Book Anthology on DMT

[Kookaburra]

Hi Nexus! I've been away for a while and it feels good to be back...

Some friends of mine are working on putting together a "definitive" anthology of essays on DMT, based loosely on "The Pot Book" edited by Julie Holland: check out the table of contents here: Julie Holland, M.D.

The Pot Book – Table of Contents

Foreword by Lester Grinspoon, M.D.
Introduction

Part One: An Overview of Cannabis
Introduction to Part One
1. The Subjective Effects of Cannabis □ Carl L. Hart, Ph.D., and Matthew G. Kirkpatrick
2. Early/Ancient History □ Chris Bennett
3. Recent History □ David Malmo-Levine
4. The Botany of Cannabis □ Lyle E. Craker, Ph.D., and Zoë Gardner
5. Cannabis Grow Revolution □ Danny Danko
6. The Endocannabinoid System □ Gregory L. Gerdeman, Ph.D., and Jason B. Schechter, Ph.D.
7. Anandamide and More □ Raphael Mechoulam, Ph.D., and Lumir Hanuš
8. Cannabis Laws in the United States □ Allen St. Pierre
9. On Ending Prohibition □ Ethan Nadelmann, J.D., Ph.D.

Part Two: Risks of Use and Harm Reduction
Introduction to Part Two
10. Medical Risks and Toxicology □ William Holubek, M.D.
11. Pulmonary Harm and Vaporizers □ Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D.
12. Cognitive Impairment from Chronic Use □ Caroline B. Marvin and Carl L. Hart, Ph.D.
13. Mental Health Risks Associated with Cannabis Use □ Cheryl Corcoran, M.D.
14. How Real Is the Risk of Addiction? □ Ryan Vandrey, Ph.D. and Margaret Haney, Ph.D.
15. Driving Under the Influence □ Paul Armentano
16. Arrest Statistics and Racism □ Harry G. Levine, Ph.D.
17. Getting Busted Is Not So Funny: An Interview with Tommy Chong □ Julie Holland, M.D.
18. The Collateral Consequences of Cannabis Convictions □ Richard Glen Boire, J.D.
19. Harm Reduction Psychotherapy □ Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D.

Part Three: The Clinical Use of Cannabis
Introduction to Part Three
20. The Clinical Applications of Medical Marijuana: An Interview with Andrew Weil,M.D. □ Julie Holland, M.D.
21. Medical Marijuana Research: An Interview with Donald Abrams, M.D. □ Julie Holland, M.D.
22. MAPS and the Federal Obstruction of Medical Marijuana Research □ Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
23. The Government’s Pot Farm: An Interview with Mahmoud A. ElSohly, Ph.D. □ Julie Holland, M.D.
24. Cannabinoids and Psychiatry □ Julie Holland, M.D.
25. Cannabinoids and Neuroprotection □ Sunil K. Aggarwal, M.D., Ph.D., and Gregory T. Carter, M.D.
26. Cannabis and HIV/AIDS □ Mark A. Ware, M.D., and Lynne Belle-Isle
27. Multiple Sclerosis and Spasticity □ Denis J. Petro, M.D.
28. Pain Management □ Mark S. Wallace, M.D., and Ben Platt, M.D.
29. Sativex □ William Notcutt, M.D.

Part Four: Cannabis Culture
Introduction to Part Four
30. What to Tell the Children □ Marsha Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
31. Pot, Parenting, and Outing Myself □ Neal Pollack
32. Cannabis: Stealth Goddess □ Doug Rushkoff
33. Gardener’s Rights, Forgetting, and Co-Evolution: An Interview with Michael Pollan □ Julie Holland, M.D.
34. Cannabis, Business, and Philanthropy: An Interview with Peter Lewis □ Julie Holland, M.D.
35. Thots on Pot □ Jeremy Wolff

Part Five: Steps in the Right Direction
Introduction to Part Five
36. Patients Out of Time: An Interview with Al Byrne, L.CDR. (retired) and Mary Lynn Mathre, R.N., C.A.R.N. □ Julie Holland, M.D.
37. Prescribing Cannabis in California □ Jeffrey Hergenrather, M.D.
38. Canadian Compassion Clubs □ N. Rielle Capler, M.H.A.
39. Dutch Drug Policy □ Mario Lap
40. A Cost Benefit Analysis of Legalizing Marijuana □ Jeffrey Miron, Ph.D.
41. The Marijuana Policy Project □ Bruce Mirken
42. The ACLU and Cannabis Drug Policy □ An Interview with Graham Boyd, J.D.

Resources Section
References
Contributors
Index

What sections/topics would you like to see addressed in a DMT anthology? It should be as wide-ranging as possible, including topics like historical uses, ayahuasca, changa, dmt entities, hyperspace and higher dimensions, translating the DMT experience into art and language, the DMT-Nexus, legal status, relationship to other chemicals, etc etc.

Thanks for any input!! =)

 

[mattritt]

Awesome Idea!! All those sound great, I'd think a section on safety and a section on proper smoking technique would be clutch. Anything regarding traditional use and use of analougs like Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT. A discussion on basic spiritualism and the basics of shamanism would probably be good aswell. Hope to hear more about this going into works!!

 

[Kookaburra]

Fab ideas mattritt! Re: proper smoking technique, would you think an overview of different approaches would be appropriate? b/c while there's some consensus people seem to have preferences. VG & the machine should perhaps be included there.

 

[Shaolin]

Would love to see Nick Sand's input. His articles on DMT are really good.

 

[Kookaburra]

Would love to see Nick Sand's input. His articles on DMT are really good.

Thanks for the input! Articles on what topic?

 

[Entropymancer]

Nick Sand's articles on DMT are definitely worth a mention ("Moving Into the Sacred World of DMT," and "Just a Wee Bit More About DMT")

A couple articles from Metzner's Ayahuasca anthology (Sacred Vine of Spirits) are pretty good introductory overviews. I'm particularly thinking of Dennis McKenna's "Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History" and Jace Callaway's "Phytochemistry and Neuropharmacology of Ayahuasca."

Ott's "Pharmahuasca, Anahuasca and Vinho da Jurema: Human Pharmacology of Oral DMT Plus Harmine" article is a decent read.

Szara's "DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and homologues: clinical and pharmacological considerations" (from the 1969 collection Psychotomimetic Drugs edited by Daniel Efron) gives a nice slice of historical perspective.

Strassman's papers from the early/mid-90s deserve mention, at least for their historic value (being a reintroduction of human experimentation with visionary compounds in a modern research setting).

On the whole though, most of the good existing literature on DMT focuses on ayahuasca brews... a topic which has been the subject of many books which approach the subject from a variety of angles (Steve Beyer's Singing to the Plants, Ott's Ayahuasca Analogues, Trout's Notes on Ayahuasca and Ayahuasca Alkaloids, Shannon's Antipodes of the Mind, Luna and Amaringo's Ayahuasca Visions, Gorman's Ayahuasca in My Blood, Labate's Ayahuasca, Ritual, and Religion in Brazil, etc.... Michael Harner's 1972 anthology Hallucinogens and Shamanism devotes a fair amount of content to ayahuasca use as well). I think vaporized DMT is a whole other beast, and much of the great commentary on that subject remains to be written.