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Twitter Reacts to the Legalization of Marijuana for Recreational Use in Colorado and Washington

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Legalization of Marijuana took a step in the right direction as voters in Colorado and Washington have become the first states to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use. A huge victory for drug law reform advocates, and a massive win for everyone in general. The positive reaction on Twitter came from a diverse set of people, a good sign that cannabis is outgrowing the shackles of misinformation and propaganda.

Legalization of Marijuana Use Tweets

Joe Rogan, Comedian and UFC Announcer

Rashida Jones, Actress (Parks and Rec)

Kevin Smith, Director

Phil Plait, Astronomer

Big Boi, Rapper (Outkast)

Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Instructor

http://twitter.com/eddiebravo/status/266119763233759232

Erik Griffin, Comedian and Actor (Workaholics)

Jason Silva, Futurist and Filmmaker

Kevin Pereira, Tech Host (Attack of the Show, Pointless)

http://twitter.com/kpereira/status/266034355552522242

Alchemist, Hip Hop Producer

George Lopez, Comedian and Talk Show Host

KT Tatara, Comedian

B-Real, Rapper (Cypress Hill)

Rob Van Dam, Pro Wrestler

Mike Epps, Comedian and Actor (Next Friday)

Rihanna, Pop Singer

Freddy Lockhart, Comedian

http://twitter.com/freddylockhart/status/266039208437772288

J.A. Adande, Sports Writer

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Joe Rogan – Cannabis Takes Away Motivation To Do Things That Suck (Video)

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Joe Rogan talks about the common misconceptions that people have about cannabis.

Eddie Bravo Converted The Once Anti-Cannabis Joe Rogan

Back in Boston, the real problem was I hung out with a bunch of fucken idiots. The people that I knew that smoked pot were idiots and pot wasn’t helping them. If you got a little low watt brain and you super charge it with fucken jet fuel, you still got a low watt brain. So I associated pot with stupid people but then I meet this genius (Eddie Bravo) and he smokes pot all the time. I’m an open-minded person, and I’m willing to drop all preconceived notions that I have and go “Ok, I’ll try it”. I remember very clearly the day I got high with him. I remember that day going , “Fuuucck!!!” It was like I shot through a cannon and all of a sudden I was on the other side. He was like “Dude, glad to have you over here”. And I’m like “Glad to be over here. I can’t believe I was over there!” Shit, we had ice cream sundaes, I couldn’t believe how good it taste! Millions of new thoughts were just flooding my brain, it was like I was ripping down walls and shit was just flowing in.

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Joe Rogan – Nationalism is Primitive, Society is Funded by War (Video)

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Joe Rogan delivers an important message about uplifting society to a higher consciousness that can see through the illusions that divide us.

Artificial Boundaries Are Used to Manipulate the Uninformed

We all have this desire to have someone lead us. We all have this feeling where we need someone smarter, wiser to represent us. The problem is really dumb people have a say too and they’re subject to a lot of tricks. They’re subject to nationalism, they’re subject to these ridiculous rah rah America speeches that don’t say jack shit. They say nothing, it’s all just this fucken cheerleading event. They can’t help it, they’re dumb, they don’t know that they’re being bullshited. They grew up with dumb people, they go to work with dumb people, there’s no one in their family that’s interesting or asks any questions at all, and they just get sucked in right into it.

The Sacrifice of Many for the Pleasure of the Few

This society is so greedy, we’re willing to go to war. We’re willing to go places and send these big metal machines that kill people and fuck people up just so we can make more money. And the way our society is set up, I’ve heard it argued, and argued successfully that our society runs on war. It runs on the domination of other parts of the world. Literally, that’s how they control a large chunk of the world, they have to keep everyone down.

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Joe Rogan – How Hemp Became Illegal, DMT Reset Button (Video)

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Cannabis is illegal because of the economical effects it would have on cigarette sales, alcohol sales and as a viable alternative for many pharmaceutical drugs. Hemp is also useful for paper production and in the textile industry. Joe Rogan also explains the purpose of DMT, “the spirit molecule” that acts as a gateway to other realms of reality.

Hemp Became an Economic Threat to Various Industries

William Randolph Hearst who owned all these newspapers and paper mills, it was going to cost him millions of dollars to convert over to hemp. So instead he started printing stories in his paper about some new drug called “marijuana”. Marijuana wasn’t even a slang term for cannabis yet, it was used to describe a Mexican wild tobacco, completely unrelated. They got it illegal by saying people are smoking it, blacks and Mexicans are raping white women. Congress outlawed this new drug “Marijuana”, with no idea that they were outlawing hemp, which had been in use for thousands of years.

DMT, Psychedelics Isolates the Mind From Cultural Conditioning

It’s not about something that kills you. You won’t be able to absorb propaganda the way you do now. You won’t be able to look at the news the way you do now. You won’t be able to look at common cultural conditioning and predetermined patterns of behavior. None of that no longer makes sense after you’ve gone through a psychedelic experience. Any psychedelic experience is like pressing CTRL ALT DELETE on your brain.

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Joe Rogan – Interviews on DMT Trip Experiences and Isolation Tanks (Video)

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Joe Rogan – nnDMT Trip Experience Interview

Joe Rogan talks about his DMT experience and the joy of taking psychedelics then jumping into an isolation tank.

Joe Rogan – 5MEO-DMT Experience, Isolation Tank Interview

Joe Rogan trips out on what and how we say things on 5MEO-DMT and a caller talks about isolation tank experiences.

…When I did it I dissolved to the center of the universe and became a part of the cellular structure of all matter, it was the strangest experience ever…

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Joe Rogan – The Mind in a Sensory Deprivation Tank (Video)

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Joe Rogan speaks on what the mind goes through in a sensory deprivation tank and the awesome potential you can achieve with one.

The first 20 minutes for me at least is sort of like a seminar on my life. It shows me all that the different issues in my life that I don’t like and that I need to fix, things that are bothering me, things about my own behavior that could have been better, and things where I disappointed myself

Then it will show me some things where I’m on the right track, this is good, continue here, continue doing this, continue thinking like this, continuing explore these ideas but then once it gets ME done, it’s like let’s clear all this bullshit in your life, let’s think about the big picture.

And then it’s pure thought, it’s like the mind completely untethered from the body and then I start contemplating everything, I start contemplating the universe, the role of human beings and each individual’s actions all accumulating to one specific event, I start thinking all kinds of crazy shit but without the body in the way.

Check out Intro to the Isolation Tank (Floatation Sensory Deprivation) for our post on the development of the tank and how you can try out the experience.

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Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo on Pot Head Losers, Propaganda (Video)

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From The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast #144 – Eddie Bravo

Joe Rogan on “Pot Head Losers” and Weed as a Bullshit Detector

Yeah, it could fuck up your life. People can smoke pot and become losers. But guess what? They would have become losers anyway. It’s like what you’re saying is, the lazy people with no ambition who aren’t that bright, pot gets a hold of them and it’s gonna fuck up their lives. But guess what? Their lives are already fucked up. You come to certain roadblocks or certain things in your life where you have to make decisions about your behavior and where you have to reassess yourself. If you can’t get through the weed hurdle, how the fuck are you going to deal with the real world? Because weed to me is the truth. When I smoke pot, I can say a lot of silly shit and get weird and start talking about the universe but what it is to me is the truth. Anything that’s bullshit, anything that’s a lie, anything that’s misleading is glaring when you’re high. Acting is glaring. If you see a movie high with bad actors, it’s glaring. If you see a political speech high, it’s glaring. You feel the bullshit. People get the wrong impression. It’s really a shame, it’s not that everyone has to do it. But you shouldn’t get upset when someone is telling you an honest interpretation of the positive experiences they have when they’re high.

Eddie Bravo on the Anti Marijuana Propaganda Tone Shift

Any negative thought you have about weed, it stems from the propaganda from the 30s. (Reefer Madness) There’s many movies you can watch on Youtube to see where the propaganda all started. The reason they stopped saying that it makes you go crazy, jump out of windows, and kill people is because people got hip to it. They believed it in the 30s and 40s but then the people who were smoking weed in the 50s and 60s realized that it wasn’t making them crazy and it’s actually pretty cool so they had to change their stance. Slowly it evolved from “weed kills you” to “weed makes you worthless”. Any negative thought you have for marijuana, it’s because we’ve all been brainwashed. I used to be the biggest weed hater ever until I was 28. I couldn’t stand pot heads, they made me sick. Every band I was in had one or two potheads. When they’d fuck up on stage or rehearsal, I would blame the weed. I’d get angry “Dude, are you fucken high? You can’t fucken play bass and smoke weed”. But every now and then I would be talked into smoking weed and I’d get paranoid and hate it. What happens when you’re high is it is roaring river of information that’s just flooded into your brain. Some people don’t want to ride those roaring rapids, they want to stay in the tent. Some people ride it to absorb that energy and use it for their benefit

> #144 Eddie Bravo | Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

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Intro to the Isolation Tank (Floatation Sensory Deprivation)

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The sensory deprivation tank — a temperature-regulated, salt-water filled, soundproof, lightproof tank that can isolate its occupant from numerous forms of sensory input all at once — has gone by many names over the years, but its overall design and purpose have remained largely unchanged: to find out what your brain does when it’s shoved into a box all by itself and left alone for a while.

 

Just Your Mind, All Senses Gone

Inside the tank there is no light, and therefore no sense of vision. You experience the kind of quiet that allows you to hear your muscles tense, your heart beat, and your eyelids close. The extreme buoyancy of the water lends your environment an almost zero-gravity quality. The lack of a temperature differential plays with your ability to perceive where your body ends and where the water and air begin.

 

John C. Lilly, Developer of the Isolation Tank

While John C. Lilly is certainly well known for developing the world’s first isolation tank, he was by no means a stranger to revolutionary, albeit sometimes strange and uncharted, areas of medical and scientific innovation.Lilly was a pioneer in the field of electronic brain stimulation. He was the first person to map pain and pleasure pathways in the brain. He founded an entire branch of science exploring interspecies communication between humans, dolphins, and whales; conducted extensive experimentation with mind-altering drugs like LSD  and spent prolonged periods of time exploring the nature of human consciousness in the isolation tank.

 

Experiences in the Tank

Lilly claimed that the sensory deprivation tank allowed him to make contact with creatures from other dimensions, and civilizations far more advanced than our own. He would forever refer to his very first encounter with entities from another dimension as “the first conference of three beings,” the details of which are recounted in great detail on Lilly’s website. Lilly’s, however, is an experience that others who use tanks have rarely reported.

By comparison, characterizations of sensory deprivation like this one by comedian Joe Rogan begin to sound downright grounded — and Rogan’s descriptions of hallucinations, heightened levels of introspection, and the sensation that the mind has left the body are actually among the most commonly reported experiences among tank users. Even renowned physicist Richard Feynman described having hallucinations and out-of-body experiences while using sensory deprivation chambers.

Reports of a heightened sense of introspection and out-of-body experiences by tank users mirror those of people with extensive experience in meditation, and both practices have been linked to decreased alpha waves and increased theta waves in the brain — patterns most typically found in sleeping states.

 

When, Where To Try The Tank

You might think that you can just get into the tank and have a psychedelic trip right away, but it doesn’t work like that. Absolutely nothing might happen the first time. If you are interested in using the tank, practice meditating first. Meditation helps you develop that habit of “letting go”. If you can’t free your mind, your tank experience may be boring as you’ll just be floating with impatience and anxiety.

Depending on your proclivity for psychoactive drug use, sensory deprivation tanks can offer anything from a means to achieving relaxation and reflection to a vehicle that can aid you in your travels through time and space. And if you should feel the itch to explore what sensory deprivation might be able to offer you, you can seek out nearby tank centers over at Float Finder.

> Guide to Isolation Tanks | io9

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Bobby Lee Animated Mad TV Stories (Joe Rogan Podcast) (Video)

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Check out these animated clips of Bobby Lee’s Mad TV stories on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.

He takes a shit in the Mad TV office and farts in a girl’s mouth, bringing her to tears. Other comedians love Bobby Lee because he’s so crazy and unfiltered.

Bobby Lee Animated Mad TV Stories Part 1

 

Bobby Lee Animated Mad TV Stories Part 2

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Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video)

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Getting baked doesn’t create positive or paranoid emotions, it just enhances whatever mood you’re in. If you have issues that you refuse to deal with, you might want to avoid marijuana, because it will bring them to the surface.

Being paranoid is a good thing. The experience of being paranoid when you smoke weed is to get you to look at yourself. It’s to get you to look at life. You’re not always looking at it as clearly as you could. Those jolts of perception you misinterpret as paranoia, what you’re really doing is just dealing with information that’s already there. – Joe Rogan

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