All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.