Psychedelic Salon

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Guest speaker: John Gilmore

Electronic Self Defence Tools from EFF

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Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017

[NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore]

"The U.S. still has the world's largest prison population in absolute numbers and per capita. We imprison more people than the next ten countries put together. It's insane. It's a warped part of our culture."

"[Some of the opposition to the Drug War] comes from people who are making money from the Drug War. I'm not talking about cartels and gangs. We haven't seen any opposition from cartels, which is interesting. What we see is opposition from police officers, police unions, police chiefs' associations, district attorneys, drug court judges, prison guards' unions, probation officers. All of these people are putting their kids through college on the swelled prison population of the Drug War. And they're afraid, if it goes away, we're not going to need to pay them any more, or they might have to focus on some harder and more dangerous crimes and more dangerous criminals. Most of the people who are selling pot are not going to slit your throat. And so, 99% of the resistance to legalization comes from cops and prison guards, basically."

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Marijuana Policy Project

MAPS.ORG

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Guest speakers: Daniel Pinchbeck and Michael Garfield

Daniel Pinchbeck speaking at the first Palenque Norte Lectures during the 2003 Burning Man Festival.Photo by Lorenzo

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 30, 2017

Today's podcast features the author Daniel Pinchbeck and some friends at the 2017 Palenque Norte Lectures that were held during the Burning Man Festival. Besides discussing his books, ibogaine, and ecology, they also give us their thoughts about evolution and culture.

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Entheogenesis Australis 2017 Outdoor Psychedelic Symposium

http://www.entheogenesis.org/

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer delivering his 2003 Palenque Norte Lecture

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017

Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Dr. Bruce Damer. As he describes the life-long journey that has led him to search for the origin of life on Earth, you may be surprised at how forthcoming he is about the ways in which he thought about this problem.

"Our common ancestor is a community, not an individual. . . . We did not come from competing individuals, we came from a collaborative network of simple things that were donating innovations and tools to a communal structure." -Bruce Damer

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

After a Veterans' Day story by Lorenzo, today's podcast features some stories from Nashville. Thanks to everyone at the Nashville Psychedelic Society for your help making a perfect last stop of the Blue Dot Tour.

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Guest speaker: Shonagh Home

Kai Wingo speaking at Breaking Convention:3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, July, 2015

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Date this lecture was recorded: October 2017

Today's podcast features a talk given by Shonagh Home in October for the Women and Entheogens Conference. Kilindi continued the conference in honor of the conference founder Kai Wingo.

The Women and Entheogens Conference was the brainchild of psychonaught Kai Wingo. Continuing Kai's legacy the conference continued with her vision. The Conference pushed the envelope into new and novel ideas. This year's theme was "Psychedelics in Birth and Pregnancy from Conception through Life". Topics explored included the concept of utilizing entheogens for fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding.

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Guest speaker: Benjamin De Loenen

International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

In today's podcast Benjamin De Loenen, the founder of ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service), talks about things that led him to start this organization, which comes to the defense of plants and is dedicated to sharing the science and best practices around their use.

ICEERS.ORG

The Ayahuasca Defense Fund

http://ayahuascadefense.com/

Ayahuasca Technical Report

http://news.iceers.org/2017/07/2017-ayahuasca-technical-report/

Ayahuasca Good Practice Guide

http://iceers.org/Documents_ICEERS_site/Safety&Ethics/Ayahuasca-Good_Practice_Guide_ICEERS2014.pdf

Videos from the second World Ayahuasca Conference

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFSYWkLS73y6hwEaBHmIJyyQ9XCbMauc1&mc_cid=a1a4803e3a&mc_eid=4d4a945542

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Psychedelic Salon Magazine

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Guest speakers: Annie Oak and friends

Photo source: Fortune420.com

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Today's podcast features a panel of distinguished women, all of whom are participating in various ways in the burgeoning new world of legal cannabis growing, distribution, and education. The panel assembled on the last evening in August at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, where they spoke in the Palenque Norte Lecture tent. You don't have to be a woman to get a lot out of the information and experience of these amazing women entrepreneurs. Just give it a listen and you will understand what I mean.

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Guest speaker: Dave Nichols

Photo by Jon Hanna from the Erowid.org vault of Dr. David Nichols

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

As the founding president of the Heffter Research Institute, a chemist who crafted some of the most important research molecules of this generation and a leader in the psychedelic community, we're pleased to present an interview with Dr. David Nichols.

He talks about the impetus for his interest in these molecules, the potential dangers of microdosing and the feelings of a chemist whose creations escaped the laboratory and - while doing much good - also caused harm.

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Microdosing with LSD and its Research Potential

Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110105/full/469007a.html

Review of psychedelics by Dr. Nichols:

http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/68/2/264

LSD Neuroscience - David E. Nichols at Psychedelic Science 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUGRcuA16E

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Guest speaker: Rick Doblin

Lorenzo looks on as Jon Hanna delivers the very first Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2003 Burning Man Festival.

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Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017

Today we feature the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture delivered by the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, Rick Doblin. In this wide ranging talk, besides an update about the recent FDA approval for MAPS' major Phase 3 study of MDMA, we are treated to the fascinating story of how Rick was able to convince his conservative family into supporting his decision to pursue the investigation of psychedelic medicines.

"What I intimated in my early LSD and mescaline sessions, they weren't all beautiful and peaceful and, you know, unity with god. They more were like taking a very ridged intellectual person and helping me to start to feel, and helping me have emotions, and helping me to start to wrestle with some deeper emotions." -Rick Doblin

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MAPS.ORG

http://www.maps.org/

Guest speaker: Keeper Trout

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

The wonderful Keeper Trout shares with us today includes his experiences archiving the files of Dr. Alexander Shulgin, working to collect the chemistry of psychedelic plants and medicines (particularly mescaline containing plants), and the cultural and legal history of the Native use of peyote and cactus as well as its suppression by the United States government. Keeper Trout is a multifaceted and delightful character who gives us today's engaging interview.

See Trout's work on Shulgin's archive here:

www.shulginarchive.org

More about his work conserving the cactus here:

www.cactusconservation.org

And his own excellent and thorough work on the chemistry and history of use of psychedelics:

http://Troutsnotes.com

Also, here is the article in which Keeper mentioned: Hallucinations of Neutrality in the Oregon Peyote Case, by Harry F. Tepker, Jr.

https://works.bepress.com/harry_f_tepker/23/

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Hemp for Victory