Last month, nearly 12,000 people gathered Denver to talk about magic mushrooms, ecstasy, ibogaine and ayahuasca, and to discuss the latest scientific research into these and other plant-based or synthetic substances, all known as psychedelics.. ..…

Dimethyltryptamine — or DMT, the psychoactive ingredient in the leaves — typically is broken down by the body’s stomach enzymes, but those enzymes are inhibited by chemicals in the bark, allowing the DMT to take effect. . ... An ayahuasca trip lasts around five hours, per Araujo, the..…

This all came about because co-founder Ian Benouis, a former US army Blackhawk helicopter pilot turned psychedelic medicine facilitator, was searching for the ecstatic afterglow from the powerful drug 5-MeO-DMT without the earth-shattering and ego-destroying trip it usually entails. .....…