Hi. Sorry for posting about a commercial product and something that I've mentioned on another board, but just in case I can help; I'm a 'career' Buddhist meditator, who has also taken quite large amounts of dope (both eating it and through a bong) pretty much every day for the last 23 years. My current intake has dropped a little and is about a quarter a week now, solely in the evenings. In light of that you can imagine that I've had the odd period of dope anxiety along the way.

As somebody who's very interested in any and all effects of cannabis I've spent a great deal of time looking for ways to get past the more difficult effects the drug can have. To this end I've just written a book, out next month, called 'Headstuff - How to be Good at Being Stoned' (Spellbound, Denmark), which I hope will help a lot of people lessen, if not overcome dope anxiety. I do realise there's a major difference in the kind of real bi-polar paranoia that some people with a genetical disposition can get and the slightly anxious feeling that dopers can get, but much of it really can be gotten rid of quite easily. I don't want to turn this into an advert, so no links here, no real names. But if anyone has an interest in meditational techniques that will help you get back a broader high and mental exploration of altered states, I hope this will be the book for you.

MelT