1st Marijuana Growers - This site is all about marijuana seeds and marijuana growing, choosing the right cannabis seeds strain for personal gardening skills, grow location, climate and high preferences. Learn about getting free marijuana seeds or how to buy marijuana seeds at good trusthworthy and discreet online shop. Enjoy great free collection of over 97 marijuana growing guides, essential safety tips for growing marijuana, growing equipment recommendations, marijuana seeds strain reviews with high/stone reports and cultivation comments growers shared over the years.
15 Years to Life - Maintained by Anthony Papa, noted advocate against the war on drugs and cofounder of the Mothers of the New York Disappeared.
420 - 420, 4:20 or 4/20 (pronounced "four-twenty") refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture. The date 4/20 is sometimes referred to as "Weed Day" or "Pot Day". The term was coined from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971. The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana outside the school. According to an April 2009 article on the The Huffington Post, the group called itself the Waldos because its members hung out by a wall after school. Writer Ryan Grim, citing interviews with anonymous Waldos, claims that the group met by the statue at 4:20 p.m. to begin a search for a crop of abandoned cannabis growing near Point Reyes that they had heard about. They never found the stash, Grim writes, but smoked plenty of marijuana while looking for it. April 20 ("4/20" in U.S. date notation) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. Some events may have a political nature to them, advocating for the decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States.
Addiction Search - A directory of links to research-based information on drugs and alcohol, treatment approaches, and policy issues.
Albert Hofman Foundation - A nonprofit, educational and research organization, whose purpose is to preserve the earliest records of psychedelic activity, gathering the records of these endeavors to further the understanding and responsible application of psychedelic substances in the investigation of both individual and collective consciousness.
Alcohol Concern - UK's national agency on alcohol misuse. Provides information and encourage debate on public policy issues affected by alcohol, including public health, housing, children and families, crime and licensing.
Alcohol Studies Database - Contains over 50,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.
American Alliance for Medical Cannibis (AAMC) -
Dedicated to bringing patients, caregivers and volunteers the facts about medical marijuana (Cannabis) as medicine, laws for medicinal marijuana, patient resources, recipes and current research.
Amphetamines - Laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and methamphetamine (Methedrine) are collectively referred to as amphetamines. The amphetamines are potent psychomotor stimulants. They may be sniffed, swallowed, snorted or injected. They induce exhilarating feelings of power, strength, energy, self-assertion, focus and enhanced motivation. The need to sleep or eat is diminished. The release of dopamine typically induces a sense of aroused euphoria which may last several hours.
Amsterdam Smartshops - Smart shops in Amsterdam are selling herbal i.e. smart drugs, named because they were supposed to stimulate the mind and improve memory. These include energy substances like Guarana, Cola nut, relaxation stuff like Skullcap, Valerian or aphrodisiacs Muira Puama, Gingko Biloba, among others. many shops are selling magic mushrooms, vitamins, weed seeds, grown kits, pipes and various souvenires and arts. Also see:
Anabolic Steroid Abuse - Compilation of scientific information on anabolic steroids and the risks of steroid abuse.
Angel Justice - Coverage of Raich v. Ashcroft, the federal medical cannabis lawsuit.
Beckley Foundation -
A charitable trust set up to promote the investigation of consciousness and its modulation, and the science of drug use, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is one of the few organisations that actively supports and promotes investigations into consciousness and its changing states. In addition to the research programme, the foundation also organises seminars to promote informed debate of the many issues surrounding drugs, and conducts a policy research programme dedicated to providing a rigorous, independent review of global drug policy, and exploring ways in which drug policy can be more effective in reducing the harms associated with the misuse of drugs.
Bibliography of Consciousness Studies - The list of references presented here has been compiled from suggestions provided by members and friends of SAC. Some of the references listed are from the field of the anthropology of consciousness in sensu strictu, others are from related or tangential fields. Many of these works have played a significant role in the development of the field, although they may no longer be regarded as accurate, up to date, or correct. For example, the works of Carlos Castaneda, once thought to be valid anthropological studies, are now more properly viewed as works of fiction. These are nevertheless included here because of the role they played in introducing the notion of "non-ordinary realities" to a wider audience.
Breaking Open the Head -
A companion website for Daniel Pinchbeck's book of the same name, which includes a cultural history of psychedelic use, philosophical and critical perspectives on shamanism, and Pinchbeck's personal explorations, ranging from transcendent to terrifying.
California Proposition 36 - The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, also known as Proposition 36, was passed by 61% of California voters on November 7, 2000. This initiative allows first and second time non-violent, simple drug possession offenders the opportunity to receive substance abuse treatment instead of incarceration.
Canadians for Safe Access - Works to pressure Health Canada to free-up access to medicinal cannabis and to defend the rights of all legitimate users, cultivators, and distributors - including compassion clubs and societies - through legislative strategies, media campaigns, and non-violent direct action.
Cannabis.net - Cannabis: the devil's weed or nectar of the gods?
Center of Alcohol Studies (Rutgers University) - A multidisciplinary institute dedicated to acquisition and dissemination of knowledge on psychoactive substance use and related phenomena with primary emphasis on alcohol use and consequences. The Center's broad program of basic and applied research is conducted by scientists drawn chiefly from the biological sciences (principally biochemistry and neuropharmacology), psychology (both clinical and experimental), and sociology.
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) - A a public hospital providing direct patient care for people with mental health and addiction problems. The Centre is also a research facility, an education and training institute and a community based organization providing health promotion and prevention services across the province of Ontario, Canada, and is a Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization collaborating centre.
Club Drugs - Topical resource on club drugs, a general term used for certain illicit substances, primarily synthetic, that are usually found at nightclubs, bars, and raves (all night dance parties). Substances that are often used as club drugs include, but are not limited to, MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), Rohypnol, Ketamine, and methamphetamine.
maintained by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Coalition against BAYER-Dangers (CBG) - Cooperates with partners in more than 30 countries, collects information about Bayer AG and coordinates campaigns against violations of human and environmental rights.
Common Sense for Drug Policy - Organization dedicated to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating the voices of those raising questions about existing law and educating the public about alternatives to current policies. Includes links page to help you get more involved.
Council on Spiritual Practices - A collaboration among spiritual guides, experts in the behavioral and biomedical sciences, and scholars of religion, dedicated to making direct experience of the sacred more available to more people. There is evidence that such encounters can have profound benefits for those who experience them, for their neighbors, and for the world.
Criminal Policy Justice Foundation (CJPF) - Provides information to policy makers and the public to promote innovative ideas about criminal justice issues, including sentencing, drug policy reform, and police policy.
DanceSafe.org - A nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community.
Designer Drug - A term used to describe drugs which are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws, usually by preparing analogs or derivatives of existing drugs by modifying their chemical structure to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures that produce similar subjective effects to illegal recreational drugs.
DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy -
Online library of articles, reasearch papers, books, and essays on drugs, drug policy, prohibition, controlled substances, drug abuse, the drug war, marijuana, medical marijuna, LSD, peyote, psilocybin, ibogaine, psychedelic drugs.
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) - Enforces the controlled substances laws and regulations of the U.S. and brings to the criminal and civil justice system of the U.S., or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the U.S.
Drug Policy Alliance - A leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, public health and human rights.
Drug Policy Foundation (DFP) - DPF believes that current drug policy is not working. It is time to examine reasoned and compassionate alternatives.
Drug War Facts - Provides reliable information with credible citations on criminal justice and public health issues.
Drugnews Archive - Searchable library of more than 57,000 drug-related articles.
Drugscope - One of the UK's leading centers of expertise on drugs. Provides quality drug information, promotes effective responses to drug taking, undertakes research at local, national and international levels, advises on policy-making, encourages informed debate.
DrugSense - Drug policy reform news and information.
DRUGTEXT - Center for substance use related risk reduction. The purpose of both Drugtext is to promote the development and dissemination of knowledge, research, education, scholarship and international jurisprudence in the area of drug policy and human rights.
ecstasy.org - Gathers and makes accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about the drug ecstasy (principally MDMA).
Ed Rosenthal -
Offical blog of the California horticulturist, author, publisher, and cannabis grower, well-known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana (cannabis as a drug) use.
Also see Wikipedia entry.
ELISAD - European gateway on alcohol, drugs and addictions.
FDAnews.com - News and analysis on drugs, medical devices, biologics and veterinary medicine.
FOI Services Online - Using the Freedom of Information Act, Using the FOI Services has collected over 150,000 documents that record the inner workings of the approval and regulation of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biologics, veterinary products, foods and cosmetics. FOI maintains a private library of over 150,000 FDA documents in all categories of products regulated by the agency.
Frontline: Drug Wars - A 30-year history of America's war on drugs from PBS' Frontline public affairs television series.
Geopium - Geopgraphy of illicit Drugs in Asia - While the routine smoking of opium is certainly, although indirectly, a Chinese practice, the geographic origin of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum L., is by no means Far Eastern. Indeed, it is thought that the plant first appeared somewhere between the Mediterranean region and Asia Minor. The continuing mystery concerning the poppy’s exact origins is equalled only by the opacity which characterises the two largest opium-producing regions in the world today – the Golden Triangle, in Mainland South-East Asia, and the Golden Crescent, in Southwest Asia.
Global Commission on Drug Policy -
Science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and societies.
Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) - Committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. HRC fosters alternative models to conventional health and human services and drug treatment; challenges traditional client/provider relationships; and provides resources, educational materials, and support to health professionals and drug users in their communities to address drug-related harm.
Heffter Research Institute - Promotes research of the highest scientific quality with psychedelic substances in order to contribute to a greater understanding of the mind, leading to the improvement of the human condition, and the alleviation of suffering.
High Times - Cannabis cultivation, drug laws, drug tests, legal highs, the legalization of marijuana, the recreational use of marijuana, the medical uses for marijuana and the worldwide impact of the drug war.
International Antiprohibitionist League - Provides an independent assessment of data produced by the UN on drug-related matters that corroborates the thesis that prohibition has failed and continues to create more harms than goods.
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) - An international professional association for individuals and associations concerned with the development of drug policies to reduce the harmful consequences of drug use.
International Centre for Science in Drug Policy - An international network of scientists and academic physicians committed to improving the health of communities and individuals affected by illicit drugs. The network is comprised of leading drug policy experts from around the globe who have come together in an effort to reduce drug-related harms by informing international drug policies with the best available scientific evidence.
Join Together - A collaboration of the Boston University School of Public Health and The Partnership at Drugfree.org, dedicated to advancing effective drug and alcohol policy, prevention and treatment.
Julie Holland, M.D. - MDMA: The Science of Ecstasy - Information, papers, and resources on the psychoactive substance known popularly as Ecstasy, including its potential as an adjunct and catalyst to psychotherapy.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) -
A 10,000-member organization representing police, prosecutors, judges, FBI/DEA agents and others from around the world who fought on the front lines of the "war on drugs" and who learned firsthand that making drugs illegal only serves to make drug addiction and drug market violence problems worse.
LSD - My Problem Child - Albert Hofman, the father of LSD, details the history of his "problem child" and his long and fruitful career as a research chemist.
Lycaeum - Etheogenic database and community. Forums, preparations, trip reports. The Lycaeum features an entheogen information database, drug experience archive with over 700 reports, search engine which spiders several major drug information sites, psychedelic graphics, transcribed books, community, software, audio, hosted sites, and much more: entheogen, entheogenic, entheogens, drug, drugs, tryptamine, tryptamines, phenethylamine, phenethylamines, lsd, lysergic, acid, diethylamine, psylocybe, cubensis, psilocybin, psilocybine, psilocin, mushroom, dmt, dimethyltryptamine, ibogaine, salvia, divinorum, piperazines, 2c-b, ecstacy, mda, mde, mdma, mescaline, peyote, san pedro, trichocereus, opiates, nitrous, n2o, ghb, gamma, hydroxybutyrate, butyrolcatone, butanediol, dxm, dextromethorphan, cyclohexamines, ketamine, pcp, phencyclidine, coca, cocaine, cannabis, sativa, indica, marijuana, thc, cannabinoid, cannabinol, benzodiazapines, datura, belladonna, amphetamines, amanita, muscaria, psychedelic, hallucinogen, hallucinogenic, dissociative, empathogen, visionary, shaman, shamanism, yage, ayahuasca, chemistry. Also see The Lycaeum Book Archives.
Media Awareness Project (MAP) - A worldwide network dedicated to drug policy reform. Informs the public of the existence of rational alternatives to the drug war.
Narcosphere - A participatory, online, forum, where readers and journalists come together to discuss, correct, add new information and relevant links, and debate the work of the journalists who publish on NarcoNews.com.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Working to further understanding of how drugs of abuse affect the brain and behavior and to ensure the rapid and effective transfer of scientific data to policy makers, drug abuse practitioners, other health care practitioners and the general public.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) - Working to reform marijuana laws. NORML serves as an informational resource to the national media on marijuana-related stories; lobbies state and federal legislators to permit the medical use of marijuana and to reject recent attempts to treat minor marijuana offenses more harshly; and serves as the umbrella group for a national network of citizen activists committed to ending marijuana prohibition. Also visit local affiliate California NORML.
November Coalition - Educating the public about the destructive increase in the prison population in the United States due to current drug laws and federal and state government assaults on civil rights and freedoms in the U.S.
Oaksterdam University - Oaksterdam University was founded in November 2007. Richard Lee, the founder, placed an advertisement in the East Bay Express proclaiming "Cannabis Industry Now Hiring". Lee had wanted to open a trade school for the cannabis since visiting the cannabis college in Amsterdam. Rather than emulate the college in Amsterdam where curriculum mainly surrounds horticulture, Lee decided to create a curriculum that focuses on the entire cannabis trade. Lee's school quickly gained the attention of local, national, and even international media.
With demand continually growing, in celebration of its 2 successful years, in November of 2009, Oaksterdam University moved to its current location at 1600 Broadway, Oakland. A sprawling 30,000 sqft campus, the new location features multiple classrooms, 2 auditoriums, a grow lab, and a theater.
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) - Establishes policies, priorities, and objectives for the U.S. drug control program, the goals of which are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking; drug-related crime and violence; and drug-related health consequences.
Reality Sandwich -
Web magazine whose subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies.
Reconsider: Forum on Drug Polcy - A forum for discussing alternatives to one of America's greatest public policy failures: the war on drugs.
RnetHealth.com - Covers a wide range of behavioral health issues - including eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, stress, anxiety, etc. - as well as the chronic diseases often associated with these issues - including cancer, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, and hepatitis.
RxList - A leading online drug database that lists over 4,000 pharmaceuticals and other medicines, with extensive information on 600 entries and links from over 10,000 Web sites and search engines seeking drug information.
Salvia divinorum - Also known as Diviner’s Sage, María Pastora, Sage of the Seers, or simply by the genus name, Salvia is a psychoactive herb which can induce strong dissociative effects. It is a member of the sage genus and the Lamiaceae (mint) family.The Latin name Salvia divinorum literally translates to “sage of the seers”.
Also see DEA's page.
San Francisco Cannibis Clubs -
Providing medical marijuana resources to California medical marijuana patients.
Directory of medical marijuana despensaries.
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy - Major studies of drugs and drug policy, media articles, drug legalization debate, special collections, and more.
State Alcohol Law - Each state has enacted statutes that govern the distribution, taxation, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages within that state, as well as provisions regarding criminal and civil liability for harms resulting from the consumption of alcohol. The state law materials listed here provides inforamtion on alcohol-related law from all 50 U.S. states.
StoptheDrugWar.org - The Drug Reform Coordination Network, U.S. and global organization advocating legalization and an end to the drug war.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) - An international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the War on Drugs is failing our generation and our society. SSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future, while fighting back against counterproductive drug war policies, particularly those that directly harm students and youth.
Synthetic Cannabis - A psychoactive herbal and chemical product which, when consumed mimics the effects of cannabis. It is best known by the brand names K2 and Spice, both of which have largely become genericized trademarks used to refer to any synthetic cannabis product.
Transform Drug Policy Foundation (TDPF) - A charitable think tank that seeks to draw public attention to the fact that drug prohibition itself is the major cause of drug-related harm to individuals, communities and nations, and should be replaced by effective, just and humane government control and regulation.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Federal agency responsible for ensuring that foods are safe, wholesome and sanitary; human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices are safe and effective; cosmetics are safe; and electronic products that emit radiation are safe.
Vaults of Erowid, The - Mind-altering drug information, including different techniques, practices, methods, and lifestyles. Traditional uses, other methods of use, experiences, health effects, and current research.
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