BRITISH authorities today warned drug users that heroin in London was highly likely to be contaminated with anthrax, after a first confirmed case there and following nine deaths in Scotland.

"While public health investigations are ongoing, it must be assumed that all heroin in London carries the risk of anthrax contamination," said Dr. Brian McCloskey, who is director of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in London.

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Trailer for the pilot episode of the documentary series, "The Secret Life of..." featuring host Dan Glass, as he uncovers the lesser known stories behind various psychoactives in cities around the world.

The pilot episode looks at Mazatec ritual use of psilocybin mushrooms in Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico.

An international conference offering continuing medical education (CME) credits.
Open to physicians, healthcare professionals, and the general public

Featuring dozens of world-renowned presenters including:

Stanislav Grof, M.D., co-founder of transpersonal psychology
Michael Mithoefer, M.D., Principal Investigator for MAPS Flagship US MDMA/PTSD Study
Alex and Allyson Grey, visionary artists
Andrew Weil, M.D., integrative medicine proponent (by video)
David Nichols, Ph.D., medicinal chemist and pharmacologist
Charles Grob, M.D., UCLA psilocybin researcher
Roland Grifiths, M.D., Johns Hopkins psilocybin researcher
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., consciousness researcher and psychotherapist
Earth and Fire Erowid, founders of Erowid.org
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., founder and executive director of MAPS

And dozens of other experts discussing ayahuasca, ibogaine, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and salvia divinorum.

Plus a special banquet to honor the lifetime of achievements of psychedelic luminaries Sasha and Ann Shulgin.

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Ibogaine advocate Howard Lotsof, 66, died January 31 in Staten Island, New York. Liver cancer killed him.

In 1962, Lotsof, a Bronx native, was strung out on heroin when he ingested a sample of the West African psychoactive substance ibogaine. Rocked by the hallucinatory experience, Lotsof was even more stunned when he realized that after ibogaine he no longer felt compelled to use heroin.

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Voters are disgusted by the reckless spending of politicians in Washington. The backlash is coming, so policymakers are now scrambling to do something, or at least be seen as doing something, about the enormous federal debt. Now is a good time for Congress to abolish government agencies that are outdated, dysfunctional or just unnecessary.

A prime candidate for abolition is the office of the so-called "drug czar."

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