Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

White people shouldn’t mess with it

Experts warned last week of a shortage of peyote, a sacred cactus used by Native Americans in religious rituals, which produces the hallucinogenic drug and only grows in limited range across south-western US and northern Mexico. They blame a psychedelic renaissance taking off in wealthy western societies, as well as overharvesting and land development.

#Peyote #Mescaline #Native #Indigenous
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/11/white-people-shouldnt-mess-with-it-native-american-church-laments-psychedelic-cactus-shortage

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson @bookstadon

Kanadisches Unternehmen produziert #Peyote, legal und indoor.
#Mescalin
#Legalize
#antipro

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjpdw/canada-legal-peyote?utm_source=reddit.com

On the #peyote crisis which threatens to appropriate and commodify #Diné sacred ways.

"There are no English words that describe how the spiritual character of peyote is inextricably intertwined with its hallucinogenic properties, the land where it grows and the Indigenous Americans who consume it, says Jones. In the Navajo language, Jones describes this harmonic oneness as azee’ hinááh biníłch’idiyin, be’adínídíín."

#Indigenous #Navajo #medicine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/indigenous-communities-protecting-psychedelics-peyote-corporations

Capitalism, baby!
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‘We don’t sell our way of life’: Indigenous peyote users and the companies trying to cash in | #NativeAmericans | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/indigenous-communities-protecting-psychedelics-peyote-corporations

> #Indigenous Americans fought through genocide and forced assimilation to use #peyote in peace. Will the psychedelics renaissance co-opt it?

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The Supreme Court v. Peyote | More Perfect | WNYC Studios
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/supreme-court-v-peyote

Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, was not obscene. The poem was based, in part, on a horrifying peyote hallucination he had of the glitzy Sir Frances Drake hotel, in San Francisco, morphing into a child-eating demon. The poem’s references to drug use and to homosexuality are what provoked the obscenity trial. City Lights bookstore own and publisher of Howl, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and bookstore manager, Shig Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for selling the book.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #poetry #poem #AllenGinsberg #LawrenceFerlinghetti #CityLights #obscenity #censorship #FreeSpeech #LGBTQ #homophobia #drugs #peyote #books #publishing @bookstadon

wow, a deep dive into the wild history of 64 east 7th street in #nyc, including an unnamed cameo by barron bruchlos, the #peyote-selling objectivist who opens the first chapter of my book "heads," plus appearences by #yoko ono, allen #ginsberg, ed sanders, merry pranksters, patti smith, future max's owner mickey ruskin, & the rainbow family. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/nyregion/east-village-history-townhouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare via @wmclark

#MastoArt #painting #desert #visions #magicmushrooms #peyote

Vision Quest at Joshua Tree - Vision Quest bij Joshua Tree - Búsqueda de visión en Joshua Tree - Quête de vision à Joshua Tree - ジョシュア ツリーのビジョン クエスト - Visionssuche bei Joshua Tree

Inside the battle to save the sacred #peyote ceremony: ‘We’re in dire straits’ | Native Americans | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/09/peyote-native-american-medicine-nacna-federal-protection #religion #Indigenous

The Radboud Institute for Culture and History seeks a #PhD candidate for the NWO-funded project "Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perceptions of 'Drugs' in and from Latin America (1820-200)".

"Your research will focus on the shifting perceptions of #peyote in relation to different regions in Mexico (1820-2020)."

Application deadline: January 8, 2023

More information: https://www.avldigital.de/en/networking/details/job/phd-position-at-radboud-university-nijmegen-shifting-perceptions-of-peyote-in-and-from-latin-americ/ #fidavlnews #CulturalStudies #histodon #Aesthetics @litstudies @histodon

Aus Sicht von Experten entfalten Drogen wie z.B. Psychedelika eine enorme therapeutische Wirkung

Verbreitete #Psychedelika sind LSD, mescalinhaltige Kakteen wie #Peyote, psilocybinhaltige Pilze wie #MagicMushrooms und Pflanzensude mit DMT wie #Ayahuasca.

Aber sind die nicht gefährlich?
Planet Wissen geht der Frage nach, ob es wirklich #Drogen gibt, die eine heilsame Wirkung haben.

Absolut sehenswert!
#EntkriminalisierungSofort #PWUD #HarmReduction #Ketamin
https://www.planet-wissen.de/video-drogen-als-heilmittel-100.html