“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a genuine risk to society ...”

“The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic i...”

“The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality or truth that is not a construct: en-theo-gen is ...”

“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior or outcomes. Hence, we feel confiden...”

“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of ones life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.”

“What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within ones own psyche?”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”