10 Scientific and Technological Visionaries Who Experimented With Drugs. Same here.
We evolved along with, and because of, our diet. There weren't any classifications of "illegal drugs" back then, and these things flourish in all sorts of conditions in the wild - it's hard not to imagine at least occasional consumption. Considering mankind's predilection to experimenting with consciousness, along with the unique effects of these substances (including euphoria), it was probably more than occasional. If these fungi were part of a diet over time, they'd likely have some effect on our development. Portugal Drug Policy: Decriminalization Works.
Research. 8 Alberta deaths linked to ecstasy-like drug - Calgary. An eighth death in southern Alberta has been linked to an ecstasy-like drug.
In all cases the victim thinks they are taking ecstasy — methylenedioxymethamphetamine, known as MDMA — but the drug actually contains high levels of paramethoxymethamphetamine (PMMA), a notoriously toxic amphetamine that is often called "Dr. Death. " On the street, MDMA is often called ecstasy, usually referring to branded pills and sometimes thought to be a "dirtier" version of MDMA, containing other unknown substances. RCMP released details Tuesday of a 38-year-old Red Deer man who died Dec. 10. The "dominant" drug in the man's system was PMMA. The death is the latest attributed to the drug in a six-month period. PMMA is five times as toxic as MDMA. A ninth death in Strathmore, 45 minutes east of Calgary, is being attributed by police to an ecstasy overdose. Toxicology reports released Monday linked a seventh death in the Calgary area to PMMA.
More deaths in B.C. Doctors Are Testing Special K as an Instant Depression Remedy. Soma. Soma (Sanskrit सोम sóma), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a Vedic ritual drink[1] of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures.
Psychedelia. Psychedelia is a name given to the subculture of people who use psychedelic drugs, and a style of psychedelic artwork and psychedelic music derived from the experience of altered consciousness that uses highly distorted and surreal visuals, sound effects and reverberation, and bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke and convey to a viewer or listener the artist's experience while using such drugs. The term "psychedelic" is derived from the Ancient Greek words psuchē (ψυχή - psyche, "mind") and dēlōsē (δήλωση - "manifest"), translating to "mind-manifesting". Psychedelic states may be elicited by various techniques, such as meditation, sensory stimulation[1] or deprivation, and most commonly by the use of psychedelic substances. When these psychoactive substances are used for religious, shamanic, or spiritual purposes, they are termed entheogens.
Etymology[edit] The Chemical Carousel. In the past few years, as addiction researchers have been busily mapping out the chemical alterations caused by alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, heroin, and tranquilizers, America’s most popular illegal drug has remained largely a scientific mystery.
It is a drug that millions of Americans have been using regularly for years, and yet it is the least studied drug of all..... In the late 1980s, a team of researchers at NIMH was investigating a category of receptors for substances called pain peptides. Not too far down the hall from the peptide researchers, neuroanatomist Miles Herkenham was working with some of the superpowered THC analogs Pfizer had come up with. Herkenham was mapping the areas in the brain that lit up with activity under the influence of THC, and the map he was getting looked suspiciously similar to the brain distribution pattern of the mystery receptor down the hall.
When the two groups of researchers tested synthetic THC on the new receptors, they had their answer. Getting High on Krystle - Trailer - Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. An Introduction to the Entities. DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is the most powerful and fast- acting of the tryptamine class of hallucinogens. After. DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence. Mass psychosis in the US. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder.
Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. The Blog : Drugs and the Meaning of Life. (Photo by JB Banks) (Note 6/4/2014: I have revised this 2011 essay and added an audio version.
—SH) Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. Drugs are another means toward this end. Entheology. By David Ian Miller Alex Grey paints souls.
His work shows human bodies — rendered with medical-illustration precision — wrapped in layers of sacred energy. Whether you believe Grey's work depicts the reality of divine auras or a particularly vibrant artistic license doesn't much matter. Home - CoSM.org.