On Decolonizing and Psychedelics

Roger K. Green

The politics of recognition in the United States remains part of a colonizing apparatus designed for the erasure Indigenous Peoples.  Advocating for the use of psychedelics based on Indigenous practices demands consideration of what is ethically involved in seeking legal permissions for substances enhancing “religious experience,” frequently for an individual, rights-bearing subject.  Meanwhile, compromise after compromise has been offered to Indigenous Peoples for over 500 years, and religion is frequently at the heart of it... continue reading.