is the mainstreaming of mambe and other sacred plants and excuse to view the world through the prism of hallucinogens?
Jimmy Weiskopf examines the importance of mambe in indigenous cosmogeny in generating dreams both when asleep and awake.
The criminalization of an ancestral substance and misuse by those in search of its psychotropic effects affects the livelihoods of Colombia’s Amazonian peoples.
Considered a sacred plant, the ground powder of the coca leaf, consumed as mambe, has found a mainstream audience among urbanites and unwary tourists.