Prohibitionism induces dangerous hallucinations
“Ayahuasca, the Amazonian drug
“First seizure in Italy
“A psychologist involved is denounced
“More powerful than LSD
“It has the highest fair market value
“130 euro to the gram
“Seven bottles have been found.”
These were the headlines on January 15 in many Italian major newspapers, telling us that "the drug can be smoked in pipe or cigarettes, drunk or sniffed and that the fair market value of the seized substance is of approximately 900 thousand euros". Where does this nonsense come from?
The original source of such an absurdity has been a note published by ANSA (Italian news agency), which was published dogmatically, without any fact checking -- easily done on the Internet -- to verify the true nature of Ayahuasca. (in Il proibizionismo induce pericolose allucinazioni - Massimo De Feo - Stampa Alternativa)
This was the preparation for the great attack. On March 18, the anti-mafia brigade of the city of Perugia (Italy) arrested 24 members of the Santo Daime church in Assisi of Italian, French, Brazilian, and Portuguese nationality. It wasn’t reported that the Italian followers of this Brazilian spiritual movement in Italy were engaged in clarifying their religious activities to legal authorities -- showing the lawfulness of their religious movement and the use of their sacrament, of which they have nothing to hide. These people are now being kept without communication by the Guarda di Finanza, which still declares (as published on the site) that a dangerous DMT trafficking network was dismantled.
The arrests in Italy appear to have some connections with the process to legalize the ritual use of ayahausca in the US, as this BBC article (in Portuguese - Google translation) indicates. Bush has been fighting to stop the trend toward legalization in the US based on multiple court victories by the UDV , another Brazilian ayahuasca centered spiritual organization. And, most recently, the judicial triumph of the Santo Daime religion in France must have been the sign to prohibitionists that something needed be done in Europe as well.
Berlusconi seems the best pal around, ready to deal with faked news and human rights abuse, so “let’s confuse the ayahuasca sacramental tea with synthetic DMT, bust these Santo Daime folks in Italy and tell the world that a dangerous ring trafficking in millions of euros worth of dangerous drugs has been broken up and then see what happens….”
But the conclusion of the French court is ground-breaking and unambiguous: "Ayahuasca is not DMT and thus cannot be considered as scheduled.”
This decision is the first to deal with the full status of the sacramental tea rather than a distorted and exaggerated portrayal based on one of its constituent ingredients when artificially isolated in a potentially dangerous way. (see full verdict here – link) DMT is a naturally occurring substance in many plants and in the human brain (provide link). To place the ayahuasca tea on a list of controlled substances is analogous to treating humans the same way. The context -- dosage, use or abuse, mental set and cultural-religious setting -- is completely ignored in favor of a simplistic chemical analysis.
Ayahuasca tea has been used in indigenous rituals of the Amazon for centuries. In contemporary times it has been legitimated in Brazil, Holland and Spain. Currently, several more countries are considering legalization and there are on-going legal cases in Australia, Germany, Italy, and the USA. The attempt to conflate the established religious use of the ayahuasca sacrament with the drug war is a travesty of the truth and a religious blasphemy as well.
Stop the disinformation campaign. Stop the cognitive police. Let true justice be based on true facts. Let the religious, cultural, therapeutic and anti-addiction movements employing psychoactive substances show the way on how to solve the global drug problem.
“First seizure in Italy
“A psychologist involved is denounced
“More powerful than LSD
“It has the highest fair market value
“130 euro to the gram
“Seven bottles have been found.”
These were the headlines on January 15 in many Italian major newspapers, telling us that "the drug can be smoked in pipe or cigarettes, drunk or sniffed and that the fair market value of the seized substance is of approximately 900 thousand euros". Where does this nonsense come from?
The original source of such an absurdity has been a note published by ANSA (Italian news agency), which was published dogmatically, without any fact checking -- easily done on the Internet -- to verify the true nature of Ayahuasca. (in Il proibizionismo induce pericolose allucinazioni - Massimo De Feo - Stampa Alternativa)
This was the preparation for the great attack. On March 18, the anti-mafia brigade of the city of Perugia (Italy) arrested 24 members of the Santo Daime church in Assisi of Italian, French, Brazilian, and Portuguese nationality. It wasn’t reported that the Italian followers of this Brazilian spiritual movement in Italy were engaged in clarifying their religious activities to legal authorities -- showing the lawfulness of their religious movement and the use of their sacrament, of which they have nothing to hide. These people are now being kept without communication by the Guarda di Finanza, which still declares (as published on the site) that a dangerous DMT trafficking network was dismantled.
The arrests in Italy appear to have some connections with the process to legalize the ritual use of ayahausca in the US, as this BBC article (in Portuguese - Google translation) indicates. Bush has been fighting to stop the trend toward legalization in the US based on multiple court victories by the UDV , another Brazilian ayahuasca centered spiritual organization. And, most recently, the judicial triumph of the Santo Daime religion in France must have been the sign to prohibitionists that something needed be done in Europe as well.
Berlusconi seems the best pal around, ready to deal with faked news and human rights abuse, so “let’s confuse the ayahuasca sacramental tea with synthetic DMT, bust these Santo Daime folks in Italy and tell the world that a dangerous ring trafficking in millions of euros worth of dangerous drugs has been broken up and then see what happens….”
But the conclusion of the French court is ground-breaking and unambiguous: "Ayahuasca is not DMT and thus cannot be considered as scheduled.”
This decision is the first to deal with the full status of the sacramental tea rather than a distorted and exaggerated portrayal based on one of its constituent ingredients when artificially isolated in a potentially dangerous way. (see full verdict here – link) DMT is a naturally occurring substance in many plants and in the human brain (provide link). To place the ayahuasca tea on a list of controlled substances is analogous to treating humans the same way. The context -- dosage, use or abuse, mental set and cultural-religious setting -- is completely ignored in favor of a simplistic chemical analysis.
Ayahuasca tea has been used in indigenous rituals of the Amazon for centuries. In contemporary times it has been legitimated in Brazil, Holland and Spain. Currently, several more countries are considering legalization and there are on-going legal cases in Australia, Germany, Italy, and the USA. The attempt to conflate the established religious use of the ayahuasca sacrament with the drug war is a travesty of the truth and a religious blasphemy as well.
Stop the disinformation campaign. Stop the cognitive police. Let true justice be based on true facts. Let the religious, cultural, therapeutic and anti-addiction movements employing psychoactive substances show the way on how to solve the global drug problem.
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