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Ayahuasca contains the psychoactive chemical dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which the Drug Enforcement Agency lists as a schedule one drug. Its use is legal in certain religious contexts.

In a moment of desperation, a Welsh farmer went to South America to take the psychedelic brew ayahuasca. While perhaps ...

A new study published in PLOS Mental Health highlights a complex relationship between the intense psychological effects of ayahuasca and users’ long-term mental health. Drawing from a global survey, ...

Drink ayahuasca and you may see yourself being eaten by a crocodile. You may find a miraculous resolution to a crippling sadness. Or, more likely, you'll land somewhere in between.

One ayahuasca expert estimates that, on any given night, 50 to 100 ayahuasca groups are in session in New York City alone. And thanks in part to L.A.'s yen for spiritual enlightenment, ...

Ayahuasca comes from a vine called Banisteriopsis caapi and is typically mixed with other plants. People who consume the drink experience visions and ideations, the study reported.

Ayahuasca can be used positively when it is used as a sacrament. That is, used for divine communion within the context of an institutionalised ritual with a framework for integration.

IQUITOS, PERU — The first time he drank ayahuasca, an infusion of psychoactive plants considered sacred by Amazonian Indians, Hamilton Souther felt himself falling into a spinning vortex of ...