Smoking is something we've been programmed to think of as Evil and Bad for us. Smoking kills. We've all heard that slogan and seen the images on packs for sale.
And yet 's Smokin' challenge (concluded yesterday) had soooo many entries that showed different sides of what has been an important medicinal plant for hundreds of years, and which continues to be used in traditional medicine around the globe.
Today would like to celebrate the posts of 3 fairly new South American contributors in the Hive. Celebrating their unique perspectives, their different cultural backgrounds and their personal experience.
Each of the Hive contributors featured today will be a 15% post beneficiary, so please be generous. Reblogs, tips, comments & upvotes appreciated.
If you'd like to read more of the entries to this fascinating challenge, they're listed and linked here in the Tobacco Wisdom Winners Post. It was an awesome community challenge, sharing abundance, and a lot of valuable information was documented and shared.
Tobacco Poison or medicine? Chemistry explains it
"What is POISONOUS is the inappropriateness that humans and industry have given you. In fact, commercial tobacco has ADDITIVES to enhance the action of natural nicotine, generating more addiction, increasing its consumption and increasing the body is overloaded with this substance." Read more...
My experience with tobacco [ESP/ENG]
"In connecting with the path of medicine I realized that the polarity of substances has more to do with my own polarity than I imagined, and that if I enjoy things in consciousness there is no way they can harm me, the only harm my being could be caused by my own mind, by stepping into the realm of anxiety when it comes to doing anything. I have observed many people who are capable of ignoring people simply because they smoke tobacco, and I believe that there is more poison in standing in any inflexible position..." Read more...
Mi experiencia con el tabaco - My tobacco experience
"Whenever I talk to someone about some of the power plants, I insist that to better understand their uses, one must go beyond discourses that only highlight the harmful nature of certain substances. For me the problem is in the way we relate to them." Read more...
is a simple, private curation project run by
. The goal? To increase exposure and rewards for great content that doesn't always get the recognition it deserves. Today it might be 3 healthful posts, tomorrow it might be 3 posts about freedom, red cars, crypto or dogs. As the mood takes me.
Each post featured here is a post beneficiary and the remainder used to build a juicier upvote. Because I believe in encouragement and at the end of a curating session, there are ALWAYS a few posts I'd like to do more for.