Botanists of escape.

We transform every sprout into an escape laboratory. Drugs don't alienate us from humanity; they reveal its unbearable weight.

Botanists of escape.

The universality of psychoactive consumption reveals an uncomfortable truth: we are the only species that systematically seeks to flee from its own consciousness. While other animals use plants to heal themselves, we convert them into portals toward altered states. This anthropological constant contradicts contemporary discourse that pathologizes what is actually constitutive: we need chemicals because language made us maladapted to our own bodies.

The phenomenon transcends geographies and cultures with a consistency that should alarm us. From Asian opium to American peyote, from Amazonian ayahuasca to Mediterranean cannabis, each civilization developed its particular pharmacy. This is not coincidence but structural necessity: the speaking being requires vacations from its own humanity. Drugs are not deviation but collective confession that existing consciously is unbearable without chemical intervals.

Only in territories where nature offers nothing to ferment, inhale, or chew do we find societies without psychoactive traditions. This exception confirms the rule: where plant life is available, someone has already experimented with transforming it into temporary escape. We are not addicts by pathology but by condition: natural chemists in search of alterations that momentarily return us to the lost pre-symbolic peace.

Psychotherapy

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