Strap yourself into your own chair of peace, and join me for a mental stroll through the emails and song suggestions of your fellow brothers and sisters in weed! I had so much fun making this show, and connecting with so many wicked emails. Send me some new ones for next week queerninja@dopefiend.co.uk, Skype me and leave comments at www.dopefiend.co.uk, and check us all out at The Forum.
Playlist: Hey Santa Claus You C*nt – Kevin Bloody Wilson; Time Travel?? Yes!! – The Flaming Lips; I Like Repetitive Music – Regurgitator; I Know Kung Fu (Nightmoves Remix) – Shitdisco; Oh Oh Its Magic – Pilot; Good Day Sunshine – The Beatles; One More Day – The Wood Brothers; Twenty – Dead Prez; Train – Sonya Kitchell.
ABC7 in Denver, Colorado brought media attention to the potential side effects of Zicam when it reported on a station employee who lost her sense of smell after using Zicam to treat a cold. The employee was diagnosed with anosmia, a condition that likely will result in the permanent loss of her sense of smell.
The station received an outpouring of user feedback following its report. ABC7 reported that within a week of running the story, they already had received 80 reports from people injured by zinc nasal spray. Most of those experiencing serious side effects had used Zicam. The others had used Cold Eeze.
Below is a copy of an email being forwarded around the net:
Read this and avoid this medicine! It would be better to endure the cold.
Well, the cold season is drawing near, and we should be careful in selecting cold medicine products. Also, I did go the “Zicam” website, and the health side effects are for real.
This is true go to the website at the end……
I need to warn you about a product on the market and
hopefully you will pass it on to as many people as possible. I felt like I was coming down with a cold last Friday and because I’m around sick family members so much I wanted to possibly head it off. I used Zicam, which is a gel nose spray which claims to keep a cold from becoming “full blown.” Immediately I had an intense, horrible burning in my nasal/sinus passages. The skin on my face hurt to touch and I had pain and burning so that it hurt to move my head. My husband was there and kept asking if I wanted to go to the ER but the thought of getting in a car was overwhelming. My face was burning hot and my nasal passages were so swollen that I couldn’t breathe through my nose and I could see the swelling when I looked in the mirror. It lasted for about three hours and it was Labor Day weekend and I couldn’t see a Dr. until Tuesday. I have seen two ENT specialists in the last two days because I have lost, totally lost all ability to taste or smell. They both told me the same thing and suggested an immediate course of action. This is called “chemical trauma ” and most times is permanent. I’m going to have a CT scan on Monday and am on a high dose of the steroid, Prednisone for two weeks. If there is even a thread of the olfactory nerve left, it will help to rejuvenate what is left. I have been on the Internet (just put in Zicam) and there are hundreds of people who have had this happen. I am so angry and devastated and saddened right now that I don’t know how to get through this. I cannot handle the thought of never tasting food again or trying a new recipe or smelling a Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking has been an absolute passion of mine for as long as I can remember and at the moment I don’t see the point of even putting dressing on a salad. I keep thinking that this cannot be happening to me. I suck on a lemon, bite down on a clove of garlic, smell a bottle of ammonia, nail polish remover, anything. I’m starting by telling people I love. PLEASE don’t use Zicam, tell your friends.
Video: Terence McKenna on Hallucinogens and Culture with Jeffrey Mishlove
HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE: Hallucinogenic substances have been instrumental in the foundation of many aspects of our cultural heritage. In this challenging program, McKenna suggests ways in which hallucinogenic plants have been associated with spiritual traditions in ancient India, in the Amazon and in medieval Europe.
In the Web’s Favourite Cannabis Podcast this week, the Dopefiend talks more about religion and smoking, and the connections between hinduism and Cannabis, discusses legal highs and the benefits or otherwise of recently banned BZP, more on how the elections have affected stoners in the US, updates some stories from Vancouver and Toronto with the help of Skype, and even answers some criticisms! In this week’s cannabis news, the Aussie kids who just say no, the car that came with an unexpected add-on, and the world’s biggest joint. Email mail@dopefiend.co.uk, leave a comment, Skype me, and check out the forum.
Playlist: Sara Tavares – Balance; Benjamin Devigne – Beginner; Hieroglyphics – Powers That Be; Surreal & The Sound Providers – Life & Rhymes; Adrian Sherwood – Pass The Rizla; Jern Eye ft Noelle of The Rebirth – Insight; Julian Fauth – You Can’t Choose The World You Live In; Blacksoul – Original Sinner; Spiral Soundsystem vs Jerry Mane – Sizzled Dub; Russell Malone – He Said What?
Podcast image comes courtesy of Conquerin’ Lion who says: Im enlosing a photo of the fuits of our nature that you folks literaly
helped me grow. They grew throughout the summer with you. They were 6
females and they all came sadly from bag seed. However I did not touch
them till I knew they were maturing to perfection. They grew well and
smelled like great buds coverd in tricomes. At which point I harvested 2
every 2 weeks rougly as the weather got colder. Ive now 2 and a half quarts
of very nice canabis as you can see in the picture, they are resting on my
most favorite shirt…lol ROAR. So in closing gents I wish to say that
your PODCASTS worked..you found me, taught me and created a safe sound
canabis user who realizes the importance of this wonderfull plant. You
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This week Dopefiend.co.uk’s Grow Guru, Zandor, is back and plays catch up with some of his backlog of emails and PM’s. Many good questions made the show today and it’s packed with little tidbits of wisdom and his normal humor. Email zandor@dopefiend.co.uk, leave a comment, Skype, and check out the Grow-info packed forums at TheGrowReport.com
Playlist:Kid Rock – Black Bob, Cadillac Pussy. Cold & Empty, Do It For You, Feel Like Making Love, Hard Night For Sarah, Hillybilly Stomp, I Am, Intro, Jackson Mississippi, Rock ‘n’ Roll Pain Train, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Run Off To L.A., Single Father, Son Of Detroit.
queerninja@dopefiend.co.uk, Skype me and leave comments at www.dopefiend.co.uk, and check us all out at The Forum.
HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE: Hallucinogenic substances have been instrumental in the foundation of many aspects of our cultural heritage. In this challenging program, McKenna suggests ways in which hallucinogenic plants have been associated with spiritual traditions in ancient India, in the Amazon and in medieval Europe.
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