Indigenous Colombians fear losing their hallucinogenic brews(economist.com)
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Indigenous Colombians fear losing their hallucinogenic brews
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/06/15/indigenous-colombians-fear-losing-their-hallucinogenic-brews
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A disappointing development. I drank this brew in a ceremony elsewhere from indigenous grounds and it had a profound effect on me. It is a psychotherapeutic treasure beyond all reckoning. One's perceived identity does not have to be "hippie" or anything else in order to find it helpful and edifying. Hopefully this tradition has a future that can include all who need it while be respectful of the culture that developed it.
And LSD and so many other safe (relative to e.g. alcohol) psychotropics are still illegal, all because of some moral panic decades ago.