Is Ayahuasca Legal?

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How is Ayahuasca used?

Skilled shamans oversee the preparation of the brew and participant safety.

The facilitators of the Ayahuasca ceremonies advised participants to refrain from using cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and coffee to cleanse their systems.

Potential Benefits of Ayahuasca

• Improved or resolved depression and/or anxiety symptoms
• Alcohol and/or drug addiction recovery
• Greater self-knowledge
• Improved interpersonal relationships
• New perspectives on life
• Resolution of past trauma and trauma triggers

Ayahuasca neutralizes the trauma—it’s not positive or negative, it’s just an event,” explains Dr. Estes.

Dr. Estes discourages thrill-seekers hoping for a psychedelic trip from taking ayahuasca. “I wouldn’t recommend it for just anybody to try,” she says. “I would recommend it for people who want to get to the bottom of something

How dose ayahuasca works

Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, the two major components of ayahuasca, both produce hallucinogenic effects (2Trusted Source).
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a hallucinogenic compound that naturally exists in the plant Psychotria viridis, is present in it.
The chemical DMT is a potent psychedelic.

Mental health side effects

For some, those side effects were significant enough to require the help of a mental health professional.

The top five “negative” mental health impacts reported in the survey, listed from most to least common, were:

• Hearing and seeing things other people don’t.
• Feeling disconnected or alone.
• Nightmares, disturbing thoughts, feelings or sensations.
• Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge.
• Feeling down, depressed or hopeless.

Distressing as those (and other) side effects may have been, nearly 90% of the participants who reported these experiences saw them as part of “a positive process of growth or integration.” (The survey didn’t investigate the long-term impact on the other 10%.)

 And who gets to decide? More on the possible future of DMT in a bit — first we need to cover the risks of Ayahuasca use that go beyond side effects.

The bottom line

The psychedelic tea known as ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT Some people, guided by a shaman or curandero, journey to South America to partake in its mind-altering properties. Ayahuasca is now in stock at Magic mushroom store usa 

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