The Honorable Light Side of the War on Some
Drugs
Illustration by Mitch
Greenblatt
June 4, 2002
The Editor of Drugwar.com feels it is most
important for activists and drug law reformers to not only remember
that there is a light side to this War on some Drugs, that it's
not all the Blue Meanies, but that it needs demonstrating on a
daily basis. The counter culture thrives, despite Big Brother's
efforts to convince us otherwise. There are myriad uses for drugs,
religious, recreational, medicinal, and countless more, so it
is important to remind the Warrior culture that has taken over,
trying to stamp out free thinking, consciousness expansion, and
creative culture, that we will not die off willingly, that there
will always be more of us to step in and fill the shoes of those
creative Peace Culture types taken out by the Dark Side's Blue
Meanie enforcers. The targets of the War on Some Drug and Users
are our families, friends, loved ones, neighbors, and simply fellow
human beings.
This list of links to articles, websites,
and more will be continuously updated. Please feel free to let
us know here at drugwar.com, and we will do our best to add any
suggestions to our list you feel deserve attention.
Peace,
Preston
Peet
Editor in Chief Drugwar.com
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Other Dimensions
Besides a neat photo and a short essay, there are a link here
to books in the drugwar.com store that allow the enquiring types
glimpses into those other dimensions.
A Simple Experiment Goes Well- Butthole
Surfers are a better Shroom Band than Jane's Addiction
By Preston Peet (Originally published in the
New York Waste, Nov. 2001)
Ohio Patient
Network
"We are a non-profit coalition of patients, caregivers, activists
and medical professionals who support the compassionate use of
cannabis for various medicinal purposes. Our mission is to coordinate
information between patients, medical professionals, and attorneys,
and to educate legislators and the public."
Multidisciplinary Association
for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
"MAPS' goals are to promote scientific research designed
to evaluate psychedelics and marijuana as potential prescription
medicines, and to educate the public honestly about the risks
and benefits of these drugs."
The Vaults
of Erowid
Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives
Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda-
Patricarchy and the Drug War
by Dan Russell
"Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda traces the cultural evolution
of our species from shamanism to the mass media religions. It
is an important book, very well written, a must for anyone interested
in psychoative plants and the cultural evolution of humankind.
It is also a very pleasing volume to read, the kind of book that
will keep you holding your breath until the end. I strongly recommend
this heavily illustrated, original, yet rigorously empirical historical
vision." Anthropologist and Ethnobotanist Pedro Fernandes Leite
da Luz, M.A.: pedroluz@rio.com.br
Shaman Books
Archaic Techniques of Ecstatic Healing and Autimatic Creativity
The
Use of Music in Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy
Helen L. Bonny and Walter N. Pahnke
Journal of Music Therapy, Vol. IX (1972) : 64-87 Copyright (c)
1972 by The National Association for Music Therapy, Inc.
Dreaming
Heart Artworks
Quite an assortment of wigged out, beautiful, and oh so trippy
art work on display here.
Psychedelic
Experience and Spiritual Practice: A Buddhist Perspective
An Interview with Jack Kornfield by Robert Forte, dealing
with a facinating subject.
Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: Gnosis
This is a chapter excerpt from our own Dan Russell first book,
Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda, as should be obvious from the
above title. Great book on the historical cultural influences
psychedelics of all kinds played, and how those root lead to our
current Western fears of drug use and intoxification in general,
except in certain officially sanctioned cases.
Psychedelic
Sites
What more needs to be said with a title like that?
Medical
Possibilities for Psychedelic Drugs
by Paula Kurtzweil FDA Consumer magazine (September 1995)
"Scientists at the Orenda Institute in Baltimore are taking
a novel approach to treating drug addiction: They plan to give
patients LSD." And that's not all these find medical pracititioners
were considering. Would that this were the norm, rather than so-called
controversial medicine.
Treatment
of Alcoholism with Psychedelic Therapy Abram Hoffer
From: PSYCHEDELICS, The Uses and Implications of Psychedelic Drugs
edited by Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond Doubleday & Company,
1970. ©Aaronson & Osmond.
Non-Therapeutic
Uses of LSD
Stanislav Grof, M.D. Chapter 8, LSD Psychotherapy, ©1980, 1994
There's a heck of a lot of reasons people may want to try this
chemical, highly illegal due to prohibitionist hysteria and Establishment
counter-counter culture warfare.
Persephone and Demeter adore the Sacred Mushroom,
from the temple wall at Eleusis, c. 450 BC
(from Drug War- The Cure)
Mindvox
A site dedicated to ibogaine, psychedelics, religious and creative
aspects to drugs and users. Brilliant website, full of shining
light the prohibitionists are most afraid of: smart people who
like themselves and are creative and alright despite their drug
use.
Religion,
Spirituality, and the Metaphysics of the Ultimate Future
This is a series of links here that promote evolution, rather
than prohibitionist destructiveness and hate.
High Times
The preeminent magazine and website proving that drug users, particularly
marijuana users, are creative, intelligentloving human beings
too.
Drug Scope
"DrugScope is the UK's leading drugs charity and centre of
expertise on drugs. We provide balanced and up-to-date drug information
to professionals and the public, conduct research and develop
policies on drugs and drug-related issues, promote humane and
effective ways of responding to drugs and drug use, encourage
informed debate and provide a voice for over 800 member bodies
working on the ground."
Psychedelics.
The Anti-Drug
"I always tell my children the truth about psychedelics. Scare
tactics and propaganda rarely yield positive results. Decisions
that are made based on truth are much more concrete."
Drugs
and Spirituality: My LSD experience
by Nicholas Saunders
"But the most important lesson of the experience was the
certain knowledge that this consciousness was on a higher level
and provided not just a different, but a broader perspective than
normal. I saw my world for the first time in all its glory as
though my previous view of it had lacked reality, like watching
television."
Drugs
and Spirituality
"However, for longer than Christianity has been around, people
have used drugs for spiritual purposes. Whole cultures and nations
have been founded on these spiritual teachings - this in itself
must show some proof of worth."
Heroin
Helper
Yes it's true, heroin users are people too, and deserve as
much respect as everyone else. This site is dedicated to helping
make the lives of heroin users safeer, without condoning or condeming
their use of heroin.
Huxley
on Drugs and Creativity
This is a fascinating interview with the author of the Doors of
Perception and Heaven and Hell, on his thoughts about the use
of LSD and possible correlations to creativity.
The
Good Drugs Guide
A number of questions posed here on effects of certain drugs use
and what effects on creativity that use might have.
SEX,
DRUGS, COMPUTERS
Bruce Pavitt has a Terence McKenna Freak-out
Medicinal
muse Can one become more creative by doing drugs?
By Cynthia Kuhn and Wilkie Wilson
August 9, 2000
Hallucinogens
and Creativity
A web page by Susan Opar
"Hallucinogens such as LSD, peyote, MDMA, DMT, psilocybin,
morning glory seeds, and many others are thought to be mind-expanding
drugs able to increase one’s creativity. Psychedelic, mind-altering
drugs have been used for thousands of years and have left their
mark in almost every population around the globe (Devereux, 1997).
Yet, each culture and each era have viewed and used hallucinogens
in very diverse ways. One common link between the various cultures
is that each has conveyed its psychedelic experience through art:
drawings, paintings, dress, mass media, films and the like. This
phenomenon has led some to believe that there is a connection
between the use of hallucinogens and creativity (Baggott, 1997)."
On
Marijuana, Musical Creativity, and the Collective Unconscious
By "Russell Ambrose"
"This article explores some of the positive impact that my
drug of choice, marijuana, has on musical creativity; in particular,
it focuses on how marijuana leads us to states of consciousness
which enhance our sense of collective identity as human beings."
Chaos,
Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
a book by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham
"Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore
issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality,
and the nature of life."
