Contemporary Justice Review
November 18, 2008
Adam Jacobs
3 citations
Recently the use of hallucinogens in therapy has resurfaced in clinical research. Decades after dismissing Timothy Leary for his experiments, Harvard approved clinical trials using psilocybin (mushrooms) in therapy with terminally ill patients. This article re‐evaluates the research on LSD as a therapeutic element. A re‐assessment of the earlier legal research on hallucinogenic therapy reveals...
Contemporary Justice Review
December 1, 2007
Peter N. Jones
31 citations
Since the passage of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Native American Church (NAC) members have continually had to defend their legal right to use the sacred cactus peyote (Lophophora williamsii). This legal right was established with the passage of 21 CFR 1307.31, which exempts peyote's Schedule I status for NAC members. The exemption, however, continues to be...
Contemporary Justice Review
December 1, 2007
Wendy Chapkis
16 citations
Federal drug policy defines marijuana as a prohibited Schedule 1 substance—a dangerous drug carrying a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. This classification is largely due to the drug's well‐known psychoactive effects (‘the high’). Because of this, even medical marijuana advocates have tended to downplay the consciousness‐altering properties of cannabis when arguing for the...
Contemporary Justice Review
August 14, 2007
Dennis M. Sullivan
2 citations
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] There is some difference of opinion about when this letter was written. Shannon (1985 Shannon, W. H., ed. 1985. The hidden ground of love: The letters of Thomas Merton on religious experience and social concerns, New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. [Google Scholar]) lists November 27, 1958 (p. 436), and Smith (1969 Smith, G.,...
Contemporary Justice Review
2001
S. Boyd
This essay will examine the regulation of altered states of consciousness and the criminalization of specific drags against the backdrop of Christian ideology, colonization, and capitalism. In addition, this essay reveals how the regulation of altered states of consciousness contributes both to race, class, and gender Inequality as well as to the regulation and suppression of spiritual belief,...