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UN attempting to outlaw all sacred plants (Ayahuasca, Iboga, etc.). SIGN PETITION!!

Evan 057 — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:45:32 +0000

Important message from Luis Eduardo;

Dear friends,

I urge you to sign this petition. Once more, this is an attack against the cultural and spiritual heritage of non-western people, a continuation of conquest and colonization of the word by people with a very limited worldview.
Best regards,

Luis Eduardo

The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the preoccupying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) andTabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.

The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS) is organizing a letter-writing campaign to counter this demonic injustice. Please read more about this issue and add your signature here, and take a moment to browse the beautiful website of ICEERS.org.

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Clare S. Wilkins: Data & Observations from Four-Hundred Ibogaine Sessions

Evan 057 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:15:55 +0000

Clare S. Wilkins, an ibogaine therapist and researcher, gives a phenomenal presentation about the dynamics, causes and treatments of addiction, at the 2010 NYC conference, Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics. A must-see for anyone interested in addiction or ibogaine.

“Four-Hundred Ibogaine Sessions: Data on Detoxification, Recidivism, and Quality of Life.”

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Online Videos from the 2010 Horizons Conference

Evan 057 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:39:47 +0000

Videos from the 2010 “Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics” conference are now online. The conference took place on Sept. 24-26 at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. The available videos are:

Jeffrey Guss, M.D., “The NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Research Project’s Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training”
Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D., and Mary P. Cosimano, M.S.W., “Psilocybin in Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Study”
Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., “Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Change”
Jill Harris, “Challenges in Changing the Legal Status of Entheogens”
JP Harpignies, “Psychedelics, Utopianism, and Psycho-Spiritual Inflation”
Erik Davis, “Psychedelics: Between Natural and Supernatural”
Rick Strassman, M.D., “Old Testament Prophecy – A Western Model of the Psychedelic Experience

HorizonsNYC.org

Psychedelic Science Conference Videos Online

Evan 057 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:29:57 +0000

MAPS has just uploaded 85 of the presentations from the medical conference: Psychedelic Science In The 21st Century.

There should still be more to come too, but in this batch are many phenomenal talks. Lots immensely fascinating scientific and medical topics as well as many videos on ayahuasca topics.

Some non-technical presentations I recommend are:

~Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia – On The Bus
~Shulgin Tribute Banquet
~Robert Jesse – Closing Talk (on the betterment of well people)
~Andrew Weil M.D. – The Future of Psychedelic Research

…to name but a few for there are countless wonderful presentations to peruse: MAPS.org

Popular Science on Ibogaine

Evan 057 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:58:22 +0000

Brief yet informative article:

Animal tests, however, have shown the drug’s medicinal promise. “Rats addicted to morphine will quit for weeks after receiving ibogaine,”

Fighting Drugs With Drugs: An Obscure Hallucinogen Gains Legitimacy as a Solution for Addictions

Ibogaine Addiction Treatment

Evan 057 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:57:06 +0000

Martin Polanco, MD, founded the Ibogaine Clinic in Mexico that was featured in the beautiful documentary, Ibogaine: Rite of Passage. He moved up to the bay area for a few years to work on a start-up
venture and is now working with a new clinic:

Ibogaine-Treatment.com

Psychedelic Science in the Media

Evan 057 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:38:44 +0000

Still absorbing the conference. It fell right in between some midterms and a cold slammed me as soon as I got back. All I can say right now is that it was truly historic, sincerely inspiring, profoundly emotional and intellectually charging.

Here’s the first batch of mainstream media attention garnered by the medical conference. It’s only 3 days after it ended so I’m sure more is yet to come.

Two videos from CNN; a video segment with Rick Doblin and Dr. Michael Mithoefer and one with Dr. Steve Ross and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

and below are links to several mainstream articles and reports:

New York Times (Front page, above the fold!)

The Lancet

Philadelphia Inquirer

Psychiatric Times (requires free registration)

Popular Science

Yahoo News

The Associated Press

Huffington Post (Amanda Fielding transcript)

San Jose Mercury News

The Times of India

MAPS – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Evan 057 — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:47:15 +0000

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Isomer Design!

Evan 057 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:02:01 +0000

Isomer Design is a site that hosts interactive versions and updates of Sasha Shulgin’s books. It includes a brilliant tool for designing molecules based on various significant structures such as tryptamine and phenethylamine.

The site also sells a wicked detailed poster called Controlled Drugs and Substances Act: Schedules and Structures.

IsomerDesign.com

Psychoactive Terminography

Evan 057 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:13:08 +0000

Steve Beyer authors a really nice blog called Singing To The Plants. He has a hearty understanding of traditional approaches to entheogens and applies this to the pharmacological society we inhabit. In a recent post titled
An Experiential Typology of Sacred Plants, he explores the need for a more refined and mature understanding of the describable differences between various, so-called, psychedelics:

Sacred plants such [the ayahuasca drink, the peyote cactus, and the teonanácatl mushroom] are commonly categorized by the chemical structure of their single active molecule.

[...] there has been a pervasive assumption among academic researchers that the psychedelic experience is paradigmatically that of LSD, and that the experience of dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, and psilocybin can be lumped together with that of LSD under such rubrics as altered state of consciousness. Such terms refer vaguely to what the experiences of taking LSD, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine, and psilocybin — and maybe DOM and MDMA, but maybe not — presumably have in common. That there is such a common experience is simply assumed. Of current researchers, apparently only Richard Glennon has attempted a typology, based primarily on animal drug discrimination studies, which classifies these substances as hallucinogenic, central stimulant, or other, with some substances occupying more than one category.

I think we need a better typology than that. The goal should be to understand the phenomenology of the sacred plants under their ceremonial conditions of use, not when their single active molecules are ingested under experimental or recreational conditions.

He goes on to offer a 3D matrix of classification with axes being hallucinogenic, empathogenic and entheogenic, and focuses on the three main examples of psilocybe, ayahuasca and peyote.

While I really appreciate this approach phyto-maestro-Steve has embarked on, I do actually disagree with the semantics and particular choices of the 3 axes.

First off, psilocybin is extremely close to DMT (ayahuasca). In fact, it’s just DMT with an extra hydroxy chunk on it that permits it to escape the digestive monoamine oxidizer. So while this slight structural difference may lead to categorically different effects than pure DMT, I think they’re experiential similarity is more note-worthy than their difference.

But as per mescaline, salvia, THC, ibogaine, ketamine, etc, I think we do need to work on better observational descriptions, although we should dig deeper into the linguistic and poetic usages of ‘scientific’ terms, rather than rely solely on the recent tags of hallucinogen, empathogen, deleriant, psychointegrator, entheogen, etc. They’re not necessarily dangerous words or anything, but neither are they very effective, however.

LINK: Singing to the Plants