It has come to our attention that quite a few people have recently received packages with notices from Homeland Security informing them that contraband...

DECEMBER 8, 2020, COLOTLÁN, JALISCO. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN The Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta made up of the Traditional, Civil and...

In recent times, there has been more advances in medical research on cannabis. Francisco Savoi de Arauja and Mauro Machado Chaiben demystify the modalities that go beyond the medical model. They primarily focus on the political need to decriminalize marijuana, and include references to the religious and social uses of marijuana by Rastafarian culture, Santo Daime religion, and “Cannabis Social Clubs.”

The Journey In June 2017, after 17 years of working with the Canadian government, the Santo Daime Church, Céu do Montréal, Eclectic Center of the...

This is the speech address given by Thomas Eckert for the Horizons conference in New York City in 2021. He speaks on Measure 109, his participation on the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board, and his late wife Sheri Eckert who was also an advocate and inspiration in the fight to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in Oregon.

Decriminalize Nature: DN believes entheogens refer to sacred natural ethnobotanicals, which are often erroneously labeled as “drugs” while in fact distinct and unrelated to “drugs”....

Last week, Chacruna brought to light the Drug Enforcement Agency's 2020 report on ayahuasca and its risks to health and safety. In the report, the DEA overestimates the risks of ayahuasca and underestimates its therapeutic potential.

In February 2021, the Church of the Eagle and Condor (CEC) and the Chacruna Institute joined forces to initiate the “Ayahuasca Religious Freedom Initiative.” On March 16, 2021, lawyers for the CEC and Chacruna Institute filed Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests on U.S. Customs Border Patrol and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. This article reviews the insights gained from the government’s disclosures, or lack thereof, to the Initiative’s public records requests.

This declaration was produced at the end of the conference Drogas, Política y Cultura: Perspectivas Brasil-México (Drugs, Politics and Culture: Brazil-Mexico Perspectives), held in...

OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 87731. - C.M.S. INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMEMBER NOEL GALLO RESOLUTION SUPPORTING ENTHEOGENIC PLANT PRACTICES AND DECLARING THAT THE INVESTIGATION AND ARREST OF INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED...