Buying Ayahuasca and other entheogenic substances online: a word of caution

Phil Dalgarno

doi:10.1080/16066350701663672

Buying Ayahuasca and other entheogenic substances online: a word of caution

Phil Dalgarno

Psychology

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Abstract

Since the mid 1990's a number of publications have appeared in the UK and Europe and stimulated interest in a number of psychoactive plants native to South and Central America that had previously been relatively obscure outside of their places of origin. While information describing the effects of these together with extraction techniques was widely available, the plants themselves remained difficult to source until the proliferation of online “headshops” trading in legal alternatives to controlled drugs. The main aim of this study was to assess users’ own experience of accessibility of information available from online suppliers of these drugs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Addiction Research and Theory
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/16066350701663672
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008

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Keywords

controlled drugs
drugs
legal drugs
psychoactive plants

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Dalgarno, P. (2008). Buying Ayahuasca and other entheogenic substances online: a word of caution. Addiction Research and Theory, 16(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066350701663672

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