AYA Declaration: Ayahuasca in a globalised world

In September 2014, approximately 650 people from over 60 different countries attended the World Ayahuasca Conference in Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, Spain. At this conference, a group of 40 scientific, legal, and public policy experts met to discuss how ayahuasca drinking practices can be better understood, respected and protected as international interest in the brew spreads in the 21st century.

The conference formed an Expert Committee for the Regularization of Psychoactive Ethnobotanicals.

The following is the consensus declaration of this group: a call for governments to work towards creating a constructive legal and human rights-based foundation for ayahuasca drinking.

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