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1 CN BC: Agony Vs. EcstasySun, 01 Mar 2015
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Wood, Daniel Area:British Columbia Lines:75 Added:03/03/2015

A psychedelic response to post-traumatic stress

In an extraordinary project, local research scientists and therapists, specializing in newly resurgent psychedelic medicine, are seeking to confirm what others elsewhere have recently discovered. It appears that highly illegal ecstasy-MDMA- helps people overcome the living hell of treatment-resistant PTSD. In two studies done in Switzerland and the U.S., it has been shown that pure MDMA, plus intensive psychotherapy, can cure people whose lives have been shattered by horrific traumas, ones that-even after years-keep returning in flashbacks and nightmares.

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2 CN BC: Rethinking Drug ProhibitionThu, 01 Nov 2012
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Webster, Paul Area:British Columbia Lines:346 Added:11/06/2012

Backed by a growing roster of politicians, health officers, and legal experts, a single beat cop blows the whistle on prohibition

For all the hype, says Const. David Bratzer, the life of a downtown cop is about wordplay more often than gunplay. As the scores of drug offenders who've served jail time at his insistence will attest, his main weapon isn't his service revolver, it's polite, persistent persuasion. As he unrolls his six-foot frame from a floatplane in Vancouver harbour on a humid summer morning, that's a weapon he plans to level once again at the very drug laws he's charged with enforcing. "It's tough for a cop to admit," he says, heading down the wharf while buttoning his charcoal jacket, "but our laws just don't make sense."

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3 CN BC: Riot ActSun, 01 Nov 2009
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Harris, Michael Area:British Columbia Lines:42 Added:11/01/2009

A New Mural In Gastown Re-Creates One Of The Defining Moments In The City's History

Great public artworks call out to the passerby. Masterpieces begin a conversation. Stan Douglas's new mural depicting the 1971 Gastown riots, now suspended in the atrium of the redone Woodward's building (steps from the site of the actual riots), will strike up more conversation than any other artwork in town. Hanging midair at the heart of the city's new melting pot, it depicts some of the hundreds of hippies who suffered police brutality after convening at Maple Tree Square one summer day to protest undercover drug squads. Officers charged the crowds on horseback and beat protesters with batons. It's an embarrassing scene of misconduct that the police have tried hard to put to rest. The finished work is a massive reminder though, stretching 50 by 30 feet. The title Douglas gave it, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, is dry and prosaic enough to register his interest in historical rigour. In fact, he spent six months researching historical details ("I wanted to know what was right, from the signage down to the garbage can"); then there were six weeks of pre-production (building the elaborate street set); three days of shooting; and two months of post-production. The final computer file cost $550,000 to create and, after construction costs are considered, the price is over $1 million.

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4 CN BC: The Ecstasy Of Paul HadenSun, 01 Mar 2009
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Bula, Frances Area:British Columbia Lines:276 Added:03/06/2009

His death, in a West Side apartment with a pot of chemicals boiled dry on the stove, mystified not just his friends and family but his initiates and customers as well

One sunny Sunday last June, the small park at the centre of Strathcona, usually filled with Frisbee players and Chinese seniors and hipster kids recovering from the previous night's partying, was transformed.

A festival-style tent went up. Folding chairs for 200 were put out for the large crowd of guests. These guests-some in suits, some in batik-print shirts or gauzy flowing skirts-covered a wide range: a doctor, a banker, a filmmaker, a writer, a lab technician, a stripper, an architect. There were so many people that a few dozen ended up having to stand.

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5 CN BC: FixedThu, 01 Jan 2009
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Webster, Paul Area:British Columbia Lines:391 Added:01/01/2009

How The Harper Government Wasted Millions And Alienated Academe In Its Campaign To Shut Insite

Thomas Kerr reached the top of the politics-laced field of addiction research at an age when he was still undimmed by academic apathy. Square-jawed and rapid-talking, the 41-year-old UBC epidemiologist has something of a boxer's poise.

When he talks about his research into hard-drug use in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, his anger surfaces in flashes of acerbic wit and penetrating knowledge.

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6 CN BC: OPED: Uh-Oh Our Ambassador's In JailWed, 03 Dec 2003
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC)          Area:British Columbia Lines:53 Added:01/10/2004

Being a city and not (yet) a city-state, Vancouver doesn't officially send ambassadors to foreign lands. Unofficially though, we have lots-former Vancouverites who move to other places and thus represent our burg to the wider world. Michael J. Fox comes to mind, but don't forget another Vancouver gift to the movies: Tommy Chong. The Canadian half of the Cheech & Chong comedy team may have grown up in Calgary, but his professional career started here-and even included a stint with Motown recording artists Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers. Not to mention the fact that his trademark stoner humour is a sales pitch for Vancouver's number one home-grown industry. When he and Cheech Marin began starring in a series of dope-addled films, Chong became a rare example of Vancouver going to Hollywood instead of the other way around. Tommy Chong: Vancouver's ambassador to California.

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7 CN BC: Problem RootSat, 01 Nov 2003
Source:Vancouver Magazine (CN BC) Author:Crockford, Ross Area:British Columbia Lines:75 Added:11/01/2003

A West End addiction clinic test-drives tries an African drug.

Residents of the West End live on top of each other, but they're often clueless about their neighbours. Consider the tenants of a particular condo tower near Stanley Park. The retirees drifting back from breakfast, the Japanese girl heading out for a run-they'd never guess that up in one neighbor's apartment this morning, a Seattle dominatrix is trying to kick her addiction to heroin by undergoing a treatment rooted in African shamanism.

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