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Under the Influence — YouTube Exerpt from Forthcoming Documentary About Drugs

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Back in October 2007, I sat down for a wide ranging interview with a young filmmaker named Colby Dennis from Nobuddy Productions. He and his crew were in the process of interviewing for a documentary called "Under the Influence" which would  examine the drug war including its origin, effects and i implications on our culture.

Colby later ended the scope to a three part film with sections titled "Western Culture and the American Perception", "The Faux Freedom of Drug Policy and an third, Shamanism, Healing, and Alternative Implications.

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Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine.

This is a wide ranging article about “smart drug’s” that covers a set of topics much broader than its title would suggest. Rather than excerpt one section and have you read the article. I will list a few of the highlights and then let you read it.

Recently introduced attention enhancing drugs such as Provigal and Modafinil Current and future memory enhancement drugs including a group called the ” ampakines” The creativity enhancing qualities of psychedelic compounds transcranial magnetic Read more »

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ecstasy the mdma story

Bruce’s Book: Ecstasy The MDMA Story

MDMA also known as ecstasy is a little pill that changed my life in a big way. Twenty years ago, I wrote the first book ever published about Ecstasy: the mind changing chemical called MDMA. When I wrote the book, Ecstasy was legal and so I know a lot about its effects on people from first hand experience. The book is called Ecstasy: the MDMA Story by Bruce Eisner and it was first printed in 1989 and I did another edition in 1993. Ecstasy The MDMA Story. was thehe first comprehensive overview of a drug which had been legal until 1985. I was Read more »

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Eleusinian & Neo-Eleusinian Mysteries: The History & Future of LSD – Bruce Eisner Video

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I’ve been working with my video library recently and uploaded almost 2 hours of a talk I gave at the 2001 International Conference on Altered States in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the talk, I develop for the first time the idea for the potential use of LSD in which its use is combined with a variety of other psychological techniques and technologies which I call the Neo-Eleusinian Mysteries.

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