While waiting to consult another Bokor, Hamilton recruits Haitian guides to help him fetch the ingredients to create a zombie of his own.

A little love for all you giants fans out there, as someone who came from the mid-west to reside in California I can understand this mans confusion at people openly doing fun stuff while being nice to other human beings.

Hamilton is granted a meeting with the leader of the Bizangos, a Haitian secret society and beholder of the formula for zombification. Negotiations are made and a local Bokor agrees to create a nzambi -- for a price.

More to come this week!

Billionaire investor George Soros gave $1 million to support passage of marijuana legalization in California a week before the election, after polls showed the proposal losing steam with likely voters.

"Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually," Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article today.

Soros donated $1 million to the "Drug Policy Action Committee to Tax and Regulate Marijuana - Yes on Prop. 19," according to a filing posted on the California Secretary of State’s website. Soros’s spokesman, Michael Vachon, confirmed the contribution.

Proposition 19, a referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot, would make it legal for Californians over 21 to possess and grow pot for personal use. The measure has lost ground, with 51 percent of likely voters opposed, to 39 percent in support, according to a University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times poll Oct. 22. A May survey showed backers leading, 49 percent to 41 percent.

Hamilton arrives in Port-Au-Prince and checks in to the Addams Family mansion. There he meets his guide Alex, a man who survived fourteen bullets to the face. Together they attend a Vodou ceremony and watch a pig become an ambassador to the gods.

More all this week!

On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 while en route to leading traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies in Oregon, indigenous Colombian healer Juan Agreda Chindoy was detained in the Houston International Airport. He was formally arrested by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for possession of his traditional medicine Ayahuasca. He is now being charged as a federal criminal and is facing up to 20 years in federal prison. Taita Juan is certified by his community and by the Colombian ministry of health as a traditional healer. He is one of the few remaining indigenous spiritual leaders in the world that holds the ancestral medicinal knowledge of an ecosystem that is rapidly disappearing. Taita Juan is a father, a husband and a godfather to more than 20 children. With more than 3000 supporters from several countries in the world, his life and work have touched many.

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Happily straddling the ground of alternative and mainstream culture, James Kent's 'Psychedelic Information Theory' is an attempt to add new scholarly rigour to psychedelia, by examining the creation of novel information in non-linear states of consciousness.

James Kent grounds Psychedelic Information Theory scientifically, which is to say, physiologically. He explicitly notes: "All states of consciousness are created by the act of neurons firing in a network." Building on this point of departure, he employs studies in neurology, consciousness and psychology and draws upon a number of sources like chaos theory and control theory in order to demonstrate the production of psychedelic information...

Psychedelic Information Theory will prove, no doubt, to be an important work primarily because it provides researchers, in both the sciences and humanities, with numerous new avenues down which to investigate. For example; the Frame Stacking Model the text employs in describing the change from linear to non-linear consciousness; or which methods, or media, have most successfully transmitted the psychedelic meme and whether they can demonstrate increased complexity. Underlying the theory, PIT provides us with a serious, and in many respects successful, recalibration of the different psychedelic knowledge bases. In great respect to the author, I believe PIT will attract both plaudits and criticism with equal fervour and, in doing so, help proliferate serious psychedelic research for some time to come.

Hamilton Morris, DoseNation's favorite hipster drug explorer, does it again with an exploration of zombie poisons for VBS.TV.

Hamilton goes to speak with Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow, world renowned ethnobotanist and (don’t call him a) Zombieologist.

After being briefed on the history of the Haitian Zombie, Hamilton takes off for Port-Au-Prince on a quest for the secret poison.

This episode is part one of six. New episodes will be released each night at midnight this week.