The MAPS Forum is a moderated PLAINTEXT ONLY email list that supports MAPS’
mission by allowing members to interact with each other and with
international experts in the psychedelic field. Topics may include current
news, book reviews, factual questions about psychedelics or marijuana,
psychedelics and marijuana in the media, ideas for research and
fundraising, and articles in the quarterly MAPS Bulletin.
The Forum is archived
to serve as a permanent resource.
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To maintain the high standards that members expect from MAPS, this is a
moderated list. Subscribers to maps_forum are assured of a high
signal/noise ratio. An average of twelve messages/week are selected for posting
to the list each day by the moderator. Although questions are welcome at
all levels of interest, the moderator prefers posted comments to be
presented at a level appropriate for a classroom or a professional
meeting. Please review the guidelines for authors [below] before posting.
Please be aware that all postings are archived. If you do not wish to have your real name associated with your posting, we suggest you use a pseudonym.
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1. Topics may include current news, book reviews, factual questions about
psychedelics or marijuana, psychedelics and marijuana in the media, ideas
for research and fundraising, and articles in the MAPS quarterly bulletin.
Students who have written class papers on psychedelic topics are
encouraged to share their work here. Questions about anything MAPS is
doing, or suggestions for anything MAPS should be doing, are encouraged.
General drug policy discussions (prohibition vs. legalization) are not
encouraged unless they specifically relate to research. Examples of
acceptable drug policy topics include: the influence of drug policy on
research, or the policy implications of research.
2. For purposes of legal safety, messages containing confessions of
personal illegal drug use will not be posted to the group. Generally,
reports on collections of personal experiences from a large subject number
are preferred over n=1 studies. A list of other groups that encourage
discussion of general drug policy, trip reports, or how to get high, is
available by request.
3. (A) Please send list submissions to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you reply
to a post, your reply will be addressed only to the author, you must also
address it to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you want it distributed to the list.
If you want to communicate only with the moderator, address your email to
the moderator's personal address or to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .
(B) Please submit posts in plain text (ASCII or UTF-8 charsets) only. No
HTML, Styled, or RTF-formatted mail please. (C) Please do not ask the
moderator to research, revise, or spell-check your message for you.
Understand the moderator's job consists entirely in accepting/rejecting
posts and making suggestions for revision.
4. Posted comments should be presented at a level appropriate for a
classroom or a professional meeting. This means: (A) Assume a skeptical
audience. Provide argumentation and evidence, rather than simply asserting
your beliefs. Clearly state the central point you are trying to make early
in your message. Provide definitions and/or examples when using unusual
terminology or advanced concepts. Make references to the literature and/or
URL’s whenever possible. (B) By the same token, please provide an
introduction, summary, or discussion of all references or URL’s posted to
the list. Don’t just post web addresses and say, "check this out." (C)
Although original content is prefered, relevant cross-posts from other
sources are welcome (especially when an introduction explaining the
relevance is included).
5. An average of 12 messages/week will be selected for posting to the list.
Short posts are prefered over longer posts. Consider breaking up longer
works into a series of installments over a week or several weeks. If you
have already received five messages from the forum in the past 24 hours,
please wait until the next day to post. Persons who have not submitted
recently will be given priority over those who post to the list often. In
general, it is prefered that individual subscribers post no more often
than once per week and only once or twice per thread (although there are
numerous exceptions). Consider whether your response to a post is better
sent to the author rather than to the entire list.
6. When responding to a post on the list, *briefly* quote only the
relevant part of what you are specifically responding to, and write your
message under the quote.
7. Occasionally, in the interest of free expression, off-topic posts will
be allowed and will be identified with "off-topic" in the subject heading.
This specifically means "do not reply to this post on-list."
Additional Guidelines:
A. Although questions are welcome at all levels of interest, please-- when
posting questions to the group-- include some background information about
your question. Why do you find the topic interesting? What other sources
have you searched (Medline, PsychLit, google.com and what have you already
learned? There are 1,200 subscribers to maps_forum, so if you’re going to
ask all of us, make your question interesting to read.
B. Related to A: News-- informative posts that resolve uncertainty-- is
preferred over discussion-- posts that are primarily speculative, with
lots of uncertainties open to question. Tell us something we don’t already
know.
C. Please, PLEASE read #1 and #2 above. MAPS-Forum is about scientific and
clinical aspects of psychedelic and marijuana research-- with occasional
digressions into trippy scientific topics in neuroscience and cosmology.
There are plenty of other resources on the internet to talk about how to
get high, your personal drug trips, and our mutual annoyance with drug
laws that insult our natural freedom and intelligence. If you must provoke
a discussion of the optimal method of self-administering some illegal
substance, think of a clever way to do it so that I don’t notice that’s
what you’re doing. (Hint: speaking in the third person is a good place to
start.)
MAPS-Forum Editor
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