This is a "historical" snapshot of one of the finest "early" drug sites on the net. This page is no longer maintained, and most of the information at this site can be found at the Lycaeum, which is an actively maintained drug server!
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At this library of altered states of consciousness, you'll find:
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The Natural Highs FAQ and Growing the Hallucinogens -- Exotic and mostly legal hallucinogenic and intoxicating plants -- how to grow them, how to use them, and their historical and cultural background. Check out our Plants pages for how to grow 'em, what they look like, where you can order 'em, and what it'll cost you. |
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| The Sputnik Magic Mushroom Pages -- Quite possibly the best resource on the net for the magic mushroom cultivator and/or hunter. Growing guides and field guides -- all nicely hypertextualized and illustrated. |  |
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The Sputnik Cannabis Pages -- Hypertext growers' guides and other information about Cannabis the plant. |
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| The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Library -- Information on pre-prohibition cannabis use and knowledge. Includes the complete texts of Ludlow's "The Hasheesh Eater," DeQuincey's opium confessions, and many other literary, scientific and journalistic descriptions of drug use in the 19th Century. |  |
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"LSD - My Problem Child" by Albert Hofmann -- The original synthesizer of LSD tells the story of the birth and early childhood of this amazing substance. |
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| Chemical Extraction from Plants -- A series of reports instructing the kitchen chemist in extracting DMT, LAA, harmine/harmaline, psilocybin/psilocin, mescaline and other fun substances from their plant sources. |  |
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The Methylamine FAQ -- Having
a hard time finding methylamine? Make your own! The
Psychedelic Kitchen Chemistry guide |
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Mind Food of the Gods -- Works by and about meme juggler and apocalyptic neurotransient Terence McKenna. |
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| The "Blue Star" LSD Tattoo Urban Legend Page. Are drug dealers hooking school-kids on drug-laced cartoon tattoos? Naah. But the legend won't die. |  |
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Our incipient consciousness-studies section, with links to the most promising theories in consciousness research, artificial intelligence theory, observer dependence in quantum theory, Gödel's theorem and its relationship to systems of belief, the mind/body problem, the physical mechanisms or correlates of hallucination, and that sort of funky shit.
Gracie and Zarkov's hard-core experimentation into altered states of consciousness and visionary plants.
Carl believes that trip intensity increases in discrete jumps as dosage increases, and describes the levels of psychedelia by giving examples from his own trips.
- On Travels in the Universe of the
Soul by Rudolf Gelpke.
- Valley of the Nerds
by Walter Kirn, from GQ Magazine, July 1991.
- Programming and Metaprogramming in
the Human Biocomputer by John Lilly.
- Psychedelic Experience and Spiritual
Practice: A Buddhist Perspective, an interview with Jack
Kornfield.
- Ayahuasca use in the Santo Daime
Religion
Harbinger and Happenstance
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
- Proemium, by Jonathan Ott, from Pharmacotheon.
- The Use of Psychedelics in Dutch Psychiatry 1950-1970: The Problem of Continuity and Discontinuity by Stephen Snelders.
- Towards a Rhetorical Genealogy of the War on Drugs by B.A. Attias.
- Huston Smith, thinking allowed -- a transcript from a television series, discussing religion and psychedelics.
Harbinger and Happenstance
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
Proemium, by Jonathan Ott, from Pharmacotheon.
The Use of Psychedelics in Dutch Psychiatry 1950-1970: The Problem of Continuity and Discontinuity by Stephen Snelders.
Towards a Rhetorical Genealogy of the War on Drugs by B.A. Attias.
Huston Smith, thinking allowed -- a transcript from a television series, discussing religion and psychedelics.
How can help make this free, on-line, hypertextual encyclopedia of practical information on altered states of consciousness even better.
Our growing collection of dope humor. Includes the vintage drugsploitation comic book "Holiday of Horrors!"
The hot list of your pipe dreams.
Basic advice on how to avoid Imperial entanglements.
- We also have the Elvis Little Erotic Literature Collection. Oddly, about 1/5 of our HTTP requests are for these documents. Must be a lot of perverts out there. :-)
- Postcards from
Amsterdam -- an exhibit.
- What is nepenthes anyway?
- Read about our trip to Amsterdam, where we took in the High Times Cannabis Cup, November 22-25, 1995.
- Try out our Search Engine Shortcut Page.
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