New and Noteworthy

Here are some articles worth checking out (I know, I filter through a lot of chaff to find you the nuggets):

Brazzein, Bio-Tech, Iboga & Benefit Sharing in Gabon
by Caridad Del Cobre
Drug Addiction Treatment from Iboga -- Out of Central and West Africa For a very long time, Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga) has been used in Central and West Africa. In low doses, the plant serves as a stimulant to maintain alertness, for example, while hunting. In larger doses, it is a hallucinogen, traditionally used for religious purposes by ngangas and in initiation rites, (McGown, Jay, 'Out of Africa')...

Iboga Bio Piracy & Benefit Sharing
by simon
I have never heard of enyone getting rich off ibogaine and its hardly like the indegenouse people dont benefit from the process; I can say this because I deal directly with them and have also been in contact with Brainforest...

The lost promise of LSD
by Connie Littlefield
Prohibition of Albert Hofmann's 'problem child' failed to get it off the street -- and succeeded in killing legitimate research into its powerful potential to help people...

This blog is dedicated to Howard Lotsof

Ibogaine hydrochloride is an alkaloid derived from an African rainforest shrub, Tabernanthe Iboga, and used as a sacrament in the ancient native Bwiti religion during initiation ceremonies.

In 1962, nineteen year old Howard Lotsof accidentally discovered that ibogaine can interrupt heroin and other addictions for extended periods of time, while completely eliminating withdrawal symptoms. He would live with this knowledge for the next two decades, a secret very much like a defused nuclear warhead, ready to be armed and detonated upon the world.

I met Howard and his wife Norma Alexander in 1973 as a freshman at New York University's film school. They immediately befriended me (more on this in later blogs), and eventually we became swept up in each other's lives.

This blog concerns itself with all things ibogaine. It is presented as a forum and resource for a growing community of open-minded, compassionate individuals involved in a currently underground revolution of the human spirit and mind.

I dedicate this blog to Howard and Norma Lotsof, without whom there would be little if no hope for those suffering the slavery of addiction.