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20 to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair - A.C. Thompson, John Sinclair (Producer), and Steve Gebhardt (Director)
John Sinclair first emerged out of his small-town Michigan background to forge a legendary course through the 1960s as a cultural activist, manager of the MC5, and Chairman of the White Panther Party. An early victim of the War on Drugs who faced 20 years to life in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman, Sinclair served 29 months of a 9-1/2-to-10-year sentence before his legal victory on...
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Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs - Ashley McNamara (Illustrator) and Will Hall
The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 40-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medication...
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Ayahuasca And Shamanism - Michael Taussig and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Peter Lamborn Wilson interviews the now legendary prof and anthropologist on these evergreen topics, and more.
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High In The Himalayas - Marilyn Stablein
In the heyday of the sixties, during a seven-year stay in the Himalayas, Marilyn Stablein teaches herself how to not only cook a curry on a cow dung patty fire, but to master sadhu rituals like preparing chillums. Whether describing Mishra's bhang lassi shop, the government hash store, her meeting with cannabis guru Ganesh Baba, or a trek to a cave in Kashmir to view Lord Shiva's miraculous ice lingham, Stab...
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O'Shaughnessy's: The Journal Of Cannabis In Clinical Practice
"O'Shaughnessy's is produced by the Society of Cannabis Clinicians for distribution to patients, caregivers, and concerned citizens. The goal is mutual continuing education - to keep ourselves abreast of developments in the field of cannabinoid therapeutics, as well as relevant political and legal developments." So the small print says. What you get, in effect, is a large oversize newsprint journal co...
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Blue Tide: The Search For Soma - Mike Jay
In the beginning, there was soma. The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this psychedelic plant which, when drunk, takes its subjects to the realm of the gods on its "blue tide." But, in the later Hindu tradition, soma is declared to have been "lost," and its use abandoned. The botanical identity of soma remains one of the great unso...
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Methadonia DVD - Michel Negroponte (Director)
There's one cure for heroin addiction. But is it a cure? Methadonia is the borderland between high and straight, where recovering heroin addicts on methadone "maintenance" exist. Passing the time on benzos and other prescription drugs that enhance the methadone, addicts find themselves in Methadonia for years, or decades. Selected for the prestigious New York Film Festival and featured on HBO, this unflinchi...
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Evil Hour In Colombia - Forrest Hylton
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work, Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and ...
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The Strength Of The Wolf: The Secret History Of America's War On Drugs - Douglas Valentine
The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and extensively documented, the book is based largely on interviews with former FBN agents, and in this respect The Strength of the Wolf represents a new chapter in American history, one that introduces a cas...
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Yage Letters Redux - Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs
In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrat...
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