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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">dig family stone, and my man, called, Sly</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">like a fountain on a mountain you're wet and high</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">like i said to you before many people call me...</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">feet in the sky and head in the bed, that's what he said</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">a bed of flowers soft and dreaming hours,<span class="m_-1792420885172875120Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">the rhyme don't lie or the pigs would fly</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">the cats say that, you're not a cat without a hat</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">the lion don't lie indeed she keeps it raw</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">the funks with the elephant, the heads with the Bore</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">Pup music for the dogs, jump up for frogs</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">prickly on the microphone like a herd of hedgehogs</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">I sneak up like a spider, and then i do provider</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">a little funky beat, and spliff and some cider</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">go back to my web, in my crib with Deb</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">hanging out for flies, then i wrap em' with my thighs</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">jump out from the tree with a weapon of surprise</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">Im busy like a badger, and badger till your dizzy</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">i ask so many questions that i'm leaving google dizzy</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">off the top of the dome, take a taste of my fizzy</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">it's easy, the politics is sleazy</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">artists like ice cream and galleries try to freeze me</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">a nice chord after G is C</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">me after the class with the spider in the glass</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">sitting in detention cuz' i let off all the gas</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">--Steve Fly</span></div>
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<span class="m_-1792420885172875120s1">02/05/2017</span></div>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-30131671265743810892017-03-14T16:16:00.002-07:002017-03-14T16:19:44.570-07:00The backdoor remains ajar, and the regulations deregulated.<div>
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<b>The backdoor remains ajar, and the regulations deregulated.</b></h2>
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'...regulate so that crops are under the control of the Dutch Food Safety Authority state'<br />
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"who regulates the regulators?"--Anonymous.</div>
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The ongoing debate surrounding Dutch coffeeshops, as you might expect has ignited in 2017, an election year in Holland. This article attempts to summarise, and make sense of the different questions, and the various different answers proposed by politicians, regulators and coffeeshop owners, in unbiased and fair language. Cough cough.<br />
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There are a number of recurring themes and buzz words used in the debate, often stylized and sexed up by different reporters and various news outlets. These include, but are not limited to different degrees of regulation on both the cultivation of the cannabis sold in coffeeshops, and the so called 'back door' paradox, whereby it is technically illegal to bring cannabis into the coffeeshop. Technically. Technically?<br />
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Currently the Dutch authorities, in different municipalities exorcise various degrees of tolerance toward coffeeshops and the activities they engage in. This tolerance is difficult to describe, like Zen, or a meme, and to understand can be a real pain in the butt for those from other countries and cultures and, i think, makes up for a large part of the confusion often associated with coffeeshops and their legality. Add to this the coalition model that makes up the Dutch parliamentary system, and you can begin to see the complexity of the puzzle. M.C. Escher could see it, and share the vision.<br />
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The main points of debate, however, can be broken down into binary terms, i hesitate to say. For example. new laws to regulate cultivation, or for it to remain unregulated without laws? And new laws to regulate the 'backdoor supply chain', or, for it to remain an unregulated enigma? Another binary debate concerns the more general question of keeping coffeeshops open, or closing them all. And by extension to this question, should coffeeshops become private members clubs requiring a 'weed pass' or continue to be open to anybody with I.D proving they are over 18 years old, and, so long as long as the coffeeshops abide by the strict controls enforced on them by the authorities. Lots of questions. <br />
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The successful experiment with cannabis coffeeshops in Holland, successful based on a fall in 'hard drugs consumption' and 'drugs related crime' in Holland, leads by example in this debate. 'If it’s not broke why fix it' is a common argument here, based upon comparing statistics with surrounding countries, who still enforce the laws on scheduled substances that include cannabis, yet show higher rates of serious drug addiction and drug related crime.<br />
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There are those who wish to close all coffeeshops and those who wish to keep them open, and those who want to allow new coffeeshops to open. Those who wish to increase regulations but keep them open, and those who wish to impose regulations as a stepping stone to the closure of all of them. Those who want to legalize recreational use in separate municipalities, and those who wish to legalize country wise, and those who wish to re-criminalize, increase the punishments associated with cannabis. And each of the individuals putting forward these various positions has their own nuance and methods for strengthening their argument, and weakening that of their political opponents. This kind of dialectic has come to define political debate all over the place, and due to the coalition government in Holland the bong water can seem to be getting murkier and murkier. Free the weed!<br />
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I hope these quotes help shed some light. Forgive my opinionated introduction. I felt it best to write what i thought without much editing<br />
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--Steve Fly</div>
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D66:<br />
'Vera Bergkamp sees the bill as a step toward legalization, she told Steven Kompier Cannabis News Network. Bergkamp: "We're going to get it right, with a baseline, see how that goes. And when we can show that it is better for public health, public order and security, then the step to possibly legalize, although that step right now is a very big one.'<a href="https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/">https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/</a><br />
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MAYOR ROLE:<br />
The mayor will have an important role not only determines who is allowed to grow, but also what the maximum stock of a coffee shop and "may also designate one or more repositories for storing the stock market." The Minister of Justice decides whether formal or professional breeder tolerated and is not prosecuted as long as the criteria are met. The law will be evaluated after periods of three and five years. -- <a href="https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/">https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/</a><br />
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OPIUM ACT - TOLERANCE<br />
'And no, he says, it is not just a semantic difference. Under regulation, the municipality would have to grant a license stating that the weed grower is relieved of the Opium Act, and is therefore not punishable. By tolerating, the producer remains punishable but, he avoids prosecution if he meets the conditions of the tolerance decision. "It's the same tolerance construction already applied to the front door, so parties can be hard against it. Unless they are also against tolerating coffee shops. "--<a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/13/nederlandse-oplossing-voor-een-nederlands-probleem-6677476-a1545886">https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/13/nederlandse-oplossing-voor-een-nederlands-probleem-6677476-a1545886</a><br />
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SMARTER REGULATION?<br />
'There Bergkamp hopes on the support of the VVD, which already has shifted sharply in recent years, mainly driven by Southern VVD and youth organization JOVD.<br />
There was nothing about adapting the policy on cannabis cultivation in the draft election program of the VVD. But a motion was adopted at the party congress in November to adjust the program. Now does it say that the VVD wants to put an end to the "strange situation" that the sale of cannabis is tolerated indeed, and not purchasing. That the VVD says, we have "smarter regulation".--<a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/13/nederlandse-oplossing-voor-een-nederlands-probleem-6677476-a1545886">https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/13/nederlandse-oplossing-voor-een-nederlands-probleem-6677476-a1545886</a><br />
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SELF DETERMINED<br />
'Or as Hauptabteilung writes: "Departments themselves are free to decide whether they themselves also test products in the coffee shops." <a href="http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2017/01/democratisch_stoned_worden_van.html">http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2017/01/democratisch_stoned_worden_van.html</a><br />
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AGAINST<br />
'VVD, CDA, SGP, Christian Union and the PVV, which Wednesday stayed away from the debate, are against the toleration of cannabis cultivation.--<a href="http://www.rd.nl/vandaag/politiek/wietwet-nog-voor-verkiezingen-door-kamer-1.1372236">http://www.rd.nl/vandaag/politiek/wietwet-nog-voor-verkiezingen-door-kamer-1.1372236</a><br />
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BACK DOOR<br />
'patrons may soon only be able to buy weed in legitimate businesses that are allowed to grow. However, this provision is not immediately going to enter into the force of the Law. D66 wants to include a transition period in the law; while stocks of legally grown cannabis are grown, as of now, they can continue to buy from illegal growers. "The back door remains ajar," noted CU MP Segers "But for how long then?" <a href="http://www.rd.nl/vandaag/politiek/wietwet-nog-voor-verkiezingen-door-kamer-1.1372236">http://www.rd.nl/vandaag/politiek/wietwet-nog-voor-verkiezingen-door-kamer-1.1372236</a><br />
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MEDICAL<br />
'The big question now is: what will happen to the home cultivation ?!--<a href="https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/">https://www.rollingstoned.nl/na-de-wietwet-wat-gebeurt-er-met-thuisteelt/</a><br />
In the explanation writes Van Tongeren: "The petitioner believes that certain patients should be allowed by law to cultivate your own medicinal cannabis under strict conditions. More and more countries (including Australia and Germany) and Dutch municipalities (including Tilburg and Vlissingen) allow this, but medical home cultivation of cannabis regularly leads to evictions by landlords. An explicit legal basis to prevent this type of misunderstanding and enshrine the right to access to cannabis products.<br />
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'A majority of MPs now seem likely to back draft legislation from the Liberal democratic party D66 which would regulate legalised marijuana cultivation under government control. The bill, drawn up by MP Vera Bergkamp, was backed by Labour, GroenLinks, the Socialist and pro-animal PvdD. But now two MPs who left the anti-Islam PVV to form a breakaway right-wing party have said they too will support the measure, the AD said on Friday. Bergkamp hopes that introducing licenced marijuana production will remove the grey area between illegal cultivation and licenced cannabis cafes or coffee shops, where small amounts of marijuana can be bought for personal use. -- The Netherlands comes a step closer to legalised marijuana cultivation - <a href="http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/09/the-netherlands-comes-a-step-closer-to-legalised-marijuana-cultivation/">http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/09/the-netherlands-comes-a-step-closer-to-legalised-marijuana-cultivation/</a><br />
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'The municipality of Amsterdam took away on January 1st of eight coffee shops the grace statement because they sold within a radius of 250 meters from a high school - <a href="http://revu.nl/nieuws/reportage-amsterdam-vs-de-coffeeshops/">http://revu.nl/nieuws/reportage-amsterdam-vs-de-coffeeshops/</a><br />
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The most pronounced is the Pirate Party. The Pirates are not only for the regulation of the back door, but also carry home cultivation and industrial uses of hemp, a warm heart. They also believe that the government should no longer blinded by the THC percentage and more attention should have for the relationship between cannabinoids. It is clear that experts here have participated. - <a href="https://tk2017.piratenpartij.nl/2016/12/20/piratenpartij-denk-populair-cannabisliefhebber/">https://tk2017.piratenpartij.nl/2016/12/20/piratenpartij-denk-populair-cannabisliefhebber/</a></div>
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-51352057414518610092017-01-30T05:41:00.005-08:002017-01-30T05:41:55.564-08:00Digital Heroin, Electronic Cocaine and computer chocolates<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
How about <br />'Screen Smack'<br />Computer crack<br />Microsoft drugs<br />Silicone Sugar<br />Apple Crack<br />Mathamphetamine</div>
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McLuhan & P.K Dick got here to this question of drugs and computers way earlier. I wish more people would pay attention to 'Understanding Media' and seeing drugs as another type of media, especially in the age of VR, AR and MR (Mixed reality) a cocktail of neurological affects delivered down the mainstream digital vein: internet.</div>
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--Steve Fly</div>
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<br />"We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug. Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that cocaine does. Technology is so hyper-arousing that it raises dopamine levels — the feel-good neurotransmitter most involved in the addiction dynamic — as much as sex.</div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;">This addictive effect is why Dr. Peter Whybrow, director of neuroscience at UCLA, calls screens “electronic cocaine” and Chinese researchers call them “digital heroin.” In fact, Dr. Andrew Doan, the head of addiction research for the Pentagon and the US Navy — who has been researching video game addiction — calls video games and screen technologies “digital pharmakeia” (Greek for drug).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/">http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/</a></span></div>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-55839688334164746012016-09-26T12:29:00.003-07:002016-09-26T12:29:51.684-07:00What LSD tells (some) of us about human nature <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
"What was most remarkable about the research is that the degree of ego dissolution reported by the participants correlated with a specific neural transformation. To get through the pragmatics of day-to-day life and the demands of survival, brain activity naturally differentiates itself into several distinct networks, each responsible for a particular cognitive function.</div>
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The three networks most closely examined by these scientists include a network for paying attention to what’s most salient, a network for problem-solving, and a network for reflecting on one’s own past and future. There is also a natural segregation between high-level (abstract) cognitive areas and low-level (concrete) perceptual areas, most notably the visual cortex. These distinctions are thought to be an essential design feature of a functional human brain.</div>
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The impact of LSD was to diminish connections within each of these networks, relaxing the bonds that kept them intact and distinct, while increasing the cross-talk among them. In other words, the normal etiquette of the brain requires segregation among networks that have different functions, and that etiquette was blown to bits.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;">Now most parts of the brain were communicating with most other parts of the brain. Concrete sensory experiences, like vision, intermingled with cognitive abstraction, and cognitive abstractions reshaped visual imagery. Perhaps that’s what explains the intricate fractal elaboration that people see in the branches of a bush while tripping on acid. The perception of salience and refinement of a sense of self are hashed together like potatoes and gravy. The brains and their owners no longer distinguish between what is most important, how to get stuff done, and who in fact is the arbiter of the importance of the stuff that needs to be done."--Guardian. </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/lsd-research-brain-neuroscience-human-nature-psychedelic">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/lsd-research-brain-neuroscience-human-nature-psychedelic</a></span></div>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-25057421793442025012016-09-08T04:54:00.000-07:002016-09-08T04:54:01.195-07:00The Future of AR is Already in Your Pocket - SXSW Convergence 2016<br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/02/10/cannabis-helped-treat-leukemia-in-teenage-girl-doctors-publish-case-study/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Teenage Girl Uses Cannabis To Treat Leukaemia & Great Results Were Seen</a></li>
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-35009151462724528162016-07-13T16:21:00.001-07:002016-07-13T16:21:26.740-07:00Stuxnet and Crack Cocaine - Intelligence HorrorLike the spread of Crack Cocaine across the world, and other drugs, and other terror, an all too familiar story. These spooks have a hell of a lot to answer for IMHO.<br /><br />
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-13708574055470082802016-03-20T02:50:00.000-07:002016-03-20T02:50:00.407-07:00The Origins of Consciousness in the Technological Age
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Panelists:<br /><br />Graham Hancock is the bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, Heaven's Mirror and other investigations of historical mysteries. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. His public lectures and broadcasts, including two major TV series, Quest for the Lost Civilisation, and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity's past. In 2005 Graham published Supernatural: Meetings with The Ancient Teachers of Mankind, an investigation of shamanism and the origins of religion. While researching Supernatural Hancock travelled to the Amazon to drink visionary brew Ayahuasca - the Vine of Souls - used by shamans for more than 4,000 years.<br /><br />Dennis McKenna's professional and personal interests are focused on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of British Columbia, where his doctoral research focused on ethnopharmacological investigations of the botany, chemistry, and pharmacology of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, two orally-active tryptamine-based hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. Dr. McKenna received post-doctoral research fellowships in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, and in the Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and serves on the advisory board of non-profit organizations in the fields of ethnobotany and botanical medicines. Dr. McKenna is well known as the brother of Terence McKenna, a cultural icon in the psychedelic community. Together they are co-authors of The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (1st Edition: HarperCollins 1993) and Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (under the pseudonyms O.N. Oeric & O.T. Oss) (And/Or Press, 1976; 2nd Edition, Lux Natura, 1986). He has recently completed a new memoir entitled: The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna. <a class="yt-uix-sessionlink " data-sessionlink="ei=nnHuVoeyBIeMWPKlrKgD" href="http://brotherhoodofthescreamingabyss.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://brotherhoodofthescreamingabyss...</a><br /><br />Mark Pesce - Inventor, Writer, Educator and Futurist - Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web to invent VRML, Mark Pesce has been exploring the frontiers of media and technology for a quarter of a century. His work has kept him on the forefront of emerging developments in science, technology and media. With a unique ability to make abstract concepts clear for lay audiences and to further the knowledge of the technologically savvy, he is a highly sought after public speaker, lecturing throughout the world on a variety of topics -- from the latest trends on the Internet, to current developments in neuroeconomics, to the future of design in an energy-conscious world. Pesce is first and foremost a storyteller, taking everyday examples from the world around us, then using these to illuminate the finer features of world that seems to be changing more rapidly every day. The author of five books and numerous articles, Pesce is widely respected as a technologist, futurist, philosopher and communicator who can translate abstract concepts into concrete explanations. Mainstream publications such as Forbes ASAP, TIME Digital, WIRED and The New York Times have profiled him and his views on the interactive era. A well-respected journalist, Pesce has written for WIRED, Feed, Salon, PC Magazine, and The Age. For the last three seasons, Pesce has been a panelist on the hit ABC show THE NEW INVENTORS. From 2003 to 2006, Pesce chaired the Emerging Media and Interactive Design Program at the world-renowned Australian Film Television and Radio School. His mandate - to bring cinema and broadcast television into the interactive era - led him to create a program that encouraged creative vision and is now producing a generation of award-winning entertainment professionals who are shaping the media of the 21st century.<br /><br />Mitch Schultz began his life journey in Memphis, Tennessee and has since called Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Europe and Peru home. Guided by his lifelong love of storytelling, Mitch has cultivated a multi-disciplinary expertise in transmedia and culture hacking through writing, directing, and producing. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin, primarily focused on media production, communication theory, and information mapping. Soon after, Mitch completed his Masters of Fine Arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Following Schultz's 2011 award winning documentary, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, he launched the DMTRMX project, a multi-platform experience that serves as the model for the four-part MNTTKA Manifesto.</div>
</div>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-8444494510338592892016-02-23T18:46:00.002-08:002016-02-23T18:46:55.058-08:00Celebrating 100 Blog Posts: The state of the union - VR and other electronic drugs.<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">“The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.—<a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan">Marshal McLuhan</a>, Letter to Harold Adam Innis, March 14 1951. From Essential McLuhan.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="s1">One thought i wanted to express here concerns the similarities between the VR experience, and the psychedelic experience. In doing so i especially want to draw attention to what Dr Timothy Leary described with the words '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting">set and setting</a>'. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">If you are under the influence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality">VR</a>, your body brain system, may indeed be more open and receptive to new imprints than without being under the influence. Thankfully there are thousands of experimental designs for creative tools that hold the promise of delivering the user into a learning space, not just another world of crime, destruction and hollywood drama, a creative studio.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The same has been said about every new advance in technology, use it for the betterment of humanity, teach practical skills using television etc. And almost every time the new technology is degraded by mass consumption. And a return to revenge themes, violence and the predictable. The equivalent of alcohol, when compared with the psychedelic VR high, or heightened sensory awareness.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">There will be therapy, new fields of virtual psychoanalysis, interactive explorations of the unconscious, with the goal of discovering more about oneself and the greater Universe. There will be crime scene investigation applications, law enforcement and new kinds of artist reconstructions. There will be sculpting, architectural modelling, visual geometric chemistry, physics, painting. I wonder, will there be much writing you think?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">There will be torture, on many levels. Both high grade, full on <a href="http://www.roadtovr.com/secretary-of-defense-checks-out-the-latest-at-navy-vr-research-lab/">US military</a>, strapped to a chair with electrodes wired to your knackers, torture. Watch the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)">Brainstorm</a> again, and please heed the warning. VR is obviously a powerful tool to expand the goals of cruel psychological warfare operations, and usually when you follow the money trail for any hi-tech clobber, like the new VR technology, there is a somebody in the military sniffing around, looking for ways to weaponize the new breakthrough. Like the difference between the MK Ultra experiments with L.S.D vs. what the Merry Pranksters did with it. You dig?<br />
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”When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized—Marshal McLuhan, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy">The Gutenburg Galaxy.</a></span></blockquote>
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<span class="s1"> On the one hand, i hope that each individual gets as much enjoyment as he or she can get from VR worlds, however enjoyment is quantified? some people like to be scared half to death, other erotically aroused. If it makes you high in any sense, and brings wonder and a deeper connection with whatever you wish to connect with, then i say that both VR and psychedelic drugs, are useful tools in exploring unreality together. Each dissolve boundaries. And let's not forget that one of these tools is deemed illegal around the world under the United Nations psychotropic substance act. Boooo.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">On the other hand, we are fools to ignore the warning label, a word to the wise that it ain't going to be pretty. Immersive news reports, celebrity updates and shoddy adverts will certainly dominate the medium of VR once it gets a foothold. But, we do not have to worry about the squares, let's get a move on, develop shared tools that enable individual expression, shared communication for all, and a message to care for the precious real-world-reality of our global ecosystem. Charitable causes. Bloom not doom. A funny love trip, not a violent horror, or better yet, a fair and balanced blend of tragedy and comedy? Art and truth are funny things these days.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And when using the two together, both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality">VR</a> and psychedelic agents, be careful, or extra careful, mind your heads and have a fun trip. Never force anybody else to do what you might choose to do with your VR stash, and, do not allow yourself to be bullied into any chemical experiment or VR environment against your will.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">As a closing statement i would add that perhaps those with experience navigating the inner spaces of psychedelia, would stand less chance of being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis">hoodwinked</a> by a truck load VR sweeties, due to a built up tolerance of the weird and strange new dimensions encountered while tripping. There is a strong connection between media technology and how the human brain-body system works. And we are in uncharted territory with the latest 360 VR gear. <br /><br />McLuhan, Leary, <a href="http://www.hilaritaspress.com/">Robert Anton Wilson</a> and other media theorists and futurists, Philip K. Dick...have already laid out a solid foundation for better understanding both reality and unreality, yes i wrote 'unreality', to mean the staggering phenomenological realms of the unchained imagine-nation, emerging in 2016 through a range of new VR experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>Read more at:<br /><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/50611645.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #024d99; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/50611645.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst</a></blockquote>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-33582261231003817522016-01-20T06:45:00.000-08:002016-01-20T06:45:13.704-08:00Decline of Amsterdam Coffeeshop culture.<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.996px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">
<br />One of Amsterdam’s most popular coffeeshops ceased trading yesterday, as the crackdown on the red-light district continues. <a href="http://www.worldtravelguide.net/holidays/editorial-feature/feature/smoke-postcard-amsterdam">Gavin Haines reports.</a></blockquote>
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As well as a thick cloud of smoke, there’s a sense of foreboding hanging in the air in Baba today. One of the city’s most popular coffeeshops, this institution will close its doors for the final time tonight: its misty history snuffed out like a spliff in the night.<br />Most punters have no idea they are smoking in a coffeeshop that has hours to live. The group of Scottish lads sucking a bong are blissfully unaware that they’re part of Baba’s final act; the awkward young couple standing at the timeworn wooden counter are equally oblivious as they question the difference between Amnesia and Silver Haze.<br />There are no posters announcing Baba’s closure, no banners pleading for it to be spared; just a short, digital message rolling across the bottom of a television screen like breaking news.<br />Unlike British pubs, which are closing as they struggle to draw in punters, Amsterdam’s coffeeshops, particularly this one, seem to be doing a roaring trade. So what gives?<br />“They want to turn this street into a fancy street,” explains a female employee at Baba, who asks to remain anonymous. “And we’re not fancy enough for them.”<br />She’s talking about Warmoesstraat, one of the oldest streets in Amsterdam, which wends its way through the city’s notorious red-light district. Lined with sex shops, raucous bars and coffeeshops, it’s a place where you can legally indulge in psychedelics or check out the latest line in pneumatic dildos. Hookers of various shapes and sizes ply their trade just around the corner.<br />But for how much longer? Amsterdam is renowned for its liberal values and vice, but authorities in the city are continuing their quest to “clean up” the red-light district as part of a 10-year plan called Project 1012. The initiative began in 2007 and it aims to close 200 of the district’s 480 window brothels and 26 of its 76 coffeeshops by 2017.<br />“A lot of the coffeeshops along this street have closed,” explains the anonymous Baba employee, her eyes heavy with weed. “Stones, which is opposite, is also closing soon, which means there will be no coffeeshops on this street anymore.”<br />New businesses are ready to jump into these old premises. Florists, delis and homeware shops have all opened in the neighbourhood recently, so it’s out with the dildos and in with the dishcloths.<br />Baba plans to open in a new location, but its association with Warmoesstraat has almost certainly come to an end. Perhaps the building will become a restaurant or a wine bar: something to attract a “better class” of tourist.<br />“It’s sad,” says the girl in Baba, hopelessly. “It’s a shame for the people, it’s a shame for the tourists and it’s a shame for us because now we have no job.”</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.worldtravelguide.net/holidays/editorial-feature/feature/smoke-postcard-amsterdam">http://www.worldtravelguide.net/holidays/editorial-feature/feature/smoke-postcard-amsterdam </a>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-91848652974715556882016-01-20T06:41:00.002-08:002016-01-20T06:41:23.873-08:00Amsterdam Panorama <iframe src="https://www.360cities.net/embed_iframe/oude-leliestraat-by-night" width="425" height="315" frameborder="0" bgcolor="#000000" target="_blank" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen></iframe><br/><a title="Panorama photos of Oude Leliestraat by night. on 360cities.net" href="https://www.360cities.net/image/oude-leliestraat-by-night">Oude Leliestraat by night.</a>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-44596248523294485442014-07-21T16:05:00.002-07:002014-07-21T16:05:58.261-07:00Doug Stanhope: Acid BootlegA genius and brave word beater.
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-20654809317554527672014-01-30T07:01:00.000-08:002014-01-30T07:01:01.004-08:00Proposed Dutch Coffeeshop closures<a href="http://www.cannabisarmy.com/blogs/user/ohmsweetohm">http://www.cannabisarmy.com/blogs/user/ohmsweetohm </a><br />
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The municipality announced today the distance criterion for coffeeshops to introduce gradually. Among the first things that must close by July 1, 2014, include The Grasshopper and Homegrown Fantasy. The Bulldog on Leidseplein in 2016 to close.<br />
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Thus, the list of 31 coffee shops, owned by AT5. The two cases on the Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal are according to the municipality within sight of a school. Their tolerance statement expires therefore by July 1, 2014, thus ending exercise.
Other cases by July 1, 2014 to see their tolerance statement expired: Golden Bean (Da Costa Street), Ocean (Dusartstraat), Betty Boop (Nieuwezijdskolk), Quay (Stadionkade), The Power (Wibautstraat), Ben (Kolksteeg) Magic (Herengracht) and The Wow Shop (Spaarndammerdijk).<br />
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The shops Abraxas (Spuistraat) Anyday (Short Kolksteeg), The Energy Shop (Spuistraat) and Biba (Hazen Street) have another year. Because they are within 150 meters of a school, is the tolerance statement from 1 January 2015 to expire.
As of January 1, 2016
Then there is a larger group of shops located between 150 and 250 meters from a school are, they may sell weed to January 1, 2016.<br />
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Those are Crown Three (Rietwijkerstraat), Space Mountain (Dusartstraat), High Time (Jan van Galenstraat) Resin (Hekelveld), Lucifera (Frederik Hendrikstraat), Mediterranee (Spuistraat), The Rookies Bar (Short Leidsedwarsstraat), Utopia (Nieuwezijds voorburgwal), The Grail (Albert Cuypstraat), Get Down to It (Short Leidsedwarsstraat) Mellow Yellow (Vijzelgracht, The Bulldog (Leidseplein), Today (Dusartstraat), Crown Two (Old Bridge Steef, Pit (Oudebrugsteeg), El Guapo ( New Neuve) and Little (Vijzelgracht).<br />
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In 2014 already limited open
All 31 coffee shops that are within the distance criterion, are limited open by January 1, 2014. These coffee shops may be open on weekdays from 18.00 to 01.00, so they are not open when young people are at school. The restriction does not apply during holidays and weekends.
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<br />Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-71427931800855082432014-01-30T06:30:00.003-08:002014-01-30T06:30:22.254-08:00Four Wars, including drugs<br />
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Food for thought. Brilliant presentation. High information content. Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674484615156320842.post-19736475558756854722014-01-30T06:20:00.000-08:002014-01-30T06:20:16.076-08:00Christian Doper's Dualism Crusade: Singing matter, shouting matter, dancing matter.<b>Christian Doper's Dualism Crusade: Singing matter, shouting matter, dancing matter.</b><br />
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It was 1957. I was very interested in jazz at that time, and I told a black friend about some of Korzybski's exercises to get to the non-verbal level, and he said, "Oh, I do that every time I smoke pot." I got interested. I said, "Could I buy one of these marijuana cigarettes from you?" He said, "Oh hell, I'll give it to you free." And so I smoked it. I found myself looking at a quarter I found in my pocket and realizing I hadn't looked at a quarter in twenty years or so, the way a child looks at a quarter. So I decided marijuana was doing pretty much the same thing Korzybski was trying to do with his training devices. Then shortly after that I heard a lecture by Alan Watts, and I realized that Zen, marijuana and Korzybski were all relating the same transformations of consciousness. That was the beginning.--<a href="http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/raw.htm">Robert Anton Wilson, Interview, Positive Atheisim.</a></blockquote>
<br />Once again, thinking about the Dutch Coffeeshop politics and double-crossed language and policy involved with the operations on all sides, i return back to the language. The language of Christian Parties and Conservative politicians has a lot in common at a base level, i notice that a general monotheistic mind set often leads to generally Aristotelian language and logic, severely limited and dogmatic when based upon two valued logic, or duality.<br />
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I am no linguist, but anybody with a sharp eye and ear for similarities will recognize the linguistic traps set by these people. And anybody who has looked at the war on some people who use some drugs will recognize the language of drug war, the lack of any consistent pluralistic logic, the nihilistic imagery, and the religious overtones of puritanical crusaders. <br /><br />The solution to a part of the problem, as i view it, in Holland, consists of a more focused linguistic analysis of everything published by the anti-coffeeshop and anti-drug crusaders. If i can detect many meaningless statements, and bare faced lies, surely others who are looking to defend the case for coffeeshops can too? and so what is the strategy for addressing their wrong headed criticism? how do you engage in meaningful debate with the goal of a more scientific approach to processing information, based on a widely distributed array of current data? How to communicate with monotheistic Christian crusaders and their Aristotelian either/or world view of good/evil, god/devil right/left in/out for/against white/black etc.<br /><br />This is my calling for anybody interested in helping the plight of Dutch coffeeshops, and in particular those in Amsterdam affected by the recent school rule. I implore you to take what you view to be the strongest parts of your opponents argument, and start with those. Begin to provide better versions of that argument, build it up to be as strong as you can make it. Then begin to tear it apart piece by piece, syllable by syllable, and show that there are further arguments against it. <br /><br />
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<br />I feel that the exercise of strengthening your opponents arguments will keep you on your toes, and with luck, combined with what i have said above, and what i will link to below, encourage you to obsolete any dualistic argument with a superior, intelligent, and fair (fairer) model of the information, a <i>pluralistic</i> presentation of just some, of the vast array of information on the subject, in this case arguments for and against cannabis coffeeshops in Holland.<br /><br />Next, when you have terse and meaningful paragraphs that describe the situation as it is, according to your own nervous system, and the information fields you have created--hopefully based on sourced documents including timebinded 'quotes' and other 'exhibits'--start to rewrite those paragraphs.<br /><br />Rewrite those paragraphs in as many different styles as you can think of. As a comedian, a classical historian, a typically shallow news broadcaster, a scene from your favourite T.V series or movie, a song lyric, a limerick, a Haiku, an entire short story, a mathematical equation, a picture!<br />
<br />If you are still with me, you catch my drift. What we need to do is turn the process of art and poetry and spontaneous creativity into something that can address directly, the terrible ills and trickery at work in our surrounding environment, wherever that may be. Together we can break the spell, and as i said, obsolete the corrupt medieval arguments with superior scientific 21st century solutions. <br /><br />Singing matter, shouting matter, dancing matter, these are the tale of the tribe. Write, paint, dance, sing, make merry with the knowledge that your research methodology is light years ahead of the opposition, and so anytime spent fighting the opposition is time spent in the past, an important consideration. There are ways to include both history and 'the long poem' together, these are the methods of study i recommend. Break on through and make it new.<br />
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“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."--<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/618965-the-fundamentalist-christians-have-told-me-that-i-am-a">Robert Anton Wilson.</a> </blockquote>
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