This is an overview of the legality of ayahuasca by country.DMT, one of the active ingredients in ayahuasca, is classified as a Schedule I drug under the United Nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, meaning that international trade in DMT is supposed to be closely monitored; use of DMT is supposed to be restricted to scientific research and medical use.

The term has been applied diversely, to cover all activities by which altered states are induced and utilized for spiritual purposes or the exploration of the human condition, including shamanism, lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, sensory deprivation, and archaic/modern drug users who use entheogenic substances in order to gain deeper ...

In 1960, two promising young psychologists at Harvard, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, began to explore the effects of psychotropic substances on the human mind. They reasoned that psychology is the study of the mind, including its relationship to the brain, body, and environment.

L'ayahuasca, ou yagé, est une préparation hallucinogène originaire d'Amérique du Sud. Décoction à base de lianes traditionnellement consommée par un grand nombre de cultures indigènes de l'Amazonie, qui la sacralisent et lui allèguent une capacité curative, purificatrice et magique, l'ayahuasca se présente sous la forme d'un breuvage épais à la saveur âpre.