One of the many problems with the war on drugs is selective enforcement. Racial disparities in arrests, prosecution, and incarceration are well documented and have been reported on for years. But the pattern of inconsistent application of the law goes deeper than which communities are being targeted… it is also an issue in terms of which substances are being targeted.

Are there hints about Phalaris contained in the Old Testament? The madness of king Nebuchadnezzar provides some interesting food for thought.

Yesterday, June 2nd, 2014, Sasha Shulgin left this world at the age of 88. The contributions of this great man are inestimable.

Almost everyone has heard the old urban legend that LSD causes chromosome damage. While that story was largely put to rest in the 1970s, new evidence links another visionary drug, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) to birth defects when consumed during pregnancy.

This piece by Dennis McKenna is from 'The Ayahuasca Experience - A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits', a collection of essays and reports edited by Ralph Metzner.

Tom Robbins is a best selling author of novels that are both utterly hilarious and thought-provoking. Here Tony Vigorito talks with him about psychedelics, synchronicity, Terence McKenna, Alan Watts, and language. If you enjoy this, just wait till you read his books.

In a study titled 'Psilocybin-Induced Decrease in Amygdala Reactivity Correlates with Enhanced Positive Mood in Healthy', researchers at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich found that psilocybin influences the amygdala, thereby weakening the processing of negative stimuli.

Cognitive Dissidents is a decor crew based in London who supply backdrops and lighting to psychedelic trance events in the UK and other parallel dimensions. Here they give us a first hand glimpse at some of their DMT-inspired visionary artwork.

Part four of James Oroc's thorough analysis of the second psychedelic revolution.

Although unable to move, plants have managed to exploit animals into pollinating them and spreading their genes far and wide. Animals are again exploited in the movement of plant seeds and fungal spores, so as to spread their influence further. When Man enters this picture, things become yet more complex.