Consciousness

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness

Evidence suggests that at the very least the consumption of psychedelic substances leads to an increased concern for Nature...
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Feb 8, 2010 12:15

Culture

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries...
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Feb 8, 2010 10:10

Creativity

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably...
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Feb 4, 2010 13:25

Drug Policy

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

New Study Calls for a More Rational Approach to Cannabis Control ‘That which is prohibited cannot easily be regulated’ ...
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Feb 4, 2010 18:12

Recent Articles

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
Evidence suggests that at the very least the consumption of psychedelic substances leads to an increased concern for Nature and ecological issues. On one level we can understand that this may be due to a basic appreciation of place and aesthetics that accompanies the increased sensory experience, or...
February 8th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Do we need a New Eleusis?

Do we need a New Eleusis?
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who was first to synthesise LSD and the first to taste its awesome power, died in April last year at the grand age of 102. Twelve years earlier, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with the grand old man; we talked about many things, but his vision of the need for...
February 5th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
New Study Calls for a More Rational Approach to Cannabis Control ‘That which is prohibited cannot easily be regulated’ A new book published by the Beckley Foundation and Oxford University Press has concluded that cannabis prohibition policies have comprehensively failed and that a new approach...
February 4th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Price of Prison

The Price of Prison
Locking up a criminal in police stations to alleviate prison over-crowding costs as much per night as a week in the Canary Islands, figures show. The most obvious solution to alleviate this social and financial burden would be to decriminalize the use of prohibited drugs such as Cannabis and Ecstacy....
February 2nd, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity?

Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity?
Could new communities sponsored by the West help end poverty or would they just become another manifestation of neocolonial profiteering? All over Africa this evening, students will sit outside their homes and read textbooks under street lights. They do this because they have no electricity at home....
February 1st, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The Shaman’s Renaissance

The Shaman’s Renaissance
A new religion is spreading to Britain – its central sacrament the consumption of a hallucinogenic Class A drug. Here’s a report from the faith’s heartland in the rainforests of the Amazon I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins to disintegrate....
February 1st, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More

Let’s Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists

Let’s Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists
Of all the factors on the table in the current Afghan strategic review, the war on drugs and its unintended consequences should be front and center. Our 95-year effort to create a Drug Free America by enforcing world-wide prohibition has twisted our foreign policy out of shape all over the globe and...
January 29th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

It’s lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm

It’s lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm
THE effects of cannabis on mental health have attracted much attention over the years. As far back as the 19th century it was recognised that cannabis could induce a transient psychosis which mimics the symptoms of schizophrenia. Despite this, until the last decade or so, most psychiatrists regarded...
January 29th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
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