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Holistic well-being or cultural extractivism? Who decides? Questions on the consumption of psychedelic substances and their territorial impacts in Latin America.

  • Ezequiel Alí Cortina Bello
  • John Scuro
  • Sarai Piña Alcántara

  • moderator Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones

The massive consumption of psychedelics has intensified debates about their impacts on indigenous communities in Latin America. As globalization drives the commercial and therapeutic use of sacred plants, tensions are generated between Western holistic wellbeing and the preservation of indigenous cultural heritage. This text examines how psychedelic extractivism de-territorializes plants and ancestral knowledge, creating new markets that transform traditional relationships with these beings considered political-spiritual agents by native peoples.