Sentences with phrase «use ayahuasca»

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

Not exact matches

Exceptions are made for Native American churchgoers, who are allowed by law to use peyote in prayer meetings, and members of a branch of a Brazilian - based church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who have won court battles for the right to use the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in their religious rituals.

The centre will also look into the longer - term effects on people who have used ibogaine and ayahuasca, two increasingly popular but little - studied hallucinogens.

You're also going to hear some things about ayahuasca and some of the other uses in indigenous cultures of these types of medicines including some of my own experiences.

They have a ayahuasca ceremony as well as use many herbs that I am familiar with and take myself.

Treatment for addiction disorders is one of the most promising areas of therapeutic ayahuasca use, in part because doctors still don't have many other good options.

So «this data should not be used as evidence that ayahuasca can treat depression and problematic alcohol consumption.»

And «because the safety and effectiveness of ayahuasca has yet to be determined, it should only be used in the context of careful research studies, designed to protect the safety of patients, while generating data that could inform the overall balance of risks and benefits associated with this drug,» he said

The use of certain otherwise proscribed drugs, for example, has been claimed to be an important part of «religious practice» (see, e.g. Holy Light of the Queen and the drug ayahuasca; and the amazingly prolific Church of the Universe, involving marijuana).