What is the CAW position on mind-altering drugs?
Various psychotropic chemicals have been used as sacraments in virtually every culture on the planet: beer among the Sumerians and Egyptians, wine among the Greeks and Romans, mead for the Northern Tribes of Europe, fly agaric mushrooms for the Vikings and Tungusik shamans, tobacco for the North American Natives, Coca for the Inca, betel nut for the Melanesians, Cannabis for the Indo-Europeans, rye ergot for the Eleusinian Mysteris of Greece, “Flying Ointment” (datura and other psychotropic plants) for the Witches of Medieval Europe, peyote for the Huitchol and the Indians of the Mexican deserts, opium for the Mediterranean and Chinese cultures, ayahuasca for the natives of Brazil, magic mushrooms and toads for the Mayans and Aztecs…the list goes on and on. These are all regarded as sacraments; that is sacred medicine sbustances of great power. They are gifts of the Gods (some even say “flesh of the Gods”), meant to be used only with reverence, and in a sacred manner. The power of th
