RARE Footage : Moonflower Blooms Beautiful
March 14th, 2007African Hoodia Plant - Loose Weight Fast
March 5th, 2007Shamans of the Amazon - Great Documentary
February 13th, 2007
During the making of this film: * 16 million acres of Amazon Rainforest was destroyed. * 150,000 species became extinct. * In Ecuador, 9 oil spills released millions of gallons of crude oil into the head waters of the Amazon. * Scientists worldwide agreed that Global Warming and climate change is a major threat facing all life on Earth. * Natural disasters including volcanic eruptions increased. * In the Netherlands, the case against the Santo Daime was thrown out of court. The judge found Ayahuasca use was not a risk to public health and their constitutional right to freedom of religion must be respected. * Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Belguim and The Netherlands decriminalised most drugs. * The USA gave the Taliban in Afghanistan $43 million dollars for the War on Drugs. * The USA was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commision. * Humanity stands at the crossroads
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January 23rd, 2007Cocaine Production Documentaries
December 27th, 2006Watch two short documentaries about cocaine and the culture around cocaine production.
Mescaline Extraction Part 1
December 7th, 2006
About Mescaline
Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic with a long history of human use. It is best known as the primary active chemical in the peyote cactus.
Chemical Formula : C11H17NO3
Chemical Weight : 211.26
Melting Point : 35-36° C (non-salt?)
Melting Point : 183-186° C (Sulfate dihydrate)
Melting Point : 181° C (Hydrochloride)
Soluability in water (the more soluable it is in water, the more mescaline will be extracted from the plant material in an aqueous extraction).
The two most commonly produced synthetic forms of mescaline are mescaline hydrochloride and mescaline sulfate which have very similar dosages. Mescaline sulfate is 11% heavier than mescaline hydrochloride, meaning it takes 11% _more_ mescaline sulfate by weight to get the same effects as a certain amount of mescaline hydrochloride.
If an acid–base–solvent extraction is done on the plant material the result is freebase mescaline. Freebase mescaline is 15% lighter than mescaline hydrochloride (and 25% lighter than mescaline sulfate), thereby requiring 15% _less_ material by weight for the same dose as mescaline hydrochloride. However, most (if not all) extractions end with the freebase being turned into a salt. If the extracted mescaline is not converted to a salt and the solvent is evaporated, it can readily form a salt with the carbon dioxide in the air, forming Mescaline carbonate (molecular weight unknown?).
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MP3: Psychedelic Pharmacopeia: Jonathan Ott Lecture
December 6th, 2006
Jonathan Ott is a highly regarded ethnobotanist, writer, natural products Chemist, Botanical researcher, and pundit in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses. Of particular note is his book Ayahuasca Analogues, in which he researched and identified numerous plants around the globe containing the harmala alkaloids of Banisteriopsis caapi, which are MAOIs, and plants containing Dimethyltryptamine, which together are the chemical base of the South American Ayahuasca brew. He collaborated with important workers like Christian Rätsch and Jochen Gartz, and appeared as a speaker at the Starwood Festival in 1996[1]. He has co-authored several key books and papers with the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He has many years experience field collecting in Mexico, where he lives and manages a small natural products laboratory and botanical garden of medicinal herbs. - Wikipedia
Jonathan Ott Audio - click below to download mp3
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Books by Jonathan Ott
Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History - by Jonathan Ott and Albert Hofmann (Hardcover - Jan 1996)
Pharmacophilia: or The Natural Paradises - by Jonathan Ott (Paperback - 1997)
Ayahuasca Analogs - by Jonathan Ott (Hardcover - Jun 1994)
The Age of Entheogens & the Angel’s Dictionary - by Jonathan Ott (Paperback - Jan 1995)
Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History - by Albert Hofmann and Jonathan Ott (Paperback - Feb 1993)
Pharmacophilia, or, The Natural Paradises - by Donna Torres, Timothy S. Girvin, and Jonathan Ott (Hardcover - Jan 1997)
Hallucinogenic Plants of North America (Psycho-mycological studies) - by Jonathan Ott (Paperback - Jan 1977)
Hallucinogenic Plants of North America - by Jonathan Ott (Paperback - Jan 1982)
Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion - by R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, and Jonathan Ott (Paperback - Jul 29, 1992)
Pharmacotheon: Ethnogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, Second Edition Densified - by Jonathan Ott (Paperback - 1993)
