289 My Mom, Donna Burns
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289 My Mom, Donna Burns
Where Weed Starts...Welcome to Synchronicity. In this episode, Noah is joined by his Mom to discuss important things, like weed and drugs. They dig into the nitty gritty of cannabis legalization in New York State, highlighting the awesome work she is doing with her colleagues at NY Small Farma. They continue this holographic audio showcase of how heady of a mom Noah has, as they dive into her ecology-based work with the Mckenna Academy, and if you get the munchies in the near future (trust me, it will happen) check out Donna’s cooking website Wake Up And Eat..
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Ever wonder where Noah got his love of weed from? The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Donna is on the forefront of a grassroots movement in New York to help aid the process of cannabis legalization. Using legal states as case studies, she noticed a corporate trend of big business squashing small growers has created a major imbalance in the newly budding industry.“We do work to try to bring adult use cannabis into New York in a smart way, in the best way that’s out there. It doesn’t exist, but should exist. That means, we see the cannabis plant as a way to change everything about how crops are grown, how plants are grown, how society functions: everything. What’s happened in other places, is this has become big business. The same guys you see walk into any other business with their suits and their briefcases, in their club; run the business, and everybody else has gotta play by their rules. So, you’re going to get big corporate cannabis.” - Donna Burns
For more on NY Small Farma and cannabis legalization, peep Episode 189: The Power of Cannabis for an elucidating conversation with Andi Novick
Cultivation as Co-Creation (18:52)
Noah and Donna offer lenses through the micro and macro of cannabis. Swooping in from above, they share lofty perspectives on the business and politics of the plant. Donna explains that the big business trend in cannabis could be offset with proper legislation that would keep the cultivation in the hands of small business growers, which would help local communities flourish.Zooming in the microscope and peering deep into the soil, they share on the cultivation of cannabis, it’s effects, and how to create a system which allows the most advantageous and beneficial aspects of the plant to prosper.
“The more love and attention you put into it--it's like anything--the better the psychological, therapeutic, medicinal effects will be, so if it’s just viewed as like Budweiser, like ‘Here have another one. Have another cigarette, Have another weed cigarette,’ it’s not going to really reveal the true power of the plant whether it’s medicinal or any other aspect of it, so I do think maintaining that and allowing that to prosper is essential.” - Noah
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Full Spectrum Justice (38:28)
Weaving talk on the essential chemical makeup of the herb with a discussion on the essential chemical makeup of social justice reform, Noah and Donna bring the conversation full spectrum and full circle. They dig into anti-weed propaganda, and economic and racial inequality, before elucidating how cannabis legalization is one of the few threads that could potentially solve many of the pressing issues in our society as a whole.
“The provisions in the law right now talk about social and economic equanimity. It isn’t just social. Social is now an umbrella for racial. It isn’t just racial justice, it isn’t just gender justice. It’s economic justice. We like to think about it as environmental justice. The harms from pollution fall disproportionately on people of color and poor people.” - Donna Burns
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Money, Microorganisms & Mckenna (58:35)
Flowing their way through race, reparations, and the Redskins changing their name, Noah and Donna exchange thoughts on money, power, and the process of rebalancing a skewed system to foster social equity. Diving into ecology and the environment, Donna illuminates our universal interconnectedness and shares on her experience working towards this goal with Dennis Mckenna’s Mckenna Academy
“I think the other thing people need to understand is the environmental piece. We talk about species, and species extinctions, and mass extinctions, as if somehow we’re not a species. We’re part of this. Or the environment; if you pollute the environment or a waterway, it’s the water you’re drinking too.” - Donna Burns
“We all are responsible for the economic and the environmental piece, and so we need to spread all of our resources...to do what we can to respect we are part of this bigger whole.” - Donna Burns
For a mycelial chat with Ethnopharmacologist Dennis Mckenna, take a dive through the archive to Episode 5 of Synchronicity
Consciousness Autonomy and Expansive Evolution (117:49)
Noah and Donna direct the conversation to focus on personal autonomy over one’s consciousness, and how adopting this type of sovereignty can be a doorway into the full embodiment of the exploration of the present moment, opening you to the possibility of deep mystical, transformational experiences.
“I think the root, what I’m saying is the common theme with this stuff whether you want to call it spiritual, or esoteric aspect, is if you have the ability to pursue consciousness expanding whatever-it-is, whether it's meditation, or smoking weed, or taking mushrooms, or whatever you want to do, float tanks, Wim Hof stuff, breathing; just give people that level of autonomy in their lives. That’s just the base level place to start. You can have conversations about more traditionally nefarious substances at a later date, but there’s enough that we’ve identified that it’s like ‘Hey it’s ok!” - Noah Lampert
“The Mckenna Academy work taps into that. It’s really not telling, or educating, or showing people what to think, but how to think, how to experience fully what’s here, what’s there, what's everywhere; to get into a deeper experience, a transformational experience that brings us along the evolutionary path.” - Donna Burns
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