New ayahuasca retreat centers, like Pachamama Sanctuary in Canterbury, N.H., have emerged across the country, but remain in a legal gray area.
from using the substance as a sacrament. At the same time, ayahuasca’s active ingredient, dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, remains a controlled substance under federal law, and thus illegal to consume.
“A trip to the Amazon was totally out of the question, because I'm poor,” Em Quiles, a nonprofit executive from Worcester, told NHPR. She said she first learned about Pachamama through a friend, and decided that after years of anxiety and depression, with limited relief from medicine and therapy, to try ayahuasca in Canterbury.
However, Barrett said the few formal studies on ayahuasca’s potential to heal people that have been done in controlled settings show promise. There is no shortage of options for those interested in experiencing ayahuasca. In her community of Boulder, Colorado, she estimates there are 15 to 20 “circles” on any given weekend.Drug's legal landscape still murky
In 2020, the New Hampshire Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving a Colebrook man who was found guilty of possessing psilocybin mushrooms. The defendant, Jeremy Mack, argued the mushrooms were part of his religious practice as a member of the Oklevueha Native American Church, and were therefore protected under the state constitution, which states people have a “natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
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