TO DECRIMINALIZE ENTHEOGENIC PLANTS & FUNGI
The Decriminalize Nature organization is a grassroots effort to redefine control over natural entheogens using a bottom-up approach to political, social and economic change. Our grow – gather – gift model puts the power in the hands of the people helped most by entheogenic plants and fungi.
Empowering people to enact change in their communities.
Practice a bottom-up, rather than a top-down, approach to political, social, and economic change.
Enable self-agency and equitable access to entheogenic plant medicines for everyone.
Promote preservation, conservation, and sustainability of entheogenic plants and fungi.
Work with entheogenic allies and traditional cultures that have built knowledge around their use.
The individual right to connect to nature and share it with others. Learn More
The role of the national group is to enable and facilitate communication between groups, protect the values and principles of the movement, and channel power to local leaders and groups.
AND AUTONOMY – THE BASIS OF THE MYCELIAL NETWORK
While local groups are autonomous, the national board’s role is to share national dynamics, struggles, strategies, and opportunities with local groups, and also to learn from local groups and share findings with the rest of the movement.
In this way, our intention as a national board is to facilitate the growth of this mycelial network to enable groups to support each other both directly and indirectly.
OF EMERGING LEADERSHIP
A movement survives and thrives by encouraging and enabling leadership to emerge in all geographic areas.
A key strategy of of the national Decriminalize Nature organization is to support local managers and guide them in becoming leaders at the regional and national level.
This is already happening around the US!
OF OUR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
We were founded with the basic goal of advancing the values of love and compassion as revealed and demonstrated by our plant and fungi allies. We advocate for equitable access, non-commodification of the entheogenic plants and fungi, ceremony-based community containers, abundance and cooperation, decentralization, transparency, and open-source information.
One of the national board’s most important roles has been to monitor the emergence of money and corporate power into the plant medicine conversation and to do all we can to mitigate the negative impacts of profiteering and commodification of our entheogenic allies.
POWER OF THE NAME
“Decriminalize Nature” is becoming synonymous with an decentralized, action-oriented peoples’ movement that advocates for equitable access to entheogenic plants and fungi for all people. Branding and agreement about a core set of principles are important to show unity and advance the cause. As local groups adopt the DN name, the DN movement becomes more resilient and powerful.
As local movements absorb and utilize this power, everyone gains strength. Each local group exists in symbiotic relationships with the national board and other local groups.
Psychedelic plants and mushrooms have been used safely and ceremoniously for thousands of years for personal development, spiritual growth, and healing.
They offer us the ability to reconnect with nature, ourselves, and each other at a time when we need it most.
Decriminalize Nature has already empowered 25 cities to decriminalize psychedelic plants and mushrooms, but we need your support to be sure no one goes to jail for engaging with these gifts from nature.
“I am calling on our elected officials to decriminalize the possession, growing, sharing, and use of psychedelic plants and fungi and end the senseless prosecution of these victimless “crimes”.
I urge our legislators to deschedule all naturally occurring forms psilocybin/psilocin, DMT, mescaline, and ibogaine from the list of controlled substances as none of these have been found to be habit forming and all have been reported to have a high potential for therapeutic and medical use.
Restricting equitable access to these sacred entheogens is a crime against humanity. Restoring our human right to develop our own relationship with nature is essential to upholding the personal and religious freedoms this country was founded on.”
Here are some creative pieces inspired by how entheogenic plants and fungi have shaped them, restored their roots with nature and helped them find community and love. Enjoy below…
Plant Power to the People - Lyrics
Going beyond the peak experience
Listening to the lineage
Multiple messages in the DNA
Tell me, what did Mama Ayahuasca have to say? 3rd eye lens widen off the psilocybin realizing Trauma need some redefining
No longer a cage that we must be confined in so Light up the sage, let’s get it in alignment
DN from the ground up in the 510
Integrate the truth worldwide for the win
I know you feel it ‘cause I feel it too
A shift bigger than anything we thought we knew From the soul like Posdnuos
Put some work in still got a lot to do
So you knowing what we got to do, huh
Follow up on that follow through
My relationship with nature ain’t illegal Plant power to the people
Plant power to the people
Where you dream is where I’ll meet you (x2)
Your journey begins after your journey, it’s a process
I trust you’re not in a hurry
So many are hurting searching for something for certain Only thing that certain is that light inside your person Ritual over recreation
Ways of the ancient
Yo, I say we save the sacred
Pave the way so our children know their placement
Teach ‘em not to be ashamed if they naked The future’s ours and it’s up to us to shape it Remember cannabis
Let’s not repeat that same shit
No need to explain this
I trust you knowing what the aim is…
Shouts out to Chor Boogie Iboga souljah
Yo Plazola we gon’ free ‘em all before it’s over Can’t say I never told ya
Broadcasting live from Oakland, California
My relationship with nature ain’t illegal Plant power to the people
Plant power to the people
Where you dream is where I’ll meet you (x2)
Gabor Mate:
Ayahuasca
If that’s what we’re talking about
You don’t use daily
You use very consciously, in a ceremonial setting
As a way of opening the doors of perception
It’s still up to you to walk through those doors
And then walking through those doors is something you have to do in your daily life So it’s not going to happen for you right there in the ceremony
In the ceremony you might have an opening, which otherwise you might not have had And you might have realized things about your past and your true nature
That had hitherto been hidden to you
But that’s just when the work begins
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