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Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey,... more

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Dock Ellis Pitches No-Hitter on LSD

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Inside LSD....New documentary on the latest important research studies on LSD's therapeutic benefits.

Excellent new documentary from National Geographic (yes you heard that right) on the... more

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Neon Fail

This sends quite the message.

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LSD Returns--For Psychotherapeutics: Scientific American

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Inside The Mind Of An LSD User

In the name of medical research, scientists analyzed the brain activity of individuals... more

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Inside The Mind Of An LSD User

In the name of medical research, scientists analyzed the brain activity of individuals... more

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Government's Prof Nutt: Ecstasy's safer the alcohol

The UK Government's chief drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt, has said ecstasy, LSD... more

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This is Your Brain On Drugs

National Geographic’s Explorer presents “Inside LSD” on Tuesday, November 3rd.... more

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LSD: Good For You? Possibly!

Test are under way in the U.S. and Britain to determine whether there really is... more

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A Bicycle Trip: Fantastic Images, Amazing Shapes and Kaleidoscopic Colors

“A Bicycle Trip” is an amazing award-winning short animation by three young... more

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Alicia Keys Has LSD for Captain Kirk

It's Friday!! Let's celebrate with some Top 5 Virals! Today we've got Alica Keys... more

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E-TARD The LifeCaster - outside on his Laptop

This is after I got my Laptop working with Flash, for a long time it would not work... more

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Addiction? Habit? Ritual? Obsession?

I have a friend who claims to be addicted to Facebook. She thought she could handle it when she first got started. She told herself that she could take it or leave it, that she would just poke around a bit on the weekends. Or maybe she would dip in when she had a little time to kill on the occasional quiet evening. Pretty soon she was only doing it on days that end with the letter “Y”. For hours. When she got in trouble at work, she started sneaking peeks at her updates on the iPhone. She misses out on live social engagements in order to stay home and farm her network. She says that she wants to take her involvement down a couple of notches, but she just doesn’t seem to be able to do it. She’s committed to limits and then fudged or outright broken them time and again. She thinks she might have to close her account to get a grip. So far, she hasn’t actually done it, though.

Into the Abyss by Spiffy SpaffySound familiar? I’ve been thinking a lot about behavioral attractors lately. What does it mean when I say that something is addictive, and what webwork of fine lines separate addiction, habituation, ritual, and obsession?............
What do I mean when I say that a person can’t stop? This is part of where the slippery free will issue comes in. I never watched any of the Saw horror movies, because I take a lot of drugs and that sort of thing always rebounds on me in the worst way. But let’s just imagine that I somehow got hold of like a hundred junkies and rigged a bomb on each one of them so that if he or she ever touched heroin again it would go off, okay? I know I know, that’s terrible and it wouldn’t work and obviously I’d never do that in real life, but play along with this as an illustration. If you prefer, let’s say the bombs are fake but the junkies don’t know that. Whatever. My thesis is that a few of the poor devils would eventually hit a spoke on their cycle where they caved in and shot up anyway. That’s the percentage who really can’t help it. There are those who really can’t stop. But I bet that quite a few of them would find a way to resist, even though they are clinically addicted.......
I go through phases in which I smoke a lot of pot, and there is an ongoing conversation between me and mine about the nature of my relationship with it. Smoking is kind of a ritual for me. It’s also a habit. I’m not going be a poseur and say that it’s always a sacrament. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not. But I do use it effectively as a transition ritual. It helps me to stand down from my work set, for instance, and spin up into the version of myself that I want to be at home. Once when I was super poor, I got one of those fake hollow cigarettes and I’d just take it out a few times a day and suck on it. Most of the time, it worked! I found it fascinating that the calming effect seemed to come from the ritual itself, not from the actions of the plant ally. In the same way, cigarettes serve a primarily ritualistic function for many users, which is not to say that they’re not physically addictive. There are just overlapping processes happening simultaneously. Same with coffee. Same with alcohol. Some people always come home and have a glass of wine to unwind from work. Is it addiction, habit, or ritual?............
My husband knows a girl who is an absolutely lovely person in every respect, so long as she does her meditation every single morning. Otherwise she’s a total raging bitch. I’m not exaggerating that much. It’s really obvious if she hasn’t done it. Isn’t that a crutch...........
Drugs are tools, people. They can hurt and they can heal. They can liberate and they can enslave. It’s true of Facebook and it’s true of love. The solution is clearly not to demonize everything that we find hard to resist. Instead, we have to start getting extremely sophisticated about these things in short order. Because the world isn’t going to get any less compelling any time soon.I have a friend who claims to be addicted to Facebook. She thought she could handle it... more