ayahuasca

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.

In the middle of the ayahuasca industry boom, we wanted to find out what life's been like for one of the local shamans using the mind-bending medicine to heal people.

Some groups are pissed about the influx of Westerners visiting the Amazon to dress up like the indigenous people and bastardize their rituals.

The use of kambo—the poison of a bright green frog—is on the rise as an alternative treatment for depression and drug dependency. But does it actually work?