Mogg,
Yes, drug use is such
an incredibly important modern cultural phenomenon, in occultism and
elsewhere, and of course an important phenomenon historically. I've long
wondered why there's no academic field taking a humanities approach to the
topic, "Drugs studies" or somesuch. For example, there's been a little
been done on medieval Middle Eastern hashish use, but it could be explored
much further. Obviously, psychotropics/"shamanism" have gotten some
attention, but there's a lot more to the topic of drugs than just that
category. It's also of enormous political importance, of course, given my
dear country's international "war on drugs."
Someday, if I get a
tenured job (if tenure still exists in the near future), I'll try to
pursue it.
- N
On 7/26/2011 12:16 PM, mandrake wrote:
Noah
Cheers
interesting - non medical
drug use is the heresy and witchcraft of modern times -
reminds me a
bit of David Land's "Guns & Rain: Guerillas and
Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe"
bb
mogg
On
26/07/2011 09:54, Noah Gardiner wrote:
This story from today's LA Times might
interest people on this list. It's part of a series about the Sinaloa
drug cartel, and includes quite a bit of stuff about occult practices
by some distributors. A bit sensationalistic, but interesting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/cartel/la-me-cartel-20110726,0,6413313.story
