Chief Assis Kaxinawá, from the village Pinuya (colony 27), five kilometers away from the city of Tarauacá, sought the report from the Tarauacá Portal to address issues related to the indigenous population during the pandemic period. According to the...

Karnataka temples offer ganja as prasad to help devotees achieve enlightenment

In Mouneshwara temple at Tinthini in Karnataka’s Yadgir district, an annual fair is held in January where devotees are handed out small packets of ganja (marijuana) as prasadam, which they smoke after praying to Lord Manappa, the...

Canada and mining on indigenous lands in Brazil, again

From University Unisinos "There is no ' green mining ': what is proposed is the exploitation and degradation of a region through financial compensation", writes Leonardo Barros Soares , PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas...

‘Pro-mining’ speech increases deforestation, threatens indigenous peoples and internationalizes the forest.

According to environmentalists, the opening of the current government to the activity brings with it more deforestation in the Amazon, exposes native communities and 'delivers' natural resources to foreign capital From amazonia.org.br That the government of Jair...

An Italian witch Dances in the square in Salento, fighting the plague. Pizza dance of the magic tradition Taranta.

Pizzica can be considered an old version of music therapy, as it could cure “tarantism”, that is, the trance state caused by the bite of a type of spider, the “tarantula”. The phenomenon usually occurred in young women of marriageable age, the “tarantolate”, and in...

Myself, 2.0: The Rewards and Challenges of Microdosing LSD

It was a trip out of my comfort zone that prompted me to jump on the microdose train. I was in another state covering a cannabis conference, far away from my quiet office and laptop, when an old friend showed up with a gift: 100 micrograms of LSD. “Take one tenth of...

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