Sacred Substances

...and our Right to Use Them
What's more absurd than outlawing [DIVINE] Mother Nature?; Controlled Substances Act
Marijuana vs. Crystal Meth - Funny but true video, 3/6/10; Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable, 6/1/11
Sacred Substances: Erowid Psychoactive Vaults; entactogene; Persephone's Quest - Entheogens & the Origins of Religion^; Recreational Drug Manufacture^; Antero Alli: Angel Tech a Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection^; Lindsey M. Banco: Psychedelic Trips^; Robert Brent: Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments^; Brown & Novick: Mavericks of the Mind^; Krystle Cole: Trip Guide^; Jim DeKorne: Psychedelic Shamanism^; Ira Einhorn: Sociology of the Now^; Peter Furst: Hallucinogens & Culture^; Grinspoon & Bakalar: Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered^; Psychedelic Reflections^; Jon Hanna: Psychedelic Resource List^; J.A. Hobson: Dream Drugstore^; Michael S. Hoffman: Entheogen Theory of Religion & Ego Death^; Margaret Hyde: Mind Drugs^; Masters & Houston: Varieties of Psychedelic Experience^; Terence McKenna: Food of the Gods^; True Hallucinations^; Tryptamin Hallucinogens and Consciousness^; Richard Alan Miller:Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs^; Richard Lawrence Miller: Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs^; William Moxley: Center of the Universe^; J.Ott: Pharmcotheon^; Dale Pendell: Plant Powers^; Richard Evans Schultes: Golden Guide Hallucinogenic Plants^; Plants of the Gods; Shulgin: Laboratory Notebook^; PIHKAL - A Chemical Love Story^; TIHKAL: A Continuation^; Dirty Pictures; Getting the Most from Psychedelics, 4/1/8; Robert Silverberg: Drug Themes in Science Fiction^; Michael Valentine Smith: Psychedelic Chemistry^; Peter Stafford: Psychedelics Encyclopedia^; Richard Stratton: Altered States of America^; D.M. Turner: Essential Psychedelic Guide^

Absinthe: wikipedia; Aleister Crowley: Green Goddess

Amanita: Secrets of the Templars - Amanita Muscaria & the Cross, 10/26/8; Magic Mushrooms & Reindeer, 1/26/9; again; John Allegro: Sacred Mushroom and the Cross^; Sacred Mushroom & the Cross, 1/30/10^; James Arthur: Mushrooms & Mankind^; Donald E. Teeter: Amanita Muscaria - Herb of Immortality^; David York: Christ and the Sacred Mushroom^

Ayahuasca: Help Free A Major Indigenous Leader Imprisoned in the U.S.; Health Canada orders doctor to stop using traditional Amazonian medicine to treat addicts, 11/14/11
Pablo Amaringo:Ayahuasca Visions^; Jim DeKorne:Ayahuasca Analogues^; Dennis McKenna: Ayahuasca^

Cannabis: Medical Marijuana; Cannabis International Foundation - A Resource For The Dietary And Medicinal Study And Use Of Cannabis; Hemp; Marijuana Conspiracy, 3/20/9; Frosty Woolridge: Marijuana Prohibition And Public Safety; Quarter Of All US Presidents Used Cannabis; Obama's New Medical Marijuana Policy Not a Step Forward for Liberty, 10/20/9; On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana, 11/1/9; Portland Opens First Medical Marijuana Cafe, 11/15/9; Reefer Madness or Cure-all?, 12/20/9; California Marijuana Vote Has Outlaw Growers Worried, 3/25/10; No More Possession Prosecutions in Seattle, New City Attorney Says; Successful Pot Smokers: Let’s Make a List; Cannabis Cures Cancer - "Run From The Cure" The Rick Simpson Story; Pot advocates fear bill could mandate ‘enhanced penalties’ for medical edibles, 7/29/10; Mainstream Marijuana: Behind Pot's Boom in California, 8/9/10; Cannabis Culture; Return of Reefer Madness, 8/22/10; California Pot Legalization ‘Could End Mexican Drug War’, 9/9/10; Speak no evil: DEA, DOJ stay mum on medical marijuana raids, 9/14/10; Obama drug-policy adviser says the administration opposes marijuana legalization and isn’t big on medical marijuana, 9/24/10; Dixie Elixirs – the patient’s choice for alternative MMJ treatment; Pot Parody, 10/25/10; Pot Prohibition Is the Cornerstone of a Police State, 11/4/10; Willie Nelson pot possession charge shows ludicrousness of marijuana prohibition, 11/28/10; 50 Famous Quotes on Marijuana, 11/28/10; Legalization 'looking inevitable,' spokesman says, 12/12/10; Missoula District Court: Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’, 12/19/10; Jury Refuses to Convict Anyone for Marijuana Possession!, 12/26/10; California dispensaries may soon carry marijuana soft drinks, 1/25/11; Pot Use May Mellow Out Men's Sexual Function, 2/14/11; Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity, 4/12/11; Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish, 4/26/11; 12 & 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police, 7/6/11; How Green Is Your Pot?, 7/13/11; Denied: DEA refuses to reclassify marijuana, claims it's as dangerous as heroin, 7/25/11; Miracle-Gro to sell special nutrient formulations for growing marijuana, 7/27/11; 125 yr. old woman claimed smoking pot every day was her secret to long life, 8/13/11; Does Marijuana Make You Stupid?, 8/17/11; Marijuana smoking better for lungs than cigarettes, 1/13/12; How Marijuana Impairs Memory, 3/1/12
GMO Pot: Frankenpot – Marijuana gone GMO!, 6/27/11; GM marijuana booms in South America, growers reap ten times market value, 6/30/11
Joint Rolling Handbook^; George Andrews: Book of Grass^; Chris Eudaley: How To Be A Pot Star Like Me^; Adam Gottlieb: Art & Science Of Cooking With Cannabis^; Greg Green: Cannabis Grow Bible, 4th ed^; Jack Herer: Emperor Wears No Clothes^; Todd McCormick:How to Grow Medicinal Marijuana^; Ed Rosenthal:Marijuana Grower's Handbook; Michael Starks: Marijuana Chemistry^

Coca: Peru suspends US-funded coca eradication programme, 8/18/11

DMT: 5-Meo-DMT User's Guide^; Quantum Tantra - DMT Extraction^; Shpongle; James Oroc: Tryptamine Palace; Rick Strassman: Contact Through the Veil^; DMT the Spirit Molecule^

Iboga: Lotsof & Wachtel: Ibogaine Treatment Manual^

Ketamine: INTERVIEW WITH A KETAMINE CHEMIST, 2/11; Club drug ketamine cures depression instantly: How?, 1/31/12
Karl Jansen: Ketamine, Dreams & Realites^; Moore and Alltounian: Journeys Into the Bright World^; Seth (Jane Roberts): Journeys to the bright side

Kratom: Is medicinal herb kratom a safe and effective alternative for treating pain, anxiety and depression?, 4/6/12

LSD: ALD-52, 5/17/7; Psychedelic Experience (original 1965 short film), 2/2/9; French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment, 3/11/10; Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip, 1/16/11; again; Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia, 3/13/11; LSD 'helps alcoholics to give up drinking', 3/9/12
Blewett & Chwelos: Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lsd-25^; John Cashman: LSD Story^; Betty Grover Eisner: Remembrances of LSD Therapy Past, 2002^; Albert Hoffman:LSD - My Problem Child^; Michael Hollingshead: Man Who Turned On the World^; Lee & Shlain: Acid Dreams^; Stafford & Golightly: LSD - Problem-Solving Psychedelic^; Stanislav Grof: LSD Psychotherapy^; Ralph Metzner: LSD Symposium, 4/18/8; David Solomon: LSD - Consciousness Expanding Drug^; Jay Stevens:Storming Heaven^; Tendler & May: Brotherhood of Eternal Love^; Tom Wolfe:Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

MDMA: Julie Holland: Ecstasy: The Complete Guide^; No Brain Damage From Ecstasy, 2/20/11

Opium: Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater; What our Children are Dying for in Afghanistan

Peyote: Gottlieb: Psychoactive Cacti; Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop, 2/14/8

Psilocybin: Mountain Mushroom Farm; Mushroom Cultivator^; 'Magic mushrooms' create positive mental and physical health benefits that can last a year, 7/9/11; Psychedelic compounds in 'magic mushrooms' can permanently alter personality, 10/10/11; Jochen Gartz: Magic Mushrooms Around the World^; F.C. Ghouled: Field Guide to the Psilocybin Mushroom^; Richard Alan Miller: Magickal Mushroom Handbook^; Oss & Oeric:Magic Mushroom Growers Guide^; Andrija Puharich: Sacred Mushroom Key to the Door of Eternity^; Shpongle:Around the World in a Tea Daze Tokyo Live; Paul Stamets:Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World^

Salvia Divinorum: Salvia Divinorum Research and Information Center^; Sacred weeds: Salvia divinorum, 4/20/7; All about Salvia Divinorum, 2/6/9; David Aardvark: Salvia Divinorum and Salvinorin A^; Terence McKenna: Lecture, 6/19/8; D.M. Turner: Salvinorin the Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum^

San Pedro Cactus: Cactus Drug, 3/10/8

Spiritual Use: Michael S. Hoffman: Entheogen Theory of Religion & Ego Death; Persephone's Quest - Entheogens and the Origins of Religion; Alan Watts: Joyous Cosmology; Muller-Ebeling, Ratsch & Storl: Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, & Forbidden Plants, 2003

Shamanism: Peru shaman murders investigated, 10/6/11; Carlos Castaneda: Works^; Active Side of Infinity^; Art of Dreaming^; words; Don Juan's Teachings (compilations); Fire From Within^; Journey to Ixtlan^; Magical Passes^; Power Of Silence^; Second Ring of Power^; Tales of Power; Teachings of Don Juan^; Michael Harner:Way of the Shaman^; Phil Hine:1 Walking Between the Worlds^; Hine: 2 Two Worlds & In Between^; Hine: 3 Touched by Fire^; Native American: Wisdom

What Sovereignty Is;   Prohibition: The Cornerstone of the Police State: Chemist's War; again, 2/22/10; Pot Prohibition Is the Cornerstone of a Police State, 11/4/10; Australia proposes ban on 1000s of plants including national flower, 2/22/11; This Is What Happens When You Ban Heroin, 8/11/11; What prohibition costs us, 10/6/11; Liquor Liberation in Washington State, 11/9/11; Retired police officer explains how big money lobbyists keep pot illegal, 2/13/12; Dutch judge upholds ban on shops selling pot to tourists, 4/27/12

In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on whiskey. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas):
"If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.
However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it.
This is my position, and as always, I refuse to compromise on matters of principle."

War on Drugs: Raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs, 8/15/5; A Bonanza for the Enemies of Freedom, 4/24/9; The True Villain; Drugs and the Constitution, 10/6/9; The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs, 12/23/9; US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs', 1/17/10; Obama grows the drug war, with enforcement a clear priority, 2/2/10; Last White Hope; Drug War is a Real War–on American Citizens, 5/5/10; US drug war has met none of its goals, 5/13/10; Repeal the War on Drugs, 7/28/10; How the US Government Created the ‘Drug Problem’ in the USA, 9/10/10; Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images, 10/14/10; Drug War’s Dubious Foundations, 2/3/11; Congressman targets federal funding for the war on drugs, 2/16/11; Why Cops Love the Drug War, 3/2/11; Drug War Business, Pt.1, 3/2/11; Pt.2, 3/3/11; Pt.3, 3/4/11; Legalization activists slam Obama’s renewed commitment to drug war, 3/4/11; Mexico’s biggest problem is the US government, 3/8/11; Tylenol and the War on Drugs, 3/21/11; Bureaucracies That Marijuana Feeds, 3/26/11; Why Banksters love Drug Gangsters; Cooking Meth: How Government Manufactured a Drug Epidemic, 4/5/11; DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs, 4/16/11; Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish, 4/26/11; Police State: Cops Pull You Over And Take Your Cash, 5/17/11; Supreme Court eviscerates 4th Amendment over marijuana smell, 5/17/11; Highway Robbery, 5/22/11; Global war on drugs 'has failed' say former leaders, 6/2/11; Call Off the Global Drug War, 6/16/11; Gilbert, Arizona Police Storm Home, Seize Two Ounces of Marijuana From Card-Holding Medical Pot Patient; No, Really, 6/16/11; Drug War's Einsatzgruppen, 6/27/11; again, 6/30/11; Elon James White: Just Say NO to the War On Drugs, 6/30/11; US spends billions every year prosecuting marijuana violations while economy tanks, 7/5/11; WAR on Drugs is OVER!, 7/21/11; U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill, 10/9/11; Dutch fear threat to liberalism in "soft drugs" curbs, 10/10/11; Obama's War On Weed: White House Launches Crackdown On Medical Marijuana, 10/11/11; Phoenix police raid medical-marijuana business, 10/12/11; Medical Pot Opponents Take Aim at the First Amendment, 10/13/11; Obama Starts a Civil War On Drugs, 10/13/11; War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People, 10/21/11; House Committee passes bill that criminalizes free speech, applies US 'drug war' policies across entire world, 10/21/11; Other Unconstitutional War, 10/26/11; Endless Evil: The Drug War’s Continuing Collateral Damage, 10/27/11; Pt.2, 11/2/11; Reefer Madness, 11/6/11; California's medical marijuana outlets threatened in government crackdown, 11/8/11; Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War, 11/9/11; Feds raid Washington state medical marijuana dispensaries, 11/15/11; Hospital refuses liver transplant for medical marijuana patient, 11/7/11; War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan, 11/16/11; Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior, 11/21/11; Ron Paul: War on drugs undermines civil liberties, 11/22/11; Medical Marijuana Industry Is Unnerved by U.S. Crackdown, 11/23/11; Another Glorious Drug War Victory, 11/23/11; Cops Raid Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, 11/23/11; War on drugs revealed as total hoax – US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan, 12/1/11; 10 Ways the War on Drugs is a Wild Success, 12/8/11; Feds covertly attack state-sanctioned medical marijuana, 12/28/11; Mother with no prior offenses sentenced to TWELVE YEARS in prison for $31 marijuana offense, 12/28/11; Snoop Dogg's marijuana drug bust highlights idiocy of the failed War on Drugs, 1/10/12; Richard Branson says It’s time to end the failed war on drugs, 1/23/12; Zombiefied Drug Trade, 2/2/12; Janet Napolitano Insists Drug War Not a Failure, 2/28/12; Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War, 3/8/12; New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests, 3/30/12; New York National Guard fighting the war on drugs, 4/9/12; Obama cheers continued expansion of drug war, criminalization of plant-based medicine, 4/16/12; Larken Rose: Drug War: Huge Success, 4/30/12
Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office (CNTPO): Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary, 11/22/11
DEA: Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency, 12/25/10; Iran case shows growing national security role of Drug Enforcement Administration, 10/14/11; Medical marijuana legal efforts are being crushed by the DEA - who benefits?, 10/25/11; DEA Squads Extend Reach of Drug War, 11/6/11; Helping the DEA, 11/7/11; D.E.A. Agents Launder Cartels’ Drug Money, 12/5/11; DEA agents admit laundering drug money, then claim they were testing how it works, 12/7/11; DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash, new report reveals, 1/9/12; US Agents Laundered Money, Shipped Drugs for Cartels, 1/9/12; DEA agent loses appeal over video of him accidentally shooting himself during gun safety demo, 1/17/12; A frightening picture of drug war reality, 2/2/12; Heckuva Job, DEA, 5/1/12; Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive, 5/1/12; Student forgotten in cell by DEA files $20 million torture lawsuit, 5/3/12; Everyday Evil of America's Torture State, 5/3/12
Drug Testing: Fingerprint analysis tech aims to revolutionize drug testing, 7/26/11
Decriminalization/ Legalization: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Why Legalize Drugs; Mexicans, U.S. question drug-legalization proposal, 8/9/10; Maine bill would fully legalize marijuana, 1/19/11; Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban, 1/26/11; Border guard fired, ‘interrogated’ for saying pot should be legalized, 1/26/11; When All Drugs Were Legal, 1/27/11; Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says, 2/7/11; Seattle Times Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana!, 2/18/11; DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma,’ NORML claims, 2/23/11; DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else, 2/24/11; Marijuana IPOs Provide Investors With Gateway to Cannabis Boom, 3/9/11; Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition, 3/30/11; Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government, 6/2/11; World leaders denounce failed war on drugs; call for global decriminalization, 6/16/11; Four decades of drug war tyranny may come to an end with Ron Paul's new effort to legalize marijuana, 6/23/11; Ron Paul Bill Attacks Federal Marijuana War, 6/24/11; Portugal drug law show results ten years on, 7/1/11; Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal, 7/5/11; Why legalizing marijuana would be a very good thing, 7/6/11; Legalizing marijuana would hinder the multi-billion dollar empire of Mexican drug cartels, 8/1/11; Legalize heroin, 9/29/11; California’s largest doctor group calls for marijuana legalization, 10/16/11; Chicago may decriminalize marijuana, 10/27/11; Switzerland Legalizes Growing Cannabis At Home, 11/18/11; Want to end Mexican drug gang violence? Legalize drugs and the cartels will collapse, 12/14/11; Legalization a controversial weapon in Mexico’s drug war, 12/28/11; Colorado asks DEA to recognize marijuana’s medical value, 12/29/11; Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs, 2/12/12; Obama: ‘I don’t mind debate’ but no to legalizing drugs, 4/14/12; Hundreds of economists agree marijuana legalization could save US taxpayers $13.7 billion per year, 4/23/12; Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Marijuana Legalization At White House Correspondents' Dinner 2012, 4/28/12

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP): LEAP: Legalizing drugs may benefit the country, 10/25/11; We Have Lost Faith in This Officer To Enforce Our Failed Policy, 12/3/11; Active duty cop: 'The war on drugs is a war on people', 1/27/12
UC Boulder: CU Hopes To Snuff Out 4/20 Pot Event, 4/14/12; UC Loses some buds: School to shut down over pro-pot rally, 4/17/12