https://erievision.org/entheogenic-identity-politics/ Exploring entheogenic and psychedelic potentials Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://erievision.org/entheogenic-identity-politics/#comment-1039 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:40:32 +0000 https://www.erievision.org/?p=3198#comment-1039 […] Over the next period, we will be curating a Cognitive Liberty hashtag campaign, offering a selection of images and stories in support of the entheogenic coming-out process. This already challenging process is made even more difficult by decades of politics and legal policy, demonizing the identity of those who partake in psychedelic/entheogenic experiences. We hope this campaign will provide some tools for you in that next uncomfortable conversation.  […]

]]> https://erievision.org/entheogenic-identity-politics/#comment-1038 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:14:41 +0000 https://www.erievision.org/?p=3198#comment-1038 Drug stigma has ALWAYS had an agenda. Do you want to let Nixonian politics control your life? Stand up for your right to ‪#‎CogntiiveLiberty‬.
From the article: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon

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