Persecuted Saints
Being a pothead is your God-given and also secular right
Human society proudly boasts of its accomplishments and progressiveness, and yet, literal shamans, witches, and mystics are still forbidden to freely practice their beliefs almost exactly as it was in the times of Inquisition.
Sure, you can meditate, pray, and prostrate to your hearts content in whatever way you deem fit, which is sort of a change for the better, but when it comes to the use of entheogens — the most powerful, one may say even crucial, practice at your disposal — you are, sans few regions in the world, almost immediately outside the law or at least severely restricted.
I really don’t want to explain how the very act of outlawing a plant is against common sense and nature — that itself should be obvious.
I also won’t delve into the old religious scriptures that encourage the use of entheogens — even Bible, which you will find in the hands of almost all prohibition thumping folks, states in Genesis 1:29 that, “God said, ‘See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food.’”, where “food” can also mean “object of devouring, consuming by animals, in fire, or of judgment.”
I also deem it utterly redundant to point out again how entheogens are part and parcel of all (major) world religions.
No, I will stay all secular and law-abiding, because even by these modern standards it’s clear as day that every regulation of personal use of entheogens is a direct violation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Article 18. of UDHR states (emphasis mine):
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
And the UDHR concludes with article 30. which reads:
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
There’s really no need to add anything else.
