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But here's the thing. Like any up-and-up industry, market, or service marked by varying shades of legality and oversight, it's only a matter of time before the scoundrels arrive and fuck it up for everyone."For all the root's spiritual and therapeutic benefits," Kelly Hearn writes in Men's Journal, "the ayahuasca boom is as wild and unmanageable as the jungle itself."In other words, when giddy 20- and 30-somethings from Brooklyn descend upon Iquitos, Peru--which is seeing an uptick in ayahuasca tourism--it's becoming more and more likely that they'll be whisked away to lodges run by pervy, crash-coursed ayahuasqueros out to make a quick buck on unassuming tourists.Read the rest over at the new Motherboard.VICE.com.
