Tag: mexico

Plant Medicine in Mexico: From Traditional Use to Psychedelic Therapy

Indigenous communities in Mexico preserve sacred plant knowledge through daily life and resistance. However, psychedelic...

Psychedelics in the Global South: Relevance and Consequences of the Countercultural Movement in Mexico

Mexico, rich in psychoactive plants and Indigenous traditions, played a key role in the psychedelic...

Statement from Mazatec groups on latest psilocybin mushroom policies in Mexico

In this communiqué the Mazatec people from these collectives express pride in their ancestral culture,...

Old Uses of Peyote in Traditional Mexican Medicine and its Inclusion in Official Pharmacopeia

Starting with Mexico's first National Pharmacopeia in 1846, Nidia Olvera-Hernández traces the long history of...

Lola “La Chata”. The first important drug trafficker in Mexico City (1934–1959)

Lola "La Chata," also known as María Dolores Estévez Zulueta, was the most famous heroin...

Women
Ibrahim Gabriell
February 22, 2022

“It is not an orthodox psychotherapy”: An Interview with Ivonne Roquet, Daughter of a Psychedelic Pioneer in Mexico

Ivonne Roquet, daughter of psychedelic pioneer Salvador Roquet, reflects on her father's career in psychotherapy....

Science
Anya Ermakova, Ph.D.
November 12, 2021

Psychoactive Mushrooms in Mexico: Overview of Ecology and Ethnomycology

Anya Ermakova provides an overview of the psychoactive mushrooms found in Mexico & the cultural...

Broken Spears: The Impact of Colonialism on the Aztec Empire

On the 500th year commemoration of the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, this article recounts the destruction...

Psilocybin Mushrooms in Mexico in Danger of Extinction

One of the psychoactive mushrooms described by Gordon Wasson in LIFE magazine (1957) is today...

Two Projects Seek to Change the Legal Status of Peyote and Mushrooms in Mexico

Mexico is currently debating ritual and traditional uses, as well as non-Indigenous and therapeutic uses...