Hello Nexus people, Can anyone comment this?
"Peruvian Retreats - currently closed...
...local authorities changed their mind about the legal status of the brew..."
Did anyone encounter at such a news in their travels?
Any certain information about if it's a tendency? Why other retreats sites arn't telling about it?
p.s. i can't post it in appropriate topic due to a newbie status

It sounds like just this one organization has closed their Peruvian retreats, I don't believe this applies to other retreats/centers in Peru.

It appears this group was trying to start up European retreats but has halted the project because of the European authorities.

Yep, this is what I understood too.

But, there is a slightly misleading statement on their page saying that "local authorities changed their mind about the legal status of the brew." Where? In Europe? As if it was legal yesterday or so to speak.

There is no European consensus on this -- European countries deal with it differently on the national level...

My opinion ---- >

Euopean governments ignore it because under international law ayahuasca is legal for certain religeous use . People have been busted . But only a few and most of them didnt have to go to court . I dont know of anyone who has been punished for posesion of ayahuasca for authentic religeous use . IF governments decided to prosecute it could be VERY embarasing and expensive for them as national law comes under international law . SO a country might posecute someone and then loose the case in an international court .

The situation is the same for peyote wich can be openly bought in markets here .

The police are not interested . They have other more important things to do and about the only chance that a person has of getting trouble is if someone complains about a specific event and even then the only thing that will happen is a short vist to the police station and that they will loose the brew .

The same with ...... authentic rastafari . The problem for them is that the most " rastas " arent realy rastas . Real rastas are HARDCORE christians . In the unUK there have been rasta churches where people openly smoke since at least the 70s . They have had touble but only when people pointed the finger at them .