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Cannabis – A Remarkable Medicine, with William Eidelman, M.D. Cannabis is a surprisingly effective and safe medicine for a wide range of conditions and illnesses. Surprisingly,the federal government claims cannabis has no medical value and is dangerous. This workshop will go over the science and medicine to get to the truth of cannabis’ effectiveness and safety. We will discuss how the Compassionate Use Act has worked in California, including the positives and negatives. William S. Eidelman, M.D., is a pioneer in the field of cannabis medicine. He began recommending cannabis pursuant to the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) in 1997, gradually becoming a specialist in the field. Dr. Eidelman also specializes in natural medicine, including nutrition, bio-electromagnetic medicine, and spiritual healing. He is the author of From Medicine To Mysticism

The Pharmacratic Inquisition 2007 is a video version of the book, “Astrotheology & Shamanism” by Jan Irvin & Andrew Rutajit.

Thousands of years ago, in the pre monarchic era, sacred plants and other entheogenic substances where politically correct and highly respected for their ability to bring forth the divine, Yahweh, God, The Great Spirit, etc., by the many cultures who used them. Often the entire tribe or community would partake in the entheogenic rites and rituals. These rites were often used in initiation into adulthood, for healing, to help guide the community in the decision process, and to bring the direct religious experience to anyone seeking it.

In the pre literate world, the knowledge of psychedelic sacraments, as well as fertility rites and astronomical knowledge surrounding the sun, stars, and zodiac, known as astrotheology, were anthropomorphized into a character or a deity; consequently, their stories and practices could easily be passed down for generations. Weather changes over millenniums caused environmental changes that altered the available foods and plant sacraments available in the local vicinity. If a tribe lost its shamanic El-der (El – God), all of the tribe’s knowledge of their plant sacraments as well as astronomical knowledge would be lost. The Church’s inquisitions extracted this sacred knowledge from the local Shamans who were then exterminated…It is time to recognize the fact that this Pharmacratic Inquisition is still intact and destroy it.

Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire with Michael Pollan

Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan, delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four familiar plant species: the apple,the tulip, the potato, and cannabis.