Tag: Global South

Psychedelics in the Global South: Relevance and Consequences of the Countercultural Movement in Mexico

Mexico, rich in psychoactive plants and Indigenous traditions, played a key role in the psychedelic...

The Golden Decade of Psychedelic Therapy in Argentina

Susana Garcia, an Argentinian woman, was treated for severe anorexia in the 1950s using LSD...

The First Applications of LSD-25 in South America (1954-1959)

The first LSD experiments in South America in the 1950s were carried out similarly to...

Why Land and Ecology Matter for Global Psychedelics

Land and ecology matter to the global psychedelics movement because it is a movement born...

Genocide by Other Means: Indigenous Peoples and the War on Drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean

The War on Drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean has negatively impacted the Indigenous...

Nectar of the Blue Goddess: Consuming Soma in Bengal, India

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars...

Yaminawa Women and Ayahuasca: Shamanism, Gender, and History in the Peruvian Amazon

There is evidence that suggests that before colonial contact, Yaminawa women practiced shamanism and consumed...

How Did Ayahuasca, Indigenous Diversity and Conservation Become Commodities in the Amazon?

In this article, anthropologist Alhena Caicedo analyzes how the moral imperative of celebrating cultural diversity...