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No worrys Tweet, his lecture info is up now, see below; Charly Bedrossian - Cannabis Cultivation: Reach for Higher Quality Standards Synopsis: In his presentation, Charly will offer advice on the safe use of recreational and medicinal cannabis while also educating the public about the many industrial applications of the hemp plant. Charly will share a brief history of the non-profit organisation 'The Cannabis College' and explore the importance of education in the current and future cannabis industries to strive for higher quality standards. Charly will also give us an insight into Dutch drug laws and cover cannabis growing and cultivation techniques, harvesting, controlling pests and diseases, as well as other botanical tips.

Garden States - A Forum for Cultivating Ethnobotanical Plants, Knowledge and Community Greetings Friends We're very excited to announce that this Mother’s Day EGA will be honouring the ‘mother plants' with a one-day symposium. We invite you to join us for a full day of ethnobotanical knowledge and related discussion. Discover the benefits of psychedelic plants from traditional use to future medical and therapeutic applications. There will also be discussions on their historical and cultural value and the important role they may play in a sustainable future. Learn from the experts how to grow and share your ethnobotanical plants. The program will be made up of keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and market space all aimed at celebrating the sacred garden. Please let any like-minded friends know about the symposium and encourage them to join us on May 12 for a day of critical thinking about psychedelic plants and related compounds. Two international presenters will join a host of botanically minded local talent for a full day of programming over two spaces. The Cannabis College (Amsterdam) head gardener Charly Bedrossian will be sharing his knowledge on the cannabis industry and law, the importance of education, and cultivation techniques gained from years of experience in the field. We will also be joined by one of the most outspoken representatives of the psychedelic underground, David Nickles of the DMT-Nexus. For more information on the international presenters see below. EGA events have a history of selling out, and tickets are strictly limited, so get your early bird Garden States tickets while you can. We also have a specially priced Mother's Day ticket so bring along your mum, or gift her a ticket, what could go wrong…! The full program will be announced shortly. Get your Tickets now If you have an interest in having a market stall email marketstalls@entheogenesis.org Respectfully Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) www.entheogenesis.org ---

FYI Charly Bedrossian speaking in Australia in May Charly Bedrossian is a representative of the Cannabis College in Amsterdam. This non-profit organization that offers free advice on the safe use of recreational and medicinal cannabis while also educating the public about the many industrial uses of the hemp plant. In his presentation, Charly will share the history of this non-profit organization and explore the importance of education in today & tomorrow’s cannabis industry in order to reach higher quality standards. Born in France, Charly grew up between Madagascar, Ecuador & Colombia, before eventually moving to the Netherlands to pursue his passion for cannabis. Shortly after arriving in Amsterdam, he started to work for the Sensi Seeds Bank, where he still works today as Community Manager. He is also a volunteer at the Cannabis College and its head gardener. Eternally curious, Charly’s motto is to learn something new every day & share this knowledge with others. He will be presenting in Victoria at EGA's Garden States (A Forum for Cultivating Ethnobotanical Plants, Knowledge and Community) and in NSW at Mardigrass as part of the 2019 Hemposium. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Dtr08WCFU Ok, this weekend everyone, If you won't to see more films like this over in Aus then support the screenings ;-)

DRUGLAWED is the documentary that finally clears the smoke around the failed international prohibition of cannabis. Each Screening will have a live introduction by the film maker Arik Reiss and a Drug law reform panel - 'From medical to recreational - the road to regulation'. DRUGLAWED the film details how New Zealand got rolled up in the US-led Drug War along with 183 other countries. Over the past 100 years the US has forced its fatally flawed model of drug prohibition on almost every country on earth. Four decades since Richard Nixon declared the War On Drugs, 22 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana. Only one country in the world arrests a higher proportion of its population for cannabis: New Zealand. While cannabis has now been legalised in multiple American states, the New Zealand government remains firmly locked into the international Drug War matrix. Druglawed shows why it is essential to break out and how to do it. Sydney Dec 4th Tickets to Sydney screenings: http://www.trybooking.com/JOCJ Sydney Facebook event page - https://www.facebook.com/events/168407116840338/ Melbourne Dec 5th Tickets to Melbourne screenings: http://www.entheogenesis.org/tickets Melbourne Facebook event page - https://www.facebook...12802425705796/ Trailer: Facebook: www.facebook.com/druglawed Twitter: www.twiter.com/druglawed

In less than 4 days we will be gathering for the 10-year Anniversary EGA Psychedelic Symposium. This year’s program has a strong international lineup; 5 guests from around the world will join us to cover a wide range of topics including Ayahuasca Shamanism, Ibogaine Treatment for Opioid Dependence, ‘Synthetic’ Drug Regulation, and Underground Psychedelic Therapy… and that is just the tip of the programming iceberg. We have come a long way since our first official EGA event in 2004, before which there was an annual plant meeting in an outer eastern suburbs library. Today, EGA is a world-renowned conference event, a leader in presenting psychedelics as having positive potential, and a think tank for drug law reform advocates around Australia. We hope you can join us for another chapter in the important discussion around sacred plants & chemicals, and psychedelic science & culture. Get your tickets to the EGA Psychedelic Symposium now

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http://www.entheogenesis.org/sites/default/files/content_images/ega2014_flyer_700.jpg ENTHEOGENESIS AUSTRALIS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY - INDOOR PSYCHEDELIC SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER, Melbourne Australia. http://www.entheogenesis.org Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a biennial symposium about psychedelics plants and chemicals in Melbourne Australia. Consisting of over 20 lectures and discussion panels, the event hosts an array of speakers from across Australia and abroad. The aim of the conference is to explore a rich variety of perspectives on tools and techniques for manipulating consciousness from social, cultural, creative and traditional perspectives. Listed below are just some of the engaging lectures featured at the conference. Dr Bia Labate - Ayahuasca Shamanism Beyond the Amazon Dr Alex Wodak AM - The current status of medicinal cannabis in Australia Dr David Caldicott – To be announced Geoff Noller - Ibogaine Treatment for Opioid Dependence in New Zealand: A 12-month Post-treatment Follow-up Observational Study Fiona Patten - The New Social Tonics, the Bastard Children of Prohibition PRISM Inc - The Road to Psychedelic Research in Australia Alex Gearin – Organic and the Inorganic in Ayahuasca Visions Andrew McMillen - Can you be too Honest about your own Drug Use? DanceWize - Sex, Drugs, and Harm Reduction Torsten Wiedemann - Analysis of ethnobotanical constituents Des Tramacchi - Religious Dimensions of Entheogen Use Rak Razam - Full Spectrum Consciousness Genevieve Sinclair - Paint, Glue and Deodorant: Drugs of choice? Michael Bock - Kava, The Herb of Tranquility Ray Thorpe - 'Knee-jerk' anti-psychoactive laws Richard Haridy - Psychedelics On Film: An Illustrated Journey Carl Turney - America's Drug Culture in the 60s and 70s Tim Payne - Life after Entheogens For the full program, presenter bios and talk abstract see our web page. Altered states of consciousness have long been a fundamental part of human culture, and as our world becomes increasingly fast-paced, alternative modalities are becoming ever more significant and consciously explored. If you’ve ever asked yourself: “Has the ‘War on Drugs’ created more problems than it tried to solve?” or “is MDMA really a more dangerous drug than alcohol?” – then EGA is the place for you. Entheogenesis Australis is a community of thinkers from all walks of life. We come together to share knowledge about sacred plants, alchemy and states of consciousness. We hope you will join us on this exploration. Get tickets now: http://www.entheogenesis.org/tickets Facebook event page: https://www.facebook...15814761771127/ EGA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EGA.plant.org

Rick Doblin will be giving the following talks at this year’s EGA in Melbourne in early December. Talk 1 TITLE: Psychedelics, Social Change, and Cultural Evolution SYNOPSIS We'll discuss the current renaissance in psychedelic research, the political dynamics at work, and a strategy for the reintegration of psychedelic experiences into Western culture. There are now more psychedelic research studies taking place than at any time in the last 40 years. The symbolism of psychedelics as tools of political rebellion in the 1960s is subsiding and their scientific and therapeutic contributions are coming to the fore. Nevetheless, mainstreaming psychedelics back into Western culture is a delicate and slow-moving effort. In 396 AD, after about 2000 years of continuous celebration, the Eleusinian mystery ceremonies, considered by some experts to include a visionary/psychedelic component, were ended by the Christians. In 1962, almost 1600 years later, Harvard's Dr. Walter Pahnke conducted his Good Friday experiment in religiously-inclined subjects and demonstrated the potential of psilocybin to catalyze mystical experiences. By 1972, a cultural backlash ended virtually all psychedelic research for the next 20 years. In 1991, my follow-up study to the Good Friday study, conducted 25+ years after Pahnke's experiment, suggested a link between the subjects' mystical experiences and increased motivation for progressive (altruistic, compassionate) political involvement. Recent investigations at Johns Hopkins have confirmed the relationship between psilocybin and mystical experiences. The reintegration of psychedelics will likely require the demonstration of the pro-social benefits of the mystical experience. In addition, research studies demonstrating the therapeutic uses of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, anxiety associated with end-of-life issues, and addiction will be required to more fully integrate psychedelic experiences into Western culture. Eventually, there will be networks of psychedelic therapy clinics in many towns. The mainstreaming of psychedelics will also require legal contexts for people seeking spiritual growth and rites of passage experiences, for freedom of religion in a personal sense. Post-prohibition harm reduction strategies such as psychedelic emergency services at cultural events, will reduce the likihood of future backlash. Talk 2 TITLE: 'Developing Psychedelics into Prescription Medicines: MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder' SYNOPSIS After investing over $2 million and 24 years of dedicated effort, MAPS has completed two successful pilot studies of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in patients with chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD (in the US and Switzerland), with additional pilot studies underway or in the approval process in Israel, Jordan and Canada. Yet we're still about 10 years and $10 million from the prescription approval of MDMA for PTSD. This lecture will address key points of MAPS’ international clinical development plan for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, including protocol design, methodological challenges, development of our treatment manual and therapist training program and protocol, funding and political challenges. The studies of psychedelics in the treatment of anxiety and/or depression associated with end-of-life issues, of ibogaine and ayahuasca in the treatment of addiction and drug abuse, and of marijuana for a wide range of clinical conditions, will also be discussed. The talk will conclude with comments on how best to start psychedelic research in Australia. Do Not Miss this www.entheo.net

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/ronnysimulacrum/Basement-theatre---the-Spot---shop.jpg EGA 2010 - Psychedelic Symposium It is with great pleasure we announce our second Indoor EGA Symposium, held once again at the University of Melbourne. However this year we have extended the conference over both Saturday and Sunday and aim to provide an unprecedented professional and engaging program in the field of psychedelic studies. So get out your calendars and mark December 4-5 in your diary as the date for this year’s EGA. If you wont to Know more about Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) follow this link: http://www.entheo.net/EGA10_A4_v2LR.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rick Doblin Headlining It is with enormous delight that EGA will be bringing Rick Doblin to Australia to headline this year’s Symposium. Rick is the founder of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) a non-profit membership-based research and educational organization. Amongst other things, MAPS sponsors clinical studies intended to obtain US Food & Drug Administration [FDA] approval for the use of MDMA and LSD as prescription medicines. Without a doubt this is a massive opportunity for the Australian psychedelic community and we encourage you all to spread the news across your networks as Rick’s presence will draw interest from people across a wide variety of disciplines. We expect the 400 tickets to sell out very quickly this year, so get in early and make your plans for EGA well in advance. Bio - Rick Doblin, Ph.D., - MAPS Executive Director Rick founded MAPS in 1986. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master’s thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment. Rick studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise "healthy" people, and to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He resides in Boston with his wife and three children. The MAPS Web Page http://www.maps.org Other Keynote Speakers at EGA 2010 Dr Alex Wodak - Bio: Dr Alex Wodak is a physician and since 1982 has been the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW. Major interests include prevention of alcohol and drug-related problems, harm reduction, treatment of drug users in prison and drug policy reform. Dr. Wodak is the President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association from 1996 to 2004. Dr. Wodak and colleagues established the first needle syringe programme and the first medically supervised injecting centre in Australia (when both were pre-legal). He is a member of a number of state and national committees and has often worked in developing countries to assist efforts to control HIV infection among injecting drug users. Dr. Wodak was awarded an AM in 2010. Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Web Page http://adlrf.org.au --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticketing Info Tickets for the 2010 EGA Psychedelic Symposium is very limited and on sale now. There are only 350 tickets available to this conference, so be sure to get in early. DATE AVAILABLE TICKETS PRICE 10/08/10 – 13/09/10 First Round $125 14/09/10 – 01/11/10 General admission $150 ($130 concession with ID) 02/11/10 – 29/11/10 Final boarding call $170 ( $155 concession with ID) Daypass – Only 10 per day available @ $90, email us at entheogenesis<at symbol>gmail To buy a ticket simply follow this link to the EGA Shop http://www.entheo.net/egashop.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EGA 2010 will also be hosting new speakers from around Australia plus some of your old favorites So stay pleases stay tuned everyone - and help spread the good EGA News in your networks and help keep EGA alive. We hope to see you at EGA 2010. Love and Light RonnySimulacrum & the EGA Team http://www.entheo.net ::

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