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RT @nick_routledge: @TornadoNate And relevant expertise. I once tried reaching out to Islamic medicine-makers. Why? My spine badly broken, I sought world-leaders in botanical pain-management. Surely, an East-West conference representing one of humanity’s greatest as-yet-unsung symphonies of planetary healing.

Pen on paper sketch of angel holding Papaver somniferum, with calligraphy reading 'Ecologically Sustainable Medicine'. Winter 2006.
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Pen on paper sketch of angel holding Papaver somniferum, with calligraphy reading 'Ecologically Sustainable Medicine'. Winter 2006.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Aug 2021

@AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews World-class investigative journalism, Alan. Harrowing, revelatory, profound. And here’s useful, contextual clarification, relating to licit, as distinct from illicit, opioid production and distribution, globally. The American Empire and planetary pain-management? An unholy mess.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @henryjkwallis And there you have it. One of the greatest religious minds of our era, confronting the immanentized, pain-management diktat of American Empire.Quoted by@henryjkwallis And there you have it. One of the greatest religious minds of our era, confronting the immanentized, pain-management diktat of American Empire.Quoted by@henryjkwallis And there you have it. One of the greatest religious minds of our era, confronting the immanentized, pain-management diktat of American Empire.Quoted by@BaytAlFann A beautiful history. For complicated reasons, the practice and art of Western contemporary botanical medicine manifests primarily as a 'folk tradition.' Would you know of any voices casting light on similar currents, alive today, across the Islamic world?