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Host: Chris Bennett
Religious Insights To Cannabis Use And Cultural Traditions
Religious Insights To Cannabis Use And Cultural Traditions
Pharmakeia 2: Fighting Religion with Religion
Cannabis and Religious Freedom 15 Aug 2005 1 hr 30 min In Part 2 of his series on the Bush's Evangelical inspired war on weed, host Chris Bennett sugests that the answer is to fight religion with religion.... As word spreads that Jesus healed with cannabis and used it for initiatory purposes, the Christian Right's war on weed will fall to the wayside. One way of achieving this goal is through the courts and Chris interviews legal beagle Ed Pearson about a motion they are filing in Canada to seek a religious "excemption" for cannabis use. As well Chris talks to Jeff Brown and Tom Brown, two longtime American spiritual use activists who are persuing a similiar course of action in the United States.
Burning Shiva: Archeologist Prof. Nikolaas J. van der Merwe
On the Antiquity of Dagga Smoking in Africa 26 Feb 2005 20 min Chris Bennett talks to Prof. Nikolaas J. van der Merwe of the University of Capetown in South Africa, about archeology and the antiquity of cannabis smoking in Africa, the origins of the water pipe, his work with Prof. Francis Thackeray analyzing pipes from the Shakespeare trust for cannabis resins and more.....
Burning Shiva: The Hidden Hash Masters of the 19th Century
Hidden Hash Secrets of the 19th Century Revealed! 22 Oct 2004 1 hr 2 min Pot TV Manager and host Chris Bennett discuses the Occult use of Hashish in the 19th century, with a look at the lives of such hashish devotees as; the Russian Theosophist Helena Petrova Blavatsky, French Poet Gerard de Nerval, French Mesmerist Louis Alphonse Cahagnet, the black American Rosicrucian and sex magician Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph, and finally Chris gives us a look at the rare Occult Hashish novel T. W. Coakley's book Keef: A Life Story in 9 Phases. Featuring the artwork of Satty.
Burning Shiva: Ganja Smoking
A History of the Cannabis Pipe 16 Jun 2004 26 min Pot TV manager Chris Bennett takes us on a round the world history of the hash and cannabis pipe, and discusses whether there is any validity to the generally accepted claim that cannabis smoking was only developed after the introduction of tobacco smoking.
Osama Bong Loader
Bong Loader Shows His Secret Stash of Bongs and BC Bombers 10 Sep 2003 16 min Osama Bong Loader blows organic biological smoke in the face of the Irrelevant President and the Arses of Evil and sends out a message of Bongs not Bombs for lasting Regime Change where it is needed most.... the Whitehouse! (Originaly aired March, 2003)
Burning Shiva: Has The Soma Question Been Answered?
4,000 Year Old Cannabis Cult Discovered in Kara Kum Desert! 05 Jul 2003 36 min Chris Bennett examines the different botanical candidates that have been suggested as the ancient world entheogen known in India as Soma and in Persia as Haoma, with a focus on the main two: the fly agaric mushroom and cannabis. Chris then demonstrates that the answer to the centuries old debate can be found in the archeological remains of a 4,000 year old cannabis cult discovered in Russia's Kara Kum Desert. Facinating pictures and descriptions of the pots and bowls used to make the cannabis infused "soma" drink that led to the formation of the Hindu and Zoroastrian religions.
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