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On February 11, 2025, ICEERS organized a webinar entitled “Testimonies of legal cases around ayahuasca.” The event brought together people who have faced legal proceedings for ayahuasca use and members of ICEERS’ legal and scientific team, who provided them with support through the Ayahuasca Defense Fund (ADF).
At ICEERS, we recognize that the journey toward a more just, sustainable society requires a steadfast and ethically responsible commitment, wherein Indigenous traditions and practices
A new ICEERS report estimates the number of people drinking ayahuasca worldwide and analyzes fatalities reported by the media.
Is ayahuasca a legal medicine all around the world? Second part of the series about myths and realities of ayahuasca legality.
Is ayahuasca legal in the world? First part of the series about most of the commonly spread myths and realities of ayahuasca legality.
The União do Vegetal (UDV) church in Santa Fe sued the government for the return of its sacrament, winning the right to religious use of ayahuasca.
Unprecedented fires are ravaging the Amazon, having a tragic impact on the Indigenous people, animals, and plants who live there, as well as contributing to climate chaos. In 2016, we were honoured to host the
ICEERS is embarking on an initiative to engage the global iboga/ine community in identifying the community’s strengths and assets, key challenges, and in articulating a shared vision for the future.
Ibogaine, a substance derived from the root bark of an African plant (Tabernanthe iboga) and historically used in ethnomedicine in traditional communities, is showing promise for lasting reductions in drug use, withdrawal, and cravings.
ICEERS is collaborating with researchers from the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, to carry out a clinical trial studying the tolerability and efficacy of ibogaine in the treatment of alcoholism.
ICEERS has just released the 2017 edition of the Ayahuasca Technical Report, signed by ten of the world’s leading ayahuasca researchers.
While the separate use of ayahuasca and Incilius alvarius is quite safe, combining these two substances is dangerous and can be deadly.
For the past several years, ICEERS Foundation, with the support of allied organisations such as the Transnational Institute (TNI), has been assisting in the legal defense of people with a migrant background who are prosecuted for the possession or importation of coca leaf for the purposes of traditional use.
ICEERS participated in the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) meetings in Vienna, a meeting held every March where 53 states come together to discuss and formulate guidelines relating to drug policy at the international level.
What are the main issues regarding ayahuasca and public health? As the use of ayahuasca expands globally, many questions have been raised about its integration into modern societies.
Traveling to the Amazon to participate in an ayahuasca ceremony can be a very enriching experience. However, it is easy to fall into idealizing the shamanic world and get a wrong idea about what you are going to find there. You can find travel agencies that offer retreats. There are many shamans offering sessions in their towns and cities, and there are shamanic centers offering such services as well. Although everything may seem very attractive, there are many factors that could turn this trip into a nightmare.
What’s the ayahuasca’s legal international status? In recent years, the international drug control framework has been increasingly questioned and we have experienced an opening of the corresponding debate.
Amanita muscaria (and another similar variety, Amanita pantherina) is a mushroom of the agaricales order that appears in very broad habitats of the temperate and boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere.
Can ayahuasca increase well-being and decrease problematic alcohol use? In recent years, a number of studies have demonstrated the therapeutic potential of psychoactive plants, such as ayahuasca. Recent findings from an open and controlled study
What’s the legal status of ayahuasca in the world? What are the three different legal approaches made by governments in relation to ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is a decoction of the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi. Its chemical ingredients are known as harmalines. Some ethnic and religious groups add the Psychotria viridis plant to ayahuasca, which has visionary effects and whose active component is dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
What’s the legal situation of ayahuasca in the Netherlands? What do the Dutch courts decide in terms of religious freedom? In early 2018, a Dutch court ruled on whether applying the drug laws that prohibit
The team at the Ayahuasca Defense Fund (ADF) has learned of an unprecedented increase in law enforcement actions and related events involving ayahuasca in the United States (USA) over the course of the last year.
For the first time since the Parliament of the World’s Religions began in 1893, this year marked the first time that indigenous peoples of the Amazon attended this global interfaith gathering.
