Focusing on the wide range of issues that affect the health of people in nightlife settings. This includes: alcohol and drug use; sexual health; violence and anti-social behaviour; management and design of nightlife settings; late night transport; staff training; and international nightlife tourism.

Addressing issues relating to drug use from social, cultural and traditional perspectives. The program will draw on the backgrounds of therapy, biology, pharmacology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, botany, visionary art, culture, politics, law and more, to provide a realistic context of the role drugs and altered states play in the modern world. Earth and Fire Erowid will be speaking at this year's event.

Fire and Earth Erowid will be speaking on the Salvia, Synthetic Marijuana, and Emerging Drug Criminalization Trends panel on Friday, Nov 4, 2011.

Fresh dialogue on the role of psychedelics in medicine, culture, history, spirituality, and art.

Dr. Fadiman speaks about his book and answers questions. Meet the author and enjoy refreshments.

Theoretical-practical workshop aimed at training specialists in the use of expanded states of consciousness (ECE) applied to human development, psychotherapy and knowledge generation.

A two-day conference on drug and criminal justice policy featuring some of the US & UK's most active policy analysts, activists, film-maker, academics and an MP come together, for an exploration of what a post-prohibition society could look like, and how we might get there in our lifetime.

Featuring the work of visionary women healers, scholars, activists and artists who explore the leading edge of consciousness and sustainable social change.

Get your copy of The Shulgin Index signed by the authors!

Indigenous leaders, ethnobotanists, shamans and medical researchers in the field of psychedelics from around the globe will meet to speak, hold forums, panels and share their wisdom.

A multidisciplinary series of lectures that focuses on current research being done in Europe. Experts from different disciplines will present their studies on ayahuasca's effects on health, neural functioning and consciousness.

The over-arching theme of this forum is exploration of the mind-brain phenomenon and how it relates to human consciousness. Manifesting the Mind will cover a wide range of topics--from ethnobotany to neurotransmitters to recent clinical reports on the use of entheogens.

Some talks touch on psychoactives and shamanism. Speakers: Paola Ambrosi, Stanley Krippner, Ervin Laszlo, Luis Eduardo Luna, James W. Prescott, Peter Russell, Christopher Ryan, Michael Winkelman and Tony Wright.

Organized in four symposia (Current research on consciousness and psychedelics at the University of Kent; Ecstasy - Its place in medicine, society and politics; What Does Psychedelic Mean?; Bold Visions: The Future of Psychedelic Research) plus parallel tracks, symposia and workshops.

SSDP UK's second annual conference will bring students and activists from across Europe and beyond to share experiences as activists and learn about the failed global war on drugs, as well as mark the many drug war anniversaries that will take place this year. The event is open to the public and all people interested in becoming better activists.

The conference language will be Hungarian with some presentations in simultaneous translation (English).

The event will include presentations from medical cannabis pioneer Debby Goldsberry, co-founder of the pioneering Berkeley Patient's Group medical cannabis dispensary, and xenolinguistic novelist, psychonaut and video performance artist Diana Reed Slattery. Light refreshments, open bar, cocktail party attire encouraged, all genders welcome. Tickets $25. The WVC is a nonprofit educational organization that supports the work of women healers, scholars, activists and artists who study consciousness and altered states. It hosts the annual Women's Visionary Congress in Northern California.

Presentations and panel discussions on psychedelic science, the current state of psychedelic research, and clinical applications for the their therapeutic use.

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is a not-for-profit association that exists to create a supportive environment that fosters mature, open discussion about psychoactive plants and chemicals. We seek to explore ways to assess societal impacts and examine the positive applications of plant-based psychoactives and empathogens.

Drug users, ex-drug users, researchers, sex workers, social workers, physicians, politicians and community organizers from around the country and abroad come together to share perspectives on Harm Reduction, with a focus on the health of individuals and communities impacted by drug use.

This event will feature eight presenters from France, Switzerland, Spain and Peru, and a documentary exhibition.

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective on recent developments in the field of psychedelic research. Academics, therapists and medical professionals from various countries will discuss the use of psychedelics from their own disciplinary perspective.

Featuring the work of visionary women healers, scholars, activists and artists who explore the leading edge of consciousness and sustainable social change.

Scientists, philosophers, psychologists and researchers from the US and around the world will be speaking on a variety of diverse but related topics, including neuroscience, quantum physics, art, Buddhism, and cosmology.

This conference delivers European key figures on media, nightlife, and public health. Research, inside views, testimonies and policy reviews provide data to promote the debate at European level.

Fresh dialogue on the role of psychedelics in medicine, culture, history, spirituality, and art.

Documentary about contemporary psychedelic research. Panelists include Robert J. Barnhart, Executive Producer; Roslyn Dauber, Film Director; Frank Echenhofer, Professor of Clinical Psychology, CIIS; Janis Phelps, Associate Professor, East-West Psychology and Clinical Psychology, CIIS.

Come visit the Erowid Center information booth at this music and alternative culture festival, which is held every other year.

Shamans from the Upper Amazon will be speaking of their healing modalities, including the ceremonial and healing and healing use of "Sacred Power Plants" including ayahuasca and San Pedro cactus.

The mission of "Consciousness Revolution: Transpersonal Discoveries That Are Changing the World" is to present the fundamental role of consciousness in all human affairs and the value for humanity of our growing insights into the nature of consciousness and of the world.

An intentional gathering and meeting of the minds, uniting the most influential visionaries in a celebration of the expansion of consciousness.

This conference will appeal to those working in the fields of public health; substance use; sexual health; violence prevention; policing and criminal justice; tourism; nightlife industries; transport; environmental health; general practice and therapy. Call for abstracts and registration now open; early bird registration cost applicable until Feb 28 2010.

Join leaders in their fields in exploring many dimensions of consciousness at the 9th Annual International Bioethics Forum. Conference includes discussion of perception/reality, brain chemistry, entheogens, meditation, and the impact of altered mind states.

Three full days of programming with concurrent tracks exploring clinical applications, issues relevant to healthcare professionals, and social and cultural issues surrounding the therapeutic and recreational uses of psychedelics. Offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

As usual, Erowid Center will be running the Psychoactive Mushrooms information table at this fair. Stop by to see us and learn more about local mushrooms of all types.

An International Symposium on the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann.

A conference on the role of drug plants in the history of religion.

Pinchbeck will talk about the work of the Austrian visionary and occult philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1860 - 1925), founder of the Anthroposophical Movement, Waldorf Schools, and Biodynamic agriculture.