“ECfES : a non-profit charitable and educational .org” -An ECfES Board Member The Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies has dedicated itself to saving, collecting and organizing some of the important descriptions and understandings from the use of ethnobotanicals and related tools and techniques. …important source of organized, responsible and effective access to information …allow healers, spiritual leaders, scientists, researchers and others to…
Toward the end of [Michael Pollan’s] book, he reports on a psychedelic-research meeting attended by Thomas Insel, former head of the National Institute of Mental Health. Insel was impressed by evidence of psychedelics’ mental-health benefits but warned researchers, “Don’t screw it up!” Pollan seems to have taken this message to heart. He could have derailed…
Cannabis prohibition is, and always has been, unconstitutional as well as irrational and unscientific. Alcohol prohibition only covered commercial activities, citizens’ rights to produce, possess and consume alcohol on private property were not included, and that prohibition required a constitutional amendment. There are more than sufficient laws and regulations to deal with commercial cannabis activity…
If we truly absorb this new story, we will have to change a lot more than the drug war. We will have to change ourselves … we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted.…
“More than through the use of force, we will tend to the causes that give rise to insecurity and violence,” the president-elect added. He said his team will immediately begin consulting with human rights groups, religious leaders and the United Nations to develop a “plan for reconciliation and peace.” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador… who won…
In response, Bill Levin, who founded the church in 2015, said: “Cannabis is safer than Curtis Hill.” Levin also said he plans to appeal. In her order dismissing the case, judge Sheryl Lynch did not address the defense’s contention that the church’s members are insincere about practicing a religion. Marion County [Indiana, USA] Superior Court Jude Sheryl Lynch…
“With cannabis being restored into use through laws, we need to de-stigmatize and address that stigma,” Cannon explained to the group. “What better way of doing that than at a church, having that conversation through a spiritual lens and hearing from each other?” … “So that’s the starting point, that the plants that God created…
In January 2016… a group of approximately 60 farmers and farmers’ representatives in the Netherlands for the Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP), facilitating a discussion of their views on and experiences with illicit crop control policies. The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis…
*for example, Chrisian Ratsch reports that Psilocybe azurescens (dry weight) contains 1.29 to 1.78% psilocybin, 0.18 to 0.37% baeocystin, and 0.27 to 0.5% psilocin. As a professional neuroscientist with an interest in psychedelic medicines, it is clear to me that the attempt to reduce organisms to single active principles is challenged by the sheer complexity…
This is a book (Michael Pollan’s new book, (How To Change Your Mind: What The New Science of Psychedelics Tells Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence) about LSD and magic mushrooms from which religious conservatives can learn a great deal. I encourage you to read it with an open but critical mind. Let me…
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