Ayahuasca

as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and psilocin. Many cultures have used these mushrooms in religious rites. In modern Western society, they are used recreationally for their psychedelic effects. Ayahuasca, also commonly called yagé, is a hallucinogenic brew of various plant infusions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. It is either mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine (DMT)-containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria…

Iboga Tabernanthe Iboga: an unassuming shrub found in western Central African that bears white flowers and yellow fruit. Ingest a small amount and you'd get a pleasant stimulating aphrodisiac effect, ingest significantly more, and you'd be sent on a visionary trip described as more intense than any other psychedelic known to man. The Bwiti cult in Africa has been using Iboga as the central practice of their religion for hundreds and thousands of years. Ibogaine is the tryptamine…

Nelson—especially on the issues surrounding his concussion and alleged inflection in cognition. Mr. Lasso ruminated briefly on whether Roger was suffering from mental issues related to prior abuse of psychedelic substances like peyote, iboga, and ayahuasca. Otherwise, Mr. Lasso didn’t quite know what to make of the bizarre things Roger said. For help Mr. Lasso turned to colleagues in his own department of psychology and in the department of biology. First, Mr. Lasso shared with his psychology…

Rituals - Birth, initiation, sacrifice, burial, worship, festivals -Vicky The arrival of a child was a welcome event in the Inca empire, both parents were required to perform rituals to ensure the safe delivery of the infant. Pregnant women were expected to continue working until the day they gave birth, which was done without assistance. The newborn was either placed in a cradle, carried by the mother while she worked or tied in a pack across her chest. The baby was named later during a…

I chose Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart over the others on the list of approved books because it sounded more interesting and more relevant than some that just focused on one branch of Botany, instead of the entire wicked spectrum like Stewart does. I like how she breaks up the world of devious plants into seven distinct categories. The plants are reported on alphabetically with relation to their crime, but with a heading that falls under one of the seven wicked categories; deadly, destructive,…

In order for the government to truly consider it a tool to be used by the citizens of a given country, the laws must reflect the decision-making possibilities that any Canadian adult is entitled to make. With tobacco and alcohol, the government has provided regulation in a previously unruly set of industries in order for adults to make informed decisions. Sadly this has not been the case for recreational drugs. The laws currently in place restrict the use of recreational drugs. In this paper,…