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Religious use of psychedelics!     From the beginning of recorded history, religious traditions throughout our planet have known of and used psychedelic plants and chemicals as material aids to religious practice, or sacraments. Taoists of ancient China, Hindus of India, and the ancient religions of Ethiopia and Egypt are known to have honored and used Cannabis and other sacred herbs. Other ancient Cannabis users included the Persian Zoroastrians (a/k/a the Magi), and the Scythians, whose use of Cannabis in funeral rites is described in the Histories of Herodotus.   The Sanskrit Vedas, among the Earth’s oldest extant sacred scriptures, speak of Soma, a psychedelic elixir which may have contained Cannabis and/or psilocybin or other psychedelic mushrooms. The ancient Greek Initiate movements, including the Dionysian, Elusinian, and Delphic, combined “secret herbs” with their ceremonial wine, perhaps including ergot, the source of lysergic acid (from which LSD is made).   The ancient Hebrews evidently knew of the spiritual uses of Cannabis, and in fact the Greek word cannabis may ultimately derive from the Hebrew kannehbosm, literally “sweet cane”, given in the Bible as an ingredient of Yahweh’s “holy anointing oil” (Exodus 30:23).   Many of the indigenous religions of the Americas used peyote (mescaline), “magic mushrooms” (psilocybin), and certain types of Morning Glory plants, which contain lysergic acid.   In the early centuries of the common era, the Buddhists of Tibet honored Cannabis and used it as an aid to meditation and illumination, as did the Sufi and Ishmaili sects of Islam. In India, Patanjali cited “the yoga of light-containing herbs” as one valid path to mystical attainment in his Yoga Sutras (recognized by our Church as being among the cannonical scriptures).   In the medieval and renaissance period, many of the persecuted “witches” were users of the sacred herbs, including the hallucinogenic daturas and nightshades as well as Cannabis and many others. The alchemists of Europe respected the Elixirs of Light, and Paracelsus places Cannabis at the head of his list of spiritually efficacious herbs. The Coptic Christians who fled to Egypt to escape Roman persecution in the first century used Cannabis as a sacrament from the beginning, and still do to this day. American Rastafarians who use marijuana are persecuted by the US Gover-nment, inspite of Constitutional gaurantee's of Religious freedom, thru the  "FREE EXERCISE" clause of the first amendment, or Bill of Rights! There are a number of other extant religions that recognize the spiritual use of psychedelics, some officially incorporated and recognized by the State, and others awaiting relief from persecution to take their rightful place in the public forum.  The Christian US government thru it's "War on Drugs"          Is commiting religious persecution. The use of psychedelics is part of human nature. But in "AMERICA" the White majority has made the substances used by "minorities" illegal while allowing the substances used by whites to be legal. (Examples: Khat, Peyote, Hoasca, ) Yet, the most blatant abuse of this policy is the "marijuana prohibition". Caucasian lawmakers have classified marijuana (which has never killed anyone) through the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 as a dangerous substance, therefore making it illegal. Meanwhile, tobacco and alcohol (legal drugs which kill hundreds of thousands of Americans each year) have been legitimized as products which are taxed, regulated and thus legal. For thousands of years Africans used marijuana as a medicine and as sacraments in native religions. This was particularly ingrained in AFRICAN native cultures. In much the same way, Caucasians have used Tobacco for hundreds of years both as a psychedelics and for some (misguided) medical reasons. Alcohol (wine) has been used as a psychedelics as well as a sacrament in most organized Christian religions for almost 2000 years and has become similarly ingrained in Caucasian culture and religions. The root of the U.S. marijuana prohibition is racism.                                                      HOME-PAGE