A few years back i came across Ibogaine in Daniel Pinchbeck's
Breaking Open the Head
This curious drug was appropriated by early colonialists and touted in the West as a cure for fatigue and sleeping sickness. It clearly wasn't a big hit – references to ibogaine barely spot the annals of the 19th century – and it only really emerged in the West during the 1960s, when drug activists in New York's Lower East Side began to explore its potential as a cure for opiate addiction. This movement gathered pace in the 1980, when the Reagan government took a zero- tolerance stance on drugs while crack cocaine and heroin swept unabated through predominantly black and working-class communities, devastating thousands of lives.
Breaking Open the Head
This curious drug was appropriated by early colonialists and touted in the West as a cure for fatigue and sleeping sickness. It clearly wasn't a big hit – references to ibogaine barely spot the annals of the 19th century – and it only really emerged in the West during the 1960s, when drug activists in New York's Lower East Side began to explore its potential as a cure for opiate addiction. This movement gathered pace in the 1980, when the Reagan government took a zero- tolerance stance on drugs while crack cocaine and heroin swept unabated through predominantly black and working-class communities, devastating thousands of lives.
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