September 2011
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‘Magic Mushroom’ Drug May Improve Personality Long... →
Many individuals who took a single dose of psilocybin — the active ingredient in what the drug culture calls “magic mushrooms” — showed alterations in personality characteristics, largely for the better, that persisted for more than a year, a prospective scientific study showed. Participants who reported “mystical experiences” during the hallucinogen sessions...
“Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind.”
– Noam Chomsky (via somepsychedelia)
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“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
– Emma Goldman (via thinksquad)
Plastics Industry Edited California Textbooks →
Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show.
The rewritten textbooks and teachers’ guides coincided with a public relations and lobbying effort by the chemistry council to fight...
