10/03/2021
Repost
Due to pressure from IPCI, Santa Cruz has RE-criminalized ALL cacti containing mescaline
Due to pressure from IPCI, an organization run by a person of European ancestry who is also a board member for the for-profit MAPS public benefit corporation, and funded by Dr. Bronner’s Soap Company and Riverstyx, (run by an heir to the United Parcel Service fortune) Santa Cruz has now REcriminalized ALL cacti containing mescaline.
IPCI owns one of only two Pe**te cultivating nurseries in the US. Why would their leaders prefer scarcity (stopping people from personal cultivation of pe**te) over abundance (encouraging as many people to cultivate pe**te to decrease pressures on endemic habitats)?
Rather than collaborate with the larger community and come up with a plan together to cultivate these sacred plants to help reduce the impact on endemic regions, these organizations would prefer recreating a punitive approach, where you go to jail for growing a plant.
We are running out of time to cultivate pe**te and reduce the impact on the endemic pe**te regions. What is IPCI's plan outside of advocating for criminalizing the cultivation, use, and possession of ALL cacti containing mescaline? How does this help?
It is good to honor cultural traditions with plant medicines. This is not the same as owning Nature, however. There are 26,000,000 Indigenous people in the US and Mexico. No individual or for profit corporation should get to decide who speaks for 26 million people, or all of humanity’s relationship to Nature.
How is claiming ownership over a plant different than trying to patent a plant?
And why do we keep finding MAPS people and Bronner involved every time we see efforts to restrict access for people to Nature?
Wouldn't you have rather spent the last 2.5 years planting pe**te seeds and finding ways to cultivate these sacred plants and reduce the impact on the endemic regions rather than fighting to keep them criminalized?
Help us push for Decriminalization of personal cultivation of pe**te to prevent it from going extinct in the wild.