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However there is a very interesting study that took place in Leipzig about 15 years ago. Jochen Gartz, a mushroom explorer whom I know quite well, has done some fascinating studies with Psilocybe species by raising them on solid media containing strange tryptamines that are alien to the mushroom. Apparently the enzymes that are responsible for the 4-hydroxy group of psilocin are indifferent to what it is they choose to 4-hydroxylate. He has taken things like DPT or DIPT and put them in the growth media and the fruiting bodies that came out contain 4-hydroxy-DPT or 4-hydroxy-DIPT instead of psilocin.

nothing different than what the organized crime people will do... well except they kill everyone, the Feds are not at that level yet.

In something reminiscent of The Prisoner, the CIA threw a former LSD researcher out of a hotel window when he told his colleagues that he wanted to quit his job because of ethical issues dealing with his research. Although the CIA denied the claims (and the referenced URL doesn't get into details), there is evidence that contradicts the CIA's claim that he committed suicide by jumping out of the window. In fact the forensic evidence indicated that he was thrown out of the window (according to the American Justice account). "Frank Olson's body was exhumed in 1994, and cranial injuries indicated Olson had been knocked unconscious before exiting the window." (Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA).

Though that is just one account that was made public and that the CIA denies (even though the government eventually awarded the family financial damages).

If you want to experience it, dislocate your elbow and go to hospital. They'll give you a nice pill, you'll scream while they manhandle your arm back into position, and five minutes later you won't remember any of it. I've not experienced it, but I've relocated a fair few arms. Its funny when the people wake up and ask when your going to start.

The drug the parent is taking about is commonly called propranolol. Visit http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/memory_drugs_sd.html for an interesting read about how exactly it works and its long term effects (minus the journalist bullshit)

History of MDMAs scheduling -> http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/dll/mdma_schedulin g_history.htm

"Why should psychedelics be illegal? Why SHOULDN'T they?" WHY? Why the FUCK does the gov have the right to tell ME what I can do with MY BODY? Yeah, that's right bitch. Nothing wrong with drinking, which kills quite a few brain cells, causes hundreds of deaths weekly, causes liver damage et al, yet psychedelics are illegal which have no addictive qualities and are nearly impossible to overdose on. What bullshit.

The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that extraterrestrial life should be common. Considering this with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi is said to have asked: "Where are they?" Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as probes, spacecraft or radio transmissions has not been found. The simple question "Where are they?" (alternatively, "Where is everybody?") is possibly apocryphal, but Fermi is widely credited with simplifying and clarifying the problem of the probability of extraterrestrial life.

Okay then. Many people have pointed out the numerous and embarrassing flaws in this logic, but I really don't think Fermi was being stupid or ignorant at the time he posited his question. It was the 50's, after all, and people trusted their government. People did not yet grasp how the world worked with regard to government secrecy and population thought control. From our stance today, we have a great deal of available insight into this; we know about Joseph Goebbels, we know that advertising is incredibly effective, we know that the strobe effect of Television puts the human brain into a highly suggestive state. We know that what you teach kids at a young age shapes them for life. And if we dig deeper, we know that the human brain is easily manipulated in far more disgusting ways; (Greebaum).

It is easy to control people's beliefs. Churches have done it for centuries. For those who reject religious dogma, the media picks up the ball; ie, replace 'religion' with 'cult of science'. Real scientists don't care about embarrassment or being laughed at; they can't afford to because at some point every new and important idea posited by a scientist is going to be ridiculed and attacked by the layperson. So those who fear to talk about UFO's in an open manner, without any trace of fear or bias or mocking doubt in their tones, are not really scientists. They are just another brand of dogmatist.

As I've said, it is easy to control people's beliefs, --and by extension, their perceived realities.

So continuing Fermi's logic. . , If logic implies that the Milky Way is teeming with life, then perhaps it IS, and perhaps there is another reason we have not heard from that life.

Consider: There are UFO's constantly buzzing our skies. We have seen hundreds and hundreds of crop circles. We have countless reports from people who claim abduction experiences.

How can any rational person live in the same world as all of this and insist that there is no evidence? That's kind of strange. Crop circles are the perfect example; they are there in a manner which is available to anybody, (One recalls the old complaint of the sceptic, "I'll believe it when there is some evidence layed at my feet!"), they cannot be rationalized away; (the Ropes and Planks explanation falls hopelessly short when you get close enough to actually look at the details of the problem.) And yet, the world carries on as though nothing were happening.

It reminds me of a Douglas Adams creation; a system of invisibility where rather than bend light, you bend minds. --So that people ignore like crazy that which is right in front of them.

Aliens are already here, and they have been for centuries. The logic, if expanded to include this, might want to ask this little question...

How much effort do humans make to communicate with the cattle they raise? (As above, so below.)

Well, we've got the crop circle side of the equation. But we also have the abduction side. There are two different approaches to anyt

-FL

...Or they could just give them MDMA

Imagine if this immersive techneque really worked, and they tried it for other things; some how I don't think they would get away with showing rape PTSD victims Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend

MDMA (better known as "ecstacy"), is currently being studied for exactly this purpose:

http://www.maps.org/mdma/
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/maps_mdmaprot ocol_approved.htm
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_research 4.shtml

So it looks like the drugs have actually won the "War on Drugs"...:)

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

For starters, there is the ongoing medical marijuana debate. A bunch of states currently allow for the use of medical marijuana in their state. Federal law still has marijuana in the Schedule I category which means it has no medical use, so feds arrest users.
Medical marijuana is an easy one, as so many medical organizations support it.

The current drug czar also uses federal funds to campaign and lobby against drug laws reform at the state level.

The federal government also recently passed a spending bill which "would take away federal grants from local and state transportation authorities that allow citizens to run advertising on buses, trains, or subways in support of reforming our nation's drug laws".

Here is a quote from an article regarding assisted suicide, and the federal government's attempts to stop it by invoking drug laws: "Ashcroft... invoked the federal Controlled Substances Act, a law aimed at drug traffickers, and threatened to use it against physicians who prescribe drugs to help patients end their lives."

There are many other arguments to stop the drug war of course.. our constitution gives us the right to freedom of speech, which presupposes freedom of thought. Many drugs allow us to change how we think, so they should not be banned by the government. The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics makes this argument, which I personally find quite compelling.

I'm glad you asked this question, and hope I have given you some ideas to think about.

Hm. I thought everybody knew about how television affects people on a physiological basis.

Basically, the 60 cycles per second flicker of a CRT screen has a measurable (via EEG) hypnotic effect on the viewer.

I did a quick look around for you, and here are a couple of articles which seem to cover the basics. . .

Essay with numerous details and references.

And, here.

And a page with some research foot notes here.

This is a pretty amazing subject and I honestly thought everybody knew about it and simply made the choice to zone out regardless. But then again, I guess they don't go to much effort to teach this through the television media, eh? There appears to be a story or two of researchers having their funding cut when they began to come up with boat-rocking results.

-FL

The difference is that these troublesome drugs are self-administered. Legislate against that and you've a problem. But this is something that would be used on others.

Think - you're not going to apply this chemical to make you more trusting, it'll be used on others. It's a chemical assault and should be illegal.

An interesting place to find debate on this sort of stuff is here

A year or two ago the New York Times had a neat article titled Savant for a Day about research by Prof. Allan Snyder. Basically, he uses a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to temporarily induce savant-like symptoms in volunteers. The journalist writing the story also acted as a volunteer, and experienced greatly-increased drawing ability while the device was turned on.

From the article:

As remarkable as the cat-drawing lesson was, it was just a hint of Snyder's work and its implications for the study of cognition. He has used TMS dozens of times on university students, measuring its effect on their ability to draw, to proofread and to perform difficult mathematical functions like identifying prime numbers by sight. Hooked up to the machine, 40 percent of test subjects exhibited extraordinary, and newfound, mental skills. That Snyder was able to induce these remarkable feats in a controlled, repeatable experiment is more than just a great party trick; it's a breakthrough that may lead to a revolution in the way we understand the limits of our own intelligence -- and the functioning of the human brain in general.

Snyder's work began with a curiosity about autism. Though there is little consensus about what causes this baffling -- and increasingly common -- disorder, it seems safe to say that autistic people share certain qualities: they tend to be rigid, mechanical and emotionally dissociated. They manifest what autism's great ''discoverer,'' Leo Kanner, called ''an anxiously obsessive desire for the preservation of sameness.'' And they tend to interpret information in a hyperliteral way, using ''a kind of language which does not seem intended to serve interpersonal communication.'' ...

In a 1999 paper called ''Is Integer Arithmetic Fundamental to Mental Processing? The Mind's Secret Arithmetic,'' Snyder and D. John Mitchell considered the example of an autistic infant, whose mind ''is not concept driven. . . . In our view such a mind can tap into lower level details not readily available to introspection by normal individuals.'' These children, they wrote, seem ''to be aware of information in some raw or interim state prior to it being formed into the 'ultimate picture.''' Most astonishing, they went on, ''the mental machinery for performing lightning fast integer arithmetic calculations could be within us all.''

And so Snyder turned to TMS, in an attempt, as he says, ''to enhance the brain by shutting off certain parts of it.''

It's quite possible.. and depending on the organization pass or failure might be dependent on a negative result.

A slate of the myriad deep-running issues and their implications on our freedom and society are discussed at
the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics.

Here is a site that has been looking at this issue, among others in similar field for some years now. Among others, freedom of thought and pharmacotherapy (drugs used in therapy that "disable" the brains ability to get high off illicit drugs) are in discussion. http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/

Mercury in your flu shot. . .
--Mercury in vaccines

Food. . .
Back in 1991, the first Food Pyramid Guide was slated for release in the U.S. This was delayed because of the outcry from various sectors in agriculture. The guide was re-designed by politicians and released the following year.

"When our version of the Food Guide came back to us revised, we were shocked to find that it was vastly different from the one we had developed. As I later discovered, the wholesale changes made to the guide by the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture were calculated to win the acceptance of the food industry. [. . .]

"Where we, the USDA nutritionists, called for a base of 5-9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day, it was replaced with a paltry 2-3 servings (changed to 5-7 servings a couple of years later because an anti-cancer campaign by another government agency, the National Cancer Institute, forced the USDA to adopt the higher standard). Our recommendation of 3-4 daily servings of whole-grain breads and cereals was changed to a whopping 6-11 servings forming the base of the Food Pyramid as a concession to the processed wheat and corn industries. Moreover, my nutritionist group had placed baked goods made with white flour -- including crackers, sweets and other low-nutrient foods laden with sugars and fats -- at the peak of the pyramid, recommending that they be eaten sparingly. To our alarm, in the "revised" Food Guide, they were now made part of the Pyramid's base."

-Luise Light, Ed.D former USDA architect of the original version of the Food Pyramid.

--1992 Food Pyramid corrupted by USDA and Agricultural interestes

Cell Phone EM. . .

This one is a huge subject, with many studies I might reference. Anybody who wants to learn about it can do so quite easily these days. This article is a reasonably well-written piece I chose for it's capacity to communicate the basic elements of how microwave EM can affect human physiology and psychology. It is not the final word on this subject by any means. Further investigation is up to you.

Television. . .

Television has a powerful impact on the way the brain functions. Nobody argues the fact. Here is one quote which sums it up neatly. . .

"High levels of chaotic brain activity are present during challenging tasks like reading, writing, and working mathematical equations in your head. They are not present while watching TV. Levels of brain activity are measured by an electroencenograph (EEG) machine. While watching television, the brain appears to slow to a halt, registering low alpha wave readings on the EEG. This is caused by the radiant light produced by cathode ray technology within the television set. Even if you're reading text on a television screen the brain registers low levels of activity. Once again, regardless of the content being presented, television essentially turns off your nervous system."

--Article found here

Here is a larger data base of information on this subject.

So. . .

I know my first pos

A group in the US, the Center for Cogntive Liberty & Ethics just published a report earlier this month called "Pharmacotherapy and the Future of the Drug War" that predicted the entrance of compulsory "vaccines" against illicit drugs. It details exactly what these drugs are, who's testing them (Big Pharma) and who's funding it (NIDA). The report is available for free as a pdf .

A group in the US, the Center for Cogntive Liberty & Ethics just published a report earlier this month called "Pharmacotherapy and the Future of the Drug War" that predicted the entrance of compulsory "vaccines" against illicit drugs. It details exactly what these drugs are, who's testing them (Big Pharma) and who's funding it (NIDA). The report is available for free as a pdf .

You can be on morphine all your life with little physical damage - True

but if you go off it the withdrawal can kill you - False. It makes you feel deathly sick, but it is only a feeling. People only die during heroin withdrawal if they are already very unhealthy for other reasons.

3,4-MDMA began as a medically-purposed drug, primarily for psychological purposes - Actually it was created in 1912 by Merck Pharmaceuticals who did nothing with it.

but became schedule A over here because it is highly addictive, both psychologically and physically - Physically addictive? You obviously don't have a clear understanding of physical addiction. If you take MDMA every day, the drug will stop making you feel good because of a combination of tolerance and low serotonin reserves. AFIAK a physically addictive phenylethylamine has never been discovered. The psychological addiction part can be true though.

and causes real and permanent damage from the very first use - Again, untrue. People are dying to find proof of this but really if there are any changes at all, they aren't significant unless you really abuse the stuff. You might want to check this out.

"There is no consistency as to what is acceptable in one region for the ATF that won't be acceptable somewhere else," said Wickman. "The ATF people seem, as a rule, to feel this whole idea of hobby rocketry being regulated by the (government is) a mistake and a waste of time. There's a disconnect between the ATF in Washington and the regional field offices."

What's worse, even though not much has changed about the regulations, they are subject to arbitrary interpretation in the field, said Bundick, of the National Association of Rocketry. "It's a never-ending treadmill to try to pacify the local inspector."

The Justice Department's Nowacki didn't respond to questions about the ATF's perceived inconsistency.

• (1st) free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion;
  
• (4th) unreasonable searches and seizures;
  
• (5th) freedom from self-incrimination;
  
• (6th) rights to counsel and to a speedy trial
  
• (8th) freedom from cruel and unusual punishments
  
• (9th) rights retained by the people
  
• (10th ) or rights reserved by the States

There's some prior art for data transmission:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/ pan/pan.html

Where MS patent is different is they claim to do _power_ transmission as well.

I wonder about a Mr Tesla...

That said, I'm personally not comfortable with the idea of transmitting significant amounts of electrical power through my body- even low level power. Not sure what the side effects would be.

Already there are some studies that indicate that electromagnetic fields do affect the body AND brain.

You mean like from the Savant for a Day article in NYT?

"Drugs that substantially dim memories are already in use," says Wrye Sententia, Director of the CCLE

"Drugs that substantially dim memories are already in use," says Wrye Sententia, Director of the CCLE

last year's philadelphia Inquirer story talks about fMRI research as replacing the polygraph, and Cognitive Liberty has the best set of links if you want more info. Frankly, i advise you to check it out, because this is not new, and This will be checking you out soon.

No it does not. Ephedrine is readily available in several plants and nothing is forcing you to use the most popular method, Reduction With Hydroiodic Acid and Red Phosphorus (from ephedrine), besides that it is the most simplest method and the ingredients are more easily available than for other methods.

And after all.. 100% natural, plant source for stimulants of this genre is also available

Better Code Through Chemistry

The article, as well as other sources, confirm that the changes were made to the original anti free-speech bill, the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act. As far as I know, the Bankrupcy Reform Bill remains evil. Note that it doesn't make drug-use information illegal, so sites on needle exchange and such would theoretically be okay, but manufacture is still on the death list.

- Michael Cohn