Two states and several cities have decriminalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Many more states are considering legislation to provide more widespread public access to hallucinogens. That has some Indigenous people worried about maintaining an adequate supply of natural psychoactive plants for ceremonies. We’ll hear about the evolving demand for hallucinogenic plants and what practitioners say needs to be done to protect them as the push for legalization continues.
GUESTS
Dr. Yuria Celidwen (Nahua and Maya), Indigenous scholar, activist, and senior fellow of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley
Marlena Robbins (Diné), second-year doctoral student at the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley
Miriam Volat, co-director and board member of the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund, co-director of the Riverstyx Foundation, and board member of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative
Dr. Osiris Garcia Cerqueda (Mazatec from Huautla de Jimenez in Oaxaca, Mexico), history professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
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