Costa Rican authorities completed their investigation into the death of U.S. tourist Lauren Levis, who died in a hotel in August 2024 while using iboga, a potent naturally occurring drug that can cause heart attacks. After almost eight months of investigations, on March 13, the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) of Nicoya sent a report on the case to the local Prosecutor’s Office.
Lauren Levis arrived in Costa ...
Dhillon was on an ibogaine trip. It's a psychedelic drug from the bark of the iboga tree, a shrub native to Central Africa that is used in traditional …
But ibogaine, the psychoactive compound in the Central African shrub Tabernanthe iboga, may not be on many people's radars. Researchers are …
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