Thank You, Nature
#thankyouplantmedicine — the hashtag created for 2/20, a day declared to be dedicated to the movement to destigmatize plant (and all earth) medicines.
Taking this day to honor the #thankyouplantmedicine movement and to take part in these urgently important efforts to destigmatize nature. We must not only destigmatize nature (and specifically substances like cannabis and natural psychedelics and psychoactive plants) but also educate and empower people to understand the power they hold in themselves, in combination with earth medicines, to find healing and transformation, to understand that *you* are the medicine.
In this time of global undoing, the green wave and psychedelic renaissance emerged because these substances — and the alternative they offer from the conventional pharmaceutical model — are urgently needed by humanity. We are in a crisis of consciousness, and we need earth medicines to help humanity heal and rebuild more equitable systems and ways of thinking, living, and being together.
And while many people remain skeptical of these substances due to their incessant, decades-long stigmatization and demonization, for now, the seeds and spores have already started spreading. The growing, re-emerging medical and societal interest in psychedelics and cannabis offers blooms of promise that there is a better way forward — a way to live that encourages a…
