Seeking to identify the plant origins of the early sacramental beverages Soma and Haoma, this study draws a connection between the psychoactive properties of these drinks and the widespread use of cannabis among Indo-Europeans during this time. Exploring the role of these libations as inspiration for the Indian Rig Veda and the Persian Avestan texts, this examination discusses the spread of cannabis use across Europe and Asia, the origins of the Soma and Haoma cults, and the shamanic origins of modern religion. View More...
Although many of the caches listed here are used by drug dealers, you may have extra cash, rare coins, stocks and bonds or other valuables that you want kept out of reach to all but yourself. This book offers insight into the mind of the searcher and shows how your house, your vehicle and your own body offer hundreds of ingenious locations to stash items large and small. Whether you're paid a visit by the local cops or a midnight cat burglar, now your possessions will be secure. View More...
Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the Nazi regime and then saved thousands of Nazis to work with the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA operations such as MK-Ultra pushed LSD and other drugs on leftist leaders and left-leaning populations at home and abroad. Evidence supports that this oligarchy further led the United States into its longest-running wars in the ideal areas for opium crops, while also massively funding wars in areas of co... View More...
Although little known, cannabis and other psychoactive plants held a prominent and important role in the Occult arts of Alchemy and Magic, as well as being used in ritual initiations of certain secret societies. Find out about the important role cannabis played in helping to develop modern medicines through alchemical works. Cannabis played a pivotal role in spagyric alchemy, and appears in the works of alchemists such as Zosimos, Avicenna, Llull, Paracelsus, Cardano and Rabelais. Cannabis also played a pivotal role in medieval and renaissance magic and recipes with instructions for its use ap... View More...
Employing proven flower-growing techniques used by commercial greenhouses the world over, the growing of cannabis plants is demystified in this helpful gardening book. The natural cycles and growth of the plant are explained, as is how to sprout seedlings, manage growth and soil, how and when to use nutrients, what to look for when it is flowering and finishing, how to cure, and a little about what cannabis can be used for in day-to-day living. Advising to grow the crop patiently, take notes, and observe results, the book also includes a growth journal that makes keeping track a breeze. Plans ... View More...
Freud said dreams were the "royal road" to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people's experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You'll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain and it's functions: shamanism. Giving real world examples, the book finishes-up by explori... View More...
The legalization of marijuana and the loss of freedom. In the United States, cannabis is currently illegal, but this book investigates how big pharmaceutical companies are looking at an end-game of legality?controlled by them. It examines how the Amsterdam scene has been transformed; how home growers have been manipulated into using inferior techniques; and how companies, with help from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and "big pharma," are patenting cannabis strains for control and profit. The leadership of the cannabis industry want to legalize marijuana with taxation and regulation, but th... View More...
Genovese mob-scion Silvio Eboli lived within the shadows of history, and now for the first time, the untold story of a mafia legend is revealed. The Ganja Godfather is the story about an ongoing organized criminal operation, in real time with firsthand accounts and experiences by award-winning author and investigative journalist, Toby Rogers. Shadowing the Ganja Godfather, Rogers witnesses it all standing next to the Boss himself: violence, drugs, celebrities, girls, construction hustles, crime-family business meetings and social gatherings. From strip clubs in Atlantic City to Sunday night di... View More...
In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik Krüger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations. Danish investigative author Henrik Krüger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a colorful past, and wound up writing a book?originally published in 1980?that spans all continents and names names all the way up to Richard Nixon. The Nixon administration and CIA wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with heroin from the Golden Triangle, partly in order to help finance operations in Southeast Asia. The boo... View More...
For two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the world's heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the "most evil man in the world"?until now. Through exhaustive investigative journalism, this examination of one of the world's major drug lords from the 1970s to the 1990s goes behind the scenes into the lives of the DEA specialists assigned the seemingly impossible task of capturing or killing him. Known as Group 41, these men would fight for years in order to stop a man who, in fact, had the CIA to thank ... View More...
From the halcyon days of easily accessible drugs to years of government intervention and a surging black market, this tale chronicles a former drug smuggler's 50-year career in the drug trade, its evolution into a multibillion-dollar business, and the characters he met along the way. The journey begins with the infamous Hippie Hash trail that led from London and Amsterdam overland to Nepal where, prior to the early1970s, hashish was legal and smoked freely in Nepal, India, Afghanistan, and Laos; marijuana and opium were sold openly in Hindu temples in India and much of Asia; and cannabis was w... View More...
Exposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to fracking and offshore drilling for oil. It further urges an immediate worldwide mobilization to replace the energy source in every car, truck, tractor, ship, airplane, and house on Earth in seven years in a desperate effort to save the planet from further overheating. The book blasts government secrecy... View More...
The result of a year's research, this zine compiles real documents published by the federal government and other entities to warn people of the dangers of drug use. Much of the content interestingly mimics the style of underground comics and counterculture imagery, but with hilariously opposite messaging. A visual feast with a mind-bending undercurrent of subterfuge. The zine is nearly completed and currently available for preorder. We're planning a thick 100-page full-color magazine gleaned from extremely hard-to-find sources, with uncoated paper and glossy cover. Compiled and designed by Gab... View More...
From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all. This is the intriguing story of how amyl and other nitrites wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural forces and improbable connections behind the power of poppers. What emerges is not just a history of pub raids, viral panics and pecs the size of dinner plates. It is a collection of fresh and provocative ideas about identity, sex, utopia, capitali... View More...
Amazing to read! ... a well-documented full life historical and ethnomycological narrative ... how to find and experience the "psilophoric" physical, mental, and visual effects for which the mushrooms are known .... - Jan Borovic?ka, Ph.D. Academy of Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic. DIVINE MUSHROOMS & FUNGI tells a charming story of 'shroom hunter, John W. Allen's adventures in hunting the illusive magic mushrooms and of how colored geometrical and geodesic kaleidoscopic visions spoke to him. "I heard the color of the music surrounding and engulfing my very spirit in synchronicity and I heard... View More...
Dry whiskey, Divine herb, Devil's root, Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to become complete. For chemists, pharmacologists, and psychiatrists, the plant is fascinating in its complexity and in the ways its chemicals work upon the human mind. What is it in peyote that causes such unusual effects? Can modern medical science learn anything from Native Americans' use of peyote in curing a wide variety of ailments? What is th... View More...
8.5" x 5.5", 20 pages, saddle-stapled pamphlet with illustrated nice textured cardstock cover/wrapper. 1970s zine filled with anecdotal stories and technical details. These were brand new, but have been stored for years and years. View More...
An authoritative treatise on the use, history, culture, and art of the sacred plant medicine Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is the strongest shamanic plant medicine. Brewed from the combination of the Amazonian vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, and leaves from the plant, Psychotria viridis, Ayahuasca creates sweeping visual and mentally startling effects. For many of the indigenous cultures of the Amazonian basin, Ayahuasca is central to their culture, revealing to mankind its role in the universe and the true nature of reality. Used properly, Ayahuasca provides healing and integration with nature and communi... View More...
MUSHROOM WISDOM is a guide to shamanic techniques for cultivating practical spirituality. In indigenous contexts, sacred plants are understood to have the power to teach essential knowledge and to bring seekers to states of divine consciousness. Mushroom space is a divine space. Anyone can eat mushrooms and experience the profound mind-manifesting powers of the sacred plant, but actually using them with intent and purpose for spiritual development requires certain techniques. A space of spirit, mind, and meaning. When using mushrooms as spiritual tools, they become plant teachers. Seekers only... View More...
Brian Blomerth first fused his singularly irreverent underground comix style with heavily-researched history in 2019's Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day, a Technicolor retelling of the discovery of LSD. Now, the illustrator and graphic novelist continues his wild and woolly excursions into the history of mind expansion with Mycelium Wassonii, an account of the lives and trips of R. Gordon and Valentina Wasson, the pioneering scientist couple responsible for popularizing the use of psychedelic mushrooms. A globetrotting vision of hallucinatory science and religious mysticism with appearances by Life... View More...
SACRED MUSHROOMS were used to assist in visionary states as early as 4000 BC and in religious ceremonies long before the Aztec civilization. Many believe that the mushrooms talk to them, opening up channels of communication with animals and spirit entities. The First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed each of us freedom of religious expression. Yet, for all practical purposes, the entheogenic experience?finding God within?has been outlawed in the United States, even among indigenous people. In Sacred Mushrooms & the Law attorney Richard Glen Boire, author of the best selling Marijuana La... View More...
This book is to take the readers on a discovery adventure to help end any more poor hashish being made or produced, especially from resin that has a history of good genetics, particularly, in the temperate climates of our world,This book also shows how some people do the proper thing if they have the right genetics but were not yet able to make good hash out of the resin they have extracted from the plant.Most people, these days, do not cure their resin but process it right away into hashish, by using a lot of heat and pressure.This is comparable to the quality of marijuana that is dried too q... View More...
Signed by the author! This book is to take the readers on a discovery adventure to help end any more poor hashish being made or produced, especially from resin that has a history of good genetics, particularly, in the temperate climates of our world,This book also shows how some people do the proper thing if they have the right genetics but were not yet able to make good hash out of the resin they have extracted from the plant.Most people, these days, do not cure their resin but process it right away into hashish, by using a lot of heat and pressure.This is comparable to the quality of marijua... View More...
4th English (Birthday) Edition. A travel documentary along the author's journey discovering hashish, including the history, geography, communities, and colour photographs, collages plus step-by-step guides to making it. This edition is updated with an adventure through Europe's hash bars with fellow legendary author Jack Herer. Now this encyclopedia is more timely than ever. Know your hash. View More...
2nd Edition, ISBN is for an older edition. Table of Contents: The Great Books of Hashish Volume 1: Book 2: (also known as) Researching the Pleasures of the High Society - Preface (Dr. Timothy Leary) - Reviews of Book One - Dedication Page - Introduction (Dr. Richard Evans Schultes). - Map of Major Growing Areas - Prelude - Chapter I: Cannabis Around The World "Part One" ("Part Two" see Book.3): Afghanistan Burma, Colombia, India, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Thailand, U.S.A. - Chapter II: Sinsemillia Production In The U.S.A - Growing in Greenhouses - Cuttings, Clones, Slips: (Undi... View More...
In this volume, Laurence Cherniak continues to investigate the world's most excellent hashish and marihuana plants. It accommodates pictures of more than 30 countries and the 50 American states in 256 pages of bright colors. The Great Books of Hashish 3 you will find chapters on smuggling, eating and drinking cannabis, among others; illustrated exploration of buds, calyxes and resin. View More...
Brewed from a combination of two plants ? the leaves of Psychotria viridis and the vine Stalks of Bamisteriopsis caapi ? ayahuasca has been used for millennia by indigenous tribes throughout the Upper Amazon for healing and spiritual exploration. The shamans of the Peruvian Amazon call the plant Spirit within the vine Abuela Ayahuasca, Grandmother Ayahuasca. Exploring the history, lore, traditional use, psychoactive effects, and current scientific studies, Christian Funder reveals how Grandmother Ayahuasca is a profound healer, wise teacher and life-changing guide. Examining ayahuasca from a ... View More...
ACID - the chemical also known as LSD-25 is among the most powerful mind-altering substances known to science. An unprecedented tool for spiritual and psychological exploration, acid takes effect after only a microscopic amount is ingested. Yet, most people know very little about this influential molecule. Exhaustively researched, Acid Trips & Chemistry cuts through the confusion and delivers the fact about: * Chemical formulas * Causes of bad trips * What factors influence a trip * Acid's spiritual and creative effects * Plant sources of LSD-like chemicals * The ... View More...
First published in the October 1917 edition of The International, Aleister Crowley's examination of cocaine and its role in society is a fascinating and important document in recreational drug history. Both "Cocaine" and Crowley's essay "Absinthe the Green Goddess," included here, serve as companion pieces to Crowley's other notable writings about his experimentation with narcotics, Diary of a Drug Fiend and The Psychology of Hashish. View More...
First published under the pseudonym Oliver Haddo in The Equinox, The Psychology of Hashish is an autobiographical account of Aleister Crowley's experimentation with Cannabis sativa. Crowley places his study in the context of reports on hashish by numerous authors, artists, sages and mages throughout history, from the notable to the obscure.This new annotated edition of The Psychology of Hashish from Anubis Books includes footnotes and images.*Includes footnotes.*Includes annotations View More...
