Archive for March, 2010
Obama says “Fuck It”
Obama is doing his best to make positive changes in America and the world, but all that he’s getting for it is abuse and loss of popularitry. Where has all the faith gone? The first inspirational leader in at least a generation and everyone’s bored already…
March 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Prayer: A Challenge for Science
Since ancient times, a strong and pervasive belief in the efficacy of prayer–for the living and the dead–reinforces the notion that consciousness is not limited to the physical body. Not only do traditions throughout the world share a belief that prayers may in some way help (or invoke help from)...
March 11th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
A Drug Free World Reloaded
I attended this UN Summit in Vienna reviewing 10 years of the international War on Drugs last year and this short video does a good job of summing up the contrasting attitudes on drug policy of government representatives on the political ladder with specialist NGOs and academic experts.
March 11th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
A Swansea Love Story
In the last 4 years, the small South Wales city of Swansea experienced a rise in heroine addiction of 180%. VBS befriends a gang of young addicts caught up in South Wales’ largely ignored heroin epidemic. Our intimate look into their lives shows the unbreakable cycles of economic depression, family...
March 8th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
The New Cocaine Mafia
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe’s growing appetite for cocaine is funding the growth of West African crime syndicates and fueling a turf war with Italy’s largest mafia organization, the Camorra.
March 8th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape
The Beckley Foundation’s tour of North and South America with the Global Cannabis Commission is having a big effect. Mexico in particular is taking the lead in pushing for a paradigm shift in international drug policy.
International Conference in Mexico City Provides Hope, Inspiration to a Budding...
March 1st, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More
MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND
Was Alice in Wonderland and Victorian fairy art and lore in general inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi?
The first well-documented hallucinogenic mushroom experience in Britain took place in London’s Green Park on 3 October 1799. Like many such experiences before and since,...
March 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate
Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate, analyzes cannabis policies around the world and lays out the advantages of a fully regulated legal market and how a country can overcome the international conventions in order to have policies that better suites its individual needs. Below is an excerpt from...
March 1st, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
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‘Molecules of Madness’
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs
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Zeppelin Renaissance
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Time for Change
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
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Dream2Awaken: It is amazing that you describe and explain many things that one could have only learned through extensive use of DMT. Y...
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Merrily McCarthy: Our state of awareness may be relative to what we feed into our consious systems...;the more we know and understand...th...
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Arthur Robey: I am passionate about Airships. We took a wrong turn in 1945 at the Chicago Convention where, because the USA with it'...
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