quintessence

The author of Psychedelics Encyclopedia, Peter Stafford, died on July 20, 2007.

(via Bruce Eisner)

 According to an article on the website of Shayana Head Shop:

After a few incidents with tourists taking magic mushrooms in Amsterdam the Dutch government wants to ban magic mushroom. However, it seems now that all these incidents were completely unrelated to mushrooms. Nevertheless, the government is still thinking about making magic mushrooms illegal and will decide on the matter this Friday.

(thanks, joan) 

SAMSAH conducted a survey among 128.000 people on drug-usage. The results are online.

.... or something like that.

According to this story from KCBA, Monterey Sheriff’s Deputies:

• "pulled-up thousands of pot plants from a ranch in Carmel Valley owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch."
• "say Murdoch’s employees stumbled upon the illegal gardens and called authorities."
• "say a man had been illegally camping on the property to grow the dope. "

[John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar] said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.

.... the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort.

I wonder what the NRA thinks about another of Walters' statements: "These people are armed; they're dangerous, [..], violent criminal terrorists."

Read more at http://www.redding.com/news/2007/jul/13/drug-czar-gives-warning/.

The French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFTD) released a report on cannabis consumption and cultivation in France.

(via ENCOD's eurodrug-list)