May 22, 2017
Casey William Hardison is an entheogenic activist and psychedelic
chemist who most famously known for getting busted making LSD In
the U.K. and defending himself in court, by acting as his own
lawyer during his trial.
Instead of arguing he did not commit the acts, he argued that--as
long as he harmed no one--he had the human right to engage in his
chosen entheogenic praxis. Casey stood for cognitive liberty and
freedom of thought and continues to do so to this day.
During his trial, Casey challenged the drug laws as a
discriminatory affront to free thought, therapeutic choice and free
religion. The trial judge rejected these arguments and an
eight-week trial ensued after which Casey was convicted on March
18, 2005 on 6 of 8 counts and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on
April 22, 2005.
Aside from being known for being kidnapped by men with guns for partaking in a peaceful loving activity, Casey has attended entheogen-related conferences, wrote articles for the MAPS Bulletin, The Entheogen Review, and contributed to Erowid.
Casey is a freedom fighter of the highest order of love and light.
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Show Notes and Links:
Eroded Vault- Casey William Harrison:
https://erowid.org/culture/characters/hardison_casey/
Erowid: erowid.org
Burning Man: https://burningman.org/
Maps MDMA: http://www.maps.org/research/mdma
Psychedelic Science: http://psychedelicscience.org/
The Beckley foundation: http://beckleyfoundation.org/
Amanda Fielding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Feilding
William Blake: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3679-if-the-doors-of-perception-were-cleansed-every-thing-would
Jung and Alchemy: http://www.carl-jung.net/alchemy.html
Remembering Nick Sand - Orange Sunshine LSD Chemist: https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/
Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/tonight-on-viceland-hamiltons-pharmacopeia-lizard-school
The Grateful Dead: http://www.dead.net/
Richard Evans Shultes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evans_Schultes
MAPS vol 10 # 2 2000: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/v10n2.pdf
Pharmacotheon Entheogenic Drugs Their Plant Sources and Histories
by Jonathan Ott:
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline By Richard Evans Shultes: https://www.amazon.com/Ethnobotany-Discipline-Richard-Evans-Schultes/dp/0881929727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495210285&sr=8-1&keywords=ethnobotany
Ethnobiology Conference:
https://ethnobiology.org/conference/upcoming
Mentor, Sasha Shulgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin
https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Shulgin/e/B000APJGIC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1495210495&sr=8-1
The amazing 2c-T-7 molecule: https://erowid.org/chemicals/2ct7/2ct7.shtml
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World/dp/B0012QED5Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495210778&sr=8-1&keywords=aldous+huxley+brave+new+world
Erik Davis Article: https://aeon.co/essays/new-psychedelics-research-is-on-a-knife-edge-of-meaning
Noosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
Gaia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)
2-cd molecule: https://erowid.org/chemicals/2cd/2cd.shtml
Center For cognitive liberty & Ethics: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/
On cognitive liberty part 1,2,3,4 Richard Glen Boire: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/curriculum/oncoglib_123.htm
The November Coalition: November.org - the razor wire - drug war prisoners : http://therazorwire.org/
Drug War Stats: http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statistics
Benjamin Rush:https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush
Thomas Paine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
cognitive liberty shirt - unlock your mind symbol: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/tshirts.html
Sylvia Tyson:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Tyson
journal of cognitive liberty - http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/v10n2.pdf -
Psychedelic Salon: https://psychedelicsalon.com/
The Spirit Of The Internet: https://www.matrixmasters.com/spirit/html/html.html
The Gunners Dream by Pink Floyd - “and no-one kills the children anymore” : http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-gunner-dream-final-lyrics.html
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/casey.william.freeblood
just Google casey LSD: https://www.google.com/search?q=casey+lsd&oq=casey+lsd&aqs=chrome..69i57.1885j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Civil Disobedience By Henery David Thoreau