Press Release – Chacruna Institute’s Patenting the Sacred Series: Critical Dialogues on Law, Economics, and Indigenous Rights in the Psychedelic Renaissance

On Wednesday, October 27, the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines will be promoting the fifth round of its “Patenting the Sacred” Community Forum Series with a live streamed conversation on “Indigenous Worldview, Property, and Extractivism in the Psychedelic Renaissance.” Professor Tink Tinker, Ph.D. (Eagle Clan, Wazhazhe/Osage Nation); Clifford Baldridge, Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology; and Professor Marcy Norton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the extractive history of various substances and the impact of extractive thinking on Indigenous worldviews, joined and moderated by Professor Roger Green, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver... continue reading.