Californians are signing up folks for a ballot initiative to change the California State Constitution to allow for the production, sale and use of weed as an inalienable right. Same ballot initiative gives the State of California the right to tax weed.
Californians already voted for Medical marijuana and are in the midst of an intractable financial crisis. The job growth and tax revenues are looking very good right now.
“Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives,” says lead investigator Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor in the Johns Hopkins departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience.
Another study, in yet another peer reviewed journal verifies what indigenous shamans have asserted all along. Our planet is brimming with life and not all earthlings are humans. Plants not only provide food and medicine but help with our connection to the divine.
It is entirely ludicrous, the banning and criminalization of plant substances, as entheogentic species are all around us. The “spirit molecule”, DMT, is present in all humans and yet to consume “aya”, the shamanic potion containing DMT, could cause you many legal problems.
Check out the reference to the original study that prompted this followup report.
It continues to amaze me that marijuana is still prohibited.
Last year it was reported that scientists looking for a link between weed and lung cancer. No correlation or causality was found between the two. Further, the study showed that weed appeared to have a protective effect on the lungs.
Here is another link to weed as medicine.
Reading about this research it appears that one of the features of the compound recently discovered was that a user would not get high from this compound.
What is it about our culture that assigns a negative value to getting high? It seems to me that getting high has positive value in our stress ridden society.
