The T-zone

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.

Note that this isn't titled "principles of responsible drug use". If you just want to get fucked up or you're only trying to fit in and be cool, this really isn't what you're looking for. Hell, if you want to get high, you don't need to do much research... just go buy some weed and smoke it. Take my word for it. Just make sure you get it from a reputable source so you know it isn't laced.

This is not a guide on how to smoke pot.
This is not a step-by-step recipe for meth.
This is not persuasive writing.

This is for those of you who seek chemically altered states for spiritual revelation, personal insight, and the expansion of consciousness. This is a tool. This is not everything you need to know, but if you follow the links and know what you're doing, it can be.

"Entheogen" comes from the Greek "entheos" ("in God" or "inspired") and "genesthai" ("to cause to be"), and it literally means "to cause to be in God" or "to cause to be inspired." If you smoke marijuana because you want to gain insight on your life, you're using an entheogen. If you smoke marijuana because you want to get high, it's not an entheogen anymore... it's just a drug. All entheogens are drugs, but not all drugs are entheogens. It's like insects and bugs, or squares and rectangles.

There are guidelines to follow when you decide on a substance to use, guidelines to follow when you've decided on it, and guidelines to follow when you actually get around to using it. They're just guidelines, but your other options almost always equate to very nasty consequences. I read a report of a Datura trip gone terribly wrong in which the user woke up on a hospital bed while a catheter was being inserted. Don't be stupid. Most of these guidelines are just common sense - something which drug users are clearly lacking, made evident by the mind-boggling amounts of anti-drug propoganda and legislation floating around out there. If we had any common sense at all, marijuana would have been legalized ages ago - though it would still have been illegalized in the first place, based on the observation that our first drug czar was a bigot and that marijuana is really only illegal because blacks and Mexicans smoked it.

Anyway.

Choose a substance based on the effects you want. You'll find that marijuana makes a good entheogen for any occasion, however it's not always as strong as you'd like it to be, or maybe it has too much of one effect and not enough of another. Whatever the case may be, DO YOUR RESEARCH. See the links at the bottom of the article for good places to start.

After you've chosen a substance, follow these three guidelines throughout the whole experience:
Know your mind. Know your body. Know your substance.

All three are common sense, but all three are essential and they all depend on eachother. If you know your substance and your body but not your mind, you could wind up in a padded cell due to the paranoid schizophrenia you never knew you had because you never bothered to find out.

• Know your mind - more or less covered in that last sentence. You should be aware of your mental health and what your mind can take. You don't want to be shivering under a blanket in a dark room for 6 hours, laboring under the delusion that your soul has been torn from your body and sucked up into the eternal Void. Know your mental limits. A paranoid schizophrenic shouldn't really be dropping acid, right? If you have to hesitate when deciding whether or not you're in good mental health, get yourself evaluated. YOU ARE ALWAYS BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. Do not gamble with your mind.
• Know your body - this applies mostly to drugs with physical effects, but it's important for any substance. If you have tuberculosis, for instance, you probably don't want to smoke anything. Some entheogens' dosages depend heavily on body weight. Case in point: DXM. If you weigh 120 lbs., but you take 900 mg of DXM expecting a 2nd plateau trip because of an experience report you read from a 250 lb. professional athlete, well, that's a decision you'll probably regret. The best case scenario is that you'll hit a higher plateau than you were aiming for, have a good experience despite this, and learn something from it - aside from whatever insights of revelations you may gain. Of course, you might also have an experience you really don't like but be all right nevertheless. The worst case scenario is that you'll experience total mind-body dissociation and sustain extensive injuries because you had no idea what you were doing and you didn't have a trip sitter because you had only planned on a 2nd plateau trip. Know your physical limits, also... if you have a weak heart, anything with a strong stimulant effect is a bad idea.
• Know your substance - ALWAYS know what you're putting into your body, whether it's a drug, your lunch, or a multivitamin. If someone handed you a glass of thick black liquid that absolutely reeked of something that's clearly been dead for a sufficient amount of time and said "drink this," wouldn't you ask what's in it first? Why should this be any different? Knowing your substance is also important for dosing. If you take 20mg of 5-MeO-AMT, thinking it's just AMT, you're in deep shit. People have died from 5-MeO-AMT overdoses, and confusing it with "regular" AMT has really nasty consequences. ALWAYS know what you're putting into your body, no matter WHAT it is.

So you've got your substance and you're disgustingly well-informed about it. Not only that, you're incredibly acquainted with your mind and body. Now it's time to venture into the Land of Else.

If you've ever read any of my trip reports, you'll notice that the phrase, "turn on, tune in, drop out" appears throughout each one. This phrase was coined and popularized by Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D. a few years back and in the years since has been interpreted to apply to all sorts of things, from music to meditation to every day life. You can read it however you want, but it all boils down to this:
"Get high, learn something, come down."

If you really intend to use a substance as an entheogen, your trip should be something like this:

• Turn on - get high. Activate your mind and your body. After you take the substance, put yourself in a good environment. You might have a trip sitter depending on the substance and dose. Make sure everything is just right. Now sit back and wait for it to come on - if you want to notice it at first, anyway. I find that if I do something while I'm coming up, I get absorbed in my task and don't notice the gradual shift in perception until I'm already in another galaxy.
• Tune in - get familiar with the high. Explore your mind and body. How does movement feel? Can you even move at all? What's the first thing you see? Try to envision what it looks like while you're sober. What major differences do you notice? How do you perceive things, vs. how you perceive things while you're sober? Get comfortable with your state of mind. Now is where the entheogenic part comes in. Think about whatever it is you wanted the entheogen for in the first place. If you wanted insight on personal issues, meditate on them. If you wanted to grow in your spirituality, meditate on it. Keep in mind, by "meditate" I mean "think deeply." You don't have to get into a lotus position or anything, but THINK. Use your mind. Use your state of consciousness to your advantage.
• Drop out - what goes up must come down. In the words of Dr. Leary himself, "you can't stay high." You sought this altered state of consciousness for a purpose. Whether you achieved this purpose or not, you have to return to normal. People might start to notice if you've been tripping balls for a week. Whether they do or not, the point is that altered states of consciousness put everyone around you in immediate danger. Whether you smoked a joint, dropped a hit of acid, or had a few beers, I don't want you driving me home, PERIOD. If for no other reason, do it for everyone else. Hopefully, you're doing it because you achieved your purpose, or if not, because you recognize the need to return to normal before you try again.

After the fact: well, how were your travels? Did you enjoy them? Did you get anything out of the experience? Did you enjoy it? Remember what you learned. Write it down if you have to. Any knowledge you gain in a chemically altered state of mind is useless if you don't retain it.

If you feel compelled to do so, write a trip report. Be as specific as possible. Include your body weight, the substance used (along with the dose), your age, gender, the setting, and timestamps. Most are written in a T+x format, where T is the time you ingested the substance and x is how many minutes after said time the documented effect occured. If you want to, keep a notebook with you throughout the whole thing. Nobody wants to read about how "totally cooked" you were. Describe what you felt. List any side effects. If you don't know the exact times, approximate to the best of the ability. Write everything you'd want to see if you were reading a trip report before your first time on this substance.

On trip sitters: some substances cause the user to no longer be consciousness of his or her body (dissociation). Do some research. If you think you might become severely dissociated, get a trip sitter - someone who will remain completely sober, reassure you throughout the experience should things take a wrong turn, and who can, if absolutely necessary, physically restrain you. It's helpful if they've used the substance you're using before, but by no means necessary. It's most important that they can restrain you. The substance most commonly used with a sitter is Salvia divinorum... in fact, someone "breaking through" (which essentially means becoming severely dissociated, as though the mind has completely left the body and gone to another universe) without a trip sitter - or at least, intending to break through without a trip sitter - is virtually unheard of. You should also have a sitter for high doses of DXM (based on your body weight, obviously - if you way 250 lbs., a low dose for you is a high dose for someone who weighs 120 lbs.). You'll know whether or not you need a sitter.

Links:
Erowid - everything I need to know about drugs I learned on Erowid... well, almost all of it, anyway. Erowid has basics, effects lists, photographs, trip reports, possible complications... a vast amount of important information on just about every psychoactive substance under the sun. Erowid can help you choose your substance and take the proper precautions (such as deciding on whether or not to use a sitter).

Wikipedia - Wikipedia is absolutely amazing. If you want to know about ANYTHING, just type it in the search box and it's almost guaranteed to have an article. If it doesn't, you can start one - that's the beauty of Wikipedia. If you try a chemical that doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, you can write the article yourself - or start writing it yourself at any rate. Everyone can contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia.

Temple of the Screaming Electron (Totse) - Totse has a decent drugs section, but the most accurate, informational part of the site (as far as mind-altering substances go) is the Better Living Through Chemistry forums on the BBS. Search through the BLTC archives and see if there's any information on your substance. If there's not, ask about it - but please, for your sake, use some common sense. If you've gotten this far, you probably know what's a stupid question and what isn't. Think before you ask. "I heard that some guy accidentally drank 1000 hits of acid and went insane" is going to get you laughed at and flamed.

Hope this helps.

Here's a paper my friend Mike wrote about those strange psychoactive plants in the Cannabis genus. Enjoy, readers, enjoy.

Cannabis: The Truth Behind the Bullshit

The real facts the whole legal and capital system doesn’t want you to
know about this wonder drug/cure-all.

To start off, I will state the real reason why it was made illegal by
the so beloved United States Government; money. The united states
pharmaceutical companies earn about 20-30% of the government’s annual
income. While before the major companies came out and the harsh,
uncalled for drug laws came into effect, the number of marijuana users
which used it for a medicine was 50%. Thus proving that if marijuana
was mass produced and made legal the pharmaceutical companies would take
a massive hit. This is based on a study conducted by sociologists. If
you don’t believe me, then look it up. The medicinal value of cannabis
is beyond all medications used today. All of the medications today,
synthesized by researchers all have some defect which makes them
uncomfortable for a lot of people. Side-effects from the
anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication are quite utterly horrible
for a lot of people. Some experience stomach problems, numbness of
emotions, and a withdrawal effect which borders on an opiate withdrawal.
Why are these drugs still on the market? Ones which can induce painful
emotional difficulties while labeled to treat the very same? Money, of
course. Synthetic drugs are very expensive and the money they drag in
is what lines the pockets of government workers and leaders. But beside
the money, it is also used for control. To control the nation a little
more and this is done with anti-marijuana propaganda and scare tactics.
Scare tactics imposed on everyone. Kids get the frontal assault from
anti-drug programs like DARE, and adults by TV commercials and other
media factors. The government wouldn’t make money if it was legal to
grow, buy, possess, etc. Now you know why it was made illegal. Now to
dispel those lies and myths which try to scare people into complying...

The first myth is the myth about brain cell destruction. A study
performed by Dr. Robert Heath in the 1970’s was used as a main scare
tactic of the DEA in order to scare people away from it. In this study,
the “scientist” used rhesus monkeys and exposed them to constant air
containing marijuana smoke. This nearly suffocated the monkeys, due to
the excessive amounts of smoke which was used, incomparable to the
amount normally smoked by a human. The study was thrown out by the
scientific community. Recent studies have shown that cannabis does not
cause brain cell damage whatsoever. First myth busted. The second myth
is that cannabis damages the reproductive system. DEA scientists, using
the same suffocation “technique”, determined that it does. These claims
were also thrown out, and in another recent study of a population there
was no change in reproductive function. Another myth is that marijuana
is a gateway drug. Holland is a good example of how this is untrue;
when marijuana was made legal in Holland, heroin users dropped by 30%.
Nothing further. Furthermore, cannabis only affects the memory of the
user when he or she is under the effects. This is gone within 3 hours
after smoking. They also say that THC, the active chemical in
marijuana, stays within the body for months and can still get you high.
Untrue, the body metabolizes the THC into other compounds which have no
effect. These compounds are stored in fat cells. This is why officers
are able to detect it in urine, hair, etc. There is no possible way to
overdose on marijuana, because once a user is satisfied he stops. No
one has ever died from smoking, or consuming cannabis in any way. Many
others exist, and are also false. It has no impact on the immune system
or any other system besides the lungs because smoking anything isn’t
good for the lungs. Except that cannabis can be used as an expectorant
which clears the lungs. It also increases blood flow to the brain,
lowers pressure in the eyes, almost completely stops nausea and
vomiting, controls depression and anxiety, and makes the user overall
more friendly and easygoing.

On a final note, hemp, which is the stalk of the cannabis plant, is also
illegal. It is much more environmentally conscious than tree paper, can
be used to make clothing which is better than cotton because it
replenishes the soil and can grow in the same spot forever. The seeds
are a significant source of amino acids and protein, and roughage. And
it’s clean burning fuel. Oil which can be made from the stalks of the
cannabis plant can be used to power cars thus cutting emissions by
70-90%. But, if it was legal, the oil companies would go out of
business too. Funny how Cheney and Bush own shares in oil companies...


Disclaimer: This is a factual sheet; in no way do I encourage the use
of illegal substances. But why the hell should they be illegal? Money,
that’s why. Greed, and envy and all of which makes humanity evil and
controlling and weak.

Let’s learn from our sisters, the cannabis plants.
And to quote Bill Hicks: “It’s not a war on drugs; it’s a war on
personal freedom.”
Thank you.

Note: Just so I don't look too much like Bill O'Reilly, this post is NOT solely dedicated to the comment I received on my anarchy article. In fact, normally I wouldn't have even posted mindless drivel like this, but it gives me an excuse to rant about something I've wanted to rant about forever. Now then, on to the article.

"ur a major dumbass"
Posted by Anonymous on my anarchy article.

Well, that hurts. That really hurts. It tears me up inside every time some dipshit who thinks they understand anarchy calls me a "major dumbass".

At least I understand what I'm talking about you stupid prick.

Seriously, I don't see how any of you could possibly appreciate anarchy. In a real anarchy you'd be at the very bottom of the food chain, because everyone else would have all the guns, money, brains, and hot chicks as a result. The Unabomber Manifesto is something you could all do with reading. In it you will find outlined what really made Theodore Kaczynski tick. You really should also have a deeper understanding of who he was, in which case I recommend you read the Rotten Library's Unabomber article. With hardly any effort, you can find all the information you could ever want about anarchy... or just about anything, for that matter. After all, if the Internet has room for all those popups, ad banners, emo kids, fat old men masquerading as hot 19-year-old college girls, and really creepy fetish sites, surely it has room for some information about whatever it is you're looking for.

Come on, this isn't rocket science... or brain surgery, or quantum physics, or vector mathematics, or... oh, hell, this isn't even as hard as turning on your fucking television - although with the rapidly increasing number of buttons on the average remote control, I won't really doubt any claims that turning on the television is harder than rocket science, brain surgery, quantum physics, and vector mathematics combined. Couple that with programming a VCR and even Albert Einstein would get frustrated.

Anyway, that was a roundabout way of saying it, but my whole point was that finding information online is the easiest thing under the sun. Seriously, if you have enough time on your hands to talk about anarchy, you have enough time to research it before you start shooting off your uneducated mouth.

I don't know why you'd even HAVE to do any research before you say anything remotely intelligent about anarchy. Just think about it for a second. Would it REALLY be that great to have NO AUTHORITY AT ALL? Keep this phrase in mind: "Survival of the fittest." It means we get to eat you first.

Not only that, it means that handgun you keep in your basement "just in case" is useless against the assault weapons that everyone else has. In case you haven't forgotten, just because full-auto weapons are banned in the US doesn't mean Kalashnikov isn't still functional.

The bottom line is this: anyone who honestly believes that anarchy is the best solution is probably a fucking idiot. If you're not doing it to be trendy, you're doing it to be anti-authoritarian, which is just as bad anyway. If everyone was as intelligent as Henry David Thoreau, maybe, JUST MAYBE, we could pull off an anarchy.

As it stands, the average IQ is 100, abhorrent abbreviations such as "LOL", "BRB" and "Kthx" have crept into everyday usage (courtesy of America Online), and Funyons have their own Wikipedia entry.

True story: AOL has mysterious properties that alter a computer's electromagnetic fields to cause each user's IQ to drop by 30 points every time they log on.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/15/MNGADG88HB1.DTL

RIP John Lennon
October 9th, 1940 - December 8th, 1980

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Gorilla Exchange

This is going to be the next MySpace, mark my words. In a year or two, everyone will have an account and every teenager in the world will be posting videos of themselves skateboarding.

It's actually quite depressing.

Up In Smoke: The Truth About Marijuana
     Marijuana, a term referring to the dried leaves and flowering tops of the cannabis plant, is commonly sought recreationally for its mind-altering and intoxicating properties.  Marijuana is currently illegal in the US, and some popular negative claims about it are that it causes brain damage, suppresses the immune system, and harms short-term memory.  Some of these claims are completely false, while others are simply misleading.  Not only is marijuana safe, it has incredible medicinal properties, and its legal status in the United States should certainly be reconsidered.
     Probably the biggest myth surrounding marijuana is that it causes brain damage.  Actually, not only does marijuana not cause brain damage, it lowers free-radical action in the brain, thereby protecting brain cells.  In addition, a recent study by Hebrew University shows that cannabinoids (the active chemicals in marijuana) actually promote brain cell growth (Jiang et al.).  A synthetic cannabinoid, called HU-210, has been developed specifically for this purpose.
     The reason marijuana is thought to cause brain damage is because of a study conducted by Dr. Robert Heath, who claimed that heavy exposure to cannabis caused brain damage in rhesus monkeys.  His study, however, can be determined invalid on the basis of a sample size that was far too small (four monkeys) and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structures as “damaged”.  Subsequent studies conducted on rats by Dr. William Slikker showed changes in hippocampus brain structures with chronic exposure to THC.  This does not prove that marijuana kills brain cells; rather, it proves that tetrahydrocannabinol is capable of weakening nerve connections between brain cells in rats.  Due to the more recent study showing cannabinoids to promote neurogenesis, Dr. Slikker’s results can be safely written off as inconclusive.  Furthermore, previous studies by Dr. Slikker on rhesus monkeys failed to show structural or neurochemical changes in the monkeys’ brains after smoking had ceased (Slikker, Jr. et al.).
     Marijuana can impair short-term memory, but this claim is severely misleading.  Memory is only affected while cannabinoids are present in the body – in other words, for the duration of the “high”.  When the experience ends and the user is “sober” once again, short-term memory returns to normal.  This claim is often stated in conjunction with the notion that marijuana kills brain cells, suggesting that the memory is permanently damaged, which is entirely false.  Marijuana has no permanent negative effects on the human brain.
     The first point to disprove the claim that marijuana depresses the immune system is just common sense.  The human body produces its own cannabinoids – endogenous cannabinoids, or just endocannabinoids, called CB1 and CB2.  Receptors for these cannabinoids are found all over the brain and body.  The receptors are where the second point in the immune system argument comes from.  CB2 receptors are found mostly in the immune system, most of them being in the spleen.  CB2 is produced naturally as an anti-inflammatory, and its receptors are responsible for most of the therapeutic effects of cannabis.  In addition to aiding the immune system, cannabinoids act as regulators for processes essential to life. (“Cannabinoids”)
     Far from being simply harmless, however, cannabinoids are incredibly therapeutically potent and can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions. (“What Every Doctor Should Know About Cannabinoids”)  The production of the endocannabinoid anandamide in rats increases when they’re put under stress.  This implies that cannabinoids serve as stress-reducers.  This factor obviously carries over to humans, based on the observation that many people use marijuana to reduce stress or relax.  Anandamide also hinders the growth of certain cancers in rats.  Anandamide can be found not only in the brains of humans and other mammals, but also in cocoa beans, and consequently in chocolate.  
Anandamide has been nicknamed the “bliss molecule” because of its potent status as a mood elevator.  It also binds to vanilloid receptors – the same receptors that capsaicin (the compound that produces the burning sensation associated with foods such as chili peppers) binds to.  In this way, it acts as an anesthetic, causing the receptor to signal analgesia rather than pain.  
Anandamide is also active in the amygdala, where memory of fear and pain resides.  In this way, the effacement of unpleasant memories is regulated by endocannabinoids.  These compounds are used by the body to reduce stress, elevate mood, relieve pain, and cancel negative memories.  
In addition to the positive effects of endogenous cannabinoids, the cannabinoids found in marijuana (called herbal cannabinoids) have their own therapeutic properties.  Cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, is an effective anti-convulsant and anti-inflammatory.  In addition, it reduces the presence of free radicals in the brain, thereby protecting brain cells.
Many cannabinoids in marijuana bind to the same receptors as anandamide, thus producing similar results. (Joy, et al. 137-180)  Cannabinoids can relieve pain caused by a wide range of factors and are especially effective in the relief of migraine headaches.  Cannabinoids can also be used as antidepressants and in the treatment of epileptic seizures.  Because CB1 receptors are abundant in the basal ganglia, cannabinoids can be used to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease.
It’s been suggested that cannabinoids can be used to treat Tourette’s syndrome because of its status in the basal ganglia, but there isn’t enough evidence to support this hypothesis (only four cases of marijuana use reducing tics in Tourette’s patients, but only four reports of marijuana being used to treat Tourette’s for that matter).  However, cannabinoids are highly likely to be useful in the treatment of Tourette’s syndrome not only because they could reduce tics, but also because of their anxiolytic properties.
Marijuana’s most practical medical application is AIDS and cancer patients.  It provides relief for pain, experienced by AIDS patients and patients undergoing cancer therapy.  It relieves nausea, associated with cancer therapy and AIDS, and is an appetite stimulant, serving to relieve the wasting and appetite loss that occurs in those suffering from AIDS or cancer.
Plenty of other negative claims have been made about marijuana, most of which are false.  It doesn’t damage the reproductive system; however, high doses of tetrahydrocannabinol temporarily impair the functioning of the reproductive system.  Subjects in related studies returned to normal within 30 days.
Marijuana is not an addictive drug.  While a very small percentage of users become habituated, physical addiction does not occur.  Withdrawal symptoms are extremely mild even compared to those of caffeine, and include restlessness, irritability, and fatigue. (Joy, et. al 84)
Marijuana is the safest therapeutically active drug known to man.  Its potential side effects far outweigh its benefits.  It can be used to treat Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, epilepsy, glaucoma, arthritis, depression, inflammation, pain, and migraine headaches – just to name a few – and all with fewer negative side effects than drugs currently used for the same purposes.  Marijuana also protects brain cells and even promotes their growth.  In addition to its therapeutic effects, marijuana is a safer recreational drug than alcohol.  At least 85,000 deaths in the year 2000 alone can be attributed to alcohol (Mokdad, et al.).  There has not been one single recorded case of someone dying from marijuana poisoning.  Marijuana has incredible therapeutic properties, and its legal status in the United States should certainly be reconsidered.

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Joy, Janet E., Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., ed. Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base.

Mokdad, Ali H., PhD, James S. Marks, MD, MPH, Donna F. Stroup, PhD, MSc, Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH, "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 2004, Vol. 291, No. 10, pp. 1238, 1241. <http://www.csdp.org/research/1238.pdf>.

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