The use of psychoactive substances for healing, transformation and spiritual unfoldment is a phenomena that has been with us since the dawn of man. In a way you could say a culture is reflected in its choice of substances with the west being very much an alcohol, caffeine and nicotine culture (its all about uppers and downers). These are the approved and even promoted substances but there has always been a minority who experiment with substances that society does not endorse. There is a growing movement to have marijuana more accepted as a medicine and to legalize it for recreational use while it is already the most mainstream of the unapproved substances. Its medicinal and healing properties cannot be denied anymore than one can deny its potential for abuse.
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