Category: Culture

Toad Medicine: New Psychedelic Knowledge under Construction?

The increasing supply and consumption of the so-called “toad medicine” in various parts of the...

Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground

Everyone gets worked up about a showdown, especially when the conflict involves colorful characters and...

In Defense of the Use of Sacred Plants in the Americas

Since their inception, international policies toward drugs have been characterized by being racist, classist, colonialist,...

Can Psilocybin Make People Feel More Empathy to Nature?

Introduction: The Problem We Are Facing in Today’s World How can we reconnect humanity—mentally, emotionally,...

New Urban Practices Around Kambô

[starbox] [starbox id=101] What is this substance, and what does this secretion of a frog—spread...

The Muká Diet of the Yawanawá Indigenous People in Acre, Brazil

[starbox] If, in the recent past, the diet was exclusively for men of this ethnic...

Controversies Around the Toad Medicine

[starbox] The booming consumption of 5-meo-DMT—the chemical extracted from the Bufo alvarius toad, endemic to...

Territory, Roots and Conflict: Epistemic Encounters on Sacred Plants

[starbox]     On Sunday, February 25, the closing ceremony for the Conference on Sacred...

We Must Continue Calling the Cannabis Plant “Marijuana”

[starbox] There are various hypotheses about the roots of the word “marijuana,” but it´s still...

Drinking Yagé to Resist Capitalist Violence

[starbox] Ethnic groups in southern Colombia, such as the Siona, are using yagé (a local...

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