note-on-adverse-effects.html A Note on Adverse Effects Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar From: Psychedelic Reflections, ©Human Sciences Press, 1983 While we are talking about the uses of psychedelic drugs, it is appropriate to discuss their dangers. The psychedelic voyage does produce some casualties; the question is how many and how serious they are, what causes them, and how to prevent them. This has been a matter of controversy since the 1960s. Drug users sometimes would not confess that they had any problems... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:59 +0100 New Learning https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/new-learning.html New Learning Thomas Bradford Roberts From: Psychedelic Reflections, Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar ©Human Sciences Press, 1983. "Thomas B. Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Learning and Development at Northern Illinois University. He is coauthor of The Second Centering Book and Transpersonal Psychology in Education, and has edited the anthology Four Psychologies Applied to Education: Freudian, Behavioral, Humanistic, Transpersonal." —Psy... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:21 +0100 Psychedelics and Self-Actualization https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychedelics-and-self-actualization.html Psychedelics and Self-Actualization Roger Walsh, M.D. From: Psychedelic Reflections, Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar, editors ©Human Sciences Press, 1983 In their letter soliciting contributions to this book, the editors wrote, "we came to the conclusion that psychedelic drugs have influenced both the lives of individual users and society in general more than is usually acknowledged—sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically. " I was delighted to receive their invitation, since these... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:30:39 +0100 Perception and Knowledge: Reflections on Psychological and Spiritual Learning in the ... https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/perception-and-knowledge.html Perception and Knowledge: Reflections on Psychological and Spiritual Learning in the Psychedelic Experience Frances E. Vaughan from: Psychedelic Reflections, Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar ©Human Sciences Press, 1983 Little controlled research has been done with psychedelics. But my own experience, coupled with my observation of hundreds of clients, students, and acquaintances who have used LSD in both controlled and uncontrolled settings, has convinced me that we have much to lea... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:29:40 +0100 Molecular Mysticism: The Role of Psychoactive Substances in the Transformation of Consciousness https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/molecular-mysticism-the-role-of-psychoactive-substances-in-the-transformation-of-consciousness.html Molecular Mysticism: The Role of Psychoactive Substances in the Transformation of Consciousness Ralph Metzner an essay appearing in The Gateway to Inner Space, Christian Rätsch, editor. Published by Prism Press, Dorset, U.K., 1989. There is a question that has troubled me, and no doubt others, since the heyday of psychedelic research in the 1960s, when many groups and individuals were concerned with the problems of assimilating new and powerful mind-altering substances into Western society... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:28:22 +0100 Using Psychedelics Wisely https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/using-psychedelics-wisely.html Using Psychedelics Wisely Myron J. Stolaroff A veteran researcher explains how psychedelics can be used to give beneficial results. From GNOSIS, No. 26, Winter 1993<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/stolarof.htm#note">*</a>. MY WIFE JEAN AND I had driven several miles up the mountain to an elevation of 6000 feet a few miles south of Mount Whitney in California. We were about to meet Franklin Merrell-Wolff, author of the book Pathways through to Space, an impressively articulate and detailed description of a person entering a state of enlightenment... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:27:42 +0100 Non-Therapeutic Uses of LSD https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/non-therapeutic-uses-of-lsd.html Non-Therapeutic Uses of LSD Stanislav Grof, M.D. Chapter 8, LSD Psychotherapy, ©1980, 1994 by Stanislav Grof Hunter House Publishers, Alameda, California, ISBN 0-89793-158-0 <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofnnth.htm#sec1">Training Sessions of Mental Health Professionals</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofnnth.htm#sec2">Administration of LSD to Creative Individuals</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofnnth.htm#sec3">Drug-Induced Religious and Mystical Experiences</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofnnth.htm#sec4">Role of LSD in Personal Growth and Self-Actualization</a> <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofnnth.htm#sec5">Use of LSD in the Development of Paranormal Abilities</a> <a id="sec1" name="sec1"></a>TRAINING SESSIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS The extraordinary v... Articles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:26:41 +0100 Pahnke's "Good Friday Experiment" https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/pahnkes-qgood-friday-experimentq.html Pahnke's "Good Friday Experiment": A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique Rick Doblin ©The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 1991, Vol. 23, No.1 On Good Friday, 1962, before services commenced in Boston University's Marsh Chapel, Walter Pahnke administered small capsules to twenty Protestant divinity students. Thus began the most scientific experiment in the literature designed to investigate the potential of psychedelic drugs to facilitate mystical experience (Pahnke, 1963, 1... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:50:13 +0100 Implications of LSD and Experimental Mysticism https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/implications-of-lsd-and-experimental-mysticism.html Implications of LSD and Experimental Mysticism Walter N. Pahnke & William A. Richards Journal of Religion & Health, Vol. 5, 1966, pp. 175-208. Mirrored in the sensationalistic array of recent magazine and newspaper articles focusing upon the past, present, and future uses of drugs like LSD is a blurred spectrum of attitudes ranging from an indignant desire to destroy a terrifying plague of drug-induced psychoses to a naive belief that the keys to Utopia have finally been placed into... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:49:26 +0100 The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter With Death https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-psychedelic-mystical-experience-in-the-human-encounter-with-death.html The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter With Death Walter N. Pahnke ©Psychedelic Review, Number 11, 1971 Introduction THIS Spring I received a long distance telephone call from Dean Samuel Miller, who invited me to give this year's Ingersoll Lecture on human immortality. Three days later, Dean Miller was dead. When I heard the sad news, I, as many of you no doubt, began to think about the way he had influenced me, especially during my theological training here at Harvard... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:48:34 +0100 LSD and Religious Experience https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/lsd-and-religious-experience.html LSD and Religious Experience Walter N. Pahnke A paper presented to a public symposium at Wesleyan University, March 1967. From LSD, Man & Society Richard C. DeBold and Russell C. Leaf, editors ©Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1967 See also the <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/discuss.htm">Discussion</a> which followed the presentation of Dr. Pahnke's paper. THE relationship between LSD and religious experience is an issue that is quite complex and needs careful analysis to avoid a loose and uncritical association. ... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:47:50 +0100 Drugs and Mysticism https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/drugs-and-mysticism.html Drugs and Mysticism Walter N. Pahnke ©The International Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Spring 1966, pp. 295-313. The claim has been made that the experience facilitated by psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, can be similar or identical to the experience described by the mystics of all ages, cultures, and religions. This paper will attempt to examine and explain this possibility. There is a long and continuing history of the religious use of plants that... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:47:03 +0100 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/do-drugs-have-religious-import.html Do Drugs Have Religious Import? Huston Smith, Ph.D. ©The Journal of Philosophy, Vol LXI, No. 18, September 17, 1964 Until six months ago, if I picked up my phone in the Cambridge area and dialed KISS-BIG a voice would answer, "Ifif." These were coincidences: KISS-BIG simply happened to be the letter equivalents of an arbitrarily assigned telephone number, while I.F.I.F. represented the initials of an organization with the improbable name of the International Federation for Internal Freedom... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:46:15 +0100 The Psychedelics and Religion https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-psychedelics-and-religion.html The Psychedelics and Religion Walter Houston Clark Introduction by Peter Webster In 1968 Ralph Metzner wrote of Walter Houston Clark, (in The Ecstatic Adventure ) THERE ARE NOT too many men in their sixties, professional academics at that, who have preserved sufficient openness to experience and receptivity to new ideas to accept the idea of personal experimentation with psychedelic drugs. Old age is too often synonymous with rigidity rather than wisdom. Not so with W... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:45:30 +0100 The New Alchemy https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/the-new-alchemy.html The New Alchemy Alan Watts an essay from This is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience, by Alan Watts, Vintage Books, 1973, ©Alan Watts 1958, 1960. This essay was written in 1960. Besides the philosopher's stone that would turn base metal into gold, one of the great quests of alchemy in both Europe and Asia was the elixir of immortality. In gullible enthusiasm for this quest, more than one Chinese emperor died of the fabulous concoctions of powdered jade, tea, ginseng, and pr... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:44:52 +0100 Psychedelics and Religious Experience https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychedelics-and-religious-experience.html Psychedelics and Religious Experience Alan Watts The California Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, January 1968, pp. 74-85. ©Alan Watts & California Law Review. The experiences resulting from the use of psychedelic drugs are often described in religious terms. They are therefore of interest to those like myself who, in the tradition of William James, <a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/watts.htm#footnote1">(1)</a><a id="back1" name="back1"> are concerned with the psychology of religion. For more than thirty years I have been studying the causes, the consequences, and the con... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:44:10 +0100 A Model Legalization Proposal https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Law-and-treaties/a-model-legalization-proposal.html A Model Legalization Proposal RICHARD B. KAREL Chapter 3 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi From the SAGE Publications series: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8 Copyright 1991, <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/">SAGE Publications, Inc.</a> (www.sagepub.com) Drug Abuse & Addiction, Detoxification, Treatment, Opiate Withdrawal. Substance Abuse: Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, Crystal meth, Vicodin, OxyContin, Amphetamines, Percocet and others.
All Rights Reserved. Reused with permission. INTRODUCTION During an April 1988 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke called for a national debate on the issue of drug legalization. Si... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:43:14 +0100 Marijuana Legalization: The Time Is Now https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Cannabis-marijuana-hashisch/marijuana-legalization-the-time-is-now.html Marijuana Legalization: The Time Is Now DOUGLAS McVAY Chapter 7 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi From the SAGE Publications series: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8 Copyright 1991, <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/">SAGE Publications, Inc.</a> (www.sagepub.com) Drug Abuse & Addiction, Detoxification, Treatment, Opiate Withdrawal. Substance Abuse: Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, Crystal meth, Vicodin, OxyContin, Amphetamines, Percocet and others.
All Rights Reserved. Reused with permission. The concept of marijuana legalization has gone in and out of vogue over the past 20 years, as several states, either de jure or de facto, have decriminalized its posses... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:42:31 +0100 Why MDMA Should Not Have Been Made Illegal https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Dance/party-drugs-clubbing/why-mdma-should-not-have-been-made-illegal.html Why MDMA Should Not Have Been Made Illegal Marsha Rosenbaum & Rick Doblin Chapter 6 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi From the SAGE Publications series: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8 Copyright 1991, <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/">SAGE Publications, Inc.</a> (www.sagepub.com) Drug Abuse & Addiction, Detoxification, Treatment, Opiate Withdrawal. Substance Abuse: Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, Crystal meth, Vicodin, OxyContin, Amphetamines, Percocet and others.
All Rights Reserved. Reused with permission. The most recent "recreational" drug to be made illegal is MDMA, or "ecstasy."<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/rosenbaum.htm#foot1">[1]</a><a id="back1" name="back1"></a> Its criminalization never should have happened. MDMA had a bene... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:41:47 +0100 The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs, Media and Morality https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Dance/party-drugs-clubbing/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-drugs-media-and-morality.html The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs, Media and Morality Karim Murji Chapter 5 of The Control of Drugs and Drug Users: Reason or Reaction? edited by Ross Coomber. ©Harwood Academic Publishers 1998. ISBN 90-5702-042-4 Human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute scepticism on the other. —Milan Kundera This chapter is about the media and drugs.<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/murji.htm#foot1">[1]</a><a id="back1" name="back1"></a> Its inclusion in a book about the control of drugs and drug users presumes that there is a link betw... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:40:37 +0100 Drugs and the Law https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Law-and-treaties/drugs-and-the-law.html Drugs and the Law Erich Goode, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook From: Drugs in American Society, Chapter 7 ©1972 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-394-31323-2 In this and the next chapter I shall argue that: (1) Drug laws are passed and enforced independently of their stated goals of deterrence, rehabilitation, and public safety. I submit that instead they are passed and enforced for ideological and moral reasons, not "rational" ones. (2) The drug laws are ineffective. The deterrent ef... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:39:47 +0100 A Sociological Perspective on Drugs and Drug Use https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Various-general/a-sociological-perspective-on-drugs-and-drug-use.html A Sociological Perspective on Drugs and Drug Use Erich Goode, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook From: Drugs in American Society, Chapter 1 ©1972 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-394-31323-2 SOCIAL CONTEXT AND HUMAN MEANING What can a sociologist tell us about drug use that we do not already know? If there is anything particularly distinctive about the sociologist's view, it is his emphasis on social context. It might appear that this concept seeped into the public consciousness long... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:38:56 +0100 Reflections on Social Policy and Drug Research https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Various-research/reflections-on-social-policy-and-drug-research.html Drug, Set, and Setting Norman E. Zinberg, M.D. 7. Reflections on Social Policy and Drug Research INDIVIDUALS WHO EITHER DO NOT USE intoxicants (whether alcohol or illicit drugs) or who use them only infrequently in order to keep up with their friends often fail to recognize that others may benefit from regular, controlled use because it brings them relaxation and a sense of freedom from inhibition. This lack of understanding does not necessarily mean disapproval. At a cocktail party someo... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:37:55 +0100 Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/psychedelics-a-first-amendment-right.html Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right     by a Psychedelicist         If certain chemicals open one up to religious experience, should they be         protected by the Constitution? ©Gnosis<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/gnosis.htm#note">*</a> Magazine, No. 26, Winter 1993. TODAY IS THE FOURTH OF JULY, and I just put out my family's flag in front of our house. It is supposed to mean that America stands for freedom, including freedom of religion.     But I can't practice m... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:36:55 +0100 Why LSD Should Be Legalized https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/why-lsd-should-be-legalized.html Why LSD Should Be Legalized E. J. Mishan Chapter 5 of Pornography, Psychedelics & Technology, Essays on the Limits to Freedom by E. J. Mishan. London: George Allen & Unwin, ©1980 E.J. Mishan [Note: The first section of this essay, "Psychedelic Drugs and Their Properties", is somewhat outdated and contains a few minor inaccuracies. More complete information on this topic is available in other documents available in The Psychedelic Library. It is included here for purposes of continui... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:35:47 +0100 Anomalies and Mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Various-general/anomalies-and-mysteries-in-the-war-on-drugs.html Anomalies and Mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' Ann Dally, M.D. Chapter 11 of Drugs and Narcotics in History, Roy Porter & Mikulás Teich, editors ©Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-43163-8 THE non-medical use of drugs today is an example of how society, supported by the medical profession, constructs 'problems' and invents 'diseases' for which they then find 'treatments'. Some pharmacological substances, for example alcohol and tobacco, are major causes of death, yet are permi... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:34:50 +0100 The American Drug Panic of the 1980s https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Various-general/the-american-drug-panic-of-the-1980s.html The American Drug Panic of the 1980s Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda Chapter 12 of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance ©1994 by the authors, published by Blackwell. This book is available for purchase, please use <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/063118905x/drcnet/002-6432745-9815002">this link to order from Amazon.com</a> Over the decades of the twentieth century, drug use has gone through cycles of intense public awareness and concern and relative indifference. For some of these decades, reformers, the public, the media, or legislators focus on... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:33:47 +0100 Drugs, Drug Use, and Criminalization https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Psychedelics/drugs-drug-use-and-criminalization.html Drugs and Rights Chapter 1 — Drugs, Drug Use, and Criminalization Douglas N. Husak THE WAR ON DRUGS For a period of sixteen months from 1989-1990, a majority of Americans identified drugs as our nation's greatest concern, surpassing crime, the environment, taxes, the homeless, education, and the deficit.<a href="http://www.psychedelic-library.org/drugsandrights1.htm#foot1">[1]</a> <a id="back1" name="back1"></a>War in the Middle East temporarily focused attention elsewhere. But President George Bush promised to restore the problem to its "number one" status "when the international situation... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:32:28 +0100 The Politics of America's Latest Drug Scare https://abuse-drug.com/lib/International-national-drug-policy/the-politics-of-americas-latest-drug-scare.html The Politics of America's Latest Drug Scare Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman Chapter 17 of Freedom at Risk: Secrecy, Censorship, and Repression in the 1980s Edited by Richard O. Curry, ©1988 Temple University Press In 1986 American politicians and news media went through an extraordinary antidrug frenzy. Every major newspaper, newsmagazine, and TV network carried lurid, exaggerated stories alleging that cocaine and other drug use was "taking over" cities and suburbs alike. We were told... Articles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:30:50 +0100