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Brazil: ayahuasca under scrutiny following cartoonist's slaying

Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Global Ganja Report and tagged Amazon, ayahuasca, Brazil, psychedelics, Southern Cone.

the Amazon Brazil's Santo Daime church, which uses ayahuasca as a sacrament, is under fire following the March 12 slaying of Glauco Villa Boas, a prominent cartoonist for the influential Folha de São Paulo newspaper. Villa Boas was killed along with his son, Raoni, outside his outside São Paulo home. Glauco, as he's known in Brazil, was a leader at a Santo Daime church, and his alleged killer had frequented the church, police say. Media speculation links the suspect's motives and state of mind to the church and its psychoactive sacrament.

The Rainbow Gathering

Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Bill Weinberg and tagged cannabis, counterculture, democracy, features, festivals, psychedelics, public lands, sacrament, United States.

Every year since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light has been holding its Summer gathering in the National Forests of the United States, bouncing to a different state each year, from coast to coast. A loose network of hippie tribes that celebrate their diversity, the Rainbow People caravan cross-country for the annual back-to-nature affair that starts building in June and climaxes with a silent meditation for world peace when the rest of America is setting off fireworks on July 4.