Aaron Rodgers is once again speaking out about the talk surrounding Ayahuasca. Rodgers appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday and lectured about ayahuasca and making sure everyone knew it was a plant and not a “drug.”
He even called out McAfee for asking a question using the word “drug.”
“You just used the word ‘drug’ to refer to ayahuasca. I saw a few articles people sent me about us doing the tea celebration. And I just want to stop you there right away because the reference to ayahuasca, or even marijuana, putting the tag ‘drug’ on them is a manipulative word that creates a bias against those specific things. And it happens all over society,” Rodgers said.
“Think about the word ‘fat’ and ‘sugar’ when it comes to food. ‘Fat’ brings an image of unhealthiness and maybe obesity, death, where ‘sugar’ is sweet right? Sweet is kindness, kindness is loving. So we have these two words that couldn’t be more opposite. High-fat foods are usually pretty good for you. Foods in high sugar are terrible for you. You cut sugar out of your diet, and it has an immediate impact on your cells and your body especially if there’s a cancerous growth on your body or a pre-cancerous growth. Sugar is not good for you. Fat, most fats are pretty good for you.”
He then went to note the difference between what he terms plants versus drugs.
“Drugs, you think about drugs, you start labeling marijuana a drug – which is a plant. Ayahuasca a drug, which is a plant. Psilocybin a drug, that’s a fungi also comes from the Earth. Then you think about ‘medicine’ … What is medicine? I’m gonna take my daily medicine, my aspirin – that’s a drug. I’m gonna take my cough medicine – that’s a drug, that’s not a plant. I’m gonna take my whatever fill-in-the-blank medicine that’s a pharmaceutical – those are drugs,” he said.
“Ayahuasca is not a drug. It has properties in it that have hallucinogenic abilities, but it’s not a drug. We’re talking about plants here. I think it’s a very important point to make. This is how words are used in our society to create a bias against certain things and I do think it’s important enough to go on this ridiculous tangent that I went on to remind people how words are used to create bias in certain situations. Those bias create fears and those fears prevent them from doing the research themselves or looking into it or having their own idea or truth about certain situations.”
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The Green Bay Packers followed up an ugly Week 1 loss with a resounding 27-10 victory over the Chicago Bears this past weekend. Rodgers threw for 234 yards and two touchdowns.
In Green Bay’s first two games this season, Rodgers has totaled 429 passing yards, two passing touchdowns, one interception and a 94.5 quarterback rating.
