Ayahuasca is classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin, LSD, peyote, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("Ecstasy") and cannabis (marijuana), which is illegal to produce, distribute or possess.

Speakers attested to ayahuasca's ability to heal depression and other maladies. ... Drinking the brew causes people to confront their demons, so to speak, ...

Disney star Joshua Bassett says he saw hell, demons and Jesus Christ while high on ayahuasca. Bassett opened up about his intense second experience tripping on the plant-based psychedelic drug ...

Lindsay Lohan met with a shaman and did ayahuasca to find clarity. ... Everywhere I looked, eyes open or closed, I saw reddish-pink demons baring their teeth at me, as if to block my entrance.

Stefan Leon, 32, attacked the officers, according to the arrest report, insisting he was "a demon, God himself and Hitler." In court records, officers blamed Leon's reported attack on ayahuasca ...

Some call it a demon, Rivera said, others a parasite. Rivera told police that on the third and final day of their ayahuasca trip, as Leon was coming out of a hallucinogenic state, the demon spoke ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive and entheogenic brewed drink, which is used in healing rituals among the indigenous communities of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, among other countries. Prepared ...