The Staten Island Project

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 5: The Staten Island Project In 1981 the marijuana movement was divided between NORML (“the suits”) and a larger group of activists who did smoke-ins. Today’s Drug Reform Movement (the Drug Policy Foundation…

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Dana Beal

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 4: Dana Beal As Dhoruba said a few months later just before he embraced Nelson Mandela at 125th Street in Harlem, every movement needs a “symbol” to inspire it. The final unintended side…

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Howard Lotsof

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 2: Howard Lotsof A split had occurred between a small group in New York who knew of Ibogaine and had worked through its implications and the conventional wisdom, which held that the next…

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The War With the Junkies

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER I: The War With the Junkies It never would have happened if Tom Forcade hadn’t shot himself in the head. Forcade, who’d built HIGH TIMES up to 4 million readers by being six…

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Introduction

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved Naked Lunch Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh…

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Ibogaine: Questions & Answers II

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times Ibogaine is a drug, my support system is strongly against using another drug to stop my drug addiction. They recommend tapering down, working the steps and kicking on my own. If you can do that, God bless.…

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Ibogaine: Rants, Raves, Questions & Answers

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times What’s so different about ibogaine? I know a lot of people who have gotten clean using all kinds of other methods, what’s the big deal? I have absolutely no argument with that, or anything to say that…

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Ibogaine: the NeXTSTEP

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved   Original Publication: Heroin Times Working within the limitations of the space that’s available here — during the last two ibogaine articles — I’ve basically covered what ibogaine does; followed by a short piece about what it doesn’t do. To summarize:…

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Ibogaine: Miracle Cure for Everything…?

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times  “It’s been a while, since I’ve gone and fucked things up, just like I always do…” –Staind (It’s Been a While / Break the Cycle) Over the course of the past coupla years, ibogaine has started to…

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Ibogaine

Copyright © 2000, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times After many years of heavy opiate addiction, I had tried pretty much every available detox on the planet, ranging from UROD (Ultra Rapid Opiate Detox), Dr. Richard Resnick’s “black box” (TENS unit), methadone, Buprinex, tapering down to…

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