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30/01/2026
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Webinar on Psychedelic Integration
Save your spot New webinar on integration More and more people are turning to therapists, facilitators, and guides seeking help to integrate experiences with psychedelics
19/11/2025
Ayahuasca, Global Consumption & Reported Deaths in the Media
A new ICEERS report estimates the number of people drinking ayahuasca worldwide and analyzes fatalities reported by the media.
07/06/2023
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Davos Forum: Sowing Alliances in Times of Uncertainty
The Annual World Economic Forum took place in Davos, Switzerland from January 19th to 23rd, in an atmosphere charged with geopolitical tension and uncertainty. Global conflicts reverberated through the corridors of power, while President Trump’s speech on Wednesday unfolded behind police cordons containing protests in the streets.
30/01/2026
Coca Leaf on Schedule I: A Historical Anomaly
Contrary to the expectations of Indigenous communities, civil society organizations, and advocates of evidence-based policies, the WHO recommended keeping coca leaf on Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention, the most restrictive category in the international drug control system.
28/01/2026
Coca Leaf and WHO: The Debt of the Global Drug Regime
The World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded one of the most significant processes in recent years in the field of international drug policy: the critical review of the coca leaf. The result confirms its continued classification in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention, the most restrictive level of the international control system. The recommendation, issued by the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), thus consolidates a framework that many actors considered susceptible to correction after decades of scientific, legal, and cultural questioning.
22/12/2025
Why Is Psychological Integration Necessary in Non-Native Contexts?
In recent years, traditional Indigenous medicines have expanded internationally beyond the territories where they have been used for centuries for ritual, medical, or community purposes. Ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, and iboga are now circulating in clinics, spiritual retreats, and Western therapeutic settings. However, as these practices expand, a question that transcends the initial enthusiasm becomes apparent: what happens after the session?
12/12/2025
The Art of Integration: How to Support Ayahuasca Experiences
Integration is one of the most delicate moments in the ayahuasca process. Once the intensity of the experience subsides, a person is faced with the task of making sense of what happened: organizing emotions, interpreting symbols, reshaping relationships, and turning insights into concrete steps. In Amazonian contexts, this phase is naturally supported by community life, traditional dietary practices, and the role of the healer. But in contemporary urban settings — where these cultural frameworks function differently—integration requires new models of psychological and collective support.
05/12/2025
Fuertedélica 2025: A Living Laboratory of Community, Tradition, and Science
Fuerteventura, with its volcanic landscape and supernatural light, became for a week a meeting point between ancestral knowledge, contemporary science, and a growing community seeking to engage with traditional Indigenous medicines and their synthetic analogues with respect and responsibility. The general atmosphere, evident in the corridors, workshops, and impromptu meetings, was unanimous: the event exceeded all expectations and left a feeling of collective cohesion that is not always easy to achieve in the current European psychedelic landscape.
18/11/2025
Nexus 2025: Creativity, Art and Consciousness by the Mediterranean
Del 10 al 12 de octubre de 2025, Rincón de la Victoria, en la costa malagueña, se convirtió en el epicentro de la exploración creativa y psicodélica con la celebración de Nexus 2025, un encuentro creativo organizado por la Asociación Universo Ulises. Concebido como un espacio para el pensamiento libre y el arte visionario, el evento reunió a poetas, terapeutas, investigadores y artistas en un diálogo entre la consciencia y la cultura contemporánea.
22/10/2025
Madrid Debates the Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics
Psymposium 2025, held between October 2 and 4 this year at the Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid, a historic building constructed in 1831, brought together several hundred people—both in person and via livestream—to discuss the present and future of psychedelic-assisted therapies. Organized by the Inawe Foundation, the event brought together clinicians, researchers, and communicators at a key moment, when several European countries have just approved the therapeutic use of substances such as psilocybin and MDMA.
20/10/2025
Psymposium 2025: A Forum for Transforming Mental Health
From October 2 to 4, the INAWE Foundation will hold the first edition of Psymposium at the Official College of Physicians of Madrid, a leading Spanish forum that seeks to rethink and transform mental health through research, ethics, and psychedelic-assisted therapies. ICEERS will play a central role in this meeting thanks to the participation of its scientific director, Dr. José Carlos Bouso, who will share the stage with some of the most prominent names in international research.
17/09/2025
Diego de las Casas: Beloved Friend, Defender of Freedom
Some lives leave their mark in books, while others do so in our hearts. Diego de las Casas Cañedo achieved both: a pioneer in the legal defense of ayahuasca and those who shared it, as well as in the fight to end the legal and economic persecution of cannabis users, he was a dear friend to those who knew him: generous to a fault, infectiously funny. His recent passing has robbed us of a lucid and courageous lawyer, but above all, a luminous human being with a heart of gold and a mind of platinum.
16/09/2025
Mexico Reopens the Debate on Psilocybin Mushrooms
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) in Mexico is analyzing an injunction that challenges the absolute ban on practices involving psilocybin mushrooms. The case, debated in the First Chamber in 2024, seeks to determine whether this restriction violates fundamental rights such as the free development of personality and the right to health. The decision, which will be made by a new composition of the court, could set a historic precedent in drug policy and the protection of traditional Indigenous knowledge.
11/09/2025
Traditional Use of Poppy in the Face of the Global Opioid Crisis
The global crisis of synthetic opioids represents one of the most serious public health emergencies of our time. In countries such as the United States and Canada, the availability of fentanyl and its analogs—extremely potent and highly addictive—has overwhelmed public health systems. According to the UN and the WHO, more than 150,000 people die each year from opioid overdoses. In the U.S., deaths involving fentanyl mixed with stimulants rose from 235 in 2010 to over 34,000 in 2020.
01/08/2025
Can Ayahuasca Be Used Legally in Spain?
Over the past few days, a news headline has circulated widely on social media and in specialized media outlets: “The High Court of Justice of Madrid confirms that ayahuasca is not illegal in Spain.” While the ruling referenced does represent a significant step forward in how the judiciary interprets the legal status of this brew, it has also led to confusion. Many people have concluded that this means it is now legal to work with ayahuasca in Spain—a conclusion that does not accurately reflect the current legal reality.
29/07/2025
The Ñuá: A Medicine of Silence
Deep in the Venezuelan Amazon, between the headwaters of the Cataniapo and Carinagua rivers, the Hüottüja people—also known as the Piaroa—keep alive one of South America’s most structured, profound, and least known spiritual traditions: the Ñuá ceremony.
22/07/2025
The WHO’s “Critical Review” of the Coca Leaf
Since the mid-20th century, traditional practices involving coca leaves have been restricted by the international drug control regime, following their inclusion in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention, promoted by a WHO report influenced by cultural and racial prejudices.
14/07/2025
International Rejection of the Death Penalty for Drug Offenses
Every June 26, the United Nations commemorates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, a date that has historically been used to reinforce discourses of control and punishment surrounding psychoactive substances. However, in recent years, this day has been reappropriated by civil society organizations around the world to highlight the devastating consequences of repressive policies and demand approaches focused on health, human rights, and social justice.
26/06/2025
Indigenous Peoples Speak Out on the Future of Ayahuasca
For the first time in history, the Indigenous peoples who have safeguarded traditional knowledge about ayahuasca will take center stage in an international forum with real decision-making power.
23/06/2025
Words Matter: Decolonizing Language About Psychoactive Plants
Language, in addition to communicating, can become an ideological tool. Words are not only vehicles of information, but also construct realities. And, in the field of drug policy, the words used determine who is criminalized, which practices are delegitimized, and which knowledge is rendered invisible.
20/06/2025
The Integration of Knowledge in Healthcare Systems
Under the title “The Science & History of Psychedelics,” Bouso explored the neurobiological basis for the use of psychedelics, their history, and the challenges posed by their integration into the Western biomedical model.
12/06/2025
Medicine or Poison: The Paradox of Psychoactive Plants
In a world that oscillates between spiritual veneration and criminalization, Jerónimo Mazarrasa — Program Director at ICEERS — has spent two decades exploring a question as simple as it is unsettling: “How can the same plant be medicine for one culture and poison for another?”
05/06/2025
La Seta Crítica III: Conscious Encounters and Community in the Mountains of Madrid
On the weekend of May 24 and 25, 2025, the third edition of La Seta Crítica was held in the Sierra de Guadarrama, in Madrid. This alternative gathering, organized by Kravan and the Madrid Psychedelic Society, is already establishing itself as a landmark event for those who explore the social, therapeutic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of entheogens.
29/05/2025