Tag: ayahuasca
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Is the world running out of Ayahausca?
Monday, 18 January 2021After years of increasing numbers of retreat centers and ayahuasca processing facilities opened, reports are starting to surface disclosing the apparent scarcity of harvestable ayahuasca vine in the ...
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'These are healing plants': Oakland decriminalizes magic mushrooms
Wednesday, 05 June 2019Oakland has become the second city in the US to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other psychedelics, with a policy that activists hope will spark a national legalization movement. The measure comes ...
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How to legalize every drug
Wednesday, 22 May 2019As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug policy researchers have their sights set on the regul ...
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Tourist boom for ayahuasca a mixed blessing for Amazon
Tuesday, 24 January 2017Surging consumption from foreigners has seen the cost of the DMT-rich brew skyrocket, a familiar situation for locals already struggling to afford quinoa prices because of western demand. Demand is s ...
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Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the Global Village
Monday, 14 December 2015Indigenous peoples in the Amazon have used ayahuasca for centuries as a remedy for physical and psychological health, and to ensure the life and wellbeing of their communities. In the past two decade ...
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The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences
Thursday, 31 October 2013The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and what it may mean for the international drug control ...
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