A climate for change: ICEERS and the challenges of the globalization of ayahuasca
September 1, 2016 Benjamin K. de Loenen, Òscar Parés Franquero, And 1 citation
The legal status of ayahuasca is difficult for users, lawyers, authorities, and academics to understand and must be viewed within the international framework for controlling narcotics and psychotropics. Psychoactive substances have been produced, consumed, and traded throughout human history, playing spiritual, social, economic, and political roles in most societies. Social perceptions and political approaches toward these substances have shifted over time, with pleasure, individual freedom, health, morality, and state reasons all invoked to determine the level of social control, political intervention, or legal approach to their consumption, production, and trade.