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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?”
Testimonials from Recent Legal Cases Involving Ayahuasca Behind every legal battle, there is a human story — one of resilience, struggle, and the pursuit of
A new ICEERS report estimates the number of people drinking ayahuasca worldwide and analyzes fatalities reported by the media.
With the arrival of a new mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni (PSC) and his governing team, there has been a significant shift in the city’s policy towards Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs).
Intercultural health is emerging as a transformative approach to healthcare, integrating Western medical practices with traditional Indigenous healing methods.
Seventy health professionals, scientists, scholars, and aficionados of altered states of consciousness gathered in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, for the 2nd Annual Fuerteventura Psychedelic Conference. The event was organized by the Psychedelic Association Fuerteventura with the support of ICEERS.
Psilocybin mushrooms are explicitly included in Schedule 1 of prohibited psychotropic substances in Mexico, characterized as those with scant or no therapeutic value and posing a serious threat to public health despite the country being the origin of their medicinal applications, from which their application has spread worldwide.
ICEERS has just released a full-length report on the legal status of ayahuasca in the Netherlands. The report was written by Adèle van der Plas, a lawyer who has been advocating for the rights of religious groups to work with ayahuasca in the Netherlands since 1994.
Recently, a group of Swiss public health professionals involved in the new Zurich pilot program visited a local CSC in Barcelona to exchange information on harm reduction strategies, cannabis consumption patterns, and the potential of CSCs to drive positive change.
Colombia, where the Amazonian medicine is known as yagé, has the highest prevalence of ayahuasca consumption among all countries with official surveys providing specific statistics.
In the Netherlands, it is common for ceremonies to offer anahuasca, an ayahuasca analog made from plants sourced outside the Amazon, such as Peganum harmala and Mimosa hostilis.
Spain has a decades long context for ayahuasca ceremonial practices. Despite a reported low prevalence of ayahuasca consumption, our investigation highlights the distinctive characteristics of Spanish ayahuasca drinkers.
Ayahuasca consumption in the United States in 2019, according to the report Ayahuasca, Global Consumption & Reported Deaths in the Media.
How many ayahuasca retreat centers operate in the Amazon? And how many people visit them? This research led us to estimate that there were at least 232 retreat centers operating in Amazonian countries and Costa Rica in 2019.
The mainstream media seemed to have it pinpointed: ayahuasca was the cause of these 58 fatalities. And ayahuasca’s mention in the headline offered undeniable clickbait from a journalistic point of view.
If the ayahuasqueros of the world united, they could create a human chain stretching from Madrid to Moscow and back. This interesting tidbit is based on recent research from ICEERS that reveals that approximately four million people have taken ayahuasca at some time in their lives in America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
A new ICEERS report estimates the number of people drinking ayahuasca worldwide and analyzes fatalities reported by the media.
In the final installment of our interview series with David Londoño, psychologist and coordinator of the ICEERS Support Center, we explore difficult experiences with ayahuasca.
An acquittal was given in Mexico City in the trial of Don Jose Campos, a 64-year-old indigenous healer from the Peruvian Amazon who was arrested and imprisoned in March of 2022 for traveling with ayahuasca.
“Ayahuasca told me…” is a phrase often heard in integration circles, where people literally interpret messages as being “from the plant” as opposed to via their own internal world. David, ICEERS Support Center Coordinator, shares further insight.
Mexico is facing a historic opportunity to reverse past situations that have colonized the legal system by classifying mushrooms as prohibited substances due to the implications of international drug control treaties, despite their longstanding cultural and traditional significance safeguarded by Mexican Indigenous peoples.
ICEERS and colleagues have published a new paper offering the most detailed report thus far on the topic, Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca: Results from the Global Ayahuasca Survey, in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health.
ICEERS supports the development of evidence-informed policies and is committed to advancing clinical research. To support the collective knowledge on these topics, our organization launched the first-ever Phase II clinical trial in 2020 examining the efficacy of ibogaine for opioid dependence and detox from methadone.
This article, which is Part 1 in a series outlining ideas and perspectives from the Support Centre, is an interview with David where he speaks in depth about the complexity of ego dissolution as related to master plant experiences.
