ayahuasca

The 17-minute "mixed-reality" work 'Awavena' melds augmented reality, 360-degree film footage, and VR to tell the story of the sacred brew.

The drug ayahuasca gives the same trip as LSD and is considered therapeutic.

On today's episode, reporter Allison Tierney unpacks the twisted deaths of Olivia Arévalo Lomas and the Canadian tourist suspected of killing her.

Locals in the Amazon appear to have taken justice into their own hands after a tourist was accused of killing a revered Indigenous healer.

Sebastian Woodroffe went to the Amazon to study plant medicine. Then he was accused of killing an ayahuasca shaman.

Here’s everything we know about the death of Sebastian Woodroffe.

It's an impediment to medical research on ayahuasca's potential to treat mental health disorders.

A part-time "shaman" on the outskirts of Tokyo is offering hallucinatory experiences he hopes will help treat depression and spark innovation throughout Japan.

George Sarlo is throwing cash at research into how drugs like magic mushrooms can help people overcome trauma like his own.

By providing knowledge about the plant's uses to lawyers, the Ayahuasca Defense Fund is helping to legitimise psychedelics, and potentially inspire more humane drug policies.

The new model still needs to be tested, but it could be a game-changer for one of the more intensely hallucinogenic psychedelics there is.

On this episode of 'Daily VICE' we go to a weekend retreat in Spain where participants take Ayahuasca to go on a spiritual journey.