The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the preoccupying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) and Tabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.
via the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service
Also from the link, a most important point:
By advising governments to outlaw the use of these ethnobotanicals, the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples that live outside their country of origin to use these plants as part of their traditional practice become endangered. Within the last few months, several of these cases have already emerged.
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