*ECfES Conservatory The fallout from the murder of Maestra Arévalo Lomas is emblematic of a common problem, what we are framing as spiritual extractivism. NGOs have left, foreigners have forgotten, and ayahuasca tourism is doing what ayahuasca tourism does – come in, get the medicine, feel unified with the universe, go back. However, as the…
The psychedelic train is pulling out of the station, and people are giddy with excitement, waving as the train beings to move … Black and brown people [& a surprisingly large number of whites] including the elderly, young people, veterans, and the disabled are left standing on the platform as the train chugs away. Understanding the…
“The report demonstrates that opportunities for people to be healthy are not shared equally among neighborhoods, even when they’re just a few miles apart in the same county,” according to the Oregon Health Authority. “This report tells us we have a lot of work to do to ensure everyone in Oregon has a chance to…
All of this comes not a moment too soon. Studies show that psychedelics have extraordinary efficacy in treating the illnesses that currently plague America: trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, isolation, disaffection, and crippling fear of death. Forty years after going underground, the conversation around psychedelics is coming back into the open… Psychedelics went underground but did not go…
…a key tenet of the MDL (Model Drug Law) is to end all criminal penalties relating to personal drug use and possession, as such criminalisation causes wide-ranging health problems for people who use drugs – and society more broadly … Decriminalisation of personal drug possession exists in some form in over a dozen countries and has led…
[All] problems won’t disappear with decriminalization, but measures such as drug-checking are facilitated and, if safety of supply becomes a priority, governments can opt to legalize and regulate, as they are doing with cannabis. When possession of drugs is a crime, it creates giant barriers to harm reduction and treatment. First and foremost, it means…
“They tried to kill me, I feel like, but it didn’t work.” … Tyler was arrested in 1992 and convicted in 1994 for selling LSD and cannabis to a police informant … [he spent 26 years in prison] … life after commutation was not easy for Tyler. He described his time in the mandatory residential drug abuse…
But does soon-to-be-filed legislation do enough to ensure social equity under a legal cannabis system? The letter outlines seven policies that Baraka hopes will be featured in the marijuana legalization bill, which legislative leaders have said they hope to introduce and pass as soon as this month … The mayors emphasized the importance of remediating the…
These experiences have to be respected but they are also being commercialised … [we] have advised a serious approach and a respectful acknowledgment of potential danger. It is an attitude that some of the tech millionaires and trend-surfers trying to profit from the hallucinogen’s popularity would do well to heed. In the west, ayahuasca can be…
Western culture has long attempted to denigrate and stamp out the use of this psychedelic plant, but it is gaining clinical interest for its ability to help those who struggle with addiction … Perhaps, as concern about heroin and opioid addiction increases, government officials will reconsider their stance on this. In the United States, ibogaine remains…
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