Everyone gets worked up about a showdown, especially when the conflict involves colorful characters and positions you really care about. Like many attendees to...

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...

National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), Mexico City November 21 and 22, 2018 Due to the success of our most recent Congress of Sacred Plants...

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

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...

Clinical trials of MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and ayahuasca are offering a glimpse that the future may hold psychiatric treatments far different from daily drug...

Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Clancy Cavnar (Eds). Flyer  To buy at Springer click here See also Abstract: This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions. The first...

  Symposium: Cultural and Political Perspectives on Psychedelic Science   CIIS, August 18 and 19, 9 am to 6 pm This symposium will launch the book Plant Medicines,...

The ayahuasca world can promise big things: curing illness, healing trauma, and personal contact with spirits and divine beings. But what can you really expect,...

The booming consumption of 5-meo-DMT—the chemical extracted from the Bufo alvarius toad, endemic to the Sonoran desert—in the second decade of the twenty-first century...