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Spanish Police Uncover Global Neo-shamanic Ring, Seizing “60 kilos of ayahuasca and other mind-altering substances”
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Barron’s reports
Spanish police said Wednesday they had broken up an international organisation that gave followers hallucinogenic substances, arresting 18 people and seizing over 60 kilos of ayahuasca and other mind-altering substances.
Operating out of so-called “epicentres for inner evolution”, the group was based in Spain but also was active in other countries including France, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Romania, Malta, Mexico, Colombia and Turkey.
Fifteen of the 18 arrests took place in Madrid, with police saying the suspects had “promoted and developed profit-making rituals involving the use of banned psychoactive substances that endangered the health of the participants”.
Investigators were tipped off after finding a business network promoting neo-shamanic rituals online that promised “an improvement in physical and mental health through the consumption of psychoactive substances”.
The suspects also organised “inner evolution retreats” where they supplied banned and dangerous substances such as ayahuasca, sapo bufo toad venom and the poisonous secretions of kambo frogs among others.
Consumption was overseen by a doctor and his partner who was posing as a medical graduate.
Both were arrested.
Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/spain-busts-global-neo-shamanic-ring-seizes-psychedelics-25194a0d
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Sean Hocking
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