Statement on Peyote

Barre, Weston La; McAllester, David P.; Slotkin, J. S.; Stewart, Omer C.; Tax, Sol

doi:10.1126/science.114.2970.582

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“…Modern anti-psychedelic legislation began 100 years ago when members of rival religious groups campaigned against Native American peyote use, calling peyote addictive and an ‘insidious evil’ that causes users to ‘withdraw from the churches and become “peyote worshipers”’ (Newberne and Burke, 1922). Eventually, concerned scientists defended peyote users, using evidence-based reasoning and human rights arguments (Collier, 1952; La Barre et al, 1951; Le Farge, 1960); this led to legal exemptions for specific groups. However, laws and cultural biases against peyote remained in place and were later extended to include other psychedelics.…”

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Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior: A population study

Johansen¹,

2015

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A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and mental health problems. Using a new data set consisting of 135,095 randomly selected United States adults, including 19,299 psychedelic users, we examine the associations between psychedelic use and mental health. After adjusting for sociodemographics, other drug use and childhood depression, we found no significant associations between lifetime use of psychedelics and increased likelihood of past year serious psychological distress, mental health treatment, suicidal thoughts, suicidal plans and suicide attempt, depression and anxiety. We failed to find evidence that psychedelic use is an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Psychedelics are not known to harm the brain or other body organs or to cause addiction or compulsive use; serious adverse events involving psychedelics are extremely rare. Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.

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Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior: A population study

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2015

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“…En 1937, los antropólogos Franz Boas, Weston La Barre y el etnobotánico Richard Evans-Schultes enviaron cartas de repudio frente a una nueva tentativa prohibicionista. En 1951, Weston La Barre y colegas publicarían en la revista Science una "Declaración sobre el Peyote", manifestándose nuevamente contrarios a las tentativas prohibicionistas (64) .…”

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La funcionalidad política de la “ciencia” prohibicionista: El caso del cannabis y los psicodélicos

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Se analiza, desde una perspectiva externalista, el uso de la ciencia como herramienta política por parte de la lógica prohibicionista. El prohibicionismo trabaja para que sus preceptos político-morales sean considerados científicos, es decir, como el resultado de un proceso de investigación neutro a nivel ideológico. El artículo analiza el caso del cannabis y de los psicodélicos para mostrar cómo el prohibicionismo solo ha recurrido a la “ciencia” para ocultar su agenda político-moral, mientras ha ignorado todos los resultados de las investigaciones científicas que no se ajustaban a sus apriorismos. Finalmente planteamos que las políticas de drogas deben fundamentarse en la evidencia científica y en ciertos valores básicos –defensa de la salud pública, de la cohesión social, de los Derechos Humanos–, por lo que un análisis en términos de relaciones de poder permitiría entender mejor las contradictorias relaciones entre ciencia y políticas de drogas.

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“…The strategy was first tested in Arizona, where a bitter internal conflict was opposing Navajo on the use of peyote since the early 1940s after the Tribal council had adopted a resolution prohibiting the possession and use of peyote on the reservation (Aberle 1966); two decades of controversy ensued, marking a significant backlash to Commissioner Collier's policy (Dawson 2018;Stewart 1993). Interestingly, the conflict prompted the intervention of anthropologists through national media: in July and November 1951, statements favorable to peyote written by Stewart, La Barre, Slotkin, McAllester, and others, were thus published by Time and Science magazines in reaction to an article particularly hostile to peyote and based on assertions from Dr. Clarence Salisbury, the medical missionary to the Navajo and head of the Navajo Presbyterian Mission (Time 1951a(Time , 1951b; La Barre et al 1951). A few months after his election, Take Guns consequently took the opportunity of the arrest of Navajo Peyotist Mike Kiyaani to test the legal validity of the Tribal council resolution.…”

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Statement on Peyote

Cited by 18 publications

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Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior: A population study

Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior: A population study

La funcionalidad política de la “ciencia” prohibicionista: El caso del cannabis y los psicodélicos

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