Call to ACTION: LEGALIZE All Plant Medicines
CANNABIS CULTURE – A new petition I helped to get started, with Jovian Francey of messengersofgaia.net that Green MP Paul Manly agreed to sponsor has taken off and is now online.
Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett has been researching the historical role of cannabis in the spiritual life of humanity for more than three decades. He is co-author of Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion (1995); Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible (2001); and author of Cannabis and the Soma Solution (2010); Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal herbs and the Occult (2018); and Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World (2024) . He has also contributed chapters on the the historical role of cannabis in spiritual practices in books such as The Pot Book (2010), Entheogens and the Development of Culture (2013), Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances (2014), One Toke Closer to God (2017), Cannabis and Spirituality (2016) and Psychedelics Reimagined (1999). Bennett’s research has received international attention from the BBC , Guardian, Sunday Times, Washington Post, Vice and other media sources. He currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Do You Want Kratom (and Cannabis) In Your Quarantine Survival Kit?
CANNABIS CULTURE. Cannabis has long served as a medicine for some forms of asthma, and kratom has been revealed to hold Chloroquine related compounds and holds non-ibuprofen pain fighting qualities.
Dante’s Hashish Infused Shamanic Journey?
Dante’s Divine Comedy (1321) is one of the pioneering classics of Western literature.
Haoma and Harmaline: A Critical Analysis
CANNABIS CULTURE – Just as the identification of the Fly agaric mushroom as Soma has been widely accepted, the Harmaline containing plant Syrian rue has come to be identified with the Persian Haoma,
‘Secret Drugs of Buddhism’, Soma, and the Sad State of Entheogenic Anthropology
CANNABIS CULTURE – In Secret Drugs of Buddhism, Mike Crowley claims the covert survival of the Vedic Soma tradition in Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as other use of psychedelic mushrooms. But is Crowley’s research credible?
A Rebuttal to Criticisms of The Cannabis Soma Theory in Secret Drugs of Buddhism by Mike Crowley
CANNABIS CULTURE – In this article, part 4 in a series on the identity of the ancient Vedic and Avestan sacraments soma and haoma, I will address some recent despairing criticisms of The Cannabis Soma Theory
The Mushroom Soma Theory: A Critical Analysis
CANNABIS CULTURE – Undoubtedly, currently the most popular candidate for Soma has been the Amanita muscaria mushroom
The Cannabis Soma/Haoma Theory: A Synopsis Based on the Latest Textual and Archeological Evidence
CANNABIS CULTURE – This is part 2 of a series on The Soma Haoma Question, exploring the identity of the ancient Vedic and Avestan entheogenic sacrament.
The Soma-Haoma Question
CANNABIS CULTURE – The Sacred soma/haoma were plant based ritual drinks of the ancient Vedic and Avestan religions, thought to have originated from a common earlier past.
Biblical Scholar John Kitto on the origins of the word “Hashish”
CANNABIS CULTURE – In different publications of A Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, the 19th century scholar John Kitto put forth two, potentially related, etymologies for “hashish”
