Chris Bennett

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.

CANNABIS CULTURE – Gnostic and Zoroastrian influences on later Alchemy have been long suggested. An important figure in this transition, is Zosimos, the Alchemist, who lived on either side of 300 AD. Interestingly, surviving translation of Zosimos work, have the ancient sage identify references to cannabis infused wines and beers. “…wines can be made inRead More

Here are two recent lectures I gave for Ted Smith's Hempology 101, discussing cannabis and hemp in the ancient world. Here are two recent lectures I gave for Ted Smith's Hempology 101, discussing cannabis and hemp in the ancient world.

The use of cannabis as a sacrament dates back thousands of years, in many different religions and possibly even during the anointing of Jesus Christ, according to expert testimony in an ongoing criminal court proceeding in Toronto.

In the story is titled The Walls of Eryx. written in 1936, published in 1939 in Weird Tales Magazine, Lovecraft refers to the “mirage-plant” which from the description looked very much like cannabis and an incident under its inlfuences that happens at precisely 4:20:

I gave a lecture at Vancouver Island University last weekend that was hosted by Victoria's Hempology 101 Socety, a group that has been educating people about cannabis since the mid-90s and was founded by the pioneering cannabis activist Ted Smith.

Here are affidavits in my case against the Government of Canada regarding their rejection of my request for a religious exemption to grow and possess cannabis, as well as some of the Crown's affidavit's against the Church of the Universe Mission G13, including the crown's expert witness a Catholic Priest who calls the Church of the Universe a "parody" religion. Both, myself and Prof. Carl Ruck will be acting as expert witnesses for the defense.

For millennia, copious amounts of the cannabis beverage "bhang" have been consumed at the Hindu Holi Celebration, also called the Festival of Colours, which is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India, Nepal, Srilanka, and other countries with large Hindu diaspora populations. In these celebrations thousands of participants drink bhanga and playfully throw colored paint on each other in a celebration of fertility, life and joy. Here are some recent news stories about Holi bhang use.
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