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… VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please...

March 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | 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. VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please...

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. VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please wait...Rating:...

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

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

Neanderthals bid for Human Status

NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to. From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper This period is usually regarded...

February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Confessions of a ten-a-day man

William Leith used to take painkillers morning and night – for the headaches he had and the headaches he worried he might get. He’s not alone. As the instant-relief market explodes, he investigates: are too many pills too much of a good thing? From the Guardian. When I was growing up in...

February 25th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Placebos – Is Mind more important than Matter?

In a review of recent research, international experts say there is increasing evidence that fake treatments, or placebos, have an actual biological effect in the body. The doctor-patient relationship, plus the expectation of recovery, may sometimes be enough to change a patient’s brain, body and...

February 19th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

The Men Who Really Stare At Goats

Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s “Crazy Rulers of the World” explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and plain bizarre national secrets at the core...

February 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Obama says “Fuck It”
March 11, 2010 12:03
Prayer: A Challenge for Science
March 11, 2010 11:03
A Drug Free World Reloaded
March 11, 2010 09:03
A Swansea Love Story
March 8, 2010 15:03
The New Cocaine Mafia
March 8, 2010 15:03

psypressuk: Fascinating article - The lack of evidence of any real connection between the psychedelic experience with Victorian lite...
modartist: I followed up your references Chip and Lucy. thanks for that. I'm an artist and have long been skeptical about these 'se...
pauljdoyle: I hope the scientists maintain an objective view on this research and put equal effort into finding all neuro/chemical a...
psypressuk: MetaBaron - fair shout on the misuse of the term "skunk". As for the article - Great articulation of a point that smo...
sunyatisunya: oops, sorry scroog3 i replied to your question but did not click "reply" here. hopefully by doing it now it sends you a ...

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Comment on The Colombia of Prescription Drugs by Luna
Heroin's comment about the real motives being money and job creation remind me of the amazing documentary, The American Drug War - http://www.brainwavingtv.com/2009/american-drug-war/ Also what I find so ironic is that while the doctors in Florida are pushing heroine to their patients much too liberally, much of the developing world, especially Africa, is desperate for opiates and can't get hold of them. More ridiculous still is that Afghanistan is producing more heroine than anyone else, but instead of using this resource to supply the medical services that need it so badly, the US upholds its illegal status and alienates most of the Afghani farmers and thereby strengthens their enemy, the Taliban...
Comment on The Colombia of Prescription Drugs by Legal Alien
The pharmaceutical companies are selling that amount of heroin?! And pretending they don't know who is buying?! They are not criminal but they are immoral for sure. Why aren't the flaws on the law fixed? What the kind is this society where everybody is playing dumb?

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