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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."

 

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