Text files from old bulletin board systems, passed around on BBSes and shareware CD-ROMs in the 80s and 90s. They are here as they were, typos and all.

They come from textfiles.com and from CD-ROMs on the Internet Archive. Duplicates were merged, and each file page says which other CDs carried it. If one of these is yours and you want it gone, tell me.

Weed

235 files: growing guides, bong plans, stoner stories, hemp zines and a lot of drug-war politics. A few files with recipes for other drugs or chemical extraction are left out.

Stories

Stories
STORY: A Medical Marijuana Morality Tale (November 14, 1995)
STORY: Buying Marijuana in Amsterdam
STORY: Don't Drive Stoned
STORY: Epoxy
STORY: Marijuana at Boarding School
STORY: Psalm 102: The Marijuana
STORY: Satan on Marijuana
STORY: Sex While Stoned
STORY: Smoke a Joint for Jesus
STORY: Stepped on a Joint
STORY: The Added Relevance When Smoking
STORY: The Alcohol and Pot Bust
STORY: The Fat Ounce
STORY: The Firecrackers
STORY: The Hotel Party
STORY: The Kona Dance
STORY: The Laced Weed
STORY: The New Years' Bud
STORY: The Right Place and the Right Time
STORY: The Satan Girl
STORY: The Traffic Lights

Zines

Zines
Ganja Information File #4
Mary Jane (E Version), Journal of the Mullers & Packers Union
The Ganja Guide #1

Growing

Growing
A Marijuana Planting Guide by Sir Mad and Elric of Imrryr
Cannabis Cultivation Made Easy
Cultivating Your Own Marijuana, by De Bug
Different experiences with Growing Marijuana
Do the Government a Favor and Grow Your Own
Gorrila Growers Guide (For Beginners)
Growing Marijuana, from the Phixer
Growing Weed Out of Your Own Home and Being Successful, by Undead Corpse
Hemp growers guide
How to Build Your Own Nomadic, Hydroponic Garden on a Limited Budget by Jeff Burchell (May 21, 1994)
How to Grow Marijuana Hydroponically by Woz
How to Grow Pot, by Mr. Crue
How to Grow Primo Sensimillion by the Folically Challenged White Dude at Damage Incorporated
How to preserve Pot potenty
Indoor Marijuana Cultivation
Indoor Marijuana Cultivation: Quick Warning
Marijuana Grower's Handbook
Pete the Happy Homegrower's tips
Quick mention of George Washington growing Pot
Some Explorations into Hydroponic Gardening (October 27, 1993)
Some simple steps for Outdoor Growers
Status of seed bank
The Grow Lights FAQ (May 15, 1994)
The Growing of Marijuana Indoors
The Joys of a Herb Garden at Home, Version 3.0
The Marijuana Grower's Guide Part I: The Introduction by Lord Kagesama
The Marijuana Grower's Guide Part II: Indoor Growing, by The Choosen Ones
The Nectar of Delight: Hemp as Work of the Gods
The New Growers' Guide, by "K" Revision 4
When to harvest
Why is my Pot Plant Dying?

Bongs, Pipes and Joints

Bongs, Pipes and Joints
A Look at the Hookah, by Bud J. Jonser
Bong and the Art of Hooka by The Blade of the Neon Knights
Bong Making, part 1 of 4
Bongineering for fun and, well, fun.
Bongs, pipes and other wonderful contraptions (FAQ)
Explanation on how to roll a joint
Gravity.Bong.FAQ (1993)
Herbal smoking mixtures
How to build a bong out of your Sink
How to make a toke-stone
Making Vaporizers
Quick rundown on Blunts
Reasons for Building a Vapourizer, and Plans
Smoking rules/guide
The Art of Making Bongs
The Art of Smoking Pot by the Byte Byter (smoking.ana)
The Art of Smoking Pot by The Byte Byter (smoking.txt)
The Gravity Bong FAQ (November 30, 1993)
The Hydro Bong by God of 704,904,303
The Marijuana Smoking Guide by Reefer Man and the Chamelion (April 22, 1991)
The Power-Hash Toker, Written by the Griffin on August 28, 1990
Vaporizer Plans: Advanced Smoking Technology (May 22, 1994)
Worlds cheapest BONG

Cooking

Cooking
Anyone know how to make HASH? Bueller?
Beta of a Marijuana Eating FAQ
Cannabis as a treatment for brain disorders
Cannabis Cookbook, by Eric Bloodaxe
Cannabutter? Yes, Cannabis Butter.
Cooking with Hashish Recipies
Cooking with Pot
Creating Marijuana Wine, by Gandalph
Foaf's majoon (Maja)
Food for thought MJ
Hash and Weed Tips, from the Grashopper in Amsterdam
Hashish, the Exotic Elixir, by EZRider
Hashish: The Exotic Elixir, by EZ Rider
Hemp Tour Sept. 19, 1992: Gainesville Heats Up
How to Make Hash by Mr. Crue
How to Make Hash, by Mr. Crue
Make marijuana wine
Make Marijuana Wine!
Making Beer Using Marijuana
Recipe for Bhang (uses Pot)
Some experiences with eating Marijuana.
Some Marijuana Recipes
The Beginner's Guide to Hash-Making
The Ecological Benefits Of The Use Of Hemp For Fuel, Paper, Cloth, Rope, Food, Etc.
The Tale of Two Hashish-Eaters (Traditional)
Why Someone Thinks Pot is Illegal, Ironically Created While Taking Pot

Law and Politics

Law and Politics
10 Things Every Parent, Teenager & Teacher Should Know about Marijuana
1988 DEA Marijuana Ruling
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Legalize Hemp/Marijuana
An Amicus Brief To Support Marijuana (October 8th, 1990)
DEA Marijuana Ruling, 1994
Dealing with Urine Tests on Short Notice by Dale Gieringer, NORML
Drug Laws Kill: A Libertarian Outlook, by Gerald Schneider, Ph. D.
Escaping the DEA Version One by Oregon NORML (June 9, 1993)
Giving President Clinton the Lowdown on Hemp (February 22, 1993)
Hemp for the USA's Future, by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws)
How the Next President Can Save the Farm Economy (With Hemp!)
Information ad for NORML (Pro-Marijuana Group)
Injustice for All: A Guide to American Pot Laws, by Judy McGuire, typed by Major Havoc (May 1989)
It's Time to Tax Hemp!
Marijuana and the Human Body, by NORML
Marijuana Enforcement in California: A Costly asnd Wasteful War (October 13, 1993)
Marijuana Myths, by Paul Hager of the Hoosier Cannabis Re-legalization Coalition
Marijuana Prohibited: The Price Society and the Human Habitat Pay by Jason Waligoske (April 29, 1992)
Marijuana state laws
NORML's Bad Trip (Article)
Official National Organization For The Reform Of Marijuana Laws Policy
Pamphlet from UMASS Amherst: An Attempt to Point Out the Absurdities of the Toxicity of Marijuana
Santa Cruz Medical Measure A, a Medican Marijuana Initiative
Should Marijuana Be Legalized? An extra-credit school report
State By State Comparison of the Marijuana Laws by NORML
State by State Comparison of the Marijuana Laws, by NORML (1993)
State By State Comparisson Of Marijuana Laws.
State of Minnesota Tries to make Hemp Illegal, by John Birrenbach of the Institute for Hemp
TEN Things Every Parent, Teenager & Teacher Should Know About Marijuana. Provided by Access Unlimited
The Good News Is We Found a Plant to Save the World, The Bad News Is It's Illegal!
The History of Marijuana Laws in America
The Libertarian Party Asks: Should we Re-Legalize Drugs?
The Most Common Arguments Against Ending Marijuana Prohibition and their Refutations
Three Things Marijuana Does Not Do (NORML, 1992)
Two Anti-Legalization Pamphlets (Marijuana) (November 27, 1992)
Weed Laws in California, 1993

Health and Medicine

Health and Medicine
A Few Citations of Medican Uses of Marijuana
A List of State Statues Recognizing the Medical Use of Marijuana
Alcohol + MJ toxicology
Cannabinoids and appetite stimulation
Cannabis Increases Cerebral Blood Flow!
Cannabis Medicines Banned!
Cannabis- The brains other supplier
Comparison of gaseous and particulate components of marijuana and tobacco
Dr. Grinspoon talks about Medical Marijuana
Hemp for Health, by the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH)
Hemp For Health, Compiled by the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH)
How long does it take to cleanse Marijuana out of the system?
Info on comparison of MJ and tobacco
Interactions can be expected between cannabis and a wide range of drugs
Lung canser MJ/Tobaco
Marijuana and Health - an update of research results by Peter Gormand Transcribed by The Dak of the Holiday Inn, Cambodia (May 9, 1990)
Marijuana Myths by Paul Hager of the ICLU Drug Task Force
Marijuana Smoking as Medicine: A Cruel Hoax
Marijuana survey
Medical Marijuana approved in Sonoma County
Medical Marijuana Research
Medical mj
Medical uses of Cannabis
Nahas paper attacked (MJ)
Recent Pot References
Some myths about Marijuana
The Health Effects of Marijuana on Humans
Updated version of "Marijuana Myths"
Would oncologists reccomend pot?

Hemp

Hemp
"An Amazing Plant" 1991 Pro-Hemp Article
A Collection of Hemp Sources (August 30, 1993)
A short Hemp History ("The kind you were never told in school")
ALT.HEMP FAQ, version 0.3 (May 1994)
Could One Plant Save the Earth? By Howard Anshell
Debunking the Gutter Science Against Hemp
Ecological Marijuana: hemp facts from Libernet (June 1990)
Encyclopedia Brittanica 1856 about hemp
Frequently Asked Questions about Cannabis Hemp (the alt.hemp FAQ, 1995)
Funding for the Hemp Aircraft Construction Project
Ganja, Marijuana, Cannabis, hemp, Bud, pot
Hemp article
Hemp Article Compilations #10
Hemp budding industry in Canada
Hemp FAQ (HEMPFAQ2.TXT)
Hemp FAQ (HEMPFAQ3.TXT)
Hemp FAQ (HEMPFAQ4.TXT)
Hemp For Fuel, by the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH)
Hemp For Victory in 1492
Hemp Source Material: Edited by Kind Bud of Colorado
Hemp Ties it All Together, by the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH)
Hemp: The Paper Crop of the Future
Information on Cannabis Hemp, by Repo Man
Information on the Canadian Hemp Association
Letters to Earth Journal: Kenaf is Better than Hemp, and Help is better than Kenaf!
No Compromise: Hemp and the Environment
No Marijuana, but plenty of Hemp in France
Phone Tree of the Colorado Hemp Information Hotline
Save The Environment... With Hemp, by Johnathan Davis (July 9, 1990)
Some exerpts from various pro-hemp reports
Some Hemp-Producing Organizations (Sept. 1993)
The California Hemp Expo was a tremendous success (1994)
The Cannabis Center and Hemporium
The Government Denies Ever Making "Hemp for Victory" and... ooops (September 25, 1990)
The Greenleaf News from the Institute for Hemp is now Four Years Old (1994)
The Hemp for Paper Report #B, from the Help Institute
The Herb Book on Cannabis
The Industrial Uses of Marijuana, by The Griffin
The Institute for Hemp Special Report #B (March 1994)
The Institute for Hemp's Introduction
The Many Uses of Hemp: The World's Most Valuable and Versatile Natural Resource
The Matter of Marijuana and the Economy
Transcript of the Original USDA Film: HEMP FOR VICTORY (1942)

Guides and Culture

Guides and Culture
A Drug-Free Indiana: The Insolence of Office by Paul Hager (August 29, 1990)
Advocating Marijuana for All The Wrong Reasons
ASCII Art of a Pot Leaf
Cannabis CUP Review
Cannabis Sativa
Definition of Marijuana
FAQ on the Consumption of Marijuana
Info about anti-pot flyer
Marijuana and the Bible, by the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
Mary Jane guide
New Zealand Green, by Axe Man of The County Jail
Pot Moves Inside
Pot: The Poor Person's Guide to Smoking, by NatxXx and N1X0n of Druigs of Society
Some Mary Jane Facts and Figures from Henry Fell (September 6, 1993)
The Benefits of Cannabis
The Cannabis Cup REview
The Definitive Instructions for Smoking Bannana Peels
The Highs and Lows of Cannabis by Dr. Benway
The Official Criminal Minded Mary Jane Guide
The Stoner's Hymnal by: Buckaroo Banzai, Edited by: Count Nibble
The Stoner's Survival kit Part II
The Top 10 Things to Do when you are Stoned and Have No Place to Go by Rakhir the Red Archer (September 22, 1992)
Weed

Elsewhere

Magazine articles, book excerpts and song lyrics that were passed around too, but belong to someone else. These link out.

Elsewhere
"Cannabis 1988 Old Drug, New Dangers" (Mikuriya, Tod H. and Aldrich, Micheal R.)
1994 hemp catalog
A Copy of the Sensei Seed Bank Catalog from Holland
Bedtime for Bongo: The Siege against High Times (April 1991)
Grow More Pot, by Jello Biafra (spoken word transcript)
Harvard Medical Report on Marijuana
Hemp Article Compilations #1
Hemp Article Compilations #2
Hemp Article Compilations #3
Hemp Article Compilations #4
Hemp Article Compilations #5
Hemp Article Compilations #6
Hemp Article Compilations #7
Hemp Article Compilations #8
Hemp Article Compilations #9
Inside the high-flying pot industry - by Gordon Witkin
Marijuana: How to Grow it, Reap it, and Cook it (From the Anarchists' Cookbook)
Pro-Marijuana Songs
Reefer Madness by Abbie Hoffman
Report of overdosing on Hash oil
Slavery in the Hemp Industry by James F. Hopkins
Text File W/surprising Info About Hemp.
This Plant Can Save The World! By Jack herer

Pictures

Black and white cannabis clip art
MJ-LEAVE.JPG, from The X-Philes #1 CD (1995)
Black and white cannabis clip art
MJ-PLANT.JPG, from The X-Philes #1 CD (1995)

Psychedelics

128 files: trip reports, mushrooms, peyote, morning glory seeds, DMT plants, toads, salvia and nutmeg. Only plant, fungus and animal-derived substances are here. Synthetic drugs, dissociatives, recipes and growing or extraction guides are left out.

Trip Reports

Trip Reports
A Trip to Magic Mountain - An Anti-Anti-Drug Rant
All sorts of DMT experiences from various folks
Long, Detailed story about the effects of Morning Glory Seeds
Report of the Effects of Peyote
Reports of Experiences while taking Nutmeg
Shroom diary, part 10 (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 11 (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 4 (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 4b (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 7 (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 8 (ROR BBS)
Shroom diary, part 9 (ROR BBS)
Solo Shroom Trip Log
STORY: 2 Bad Trips on Mushrooms
STORY: A Bad Trip, A Small Death
STORY: A Blind Trip: A Trip by a Blind Person on Mushrooms
STORY: A Mushroom Trip in Germany
STORY: A Poem I Wrote While Tripping
STORY: A Really Bad Trip at School
STORY: A Testomony of Mushrooms
STORY: A Trip with Jesus Christ
STORY: Acid Wave Getting Busted for a Perscription
STORY: Clouds on Mushrooms. Mushroom Clouds.
STORY: Communicating on Mushrooms
STORY: Eight Kids Tripping
STORY: Enjoying His Bad Trip
STORY: My Little Tripper Girl and The Worst Trip
STORY: Painting While on Psychadelics
STORY: Taking Spiritual Trips
STORY: The First Trip in 3 Years
STORY: Tripping at Dylan and the Dead
STORY: Warning to Newbies to Tripping
The Land of Else II, by Doctor Murdock
The Land of Else III, by Doctor Murdock
The Land of Else IV, by Doctor Murdock
The Land of Else V, by Doctor Murdock and Sir Death
The Land of Else VI, by Doctor Murdock
The Land of Else VIII, by Doctor Murdock
The Land of Else, by Doctor Murdock
Various descriptions of trips on Hawaiian Baby Rosewood Seeds

Mushrooms

Mushrooms
A Field Guide to the Psilocybin Mushroom (June 2, 1994)
An Overview of Idfferent Psilocybe Species (June 14, 1994)
Articles about Terence McKenna + Psilocybin
Coleus as a mushroom substitute (alt.drugs)
Concord Prison Psilocybin Rehabilitation Project (January 2, 1994)
Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Fly Agatic Kamachadal) (Transcription)
Hey, can we just put psychadelic mushrooms on pizza?
Mushroom Identification by Rik Marshall (October 11, 1994)
Mushrooms and Man: A History (April 29, 1994)
Mushrooms, from the KeelyNet BBS
Psilly Simon's
Psilocybe baeocystis: a thread from alt.psychoactives (1993)
Some Quick Information about Picking and Classifying Mushrooms
Some Shroom Recope from Dr. Atomic (April 1986)
The Results of the Great Grand Shrooms Growers' Survey
Vikings and Mushrooms (long & referenced)

Peyote and Cacti

Peyote and Cacti
Common everyday coleus (alt.drugs, 1994)
Subj: Sup. Court And Peyote (1 Of 13)
The Buzz Brothers Present The Supreme Bunch of Injustices by Peyote
The Buzz Brothers Present The Supreme Bunch of Injustices vs. Peyote Part 2
THE PEYOTE RELIGION AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIANS
Total San Pedro Paper Mescaline: A Psychedelic Catalyst for Healing
Trichocereus pachanoi: Fruit of the Gods (San Pedro)

Morning Glory and Seeds

Morning Glory and Seeds
Ipomoea Purprea: A Naturally Occuring Psychedelic by Charles Savage, Willis W. Harman and James Fadiman
The Botanical and Chemical Distribution of Hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes, PhD
The Complete Morning Glory FAQ, Part 1.001
The Ipomoea family (Strain of Morning Glory Seeds)

DMT, Ayahuasca and Harmala

DMT, Ayahuasca and Harmala
A list of indole and tryptamine references
A Tryptamine Expedition, by Gracie and Zarkov (1985) (TRYPT.TXT)
A Tryptamine Expedition, by Gracie and Zarkov (1985) (FAQ-TRYP)
An Overview of DMT (Diumethyl Tryptamine)
DMT eller N,N-dimetyltryptamin som den fullstndiga benmningen lyder, r en hallucinogen som
DMT: How and Why to Get Off, by "Gracie and Zarkov"
Essay on the Hallucinogenic Drug Yaz
Ibogaine is the primary psychoactive alkaloid found in the African shrub
Overview of All sorts of Toad-Produced Toxins
Questions and Answers about Harmala
Smoking Toads
The 5-hydroxy derrivative of DMT, bufotenine
The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert By Albert Most
Three Beta-Carboline-Containing Plants as Potentiators of Synthetic DMT and Other Indole Psychadelics, a technical note from Gracie and Zarkov (August 1985)
Toad Licking: The Latest High
TRYPTAMINE CARRIERS
Tryptamine Carriers, by Petrus Pennanen

Salvia, Datura and Nutmeg

Salvia, Datura and Nutmeg
A friend stumbled across a reference to smoking S. Divinorum in Jonathon
Additional Thoughts on Nutmeg from Alt.Drugs
Article: 4738 of alt.drugs
Calea zacatechichi and other Mexican psychoactive plants (alt.psychoactives)
Datura Stramonium Information
Frequently Asked Questions about Nutmeg
Growing the Hallucinogens, by Hudson Grubber
Information about Mexican Mint (Salvia Divinorum) (April 14, 1994)
Kaempferia galanga is used as an hallucinogen in New Guinea.
Mexican Mint (Salvia divinorum)
Nutmeg, by Terminal Junkie of the Smurf Liberation Front
Salvia Divinorum: Smoke, Don't Chew! (August 8, 1994)
sm1968@u.cc.utah.edu (stephen miller) writes:
There was a big Saturday night rave occuring (big by Brisbane's standards

Leary, McKenna and Culture

Leary, McKenna and Culture
A Couple of BOHOs Shooting the Breeze (William Burroughs and Timothy Leary)
Allen Ginsberg's yage expedition in 1960, from Dharma Lion
Cyberpunks, by Dr. Timothy Leary
High-tech Paganism: Digital Polytheism, by Timothy Leary and Eric Gullichsen
Poetry by Timothy Leary
Space Time Continuum with Terrence McKenna
Terence McKenna annotated bibliography (+ sources)
Terence McKenna lyrics, transcribed from a Shamen album
The Moksha newsletter flame war (alt.drugs)
Time and Mind: a Terence McKenna workshop, transcribed
Timothy Leary and his Doubters (October 10, 1993)

Guides and Essays

Guides and Essays
A List of Adresses for Mail order Botanical Joints (November 20th, 1991)
Article: 6231 of alt.drugs
Author: "J. Brad Hicks" <jbhicks@mcimail.com>
Cognition-Enhancement Drugs
Due to all the recent interest in Ecstasy, I thought you might find
Ergot alkaloid spectra of infected grasses (table)
Exceprts from the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs by Jeff Heeney (March 26, 1994)
I passed an earlier version of this at a Clinton-Gore appearance
I thought some of you might be interested in this:
Interview with a psychiatrist about psychiatric dangers of Ecstasy
MIND-EXPANDING ADRESS LIST
NORML's Bad Trip
Practical notes on yage (alt.psychoactives)
Psychedelic Drugs Release 1.1 by Adam Head (February 16, 1992)
Sleepy grass (Stipa robusta): a news story
Some Information on Hallucinogenic Fish (November 8, 1993)
Suggestions and Precautions for the use of Hallucinogenic Drugs
The End of Psychedelic Exploration - from Slothrop
We are ...of the jungle

Elsewhere

Magazine articles, book excerpts and song lyrics that were passed around too, but belong to someone else. These link out.

Elsewhere
An interview with Timothy Leary by Denise Caruso, Infoworld
DESMANTH.ZIP
Growing the Hallucinogens: How to Cultivate and Harvest Legal Psychoactive Plants
How do you feel after you lick a toad? (Newspaper Article With Comments)
Information on Various Psychadeling Drugs from the Haight-Ashbury Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
Interview of Terence McKenna Author of "Food of The Gods"
Interview with Timothy Lear in Rolling Stone 1987
Some Cactus Sources of Mescaline (April 12, 1991)
The Dangers Of Psychedelics (transcript from _Drugs_And_Behavior_ (Fred Leavit, 1982))
The Psychedelic Experience, A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead By Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., & Richard Alpert, Ph.D.
Timothy Lear's Eight Circuits of Consciousness
Two Heads Talking: David Byrne in Conversation with Timothy Leary