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It’s 12 Minutes to Midnight on April 16, 2010

Link for this Post: Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference, San Jose, California It’s ten minutes to midnight on April 16th, 2010.Sixty years ago, on April 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann, who readers of this blog have been introduced to with on numerous occasions, took a small dose of chemical he had synthesized five years earlier while investigating a series of chemicals that could be made starting with lysergic acid, one of many chemicals that made were found in ergot, a mold that grows on certain species of grass including rye. While my description of the late Dr. Hofmann’s act sounds perhaps Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Film has Fun with Fungi — Know Your Mushrooms — YouTube Clips

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Know Your Mushrooms DVD on Amazon

Know Your Mushrooms Showing October 4th on the Sundance Channel

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I just finished watching a documentary called Know Your Mushrooms which I recorded from a showing yesterday on the Sundance Channel. The documentary was made by director Ron Mann who is best known for his film Comic Book Confidential.

Much of the film was shot at the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival which is a Mecca for psychedelic fungiphiles. It explores many of the elaborate urban myths and theoretical speculations which have popped up like multiple Read more »

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Wandering Mindless — an Experimental, Visionary and Psychedelic Video by Larry Carlson

Link for this Post: embedded above WANDERING MINDLESS by Larry Carlson on Vimeo.

Back when I started this blog, I posted about Larry Carlson's Flash animation, Medijate.

More recently, Calson has been putting a lot of experimental, visionary and psychedelic high definition videos on the web.

The one featured above also deserves another adjective — trippy!

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By Bruce Eisner

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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