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Richard Glen Boire, ESQ. The war-on-drugs is not a war on pills, power, plants and potions, it is a war on mental states. it is a war on consciousness itself how much, what sort we are permitted to experience and who gets to control it. Richard
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If you have an active interest in sacred mushrooms should asses your level of risk aversion.  Review by Fungi Magazine |
Sacred Mushrooms &
the Law by Richard Glen Boire, Esq. Foreword by Terrance McKenna SACRED
MUSHROOMS were used to assist in visionary
states as early as 4000 BC and in religious ceremonies
long before the Aztec civilization. Many believe that
the mushrooms talk to them, opening up channels of
communication with animals and spirit entities. The First Amendment to the Constitution
guaranteed each of us freedom of religious expression.
Yet, for all practical purposes, the entheogenic
experience -- finding God within -- has been outlawed
in the United States, even among indigenous people. In
Sacred Mushrooms & the Law attorney
Richard Glen Boire, author of the best selling Marijuana Law ,
provides a much needed review of federal and state law
(with cases) regarding the possession and use of
sacred mushrooms. The law is an arcane mish-mash that
renders nature an illicit drug-lab. Boire offers a fascinating discourse on
cognitive liberty in which he compares the laws
criminalizing the use of entheogenic mushrooms to a
kind of "Newspeak". In George Orwell's dystopian
novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Oceania
government established Newspeak, a carefully crafted
language designed by the government for the purpose of
making unapproved modes of thought impossible. Our
modern laws that criminalize sacred mushrooms
effectively outlaw unapproved states of
consciousnessÑincluding certain religious ecstatic
experiences. Sacred Mushrooms & the Law reviews federal and state laws relative to psilocybin and psilocin mushrooms, tells how to determine punishments, reveals the profile postal workers use to identify a "drug package", explores possible defenses, and much more.
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