MAPS: Replacing Fear With Facts: Are You Past Your 90 Day Free Trial?

[RickMAPS@xxxxxxx]

Please see
 http://www.maps.org/memsub.html

If you're past your 90 day free trial period, I have some good news. 
The end of the 90 free trial period is not enforced! In fact, we have 
never removed a subscriber for non-payment of membership fees in the
two year history of the forum. We simply believe that the educational
and social value of the forum is too important to deprive anyone just
because they cannot or will not pay for a membership.

However, MAPS is the only membership-based organization that is 
supporting psychedelic and medical marijuana research. If you 
have subscribed to MAPS-Forum for more than three months, then you 
probably appreciate how crucial this research is for the cultural 
reintegration of these medicines and the states of mind they engender.

MAPS and its membership played a central role in creating the
rennaissance in psychedelic research that is occuring today, after
twenty years of being effectively banned by government regulations.
Join us-- your financial support is need to translate hard-won
scientific freedom into new research results and possibilities. Please
visit our secure server at 
 http://www.maps.org/memsub.html
or email carla@xxxxxxxx for more details.

If we don't commit to sponsoring research to heal our culture's bias
against psychedelics, who will?

 
 Information about the Multidisciplinary Association for 
 Psychedelic Studies 
 
 OUR VISION
 The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 
 membership-based non-profit research and educational organization founded
 in 1986. We assist scientists and researchers to design, obtain
 governmental approval for, fund, conduct and report on research into the
 healing and spiritual potentials of psychedelics and marijuana.
 
 With sound research results, psychedelic psychotherapy and medical
 marijuana research have the potential to help millions of people in
 alleviating the pain, psychological distress and other symptoms of such
 illnesses as cancer, AIDS and addiction.
 
 HOW MAPS HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE
 
 MAPS has disbursed over a quarter of a million dollars to worthy research
 projects since 1990: 
 
 -- Assisting Dr. Donald Abrams to obtain permission for the first human
 studies of the therapeutic use of marijuana in 15 years, and to secure a
 grant of nearly $1 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
 
 -- Donating over $46,000 to research projects investigating the use of
 psychedelic psychotherapy in the treatment of substance addiction.
 
 -- Assisting Dr. Charles Grob to obtain permission for the first human
 studies in the United States with MDMA after it was criminalized in 1985.
 
 -- Opening an FDA Drug Master File for MDMA. This is required for any drug
 before it can be legitimately researched in the U.S.
 
 -- Publishing the first follow-up study of Swiss research into the
 therapeutic use of MDMA and LSD, originally undertaken from 1988 to 1993.
 
 -- Conducting a pioneering study of the effects of water pipes and
 vaporizers in filtering marijuana smoke.
 
 -- Sponsoring the first non-governmental study to analyse U.S. street
 samples of "Ecstasy" (or MDMA).
 
 -- Supporting long-term follow-up studies of pioneering research with LSD
 and psilocybin from the 1950s and 60s.
 
 
 Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 
 If you can even faintly imagine a cultural reintegration of the use of
 psychedelics and the states of mind they engender, please join MAPS in
 supporting the expansion of scientific knowledge in this area.  Progress
 is only possible with the support of individual who care enough to take
 individual and collective action. 
 
 
 BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
 
 As a (confidential) member of MAPS, you'll receive the quarterly MAPS
 Bulletin. In addition to reporting on the latest research in both the U.S.
 and abroad, the Bulletin includes feature articles, personal accounts,
 book reviews, and reports on conferences and allied organizations.
 
 Email List: MAPS-Forum allows MAPS members to interact with each other
 and with international experts in the psychedelic field. This moderated
 news and discussion list with over 1300 subscribers offers a low volume
 and a high signal-to-noise ratio. To [un]subscribe, email the message text
 [un]subscribe maps-forum youraddress to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx 
 
 MAPS provides this online forum at no charge but it is not free to
 produce. We incur many costs in supporting research. If you you are able to help by
 contributing to MAPS' efforts, please make a check or M.O. payable to MAPS and send
 your tax-deductible contribution to: 
 
 MAPS
 2105 Robinson Avenue
 Sarasota FL 34232   USA
 tel: 941-924-6277   fax: 941-924-6265
 
 The rates are as follows:
 (add $15 for orders outside the U.S)
 Basic Membership: $35
 Supporting Member: $100
 Patron Member:     $250+
 Student/Low Income: $20
 
 We can also accept Mastercard and Visa.
 You can access our secure server and join online at 
 www.maps.org/memsub.html
 
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 Finally, please consider downloading an informational page about MAPS
 from www.maps.org/dragon.pdf, printing it out, and sharing it with
 friends, colleagues, or a sympathetic bulletin board. Carla and Sylvia are
 also available to answer questions at 941-924-6277.
 
 The confidential MAPS mailing list is not available for sale or trade,
 and the the Bulletin is sent in a discreet envelope.
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