Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Labate, Beatriz Caiuby (Editor), Cavnar, Clancy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Religion.; Pharmacology.; Medical laws and legislation.; Human rights.; Cultural studies.; Human Rights.; Medical Law.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Religious Studies, general.; Cultural Studies.

This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia divinorum. The uses of these substances can often be found at the intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics, medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, know...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: David Courtwright
• Introduction
• Human Rights and Drug Conventions: Searching for Humanitarian Reason in Drug Laws.- Coca in Debate: The Contradiction and Conflict between the UN Drug Conventions and the Real World
• Marijuana and Religious Freedom in the United States
• Peyote, Race, and Equal Protection in the United States
• From the Sacrilegious to the Sacramental: A Global Review of Rastafari Cannabis Case Law
• The Expansion of Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions: Law, Culture and Locality
• Framing the Chew: Narratives of Development, Drugs, and Danger with Regard to Khat (Catha Edulis)
• Salvia divinorum, Hallucinogens, and the Determination of Medical Utility
• "Legalize Spiritual Discovery": The Trials of Dr. Timothy Leary
• Cannabis and the Psychedelics: Reviewing the UN Drug Conventions
• Beyond Religious Freedom: Psychedelics and Cognitive Liberty
• Fear and Loathing in Drugs Policy: Risk, Rights, and Approaches to Drug Policy and Practice.      .