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Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs
such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia
divinorum. The uses of these substances can often be found at the
intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics,
medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, knowledge transmission,
socialization, and celebration. The collection analyzes how some of
these psychoactive plants have been progressively incorporated and
regulated in developed Western societies by both national
legislation and by the United Nations Drug Conventions. It focuses
mainly, but not only, on the debates in court cases around the
world involving the claim of religious use and the legal
definitions of "religion." It further touches upon issues of human
rights and cognitive liberty as they relate to the consumption of
drugs. While this collection emphasizes certain uses of
psychoactive substances in different cultures and historical
periods, it is also useful for thinking about the consumption of
drugs in general in contemporary societies. The cultural and
informal controls discussed here represent alternatives to the
current merely prohibitionist policies, which are linked to the
spread of illicit and violent markets. By addressing the disputes
involved in the regulation of traditional drug use, this volume
reflects on notions such as origin, place, authenticity, and
tradition, thereby relating drug policy to broader social science
debates.
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