Psychedelics Are Surging—at the Expense of Indigenous Communities

Dec 25 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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American and European corporations have a centuries-old history of bastardizing and profiting off of the ceremonial plants and drugs used by Indigenous cultures in the Americas. The most notorious is perhaps tobacco, used for sacred purposes across different Indigenous groups like the Seminole and the Navajo for thousands of years in a form that would be unrecognizable to most of us. It was far more concentrated and much harder...

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