Vernal Equinox 2003

With writings from:

  • The Rainbow Bend Collective
  • Robert "Rio" Hahn, FRGS, FN'86
  • Talby
  • G.N., Hokkaido, Japan
  • MoDu
  • C.G., ID
  • A.S., CA
  • A.K., TX
  • Justin Case
  • R. Stuart
  • Jon Hanna
  • Playa Surfer Dave

  

TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • "High on AVAM" reviews the art show High on Life: Transcending Addiction, currently on exhibit in Baltimore at the American Visionary Art Museum.
     
  • "Swami's Sacred Plant: A Report of Unprecedented Datura Use in Nepal" explores the repeated daily use of a betel chew containing Datura seeds.
     
  • "Network Feedback" provides reports and fields questions on the topics of Acorus calamus, nutmeg, myristicin, mistletoe, adrenochrome, tobacco morphine, isoquinolines, Anadenanthera & lime, Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa, as well as describing a new transdermal drug delivery system, noting the recent scheduling of 5-MeO-DIPT and AMT (while reporting on some cross-tolerance studies), relating the state of access to drugs in Japan, and providing the construction of a revolutionary new DMT pipe that allows large doses to be consumed with minimal wear and tear on the lungs.
     
  • "Bogus Kratom Market Exposed" reveals the large-scale botanical scam that dumped hundreds of kilos of fake Mitragyna speciosa onto the entheobotanical market, and also relates the latest on legal maneuvers in some countries regarding the plant and its primary chemical, mitragynine.
     
  • "The San Francisco Ibogaine Forum" reviews a recent seminar held on the topic of Tabernanthe iboga and ibogaine used for the treatment of drug addicts.
     
  • "Events Calendar" tells of the latest happenings, including the "Science & Consciousness" conference, the "Iboga and Ibogaine" conference, the "GHB" conference and the "Mind States IV" conference.
     
  • "Sources" relates the latest entheogen busts and reviews numerous new vaporizers, blotter art vendors, a Salvia divinorum church, a site providing free S. divinorum, psychedelic animation on-line, a new web zine, a S. divinorum magazine and buyer’s club, and a source for inexpensive Mimosa hostilis.
     
  • "Book Review" dishes the skinny on Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck.
     

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