drugs
“Shamanic purity” and other 20th-century paradigms on drugs
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – When scholars in the humanistic and scientific fields of research encounter drug-related topics, they express moral judgments dictated by a series of paradigms concerning drugs that emerged in the 20th century. Their cultural and psychological conditioning influence both methodologies and the interpretation of data, and consequently, research results. Limiting the focus…
Il fagiolo del mescal fra i Nativi nordamericani
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – “The mescalbean among the North American Natives” – With the name “mescalbean cult” or “mescalism”, a group of ritual practices of the North American Planes Natives are named, during which a vegetal psychoactive source was employed. The human relationship with this visionary source originates starting from the most remote antiquity, and…
Il betel
By: PIERANDREA COSTA – Il viaggiatore che percorre il sud est asiatico rimane sicuramente colpito dalle persone che hanno la bocca colorata da un intenso rosso e hanno i denti coperti da uno strato di tartaro nero che a volte esce dalle labbra: sono questi i segni che permettono di riconoscere i masticatori di betel.