A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy

ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States

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A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy

ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States

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"One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America."

"In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as well as the raging arguments about, the substance that seems a sacrament to some and a scourge to others. Opponents fight its use, even as U.S. scientists and psychologists continue investigations of whether ayahuasca has healing properties that might be put to conventional use for physical and mental health. This book includes text from the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and interviews with shamans in the Amazon."--Jacket.

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Publisher
Praeger
Language
English
Pages
162

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Table of Contents

Native use of ayahuasca
Drug tourism
The new shamans
The União de Vegetal and the U.S. Supreme Court
Globalization and the future of ayahuasca.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.

Published in
Westport, Conn

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
394.1/4
Library of Congress
BF209.A93 D63 2008, BF209

The Physical Object

Pagination
162 p. ;
Number of pages
162

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19287354M
Internet Archive
hallucinogenicte0000dobk
ISBN 13
9780313345425
LCCN
2008008793
OCLC/WorldCat
212399934
Library Thing
5005700
Goodreads
2981922

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