In court records, officers blamed Leon's reported attack on ayahuasca, an illegal, vision-inducing psychedelic brew he and 68-year-old spiritual healer Julio Rivera traveled to Boynton Beach to ...

Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

It contained “la medicina,” a syrupy brown decoction of chacruna leaves and ayahuasca vines boiled down for two days and then decanted into old water bottles. At the start of the ceremony ...