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DEA Intelligence Reports: Inside Secrets of the Smuggling Trade. Paladin Press, Boulder, CO 1988. (possibly this is a fabrication) [box 2]

DICK, PHILLIP K
VALIS
VALIS (Novel)
VALIS: Vast Active Living Intelligence System. An extraterrestrial satellite beams an exegesia to Horselover Fats via a beam of pink light. An information entelechy residing in the Qumran scrolls of the early Essenes and Gnostics forms a symbiotic 'Homoplasmate' with humans who read it.

HILLIS, W. DANIEL
Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior; or, The Songs of Eden.
Daedalus. Winter, 1988 pp 175-189
Sometimes a system with many simple components will exhibit a behavior of the whole that seems more organized than the behavior of the individual parts. Consider the intricate structure of a snowflake. Symmetric shapes within ght crystals of ice repeat in threes and sixes, with patterns recurring from place to place and within themselves at different scales. The hsapes fomred by the ice are consequences of the local rules of interactions that govern the molecules of water, although the connection between the shapes and the rules is far from obvious. After all, these are the same rules of interaction that cause water to suddenly turn to steam at its boiling point and cause whirlpools to form in a stream. The rules that govern the forces between water molecules seem much simpler than crystals or whirlpools or boiling points, yet all of these complex phenomena are somehow consequences of those rules. Such phenomena are called emergent behaviors of the system. It would be very convenient if intelligence were an emergent behavior of randomly connected neurons in the same sense that snowflakes and whirlpools are emergent behaviors of water molecules. It might then be possible to build a thinking machine by simply hooking together a sufficiently large network of artificial neurons. The notion of emergence would suggest that such a network, once it reached some critical mass, would spontaneously begin to think.

Hundleby, John D
Personality and the prediction of delinquency and drug use: A follow-up study of school boys.
British Journal of Criminology; 1986 Apr Vol 26(2) 129-146
Studied personality and the prediction of delinquency and drug use in young adolescent boys in Ontario. 150 Ss had been involved with the juvenile justice system and had been moved from their homes and placed in a training school (TS); 196 Ss were in a public school (PS). TS and PS Ss were tested using a battery of personality and ability measures. TS Ss were interviewed at entry to the TS and at a 3.5-yr follow-up, 85% of the TS Ss (aged 16.5 yrs) were interviewed. TS Ss showed elevated levels of usage of LSD, marihuana, cigarettes, and alcohol. Test scores obtained from TS Ss on arrival at a TS predicted criteria gathered at follow-up, although the level of prediction was not high. Indices of recidivism were only poorly predicted. However, indices of drug use and alienation were predicted by Extraversion, Fluid Intelligence, Lack of Acculturation, and Independence.

LE GUIN, URSULA K
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
Buffalo Gals and other animal presences. 1987, (short story first published in 1971)
An 'Extreme Survey Team' of neurotic misfits lands on a planet covered by plant life. The individual plants are actually the 'neurons' of a vast planetary intelligence capable of telepathy. An empathic member of the survey team known as 'The Sensor' makes contact with the planetary intelligence and is healed of his pathological alienation.

LEON CARRION J
Mental performance in long-term heavy cannabis use: a preliminary report.
Psychol Rep. 1990 Dec; 67(3 Pt 1): 947-52
Mental performance of 23 male chronic cannabis users was measured on the 1958 Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and compared with scores of a control group. Analysis showed significant differences on nine of the 14 scores especially those indicating capacity for compromise, the elaboration of adequate judgments, and the capacity of verbalization and communication.

Levine, A., Abramson, H. A., Kaufman, M. R., & Markham, S
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25): XVI.
The Effect on Intellectual Functioning as Measured by the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale. J. Psychol. 40:385-395. (1955)

Lienert, G. A.
Changes in the Factor Structure of Intelligence Tests Produced by d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD).
In: Bradley et al. 1959:461-465. (1959)

LSD Enforcement and Prevention Seminar. Dec. 10-11, 1991 at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco. sponsored by the DEA and OSAP. (photocopy of all this material is velobound in anthology "Psychedelics in Society Volume Two"). [box v3]
1) blue cloth case embossed with "Drug Enforcement Administration San Francisco Field Division". This contains: 2) Blue folder embossed with "Drug Enforcement Administration San Francisco Field Division LSD Conference December 1991" and the design of a DEA Special Agent Badge. Inside this are:
3) schedule of lectures.
4) six pages of graphs and a map entitles "LSD Update". 5) "LSD Briefing Book" by Robert E. Bender, Special Agent in charge. 6) booklet "It Never Went Away: LSD, A Sixties Drug, Attracts Young Users in the Nineties" by Dept. of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Demand Reduction Section.
7) "L.S.D. The UK Problem. The National Drugs Intelligence Unit". discusses LSD use in the United Kingdom.
8) "Discussion Groups" roster of names attending group discussions on second day of conference.
* some duplicate tapebound photcopies are also included.

MOLCAN, J; ET AL
Possible uses of nootrophic drugs in clinical psychiatry.
Ceskoslovenska Psychiatrie; 1978 Apr Vol 74(2) 52-60
Examined the effects of piracetam (1,200-1,400 mg/d), centrophenoxine 750-1,500 mg/d), and placebo on 20 patients (20-79 yrs old) with qualitative conscience disorders. A battery of psychological tests, including the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scales, were used in addition to overall clinical evaluation. All Ss had basic biochemical investigations made and changes in EEG monitored. Results show that piracetam and centrophenoxin had an active psychotrophic effect. Both drugs proved to be effective in alleviating states of agitation and improving attention and short-term memory. Piracetam also improved intellectual performance, increasing initiative and alleviating manifestations of fatigue. (Russian summary)

OSS O T; OERIC O N [MCKENNA, TERENCE & DENNIS]
[The mushroom speaks] (2)
Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. Lux Natura Edition. Revised 1986 pp 14-15
'"Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you

PAGE, J BRYAN; FLETCHER, JACK M; TRUE, WILLIAM R
Psychosociocultural perspectives on chronic cannabis use: The Costa Rican follow-up. Special Issue: Marijuana--an update.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; 1988 Jan-Mar Vol 20(1) 57-65
Conducted a 4-yr follow-up of Costa Rican marihuana users and matched nonusers previously studied by W. E. Carter et al (1980). 57 of 82 Ss were available at follow-up. They completed a test battery including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS); measures of lateralized motor and tactile performance, learning and memory, sustained attention and concentration, and speeded motor planning; the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF); and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results indicate that users were slower in processing and on self-paced measures requiring sustained attention than nonusers. Anthropological findings are discussed with reference to cognitive function testing.

PERSINGER MA
Subjective pseudocyesis (false pregnancy) and elevated temporal lobe signs: an implication.
Percept Mot Skills. 1991 Apr. 72(2). P 499-503.
Twenty-two percent of 106 undergraduate university women reported symptoms of pseudocyesis: cessation of menstruation, abdominal enlargement, morning sickness, and breast changes. These women also displayed significant elevations in temporal lobe signs with particular involvement of putative right hemispheric processes. Women prone to pseudocyesis displayed more memory blanks, nocturnal akinesia, awareness of abdominal sensations, and exotic beliefs such as alien intelligence; the phenomenon was 10 times more frequent in Roman Catholic women than in Protestant women.

SPIEGEL, RENE; HUBER, FRITZ; KOBERLE, SUSE
A controlled long-term study with ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine ) in healthy, elderly volunteers: Results after three years.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; 1983 Sep Vol 31(9) 549-555
Analyzed the long-term effects of ergoloid mesylates (EMs) and placebo on 148 healthy elderly Ss (mean age 63 yrs) after 3 yrs of study. At that point, 99 Ss (53 receiving EMs and 46, placebo) were still being treated under double-blind conditions, while the remainder had either dropped out or continued to participate under open conditions. Many Ss in both groups were healthier after the 3 yrs than they had been at the onset of the study: Subjective symptoms such as tiredness/dizziness were reduced, performance on intelligence tests improved, and some abnormal laboratory values had normalized.

SPIVAK, D L
Linguistic typology of artificially induced states of altered consciousness: II.
Human Physiology; 1983 Jan-Feb Vol 9(1) 70-75
A continuation of the author's (see PA, Vol 71:22585) previous study indicates that the examination of linguistic correlates of altered states of consciousness induced by ketamine or insulin permits the differentiation of linguistic structures. These structures depend on the depth of the state, the character of autonomic regulation, and individual differences. The stage of mild confusion, which is characterized by a language structure based on signs and symbols, is discussed in terms of the control of natural intelligence and the development of artificial intelligence.

TOFFLER, ALVIN
A Frenzy of Nations
The Third Wave; Chapter 7, p 71
Abaco is an island. It has a population of sixty-five hundred and forms part of the Bahamas lying off the coast of Florida. Several years ago a group of American businessmen, arms merchants, free enterprise ideologues, a Black intelligence agent, and a member of the British House of Lords determined that it was time for Abaco to declare its independence. Their plan was to take over the island and break it away from the Bahamian government by promising each of the native residents of the island a free acre of land after the revolution. (This would have left over a quarter of a million acres for use by the real estate developers and investors behind the project.) The ultimate dream was the establishment on Abaco of a taxless utopia to which wealthy businessmen, dreading the Socialist apocalypse, might flee. Alas for free enterprise, the native Abaconians showed little inclination to throw off their chains, and the proposed new nation was stillborn.

HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS LEGAL IN FLORIDA - Miami Herald - 12-05-95 - Associated Press - Fort Pierce, Flordia - A judge has ruled that hallucinogenic mushrooms are not illegal because the law forbidding possession of the mind-expaning drug does not cover the fungus that produces it. Jeff Garland a Fort Pierce lawyer, pesuaded a St. Lucie County Circuit judge last week to throw out a mushroom charge against his client, citing a little-known Supreme Court decision. Garland said a 17-year old Florida Supreme Court ruling says that mere possession of the mushrooms is not unlawful. The high court, he said, ruled that the law prohibiting possession of psilocybin, a powerful hallucinogen, does not cover the fungus that yields it. Garland said the decision was indexed incorrectly in the Southern Reporter, the reference book that records all Supreme Court cases. "I stumbled across it when I was looking for something else," Garland said. "I just tucked it away, waiting for the day I'd need it." Psilocybin has been illegal since 1975. Since then, police have been arresting people possessing mushrooms, based on the psilocybin statute. The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that the "statute failed to advise a person of ordinary common intelligence that such substance was contained in a particular species of mushroom." The high court explained how the statues could be rewritten to apply to mushrooms, suggesting that it include the scientific name of the fungus. But 18 years later, the statues remains unchanged. "It would be a stretch of the imagination to say that the reason that the defendant trespassed on property and began to pick mushrooms from cow manure was to expand the color of his dinner salad." wrote prosecutor Tony Schwab in his memo to the court. But Circuit Judge Cynthia Angelos, citing the high court ruling, threw the case out. A sheriff's spokesman, Mark Weinberg, said 15 of the 17 people arrested on psilocybin charges also were charged with trespassing.