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The Stoned Age is a hilarious comedy about today's underestimated youth. The book takes a lighthearted look at the lives of five unique and often troublesome teens. Through this book, the reader learns that it's not the plot and storyline that make a good book, but the people who are in it. The book tells of actual occurrences that the author went through growing up. A real eye opener for all those who are out there that are tired of reading the same old boring stuff. So, take a chance, and read the life story of five comical teens who tackle today's most penetrating issues, but with a hilarious twist...
Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging Beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a New Frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.
A clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development. • First American publication of the surprising European bestseller. • Examines everything from the ancient use of ergot and datura to the modern phenomenon of "designer" drugs such as Ecstasy and crack cocaine. From remotest antiquity to the present era of designer drugs and interdiction, drugs have played a prominent role in the cultural, spiritual, and social development of civilizations. Antonio Escohotado demonstrates how the history of drugs illuminates the history of humanity as he explores the long relationship between mankind and mind-altering substances. Hemp, for example, has been used in India since time immemorial to stimulate mental agility and sexual prowess. Aristotle's disciple Theophrastus testifies to the use of datura by the ancient Greeks and further evidence links the rites at Eleusis to the ingestion of a hallucinogen. Similar examples can be found in cultures as diverse as the Celts, the ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs, and other indigenous peoples around the world. Professor Escohotado also looks at the present-day differences that exist between the more drug-tolerant societies like Holland and Switzerland and countries advocating complete repression of these substances. The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the enormous social costs of the drug war that is coming under increasing fire from all levels of society. Professor Escohotado's work demonstrates that drugs have always existed and been used by societies throughout the world and the contribution they have made to humanity's development has been enormous. The choice we face today is to teach people how to use them correctly or to continue to indiscriminately demonize them. "Just say no," the author says, is not an option. Just say "know" is. Antonio Escohotado is a professor of philosophy and social science methodology at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain. He travels widely, offering lectures and seminars on the subject of drugs and history.
The brain is the center of consciousness. It controls both our sensory input and how we interpret what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste. The act of getting high involves manipulating this process so that our brain achieves an altered state of consciousness. Discover how you can safely, legally get high and expand your mind... Legally High Benefits of Legal Highs; Increasing Acceptance of Recreational Drug Use; My "Sordid" Drug Past; Why I Now Prefer Legal Highs; No Judgment, But Safety First Consumption Highs Smoke-able Products; Do "Legal" Pills Really Work?; Hemp and Cannabinoids; Herbs and Other Edible Highs; Liquid Highs; Other Consumable Legal Highs; Dangerous Highs to Avoid Altering Your Mind Meditation and Trance-Inducing Highs; Dream Inductions; Breathing and Perception; Sweat Lodges; Vision Quests; Image Trickery; Yoga and High-Inducing Poses; Other Hands-Free Highs Sound-Centric Highs Binaural Beats; Mozart Effect; Yucatecan Trance Induction Beats; Shepard Tones; Risset Rhythm; Disappearing Noise; Other Sound-Based Highs Spiritual Highs Prayer and Enlightenment; Kundalini Transcendent Chanting; Tibetan Buddhist Light Meditation; Transpersonal Banding; Mevlevi Whirling; Amygdala Excercisala Sexual Highs Tao of Sex Techniques; Tantric Sex and Sexual Yoga; Orgasm as Perceptive Release; Non-Sexual Public Nudity; Other Sexual Highs High-Tech Highs Brain Machines; Sensory Deprivation; Light-Triggered Highs; Other Cutting Edge Gadgetry for Getting High Legally Out There Highs 21st Century Euphoric Highs; Substances Not Yet Banned; Club Drugs; How to Get Medical Marijuana; What the Future Holds
Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring effi ciency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), both introduced in the late 1970s. Researchers have been attempting to develop a method which combines the virtues - both nonparametric and stochastic - of these “oldies”. The recently introduced Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) by Kuosmanen and Kortelainen (2010) is such a promising method. This paper compares the StoNED method with the two “oldies” DEA and SFA and extends the initial Monte Carlo simulation of Kuosmanen and Kortelainen (2010) in several directions. We show, among others, that, in scenarios without noise, the rivalry is still between the “oldies”, while in noisy scenarios, the nonparametric StoNED PL now constitutes a promising alternative to the SFA ML.