When thinking of the history of marijuana, most people’s minds go back to the hippy era of the 60s and the pot smoking flower-children whose peace and love ideals have forever changed our culture. Some think of the 1930's Reefer Madness era, where blacks and whites shared 'marihuana cigarettes' at tea houses while creating a new genre of music and breaking long-held racial barriers.
Few people realize that cannabis has played a role in human history for tens of thousands of years, or that it played a pivotal role in the formation of such ancient religions as Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shinto, Ancient Greek Mystery Schools, and other traditions.
The Cannabis Roots conference will explore some of this little-discussed area of cannabis history with some of the top experts in the world.
Cannabis Roots: The Hidden History of Marijuana will be held from 11AM - 6PM on November 3, 2012 at CCHQ (307 W. Hastings - Second Floor) in Vancouver.
Speakers include Professor Carl Ruck, David Hillman Ph.D., Michael Aldrich Ph.D., authors Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, Ted Smith, Chris Bennett, and filmmaker Mark Klokeid.
For tickets and more information contact the Urban Shaman: 307 W Hastings, Vancouver – 604-662-5355 – theurbanshaman@hotmail.com.
Cynthia Palmer is a writer and photographer from San Francisco. In 1970 she was part of a small group of neuronauts who founded The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in North Beach. Over the next 30 years the library became the world's largest collection of literature, research, art and artifacts of drug history. Archiving the art and literature of drugs and transformation is a dedicated obsession. Drug classics were reprinted in paperback from the collection, and with Michael Horowitz, she co-edited Moksha: Writings on Visionary Experience and Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley and Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady: Women's Writings on the Drug Experience (Updated and renamed Sisters of the Extreme).
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