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Review: 'Emperors of Dreams' by Mike Jay

...drugs; namely with chapters on nitrous oxide, OPIUM, cannabis, ether, cocaine and mescaline. And is concluded with a look at the Temperance movement and alcohol prohibition. In many respects The Emperors of Dreams is a culmination narrative of th... 2010-09-01 16:09:32 psypressuk

Psyche Spinner: Iran's Poorest on Drugs

...my mother, she replied, "You know how he was an OPIUM addict?" I answer yes. "Well," my mom continued, "he took a pill the dealer gave him called Ravangardan (psyche spinner) and he went insane. He broke everything in the house and went on the roof... 2010-07-20 13:44:22 jamesk

Review: Opium for the Masses

OPIUM for the Masses: Harvesting Nature’s Best Pain Medication, By Jim Hogshire. “Contrary to general belief, there is no federal law against growing P. somniferum." Martha Stewart Living Michal Pollan wrote a lengthy feature (“Opium, made eas... 2010-07-20 13:41:30 gwyllm

An alternative to the war on drugs in the British Medical Journal

..."coffee shops," potentially also for smoking OPIUM or poppy tea Unlicensed sales -- minimal regulation for the least risky products, such as caffeine drinks and coca tea.... 2010-07-18 13:21:15 Psychotrophic

Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

...about the same effects of marijuana, cocaine, OPIUM and peyote. While street drugs rarely come with instruction manuals, potential digital drug users are advised to buy a 40-page guide so that they learn how to properly get high on MP3s.... 2010-07-14 21:34:19 Psychotrophic

Review: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English OPIUM-Eater is often described as being a minor character in English Romanticism and, in being understood as such, becomes almost a footnote to the likes of Wordsworth and Coleridge. However, as a work of Western drug-writi... 2010-07-12 12:59:25 psypressuk

US soldiers in Afghanistan and opium addiction

...forces into the heart of the world's leading OPIUM producer. Pentagon statistics obtained by FoxNews.com show that the number of Army soldiers enrolled in Substance Abuse Program counseling for opiates has soared nearly 500 percent -- from 8... 2010-05-08 12:01:03 jamesk

Poppy plague hits Afghanistan

...yellow and withered and slashes the yield of OPIUM resin which is sold on and processed into heroin. The worst affected farmers have said the scale of the infection is unprecedented. Yields have dropped by up to 90 per cent in some fields the... 2010-05-07 11:28:50 jamesk

CIA released LSD into the NY subway

...reprobate with an occasional fondness for OPIUM, hookers and Mafiosi drug-dealers -- makes it apparent that if anyone could have tested LSD on an unsuspecting public, it would be him. White had set up a CIA safe house at 81 Bedford Street,... 2010-03-22 19:57:57 jamesk

Interview with 'Exile Nation' author Charles Shaw

...invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the previous year's OPIUM harvest was 134 metric tons. In 2009, it was 9000 metric tons, an increase of 7500%! Today, 90% of the world's heroin comes from US-occupied Afghanistan. It does not take a Ph.D to figure that o... 2010-03-15 14:20:59 jamesk

Researchers unlock gene secrets of opium poppy

...have unlocked one of the genetic secrets of the OPIUM poppy - a discovery that may open the door to cheaper and more readily available pain relief. Biological sciences professor Peter Facchini said they have traced the unique genes that allow th... 2010-03-15 14:09:12 jamesk

'Let's not stop at marijuana legalization'

...from raking in massive profits from illegal OPIUM cultivation in Afghanistan. Of course, none of this means that our rapidly growing marijuana legalization movement should slow down. And this is coming from the former police chief who ha... 2009-12-15 12:05:01 jamesk

Canadian doda wars heat up

...us on the growing story of doda, a narcotic OPIUM paste or powder made by grinding dried poppy pods, favored by Canada's South Asian community. Are you aware of the growing police crackdown in Canada on dried poppies and ground poppy pods? ... 2009-11-23 12:58:28 jamesk

Classical drug use: Greek and Roman drug freedom

The Greeks and Romans used OPIUM, anticholinergics, and numerous botanical toxins to induce states of mental euphoria, create hallucinations, and alter their own consciousness; this is an indisputable fact. This fact has been intentionally ignor... 2009-11-17 12:33:09 oldpigeon

The rough world of illegal drugs

...Afghanistan are being made against its massive OPIUM crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts. ... 2009-10-21 13:27:45 tonx

Turkey did it. Can Afghanistan?

...to the problems of Afghanistan. Turning the OPIUM trade into a legitimate business, helping the economy and ending the nightmare of the Taliban. Today, it's Afghanistan. Ongoing attempts by the United States to obliterate the poppy fields o... 2009-10-18 13:59:03 egnever

US Afghan operations dependent on drug dollars?

Yes, according to Gen. Mahmut Gareev, a former commander during the USSR's operations in Afghanistan... 90 per cent of drugs from Afghanistan go to former Soviet republics. 80 per cent of the world’s drugs are produced in Afghanistan. They’ve out... 2009-08-30 17:16:20 Psychotrophic

Chefs on Drugs

...and he was fuuucked up, bent out of his head on OPIUM, claiming that he’d eaten it (accidentally) on a salad in the park. “Who eats salad from a stranger in the park?” we asked. The answer: Andy did. We tried to send him home. He wouldn’t go,... 2009-07-23 12:00:39 jamesk

The great poppyseed caper

...poppyseeds are narcotics, in the same league as OPIUM or heroin. This, at least, is the message conveyed by a recent raid in Marja district of Helmand Province, where U.S. forces, after a four-day military offensive, proudly announced the bigges... 2009-06-22 13:50:18 jamesk

Gretchen Peters on The Daily Show

...of Terror', talks to Jon Stewart about the OPIUM state in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... 2009-06-09 12:36:28 jamesk
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