This week, I’m resharing Matthew Stolz’s coverage of the comparisons of the current psychedelic “renaissance” to the history of Big Tobacco as a sacred indigenous plant that moved toward incredibly destructive commercialization. This is a great read, especially because he opens with the closing ceremony of last year’s Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Psychedelic Science Conference, where five indigenous protestors took the stage to share their ancestral convictions and why not a single one of us is exempt from how we shape the unfolding capitalist future of plant medicine.