Watch an ex-cop explain why: “The War on Drugs is a joke.”

It’s a long video, so here are the highlights:

At [spp-timestamp time="3:47"] he demolishes the idea that we can enforce away the drug trade.

At [spp-timestamp time="5:54"] he explains how the drug problem can be fixed, and at [spp-timestamp time="7:30"] he points out how we can keep people from doing drugs without criminalizing them.

At [spp-timestamp time="11:08"] he points ...

Harsh! Yippie Museum’s Building Manager Wants Pot Activist Kicked to the Curb

http://www.mindvox.com/pg/blog/read/6475/9-bleecker-foreclosure-and-possible-eviction

Already fighting foreclosure, the home of the Yippie! Museum faced another buzzkill last week, as attorney Meryl L. Wenig asked a State Supreme Court judge to consider civil contempt charges against its owners and even jail time for failing to pay rent at 9 Bleecker Street.

Wenig represents David F. Segal, the receiver, who claims that “not one ...

MYEBOGA COMMENT: ‘DRUG EXPERTS’ make comments which are damaging to the use of ibogaine as a treatment that saves thousands of lives whenever lives are lost, often due to the incorrect use of the substance. The pharmaceutical industry is rife with deaths due to the side effects of pharmaceuticals. Ibogaine threatens the usual modalaties for treating drug addiction. So the question is: how many lives have been saved that would otherwise have been lost?

http://www.3news.co.nz/Warning-over-drug-addiction-miracle-cure/tabid/423/articleID/307413/Default.aspx

Warning ...

In recent years, you may have noticed that the public and the media have shown an increasing awareness of the potential of plant medicines — and particularly psychedelics, or entheogens — to treat otherwise intractable psychological conditions, such as PTSD and addiction.

I know this as well as anyone — I struggled with heroin addiction for 20 years and tried everything I could to kick the habit. Finally, 11 years ago — convinced I ...

Woman dies in drug rehab (Story from New Zealand Herald)

Husband wants answers about treatment

The grieving husband of an Italian-born farmer who died of a suspected heart attack in a controversial rehab clinic is demanding answers about her death.

Teodora Palmieri-Chuck, 45, of Wairarapa, died at Kaitaia’s Iboga Clinic while undergoing a controversial ibogaine drug addiction treatment.

Ibogaine has been hailed as a miracle way to break drug dependency after only one dose, but concerns have ...