Posts Tagged ‘prohibition’
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
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
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
LSD for the NHS?
This recent article from The Financial Times reports on the scientific progress the Beckley Foundation has been making in the last few years.
A British charity is stepping up efforts to rehabilitate LSD, one of the world’s best-known “recreational” drugs, for medicinal use.
The Beckley Foundation,...
February 16th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Why Was Cannabis Made Illegal?
Howard Marks, Mr. Nice, considers why his favourite past-time was outlawed in 1928 after 86 million years of cannabis being legally available…
(The video’s not perfect quality, but its still worth a watch)
February 11th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics
Evolver.net, MAPS, the Beckley Foundation, and Brainwaving present
Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics
For millennia, cultures around the world expanded minds and visions with “teacher plants” – what we commonly know today as psychedelics. The widespread popularity of LSD during the 1960s...
February 10th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More
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
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
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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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tinuvi: Your third- and second-to-last paragraphs remind me so much of myself and what I've called "my quest." After leaving a m...
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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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DZERLOVE: What people simply ignore - is that our current man made laws applied back in acient times , which is simply what they a...
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