TO DECRIMINALIZE NATURE
The Decriminalize Nature organization is run at the national level by a board of directors that work to provide support to local chapters, encourage local leadership, protect our values and principles, and leverage the power of the organization to enact local change.
Our board members have vast experience with entheogens and proven success with creating awareness and passing resolutions across the country.
Contact the national organization via email: info@decriminalizenature.org
My name is Angelica Valadez, “Aikutzi,” in the native language of the Mexican tribe I originate from, the Wixárkika (Huichol) people, who are known for their ceremonial use peyote... (click to read more)
Although my cultural roots are with the Huichol people, I have have lived here in California and have been involved in the Bay Area plant medicine community since 2001. I am an advocate for the protection of the endangered Huichol tribe the peyote plant and our ancient peyote traditions, in a habitat which is currently under siege by mining companies, agro industries and over-harvesting. For this reason I am a committed supporter of the decriminalization of entheogens, as this is the only way to ensure the survival this sacred plant medicine that is of upmost importance to the Huichols and other indigenous people whose nature-based spirituality depends on it.
My plee is for humanity to unite in supporting the decriminalization of enthogens and to assure that Peyote is included in this resolution to guarantee it’s protection and survival. Humanity must realize that the only way to ensure the survival of our many threatened tribes and their sacred plant medicines/ancient sacraments is decriminalization of those medicines. Supporting a worldwide effort of awareness, promotion and a commitment to protecting our endangered tribes and sacred places where these plants grow is the only way forward. Through reinstating the balance of nature and humans by reforestation and cultural/ecological preservation will also contribute to and support the evolution of humanity’s consciousness.
Shane Norte, Member of the Morongo Band Of Indians, Spiritual leader and founder of Church Of The People For Creator and Mother Earth... (click to read more)
Shane Norte, Member of the Morongo Band Of Indians, Spiritual leader and founder of Church Of The People For Creator and Mother Earth, has been working with Earth based sacraments for over a decade, also has been in Native Movement for 9 years helping fight for Native Rights to pray and to stop corporations from destroying sacred land.
Moudou Baqui aka J. Petty is a lifelong citizen of Highland Park a small city located in the heart of Detroit. He has been a student in the origins... (click to read more)
He has been a student in the origins of human consciousness since an early age. He is a third generation metaphysican. His introduction to the esoteric came from his father, a respected spiritual teacher, a tradition began by his grandfather, who began his studies in the early 1900‘s. At his father’s urging, he continued his studies of ancient knowledge and to go beyond the “spiritual industrialist hustle” without the formality of known institutions but to seek the root. Under the tutelage of “Ahati”(Grandmaster) Kilyndi Iyi he studied African combative martial arts and culture for over 20 years, in this pursuit he was exposed to the knowledge and application, cultivation and cultural history of entheogenic plants. He has further continued his studies of ancient human history, metacognition and entheogens via travel on several continents. He has been a return speaker at Breaking convention and several other platforms throughout the U.K., Germany, Turkey, Africa and the Americas. His current focus is utilizing the Psychedelic experience as a therapeutic tool for addiction and depression and educating the public on the major benefits of these substances. Moudou also operates as an educational consultant life coach, and food/land justice advocate.
Larry Norris, PhD, studied cognitive science at the University of Michigan, and received his doctorate at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.... (click to read more)
His dissertation reviewed archived ayahuasca experience reports to identify transformational archetypes and insights that could help inform developing models of integration (meaning-making). Larry is the co-founder and executive director of Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education (ERIE) a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ERIE is dedicated to the development of community education, research, and integration models related to entheogens. Larry is also a co-founder and board member of Decriminalize Nature (DN), which sprouted from Oakland in 2019. He advocates for the unalienable right to develop one’s own relationship with Nature and aims to support efforts to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi (e.g., ayahuasca, iboga, cacti, mushrooms). Larry is DN’s national outreach director, and supports many cities and states across the USA and internationally who are seeking to propose similar legislation.
The national Decriminalize Nature organization intends to acquire power and give it to independent local groups that support each other via a mycelial network.
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.
Decriminalize Nature follows five principles to guide legislative and public policy discussions in a way that creates community-based healing and community-based, equitable economic opportunity.
We exist to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi without limits on how much we can grow-gather-gift.
While we support the work of Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), and others who seek to decriminalize all drugs and end mass physical incarceration of humans, our movement seeks to end the mass consciousness incarceration of humans, especially for marginalized communities of trauma, which have suffered most from colonialism and capitalism, by enabling equitable access to plants and fungi.
Equitable access in this sense means removing barriers of access such as legal, economic, and/or cultural barriers to allow individuals to explore how they see fit. Our efforts are complimentary to those of DPA and SSDP and we welcome collaboration.
The national Decriminalize Nature organization’s main purpose is to provide resources and assistance to the local chapters – that’s where the real magic happens!
