Guest speaker: Claudia Little, BSN, MPH

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Below you will find the list of links to Web sites that Claudia Little refers to in her presentation about the safety, benefits, and importance of the cannabis plant.

Marijuana – Why it Works
Supporting Studies and Articles

Growing Acknowledgments from Health Organizations
regarding the Medical Benefits of Cannabis

Health Organization Endorsements
AMA Calls for Scientific Review of Marijuana’s Prohibitive Status

How Cannabis Works
The Brain’s Own Marijuana (Get link to complete article from Scientific American at this link)

Cannabis and the Brain

Marijuana Compounds Possess Synergistic Anti-Cancer Effects, Study Says

Marijuana Extracts Relieve Intractable Cancer Pain Better than THC, Study Says

Books on Specivic Conditions
Aging, Arthritis, Cancer, Chronic Pain, Gastrointestinal Disorders, HIV/AIDS,
Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis (Americans for Safe Access)

Comprehensive Reviews of Recent Research
Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis and Cannabinoids

Review on Clinical Studies with Cannabis and Cannabinoids 2005 – 2009
(by Arno Hazekamp from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands,
and Franjo Grotenhermen from the nova-Institut in Huerth, Germany)

Some of the Most Significant Research Results of 2009
‘Gold Standard’ Studies show that Inhaled marijuana Is Medically Safe and Effective
(CA Center for Medical Cannabis Research)

Feds’ Top Pot Researcher Says Marijuana Should be Legal
(UCLA’s Taskin/Lung Cancer Risk)

If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Heard About It, Right?
(Boston University re: Head/Neck CA)

Smoke Has Contrasting Effects O Lung Function Compared to Tobacco, Study Says

Moderate Marijuana Use Not Associated with Altered Cognitive Shills, Study Says

Opposite Relationships Between Cannabis Use and Neurocognitive functioning
in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

Review: Supposed Marijuana and Schizophrenia Link "Overstated"

Weeding Through the Hype: Interpreting the Latest Warnings About Pot and Schizophrenia

THC Shown to Help Patients with Schizophrenia

Safety of Cannabis
Addictive Properties of Popular Drugs

Conant vs Walters (Safety for your MD)

Marijuana compounds may offset alcohol-induced toxicity, study says

Marijuana Users Substitute Pot in Place of More Dangerous Substances, Study Says

Marijuana Ingredient Blocks Opiate Dependence, Study Says

Federal Agency in Charge of Marijuana Research Admits Stifling Studies on Medicinal Cannabis

Organizations to Join:

Drug Policy Alliance

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)

Americans for Safe Access

Marijuana Policy Project

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Extras

2009: The Year in Review NORML’s top 10 Events that Shaped Marijuana Policy

Annual Marijuana Arrests in the US

Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it had Never Funded

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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"The UFO community is just fraught with the most crack-brained, peculiar, self-serving, unstable, mush-minded group of people you would ever hope to get together in one place. I mean it’s like a magnet for screwballs." [Terence then went on, at great length, to describe his own encounter with a UFO . . . go figure .]

"I’ve seen things that violated the laws of physics. I believe the laws of physics can be violated. I believe there may well be extraterrestrials somewhere in the universe."

"My technique, which I recommend to you, is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. Therefore you have given up a portion of your freedom, and freedom is the dearest thing we’ve got."

"Probe the edges."

"Psychedelics work. If you think that I’m bullshitting you, go home and take five grams of mushrooms in silent darkness and then we’ll talk. That’s the sine qua non. It’ll work, on demand. I’m not saying, ‘And wait forty years, or purify yourself, or get your aura stitched up, or any of the rest of it. It’ll work. It’ll blow your mind to shreds. It’s real."

"What I’ve decided is that the [DMT] experience is an archetype. It’s the archetype of the circus."

"I think where the dead and the living get together is in the dream time. Australian Aborigines have been trying to tell us this for as long as we would listen."

"The dream state is more like the tryptamine geography than anything else."

"Fairies respond to riddlery. This has to do with this thing about language. And the strange relationship of the Irish to intoxication, faries, and language suggests that here we might have a restrictive gene pool that has somehow indemnified itself in the direction of these peculiar concerns."

"As long as we pursue the destruction of the Earth, and the elaboration of materialist ideology, and the suppression of psychedelic states, and the suppression of the feminine we are going to be alienated, feel abandoned, and operate in an ambiance of rampant pathology."

"The apocalypse is no longer a rumor. It has arrived in many parts of the world."

"Do what you think is right. Think about what you think is right, and once you’ve thought about it then do it!"

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"I was able to jack it [the strength of the ayahuasca brew] up, and jack it up until finally it was truly horrifyingly strong, and that’s what you want. We’re not interested in colored lights and dancing mice here."

"A language which could be seen would be a kind of telepathy. If you could see what I mean you would see my thought. The way we communicate, small mouth noises and the assumption of shared dictionary, an assumption that is never borne out by careful questioning, is a miserable way to communicate."

"It’s more an ability locked in your physiological structure that we’re not using. They [the machine elves] want us to speak in colored lights."

"I think that the subtext of the governments’ fear about psychedelics is that this quality that they have of dissolving boundaries causes people to question basic assumptions about how society is run. And I think this is true of any society. It isn’t an American phenomenon. It’s that if you take psychedelics, whatever you are, you know, Eskimo, Hassidic Rabbi, quantum physicist, you will question your first premises. And you get millions of people questioning the first premises, and then the powers that be become very nervous."

"Cannabis holds many benefits, not necessarily related to its properties as an intoxicant, but as a source of food, lubricants, plastics, fuels, etc. The reason the establishment is so hysterical on the subject of cannabis is because it erodes loyalty to the industrial state."

"This is a heresy for sure, I’m not that fond of LSD. I think it’s a very sloppy drug."

"It’s the indole hallucinogens that are at the center of the mandala."

"We have been too long under the spell of the idea that only the past creates the present. The present is actually largely created by appetite for the future."

"History is not a random walk. It’s not a series of undirected, random fluctuations. History is a process of fractal self-complexification that builds on whatever it has achieved."

"The rules of evidence are not in suspension for the New Age."

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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"The surface of things is not where attention should rest."

"I’ve never actually seen it [smoked DMT] hit anybody quite as hard as it hit me. For about fifteen minutes all I could say was, ‘I can’t believe it!’ … This is no drug. It’s magic. It masquerades as a drug. It’s a doorway into another world."

"We’re a society where people jump out of airplanes on weekends because their lives are so boring and empty. Well then, if you think jumping out of an airplane is a thrill to write home about you should try this stuff. No one would jump out of an airplane if they had DMT on their menu."

"I came to feel, and I still sometimes offhandedly refer to it like this, that it [DMT] is secret. It is not a secret. It is THE secret. There is a secret, and this is it. It is the secret that the world is not only not the way you think it is. It’s that the way the world is, is a way that you can’t think it is, because you simply do not have the imaginative capacity to conceive of such overwhelming peculiarity."

"You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told."

"Without this [the smoked DMT experience] in the picture, half the world is missing."

"What we have discovered in DMT is, literally, a chemical doorway to the bardo."

"One thing psychedelics will do for you, for sure, is to convince you that what’s real is what I call the felt presence of immediate experience. That’s what’s real."

"The biological object is made of time itself as much as it’s made of space and matter."

"I’ve come to see the body as basically the placenta of the soul."

"The Twentieth Century is analogous to the birth canal of human history."

"What’s interesting about DMT is that it occurs naturally in the human brain. We all make it all the time. And so, in a sense, this is not a drug at all. This is a human metabolite that you’re getting a tremendous of, but the fact that it occurs naturally in the human brain means that you have chemical pathways, bio synthetic pathways, that can deal with it."

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Guest speaker: Timothy Leary

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"For the last four or five thousand years, freedom and intelligence and individualism have been moving in an unbroken chain from East to West. So that here on the banks of the Pacific Ocean we obviously have assembled the most advanced nervous systems on the planet."

"We all live within the reality bubble that our nervous system projects."

"Neurology was the real revolution of the Sixties."

"Your theory of evolution determines, really, what kind of a life you’re gonna lead."

"The old theory, by old I mean the one they’re still teaching in your colleges, says that new speciation takes tens of millions of years to create a new species. Well if that’s so let’s go back to Quaaludes. Why bother?"

"The Sixties was a genetically designed and programmed paedomorphic revolt against adult authority."

"I’m sure that most of the people who have felt alienated, I think many of the people who are put in mental hospitals, are simply people who were born with nervous systems that we call futique, as opposed to antique."

"It’s so simple, that to be in the right place you’re in the right time. Tune the place you are to the vibrations of the brain circuits that you want to activate at the time."

"Evolution never tries to change grown-ups."

"We didn’t grow from the apes. We refused to become apes."

"I urge you, at all costs, to avoid terminal adulthood."

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