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...

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...

A large group of Brazilian scientists carried out the first randomized placebo-controlled trial with ayahuasca in 29 patients with treatment-resistant depression, and the results...

Laughter is the reaction I often face when I tell people that my research demonstrates that MDMA enhances empathy and that ayahuasca improves creativity....

Be it plant spirit, a chemical cocktail that triggers our innate wisdom, or some mysterious blend of both, ayahuasca has a profound capacity to...

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,...

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

Co-edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar Flyer Abstract This book investigates how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic tourism industries, and recreational drug milieus grounded...

  On January 31, 2018, a very important and delicate court case took place in Amsterdam. It was the appeal court case about the confiscation...