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Why Ibogaine Is Not the Answer to the Opioid Crisis

https://youtu.be/ez4BCC1p3Ts https://youtu.be/Tx6iKZQwc6I Before the COVID-19 pandemic, news feeds were filled with stories of overdose, skyrocketing death rates, pill mills, and fentanyl. The headlines reflected the loss...
Voacanga africana plays a role in the global history of psychedelics.

From Rubber Adulterant to Ceremonial Psychedelic: Voacanga africana in the Transnational...

Timothy Vilgiate looks at how the story of Voacanga africana is an example of how Western psychedelia co-opts Indigenous culture in order to create fictional "primitive others" that they can utilize for their own agendas. The idea of Voacanga africana as a ceremonial psychedelic ultimately serves less to reflect of African realities, and more to appeal to Western ideas of psychedelics as primordial elements of human mystical experience and spiritual life.
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