Finally a BBC report on a drugs related issue which is circumspect and informative!

A 19-year-old man died at the Royal Oldham Hospital on Sunday and a 28-year-old man died at Wigan Infirmary on Monday...

Police said the deaths may be linked and are investigating if contaminated illegal drugs may be to blame. Toxicology tests are due to take place on the two men to find out how they died.

Police said more people may have been admitted to hospital over the past few days with the same symptoms...

The drugs are believed to be ecstasy tablets, heart shaped in purple, green, yellow and blue.

[Thanks James!]

According to the US Navy, yes, bath salts will make you schizophrenic. As you watch this video, please remember that it was paid for by US tax dollars. There was a meeting held somewhere deep within the Navy's administration and someone deemed bath salts a very serious threat to national security. Then someone was commissioned to write a script, and then the script was approved, and then they hired a film crew and some "actors" and "special effects" people and made this amazing turd of institutional anti-drug propaganda. Probably tens of thousands of dollars spent producing a video worth less than a few snarky LOLs.

You may think it is a crazy waste of money, but if it keeps just one person from losing their mind on bath salts, totally worth it!

{Thanks Scotto!]

From Wired.com. File under weaponized hallucinogens.

The Syrian military used an exotic chemical weapon on rebels during an attack in the city of Homs, some U.S. diplomats now believe...

“We can’t definitely say 100 percent, but Syrian contacts made a compelling case that Agent 15 was used in Homs on Dec. 23,” an unnamed U.S. official tells Rogin.

Agent 15 is similar to 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ, a powerful hallucinogen that the American military tested out on its own soldiers during the Cold War...

Over the years, there have been rumors of BZ being used on a battlefield -- including one that Iraqi insurgents were dosing themselves with the drug to pump up their aggressiveness. If the cable is accurate, this would be the first confirmed case of BZ employed as a weapon.

As for weaponized effectiveness, your mileage may vary.

In Episode 04 of the DoseNation Podcast Dennis McKenna sits down with hosts Jake Kettle and James Kent to discuss "The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss," a memoir by Dennis McKenna. Topics include psychedelic mushrooms, the Incident at La Chorrera, telepathy, holoplasm, alien contact, Terence McKenna's TimeWave, and much more.

Be sure to check out The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss on Amazon.com.

Special thanks to Mojo Video Tech of Brooklyn, New York, for hosting this interview in their awesome studio!

Another notice in the recent spike of reports related to 2C compounds. Someone on the internet must be busy.

Three men have been arrested after six people needed hospital treatment for taking an illegal hallucinogenic drug.

One man remains in a critical condition after the group, aged 19 - 22, fell ill when they took the substance 2CB...

A force spokesman said: "Inquiries to establish exactly what happened continue, with officers warning people about the dangers of taking any illegal drugs, especially those bought over the internet."

The drug, related to ecstasy, often comes in purple capsules and is also known as Bromo, Nexus, CB, Performax, Spectrum, Venus, Erox and Cloud Nine.

[Thanks James!]

Except people in power still refuse to listen to logic.

The possession and use of all illegal drugs should be decriminalised, a cross-party group of peers has said.

The least harmful should be regulated and sold in licensed shops, with labels detailing risks, the group concluded.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform (APPG) said criminal sanctions did not combat drug addiction, and only marginalised users.

A recent call by MPs for a royal commission on drug decriminalisation was rejected by the prime minister.

Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: "The prime minister's very strong, clear view is that the approach we currently have is the right one and is working."

[Thanks James!]

Notice how he gets the pineal gland myth wrong, just like Rick Strassman made up and now everyone repeats. Bleh.

It's Dre from London Real. I wanted to share with you an other amazing psychedelic account from one of our guests, we think is a great fit for your readers and followers.

We have an exclusive 90 minute interview with Professional Bodybuilder and 6 time Mr. Olympia winner Dorian Yates who sits down with London Real to discuss how his "High Intensity Training" techniques changed the sport, the specifics of his steroid use and its effects, how he psychologically reinvented himself after his abrupt retirement in 1997, and his thoughts on conspiracy theories, psychedelics, and cannabis.

This interview fits into the category of people who try drugs who think they are experts, but who actually know nothing.

In Episode 3 of the DoseNation Podcast hosts James Kent and Jake Kettle interview Hamilton Morris of Vice Magazine. We talk about salvia divinorum, research chemicals, Chinese research chemical suppliers, roflcoptr, voodoo priests, psychoactive zombi toxins, nootropics, and more.

Be sure to check out Hamilton's Pharmacopeia at vice.com.

According to suit filed in Sacramento, where a man is suing his local head shop, Whip-It is America's "most popular recreational inhalant of choice". The suit alleges that long-term Whip-It abuse led to spinal degeneration and chronic neuropathy. From an article at the Sacramento Bee:

Jason Starn had just returned home from a local head shop in Modesto after buying more nitrous oxide "laughing gas" canisters when "my brain kind of froze."

Starn later told his lawyer he had lost all feeling from the rib cage down. His wife took him to a hospital, where doctors kept him two weeks and determined he had suffered a degeneration of his spinal cord related to his abuse of nitrous oxide, his lawyer said. The numbness lasted months, according to the lawyer, and Starn still needs a walker to get around...

Barron [Starn's Lawyer] said Starn bought the Whip-Its, took them home and "liked the effects." She said he used them fairly steadily over the next two months, leading up to his episode.

"It's a well-known fact," Barron said, that nitrous oxide depletes vitamin B-12 from the blood, which can lead to spinal cord problems. She said an MRI determined Starn suffered a seizure that put him in need of the walker.

Starn's lawsuit suggests employees at the three stores are disingenuous in saying they don't know people buy Whip-It to get high. It claims Whip-It is America's "most popular recreational inhalant of choice," with more than 12 million people having used the product to obtain a nitrous oxide high. Their popularity, the suit says, is a byproduct of their accessibility in head shops.

The case argues that the head shop has a responsibility to warn customers about the adverse effects of chronic nitrous oxide abuse if they are going to sell Whip-Its. I'm not sure it is a "well-known fact" that chronic nitrous abuse causes spinal cord or nerve damage, but the suit does get one thing right. Whip-It is the nation's recreational inhalant of choice. Can't argue with that.

After years of law enforcement blaming Mexican cartels for marijuana grow operations on public lands in California, the ONDCP has finally admitted that they could find no connections between these grow operations and cartel groups.

Tommy Lanier, director of the National Marijuana Initiative, part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said there was scant evidence that the cartels exerted much control over marijuana growing in the national forests.

"Based on our intelligence, which includes thousands of cell phone numbers and wiretaps, we haven't been able to connect anyone to a major cartel," he said.

Lanier said authorities have long mislabeled marijuana grown on public land as "cartel grows" because Mexican nationals are arrested in the majority of cases, and the narrative of fighting drug cartels helps them secure federal funding."

No wonder why the American people don't trust the ONDCP when it comes to all things marijuana.