"Ayahuasca, 48 touchdowns ... divination and healing. Some Brazilian churches use it as a sacrament. Very likely, you'll vomit and may experience diarrhea. Most people start to feel psychotropic ...

This is why seeking out places where the plant comes from, like Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia, where ayahuasca is a traditional part of the culture, is the right way to go. For example ...

Religious studies instructor Larissa Carneiro has followed her romantic and academic heart to Durham and then back to Brazil to study the ayahuasca-embracing Church of Santo Daime, “Saint Give Me” “To ...

Most of the animals have been hunted out. Even ayahuasca vines are harder to find—Mayantuyacu now imports them from other parts of Peru or Brazil. In 2013, the year the road was built ...

Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

Countries where ayahuasca is legal include the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Jamaica and Costa Rica, as well as Peru, Brazil, Colombia and more. It is also legal in some states, including Arizona, ...