From the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
MAPS - Volume 7 Number 2 Spring 1997


Letter from MAPS President - Rick Doblin

Research Updates

Medical Marijuana: Spring 1997 Overview
Rick Doblin
LSD Research at Orenda Institute
Richard Yensen, Ph.D. and Donna Dryer, M.D., M.P.H.
Lecturing about Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy in the United States
Evgeny Krupitsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Conference Reports

The Entheobotany Conference -- San Francisco, October 1996
Robert Segal
International Conference on Ecstasy -- Bologna, Italy, November 1996
Marianne D'Amore
1997 BPC Seminar on Ethnobotany -- Palenque, Mexico, January 1997
Kate Chapman

In Print and on Television

Psycholytic and Psychedelic Therapy 1931-1995: A Bibliographical Perspective
Torsten Passie, M.D., M.A.
On the Crest of a Wave: BBC's Psychedelic Science
Simon G. Powell
Comments on BBC's Psychedelic Science
Karl Jansen, M.D., Ph.D.