Voices of Mexico no. 120
Our Voice
Is it appropriate to make comparisons between today and a time so long past as the Middle Ages? Today, people are no longer burned at the stake for heresy, but, they are vilified, among other things, to satisfy political, economic, security, and ideological interests that promote banning some psychoactive substances, among them, cannabis. Today’s doctors and scientists, who bring to light this plant’s benefits for medicinal as well as —and why not?— recreational use, could be the equivalents of the witches of old. In the first decades of this century, we are living between prohibitionism and freedom, as one of the authors in this issue writes.
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
Director of the Center for Research on North America
Our Voice
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
Reviews
Romper estigmas: arte y cannabis en Norteamérica
(Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North
America) Volume 1, Activisms
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo and Marty Otañez, editors
Cannabis Speaks Out
The Situation of Cannabis in Mexico
Midalia Denisse Arias Vergara
Cannabis Sativa L. Misunderstood
Noel Nefi Arias Reyes
Interview with Bruce Linton
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo
The Queen of the Flowers
A Story of Love and Self-Discovery
Alitzel Moreno Aguilar
Prejudices in Society and
Academia against Cannabis
Moisés Zurita Zafra
A Long and Winding Road
Cannabis Regulation in Mexico
Imer B. Flores
From Vulnerability to
Defending Cannabis Rights
Victoria Xochipilli Maciel Villaverde
The Geopolitics of Illicit Crops
South-South Cooperation for
Sustainable Biocultural Development
Carlos Emiliano Derbez de la Cruz
Cannabis as Political Subject in
Mexico: From the Countryside
To the City and Back
Fernando A. Gracián de Alba
The Consequences of Marihuana
Legalization in the United States for
Mexico’s Illegal Drug Economic System
Christian Herrera Medina
Holy Mary (poem)
Aura Pérez
Cannabis Workers’ Counterstories
And Stigma Reduction in Colorado
Marty Otañez
The British Columbia
First Nations’ Struggle around
The Cannabis Act
Liliana Cordero Marines
One Hundred Years of
Clandestine Medicine in Mexico
Édgar Ramssés Pahua Quezada
Tzö dapö: Using “Saint Rose”
In the Otomí Tepehua Mountains
María Guadalupe Ramírez Ramos
Illustration by Fernando Ibarra
From the Exemplary North
to the Violent South:
North American Representations
Of Marihuana in Documentaries
Óscar Badillo Pérez
Yet Another Celebration of
The Cannabis Film Festival
Tania Magdaleno Herrera
Art and Culture
From Cancer to Cannabis
An Interview on the Nature of Pain
With Jimena Ortega
Luis Rubén Ramírez-Montes de Oca
Illustrations by Calavera (Paulina Vega)
Ten Photographs
Cannabis Culture in Victoria, and
Cannabis Counter-Culture in Mexico City
Víctor López García
The Devil’s Rock
Raúl Motta
Illustrated by Juan Palomino