THE DRUG OF CHOICE FOR THE AGE OF KALE

[Chip (OP)]

source: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/12/the-ayahuasca-boom-in-the-u-s

How ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic brew, became the latest trend in Brooklyn and Silicon Valley.

Ayahuasca, used for centuries in South American jungles, is booming in the U.S. .. here is an excerpt:

The day after Apollo 14 landed on the moon, Dennis and Terence McKenna began a trek through the Amazon with four friends who considered themselves, as Terence wrote in his book “True Hallucinations,” “refugees from a society that we thought was poisoned by its own self-hatred and inner contradictions.” They had come to South America, the land of yagé, also known as ayahuasca: an intensely hallucinogenic potion made from boiling woody Banisteriopsis caapi vines with the glossy leaves of the chacruna bush. The brothers, then in their early twenties, were grieving the recent death of their mother, and they were hungry for answers about the mysteries of the cosmos: “We had sorted through the ideological options, and we had decided to put all of our chips on the psychedelic experience.”

[CARNi]

@chipper Thanks for the great link. I just wish the ending wasn't as sudden. The whole read was very descriptive until the very last sentence when it seemed I was going to finally feel her trip with her and then........ crickets....

Ugh...lol

[Chip (OP)]

@CARNi, no problem .., it makes you want to go and get yourself some Ayahuasca !

[CARNi]

@chipper It sure as check does!! Of all the reading I've done on the subject, this by far, was the most informative and fun of them. So thanks again good sir!