“On a farm in Merced, California, nuns from the Sisters of the Valley, show their devotion to healing through medicinal products made from their own marijuana crop.” Sister Kate Meeusen founded the non-aligned religious order in 2015. While dressed in Catholic habits, the group’s spiritual practices are derived from what they call “ancient wisdom”. “We…
“One of most important things to keep in mind is that plants can be at risk of being over-harvested to extinction just like animals can be,” Helene said. “If a plant becomes popular, people can go crazy trying to harvest as much as they can without consideration to the nature of the plant kingdom —…
“In truth, the ban [on psychedelics] has been brief…it has always been about marketing.” Earp, a research associate at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, does not limit his discussion to psychedelics. For example, psychopathy is a chemical misfiring: emotional stimuli, such as words like ‘murder’ and ‘rape,’ have no effect on a psychopath’s nervous system.…
“Psilocybin administered properly and under supervision can see a change in emotional well-being,” said Barrett. “Meditation is also an established method.” The point? “One is pharmaceutical and one isn’t,” said Barrett. To find out their similarities, and potentially combine them as a treatment, his team are currently studying the brains of people with long-term Buddhist…
“The average dose that produced the bad trip was about 4 grams.” The study, led by Roland Griffiths of John Hopkins University, surveyed 1,993 adults regarding their single worst “bad trip” after ingesting psilocybin mushrooms. More than 9 out of 10 of the participants had used psilocybin more than two times in their life. The…
I mean, a lot of people take psychedelics and see some pretty colors and giggle or get a little paranoid, and that’s not what we’re talking about. And it’s important to make clear that even the word “entheogen”– all psychedelic experiences are not entheogenic experiences. If “entheogen” means a sacred experience of spiritual or religious…
Oklevueha members assert that marijuana is integral to their sacraments, just like peyote. There’s just one problem. It’s not. There’s just one problem. It’s not. While I’m not a member of the Native American Church, I practice Dakota/Lakota spirituality, and marijuana has not, nor has it ever been, used as a part of ceremony. While…
Johns Hopkins Medical School’s Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit is recruiting clergy as research volunteers in a study of “entheogens,” which are chemicals, usually derived from plants, that are ingested to produce an altered state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. They have attracted serious scholarly attention. William Richards, who holds several graduate degrees in…
“Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants,” Pollan explained “Not only do plants nourish us bodily—they nourish us psychologically.” The various crackdowns on witches, many of whom use psychedelic drugs, should go under that rubric of a drug war. Drug wars are always with us. You…
To that end, we offer the following resolution as an appeal to end the so-called “War on Drugs.” Whereas: The public policy of prohibition of certain narcotics and psychoactive substances, sometimes called the “War on Drugs,” has failed to achieve the goal of eliminating, or even reducing, substance abuse and… Whereas: There have been a…
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