Spirituality

Psychedelic salon looks to the possibility of sacred healing

“We’re seeing the emergence of a psychedelic religion or religious culture,” said Gary Laderman, a religion scholar at Emory University in Atlanta who teaches a popular course called “Sacred Drugs.”  The first EntheoCon, advertised as a “psychedelic salon,” held Aug. 20, 2022, was organized by a new network of advocates… who aim to create awareness about…

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Spirituality

Psychedelics as a sacrament? Lawsuit says drugs are a religious right

Jesse Choper, another law expert at UC-Berkeley, [said] that the religion argument might work. …church has about 60,000 members… “a nondenominational, interfaith religious organization that supports the use and safe access” of certain natural psychedelics, according to its website. In the lawsuit, it outlined what it calls the “sacramental use” of cannabis, mushrooms and other…

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Spirituality

Magic mushrooms… all…

In the US, religious groups have secured the right to use psychedelic drugs, under the first amendment’s protection of religious freedom… how are people supposed to procure the psychedelic mushrooms, which are permissible to carry and consume? “He’s practicing in the lane of what seems like sincere religious belief to me,” says Danny Peterson, a…

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Politics

What does it mean…

This is the best way to explain it: Say you really love to grow tomatoes. You can grow as many tomatoes as you want, pick them, and make as big of a dinner as you want with those tomatoes. There’s no government oversight over how many tomatoes you can grow, gather, or gift. That’s because…

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Spirituality

San Francisco… resolution… naturally-occurring psychedelics

San Francisco lawmakers… introduced a resolution aiming at locally deprioritizing law enforcement on the possession, use, cultivation and social sharing of naturally-occurring psychedelic substances like psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine… “We believe decriminalization offers… public safety and risk reduction by promoting safe access, safe spaces and above ground education and training,” clinical psychologist with Decriminalize Nature San Francisco, Dr. Jennifer Christian.…

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Spirituality

Oregon… psilocybin… sparks…

In 2020, Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize the therapeutic, supervised use of psilocybin after 56% of voters approved Ballot Measure 109… [the same year the city Washington DC certified election results show Initiative 81 passed with more than 76% support, decriminalizing personal growing, gather, and gifting of entheogenic plants and…

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Spirituality

…religious freedom in Oregon…

…courts and state agencies that are willing to run roughshod over Oregonians’ “rights of conscience.” “In Oregon there is no legal way to be a psilocybin religion, there’s no legal way to be an ayahuasca religion. There’s no way to be any type of Schedule I religion unless it’s a peyote religion and if you…

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Spirituality

Oregon… community access…

Oregon isn’t a state that generally tries to short-change people on civil liberties issues… …an expensive program [like M109] in Oregon creates a new kind of religious or spiritual inequity that I don’t think we are capable of fully comprehending yet, but it clearly exacerbates other types of social problems that already plague us. Original…

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Spirituality

[Ergot…]

This therapeutic land rush is in turn dependent on the “return” of psychedelic science and clinical research. Here too we have seen various professional bodies and discourses, with rivalries between them, attempt to establish their dominance over the knowledge basis of psychedelics, partly with an eye to extract value for a hungry pharmaceutical and mental…

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