Posts Tagged ‘social commentary’

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

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

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

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

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) VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please wait...Rating: 8.5/10 (2 votes cast)VN:F [1.7.8_1020]Rating:...

February 11th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

THE TIME MACHINE AND THE BIRTH OF CINEMA In October 1895, the twenty-nine year old H.G.Wells was in the first flush of his fame and success. The Time Machine, serialised the previous year, had appeared in book form over the summer, and was heading for the Christmas bestseller lists on the back of reviews...

February 11th, 2010 | Arts | 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

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• ▼2010 (50)
  • ►March (5)
    • A Swansea Love Story 03/08
    • The New Cocaine Mafia 03/08
    • Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape 03/01
    • MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND 03/01
    • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate 03/01
  • ►February (18)
    • Neanderthals bid for Human Status 02/25
    • Confessions of a ten-a-day man 02/25
    • Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain? 02/23
    • Placebos - Is Mind more important than Matter? 02/19
    • BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists 02/17
    • LSD for the NHS? 02/16
    • The Men Who Really Stare At Goats 02/11
    • Why Was Cannabis Made Illegal? 02/11
    • ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION 02/11
    • Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics 02/10
    • Psychedelics and Species Connectedness 02/08
    • Is Darwin's 'Survival of the Fittest' theory going Extinct? 02/08
    • Do we need a New Eleusis? 02/05
    • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate 02/04
    • Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution 02/04
    • The Price of Prison 02/02
    • Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity? 02/01
    • The Shaman's Renaissance 02/01
  • ►January (27)
    • Let's Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists 01/29
    • It's lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm 01/29
    • Can we crack the Consciousness Puzzle? 01/28
    • KISS ME / KILL ME 01/28
    • Quining Qualia 01/26
    • The Abolition of Man 01/26
    • Could you be a Bin Laden Model too? 01/22
    • What is an Altered State of Consciousness? 01/22
    • Rats Addicted To Gambling 01/22
    • US opens its first marijuana cafe 01/20
    • Let's All Move To Portugal 01/20
    • Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands 01/20
    • Is the US Government covering up the truth about UFOs? 01/20
    • Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks 01/18
    • David Nutt gets £450,000 for Independent Drugs Committee 01/18
    • Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution 01/18
    • Does Cocaine make you Smarter? 01/15
    • Jimmy Carter: Gaza must be rebuilt now 01/14
    • The dark side of the internet 01/14
    • Avatar – A mythic masterpiece for our troubled time 01/13
    • Is Psychedelia 'The New Black'? 01/12
    • DRUG WAR IS A LOST CAUSE - LIKE PROHIBITION 01/12
    • Blackwater and The Last Crusade 01/11
    • Can We Escape Consumerism? 01/06
    • Shifting Consciousness: Six Years with Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists 01/03
    • Legalisation: The First Hundred Years 01/03
    • Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust 01/03
• ►2009 (94)
  • ►December (29)
    • Can Human Nature Be Changed? 12/30
    • Is Equasy more dangerous than Ecstasy? 12/30
    • Education Increases Your Chances of Believing in ESP 12/30
    • What Happens When We Die? 12/27
    • A particle God doesn’t want us to discover? 12/23
    • Requiem for a Crowded Planet - What does the Failure of Climate Talks mean? 12/22
    • The Predator War - What are the risks of using Drones? 12/22
    • Opening to the Infinite 12/18
    • Has dark matter finally been detected? 12/18
    • Second Lives - What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives? 12/17
    • Mechanisms of Fear: Man and Machine at the dawn of the 20th Century 12/16
    • Rat Made Supersmart -- Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans? 12/16
    • Enter the Jaguar 12/15
    • The World of Professional Gaming 12/15
    • Russia and US in secret talks to fight net crime 12/14
    • Hanging with the BIG DOGS- Meet Petman 12/11
    • An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories 12/10
    • Dannion Brinkley - Prophet or Profiteer? 12/10
    • Bye bye Windows? 12/10
    • Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion 12/08
    • Wikipedia's Known Unknowns 12/04
    • For The Love of Goddess 12/04
    • Don't Be Evil? Google Chrome's Big Brother Potential 12/03
    • 2012 & Human Destiny 12/02
    • Life Lessons from an ad man 12/02
    • Aquatic Apes 12/02
    • The Future of the Universe 12/02
    • The Singularity is Near 12/01
    • The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada 12/01
  • ►November (21)
    • Huxley on Drugs and Creativity 11/30
    • Will Technology create a Wiser World? 11/25
    • Avian Einsteins 11/25
    • Drug Users Know Their Stuff 11/25
    • The Elephant Artist 11/24
    • If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State 11/21
    • The Great Wall of Facebook 11/20
    • Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? 11/20
    • A Village that Cocaine Built 11/20
    • The Effects of Group Meditation on Crime 11/19
    • Is the Universe Self Aware? 11/18
    • Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance 11/18
    • Left in the Dark 11/17
    • An Abdication of Human Response 11/10
    • The Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy 11/09
    • The Wire's War on the Drug War 11/09
    • And The Beat Goes On 11/09
    • Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated 11/05
    • Technological Singularity - An Introduction 11/05
    • David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs 11/04
    • A Glimpse of Burning Man 11/03
  • ►October (11)
    • LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness 10/29
    • Psi-verts and psychic piracy: The future of parapsychology? 10/28
    • Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy 10/24
    • Is your cheeseburger causing global warming? 10/21
    • The White Stuff 10/21
    • Political Science 10/21
    • Ex-Presidents Call for Change 10/11
    • Neanderthal Brains 10/06
    • Researchers Try to Cure Racism 10/04
    • Molecules of Emotion 10/04
    • God in the Brain 10/01
  • ►September (6)
    • Contraception is the "Greenest" of Green Technologies 09/30
    • Can America admit defeat in its war on drugs? 09/29
    • The Conscious Heart 09/29
    • Starting to make SENS 09/29
    • Popping pills - Cognitive enhancement 09/28
    • How Evolution Is Evolving 09/28
  • ►August (27)
    • Elegant Universe - String Theory simply and delightfully explained 08/19
    • The Trap – What Happened to our Dream of Freedom? 08/19
    • PRAYER: A CHALLENGE FOR SCIENCE 08/19
    • SIXTH SENSE OR NONSENSE? 08/18
    • "I take Illegal drugs for Inspiration" 08/18
    • HEALING AS ART AND TECHNOLOGY 08/18
    • MIND AND HEALING 08/13
    • MENTAL RADIO REVIEW 08/13
    • THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT 08/13
    • MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS 08/13
    • test for environment 08/08
    • test 08/08
    • Science Article 1 08/07
    • Well-Being Article 1 08/07
    • THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD 08/07
    • Big Ideas Article 1 08/07
    • Eco Deep Article 1 08/07
    • Technology Article 1 08/07
    • Cultural Evolution Article 1 08/07
    • Cultural Incongruities 08/07
    • Drug Policy article 1 08/07
    • Investigating Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow and CSF Movement Following Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08/07
    • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08/07
    • Cranial Compliance 08/07
    • Investigating the Psychological Effects of THC and the Medical Potential of CBD 08/07
    • Identifying the Neurobiological Correlates of the Subjective Effects of Cannabis that Users Find Beneficial 08/07
    • From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine 08/07

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