Posts Tagged ‘reformer’

Jewish psychedelics reformer Rick Doblin wants to see therapeutic MDMA legalized

BELMONT, Massachusetts (JTA) — When Rick Doblin was in his early 20s, he had a dream in which he was escorted back in time to witness a Holocaust survivor’s narrow escape from the Nazis. In his mind, Doblin traveled to Eastern Europe to witness thousands of Jews lined up alongside a mass grave as the […]

King Udayana Religious Financial Reformer of Ancient Bali

In ancient India, legendary King Udayana was a king of the city of Kaushambi in the north-central India as well as a patron of Shakyamuni Buddha. The Buddhist scripture Samyutta Nikaya records Udayana’s conversion to Buddhism after his visit to the monk Pindola Bharadvaja. Two fourth-century plays by the ancient Indian poet Bhasa, the Svapnavasavadattam […]

What It’s Like For American Drug Reformer To Go To A Country With A Compassionate System

The American activists couldn’t wrap their heads around it. Sitting in a dingy office in a nondescript building in central Lisbon, they were being provided a fine-grained explanation of what happens to people caught with small amounts of drugs in Portugal, which decriminalized the possession of personal use amounts of drugs 17 years ago. The […]

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