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Chacruna, the Drugs, Politics and Culture Collective, and Western-CIESAS have organized the Sacred Plants Forum: Uses and Norms, which will take place on November 21 and 22, 2018 at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City.
This event follows up on the successful Sacred Plants Congress of the Americas that was held in February of this year. Its objectives are to inform and make visible the current debates regarding psychoactive plants and substances, as well as to generate a space for reflection from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the different uses and conceptions of plants and substances.
The two days of the forum will be composed of nine roundtables that will discuss various topics, including the ethnography of traditional and contemporary uses of mushrooms and psychoactive plants; drugs from a historical perspective; peyote legality, territory and conservation; controversies surrounding the Bufo alvarius toad; harm reduction; therapeutic uses of psychedelics; and the regulation of illegal plants and substances.
Indigenous Mazatec and Wixárika people will participate in the forum; aswell as more than 35 national and international speakers. In attendance will bedistinguished researchers from anthropology, history, biology, medicine,psychotherapy, and drug policy, and students of plants and psychoactivesubstances, including Bia Labate, Antonella Fagetti, Diana Negrín, RicardoPérez Monfort and Anya Loizaga-Velder. There will also be a presentation byHannah R. Tierney and Jordie Ryan Martin of the University of California at SanFrancisco, who will discuss their group therapy research with psilocybin.
A highlight will be the keynote address on peyote conservation by Texas botanist Martin Terry, who is the President of the Cactus Conservation Institute.
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Foro Plantas Sagradas: usos y normas
El colectivo Drogas, Política y Cultura, Chacruna.net y CIESAS-Occidente han organizado el Foro Plantas Sagradas: usos y normas, que tendrá lugar los próximos miércoles 21 y jueves 22 de noviembre en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), en la Ciudad de México.
Este evento busca dar seguimiento al pasado Congreso Plantas Sagradas en las Américas. Y tiene como objetivos informar y visibilizar los debates actuales en relación a las plantas y sustancias psicoactivas, así como generar un espacio de reflexión desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria e intercultural sobre los distintos usos y concepciones de estas especies.
Durante los dos días del foro se contará con nueve mesas, en las que se discutirán temas como: etnografía de usos tradicionales y contemporáneos de hongos y plantas psicoactivas, las drogas en perspectiva histórica; legalidad, territorio y conservación del peyote, controversias alrededor del sapo Bufo alvarius, reducción de daños, usos terapéuticos de los psicodélicos y regulación de cultivos ilícitos.
En el foro participarán representantes índigenas mazatecos y del pueblo wirárika; y más de 35 ponentes nacionales e internacionales. Se contará con la presencia de distinguidos investigadores de la antropología, la historia, la biología, la medicina, la psicoterapia, las políticas de drogas y otros estudiosos de las plantas y las sustancias psicoactivas. Entre los que destacan Bia Labate, Antonella Fagetti, Diana Negrín, Ricardo Pérez Monfort y Anya Loizaga. Así como la presentación de Hannah R. Tierney y Jordie Ryan Martin de la Universidad de California en San Francisco que hablarán de sus investigciones de terapia grupal con psilocibina.
Adermás contáremos con la ponencia magistral sobre conservación del peyote del botánico texano Martin Terry, quien es Presidente del Instituto de Conservación de Cactáceas.
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