Author Archives: Sananga Canada

The Rediscovery of Bufo by Ken Nelson (Al Most)

Introduction This article highlights the journey of Ken Nelson who rediscovered the entheogenic usage of consuming the venom of the Sonoaran Desert Toad in the early 1980s, which lead the the global worldwide usage of smoking “Bufo” which is happening today. This article was made possible by the wonderful work by Hamilton Morris in his […]

Drinking Mapacho Tobacco Shamanic Tea (Nicotiana Rustica)

Warning!!! Drinking tobacco is seriously toxic. Do not prepare any tobacco drinks and do not drink them. We wrote this article as an exploration of an ethnobotanical history of tobacco and its traditional usage. In the modern world people’s understanding of tobacco seems to all come from a certain mass-produced cultivar of tobacco from the plant […]

How to make Rapé Shamanic Snuff

Introduction to making your own Rapé shamanic snuff … Video guides from Youtube on making Rapé Here is what Rapé Shamanic Snuff Making Workshops in South America … An overview of how to create your own Rapé … Selecting your botanicals and ash … Should you include Mapacho tobacco? … Working with the plant ash […]

Growing and Curing Mapacho Ceremonial Tobacco (Nicotiana Rustica)

Introduction to growing, curing and producing your own Mapacho Tobacco … Legality of Growing Mapacho Tobacco Legal status of growing Mapacho Tobacco in Canada … Legal status of growing Mapacho Tobacco in USA … Legal status of growing Mapacho Tobacco in the rest of the World … How to grow Mapacho Tobacco (Nicotiana Rustica) … […]