For young people in the late ’90s, access to unbiased information on drugs was hard to find. Our teachers, whether they believed it or not, said all drugs were bad. D.A.R.E programs told us stories of falls from grace,...
Ayahuasca is hitting the big time. Once shuttered away from mainstream western culture, the traditional Amazonian psychedelic whose name means ‘vine of the dead’ or ‘vine of souls’ is gaining traction in North American and European consciousness, showing up more...
Last October, CNN aired an episode of This is Life with Lisa Ling featuring a team of military veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using the psychedelic brew ayahuasca. One of those veterans, Ryan LeCompte, launched the...
Ayahusaca is renowned for changing people’s lives in a positive way, but how does it really work? The psychedelic has been used for shamanic ceremonies for centuries in the Amazon and more recently it has caught the attention of...
Psychedelic substances like ayahuasca are renowned for helping people move on from past traumas, even when they become deeply rooted in mental disorders like PTSD. But how do the psychedelics actually affect the brain?
In this video, “How Does Ayahuasca...