Jimmy Carter: End The War on Drugs

"Former President Jimmy Carter is seconding the report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy that earlier this month declared the war on drugs a failure and called for a new approach. Instead of following Carter's lead and decriminalizing small amounts of Marijuana and using treatment over prison, Carter says in a New York Times op-ed, "

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/06/17/jimmy-carter-end-the-war-on-drugs.html

A Hallucinogen Offers New Hope to Recovering Drug Addicts

""It was outrageously powerful," reported one ibogaine user interview in the article. "It was like the inside of my eyeballs was an IMAX screen. It was all-encompassing, just a multitude of images, like 80,000 different TVs, all with a different channel on–just jillions of images, shapes, and colors."

When the trip is over, many addicts report that they do not feel the urge to return to their drug of choice. Originally used in root form during ceremonies by practitioners of the Bwiti religion in Gabon, West Africa, ibogaine is served up at high-end rehab centers, like Pangea Biomedics in Tijuana, where its blended into SuperFood milkshakes."

http://www.good.is/post/tripping-your-way-to-sobriety-a-hallucinogen-offers-new-hope-to-recovering-drug-addicts/

Buddhist teachings on Tobacco and other Drugs

Natalia Shantiway has published two texts on Facebook:

Tobacco and Predictions about the Dangers of Drugs

There is more on this topic on the Dudjom on Smoking website.