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Tombc1
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Ayahuasca Death?
#19293872 - 12/18/13 03:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://sebastopol.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2012/09/news/sebastopol-teen-died-in-peru-trying-to-further-open-his-mind/
What is this? It seems like the most disgustingly biased article i've ever seen but I was just wondering if anyone can shed some light on it
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psyconaught
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: Tombc1]
#19293906 - 12/18/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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doesn't seem that biased to me honestly. The kid probably ignored the fasting instructions and took some medications or something that interacted badly with the MAOI's in the brew.
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One needs to die before being reborn..
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MagicalOrangutan
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: Icyus]
#19293977 - 12/18/13 04:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's biased and completely dishonest because they make it out like it was the dmt that killed him. It wasn't the dmt, it was the fucking maoi. Natural or not, maoi, as can be seem in this case, are clearly dangerous
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psyconaught
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maoi's themselves do not kill or harm anyone. They allow dangerous interactions to take place with other drugs, they take down a defensive enzyme system in your gut. And i think you are letting emotions cloud your judgement. Usually i'd agree that drug related articles are horribly biased. But I don't see that in this one, the only mention of DMT was stating the main active ingredient in Ayahuasca. The focus was more on the actions of the retreat employee's.
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JohnnyTripsAlot
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I also don't think its really all that biased, you cant expect a news writer to defend drugs especially in an article about a young persons death
This article makes me sad, let us all never forget how important it is to be responsible with these substances
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Someone who dies while on a drug does not equate to died because of the drug... Poor logical argument but one used by the anti-drug establishment for years
Depends who is reporting it... Their bias or need to use it to further their agenda
On Aya, allergic to bees, stung and dies... Must be the drug On mushrooms and has their third heart attack and dies.. Must be the drug
Not saying that was the case... But who would know... History is written by the one with the most to gain....
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psyconaught
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: HarryL]
#19294067 - 12/18/13 04:28 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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the article didn't blame the drug for his death. It simply stated what drug he was on when he died and the events leading to his death.
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psyconaught
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in fact the article even cites the father saying that the drug seems to be safe and that he didn't think his son was irresponsible about it.
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Perhaps the shaman put toé (Datura) in it? That can be dangerous. Either way it's a REALLY sad and unfortunate story, both for the family involved and for the reputation of ayahuasca itself.
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: Tombc1]
#19294250 - 12/18/13 05:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Edited by rikuni (03/16/14 05:24 AM)
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openmind
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: rikuni]
#19294356 - 12/18/13 05:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Acidreamer said: Perhaps the shaman put toé (Datura) in it? That can be dangerous. Either way it's a REALLY sad and unfortunate story, both for the family involved and for the reputation of ayahuasca itself.
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rikuni said: This is old but it did come out after a while that this Manculuto was not that great of a shaman. He did lie about many things and he had nothing to do with the ancient traditions he was talking about. But the most severe mistake he made and probably the reason for the death of that kid was that he ADDED Toe as well as other plants to the brew to make it stronger!
I was going to say....I think I've heard a couple accounts of this happening over the past few years, toe being added to the brew and resulting in the death of a "westerner". Then it appearing as if, or once the stories reach the media, that it was the aya vine/dmt itself that's deadly.
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MagicalOrangutan
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: openmind]
#19294443 - 12/18/13 06:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Obviously yes it is biased because obviously when some ignorant parent reads this, what are they gonna say about dmt? Are they gonna think it's a good thing, or a dangerous thing that will kill their kids if they get ahold of it? I mean seriously, if most parents read this and then their kid said "I wanna try dmt" what is that parent gonna say? Clearly they will mistake concomitance with causation and say "this kid died and was on this dmt drug, my kid is in danger if they take any form of dmt". Obviously that's how most people think
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psyconaught
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thats the fault of the parents for lazy and illogical thinking. The article was simply stating facts. Besides if a parent is still making decisions for a kid (under 18) they probably shouldn't be doing such a powerful psychedelic in the first place.
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Noven
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We were discussing this case at a ceremony I was attending this year. Someone at the ceremony actually had connection to the events from what I remember the kid had drug problems prior to his death and was bringing in his own substances, on one occasion he went of by himself and they had to go out and look for him, he had a lot of issues. Either way the shaman was responsible for trying to cover up the death.
I don't know how reliable the sources were but apparently they knew the actual shaman, so I'm just relating what I have heard so take it as hearsay.
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Tombc1
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: Noven]
#19297550 - 12/19/13 11:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mhm, despite the fact that the article doesn't directly attribute his death to the drug itself, it certainly implies it.
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: openmind]
#19298099 - 12/19/13 01:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
openmind said:
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Acidreamer said: Perhaps the shaman put toé (Datura) in it? That can be dangerous. Either way it's a REALLY sad and unfortunate story, both for the family involved and for the reputation of ayahuasca itself.
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rikuni said: This is old but it did come out after a while that this Manculuto was not that great of a shaman. He did lie about many things and he had nothing to do with the ancient traditions he was talking about. But the most severe mistake he made and probably the reason for the death of that kid was that he ADDED Toe as well as other plants to the brew to make it stronger!
I was going to say....I think I've heard a couple accounts of this happening over the past few years, toe being added to the brew and resulting in the death of a "westerner". Then it appearing as if, or once the stories reach the media, that it was the aya vine/dmt itself that's deadly.
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What exactly is Toe?
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muistrue
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Quote:
JacksonMetaller said: What exactly is Toe?
Brugmansia suaveolens more commonly known as datura.
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: muistrue]
#19299012 - 12/19/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dude, brugmansia is a different plant from datura. Both names are official titles. Brugmansia just contains the same group of tropane alkaloids that datura contains -- and there are even more plants that contain these alkaloids.
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Re: Ayahuasca Death? [Re: s240779]
#19299054 - 12/19/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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We're basically still talking about an interaction between the maoi and the scopalamine and other tropanes that killed the kid right?
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