'From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma' – a college course explores nature's medicine cabinet and different ways of healing
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- Title of course:
“From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma”
What prompted the idea for the course? - The course looks at how different peoples and cultures use nature-based medicines to heal themselves.
- Some of us rely on Western medicine, others pray, yet others turn to Indigenous or traditional ways of healing that are rooted in nature.
- Over the course of the semester, students begin to recognize that there is no one right way of healing.