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The Dire Need for Systemic Critique Within Psychedelic Communities

The most powerful, widespread, and influential components of society (dominant culture) present existential threats to the future of humanity (see: climate change and nuclear war). While this...

Should Ayahuasca Tourism in Peru Be Regulated?

When a Canadian man was lynched by a Shipibo community in Peru earlier this year, after murdering one of their most treasured healers, 81-year-old...

Brazilian Ayahuasca Practitioner Arrested and Sentenced to Prison in Russia

The recent sentencing of Brazilian ayahuasca practitioner Eduardo Chianca Roca in Moscow made it clear that Russian courts will readily prosecute people using or...

Statement on Ayahuasca

Editorial Note: This statement is a few years old so the status of some "current" issues mentioned may have changed. Yet, its basic concerns and...

1st Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference – Yubaka Hayrá, Acre, Brazil: The Wisdom...

In December 2017, indigenous Brazilian ayahuasqueiros from the north-western State of Acre came together at the Yubaka Hayrá—the inaugural Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference, in the...

Storming the Gates of Psychedelia: Scientists Commit to Collaboration in the...

  Everyone is talking about psychedelic drugs. The late-night TV show host Chelsea Handler drinks the sacramental ayahuasca brew on Netflix. Last week, the conservative...

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy During Prohibition

    Not much has been written about the practical and legal considerations for working with clients who utilize psychedelics, despite an increasing popular interest in...

Ayahuasca Religious Protections during Trump Administration

  Politics and Religious Freedom Restoration Act Make Strange Bedfellows: The Sessions Memo by Charles Carreon is a thought provoking and somewhat edgy essay about...

Psychedelic Markets of the Future

Psychedelic Markets of the Future Discussions of legalizing psychedelics to date consist of more questions than answers. The medical model is insufficient but there have...

A New Era of Psychedelic Policy?

Since the beginning of the US-led War on Drugs nearly 50 years ago, when certain plants and molecules were criminalized—substances selected, in part, for...
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