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Watch the Inside Edition video segment on Jimson Weed which depicts two young men under the influence of the Jimson Weed, also known as Datura. What they seem to be experiencing is commonly reported among those bold enough to dive into datura. Experiences include severe hallucinations such as seeing and communicating to people that no one else can see, smoking cigarettes that do not exist and talking to “dead” people. What is interesting about this film is the common experience and hallucinations the two seem to share when they both enjoy an invisible cigarette together. Hallucinations experienced under Jimson Weed are unlike the hallucinations experienced through other psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs such as mushrooms and LSD.

Watch the Jimson Weed Inside Edition Video SegmentBest to leave ingestion of this plant to the dedicated shamans among us. A lovely ornamental plant to grow, especially if you would like to attract hawkmoths to your yard at night with her powerful aroma.

Datura stramonium, also called Jimson Weed, gypsum weed, Loco Weed, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel’s Trumpet, and Zombie’s Cucumber is a common poisonous weed in the Nightshade Family. It contains tropane alkaloids that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. The active ingredients are atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics.

The effects of Datura have been described as a living dream: consciousness falls in and out, people who don’t exist or are miles away are conversed with etc. The effects can last for days. Tropane alkaloids are some of the few substances which cause true hallucinations which cannot be distinguished from reality. It may be described as a “real” trance when a user under the effect can be awake but completely disconected from his immediate environment. In this case, the user would ignore most stimili and respond to unreal ones. This is unlike psylocybin or LSD, which only cause sensory distortions. – Wiki

Watch the L.S.D. video documentary: LSD – The Beyond Wthin

It’s the realm of mystical experience. And those who’ve been there describe the visit as the most significant event of their lifes. Until recent times that was a world known only to holy men, to saints, or perhaps to the insane. Then a generation ago this drug, LSD, escaped from the laboratory. It was consumed by millions of young people. To some it’s a doorway to the mystical universe, chemical ecstasy, enlightenment in a bottle. To others it’s a dangerous and subversive poison.

LSD is one of the strangest and most controversial substances known to science. A dose smaller than a grain of salt precipitates a hazardous mental journey into a universe of hallucination, intense emotion and, some believe, mystical revelation. These remarkable effects were discovered by the Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman in 1943. During the 50′s the LSD was used widely for research in psychiatric hospitals. Than in the early 1960′s LSD leaked out of the laboratory. With bizarre and unforeseen consequences the drug was consumed by a generation of young people seeking spiritual transcendence and an escape from the conventional world.

 
“Getting High : A History of LSD,” is a History Channel documentary outlining the history of d-lysergic acid diethylamide. This documentary includes such topics as Ph.D Albert Hoffman, Aldous Huxley, the CIA, Ralph Metzner, Military biological warfare’s Dr. Olson, the MK-ULTRA project, one flew over the coo-coo’s nest, the cold war, Dr. Timothy Leary, Politics, as well as secret human testings and more.
 

 
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Osteoarthritis of the knee is more painful and more damaging in smokers, a study reports.

Men who smoked had more progressive disease and reported higher levels of pain, a US team found.

Around a million people suffer from osteoarthritis in the UK – a condition causing inflammation and loss of cartilage in the joints.

The study in Annals of Rheumatic Diseases supports previous research showing smokers feel more back pain.

The researchers followed 159 men with symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee for 30 months.

It’s not unique to knees, there’s a strong relationship with smoking and worse back pain
Professor David Felson

Overall, 12% of the participants were current smokers.

MRI scans of the knee showed that the smokers had a more than two-fold increased risk of loss of cartilage in the knee joint – a process that occurs as the disease progresses.

Men who smoked also had higher pain scores than men who didn’t smoke throughout the study.

The greater amount of pain was unlikely to be due to increased cartilage loss as cartilage does not have pain fibres.

Pain threshold

Study author Professor David Felson, professor of medicine at Boston University Medical School said there were a few potential explanations for the pain finding but it could be explained by changes in pain thresholds in smokers.

“There is data elsewhere that shows smokers feel more pain. It’s not unique to knees, there’s a strong relationship with smoking and worse back pain.

“My guess is it’s a general increase in musculoskeletal pain and that something in cigarette smoke sensitises people to lower pain thresholds,” he said.

Osteoarthritis is much more common in women but there were too few women smokers in the study to measure the effect on them.

However Professor Felson said the results would probably be the same: “There’s no reason it would be different in women as I don’t think the biology is likely to be different but we can’t be sure.”

“It’s an additional reason to stop smoking as it may lessen the pain and rate of cartilage loss,” he added.

Dr Peter Stott, a GP in Tadworth, Surrey and member of the scientific advisory committee of the National Osteoporosis Society said it was hard to be categorical about the findings as the research was preliminary but it was another reason to stop smoking.

“It’s interesting but there could be a number of reasons for the findings which are unrelated to smoking.

“One is that smokers are different emotionally as they have a tendency to be addicted and to need things that give them relief such as cigarette smoke.

He added: “The finding that needs to be looked at in another study is the cartilage loss because other studies have shown smoking is protective.”

source : bbc

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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

 
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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)

 
Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within is a feature length documentary which invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos in the modern world by awakening to the divine within.
 
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness, electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the post-modern world that frames the following questions: How can a renewal of ancient initiatory rites of passage alleviate our ecological crisis? What do trance dancing and festivals celebrating unbridled artistic expression speak to in our collective psyche? How do we re-invent ourselves in a disenchanted world from which God has long ago withdrawn? Entheogen invites the viewer to consider that the answers to these questions lie within the consciousness of each and every human being, and are accessible if only we give ourselves permission to awaken to the divine within.
 
Stan Grof, Marilyn Schlitz, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, Terrence McKenna, John Markoff, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Kat Harrison among others, postulate how the disenchantment of the modern world may be remedied by summoning the courage to take the next leap in the evolution of planetary consciousness.
 
Links:
http://www.entheogen.tv/