Ayahuasca and the process of regulation in Brazil and internationally: implications and challenges

Ayahuasca and the Process of Regulation in Brazil and Internationally, Implications and Challenges, by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Kevin Feeney, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy in 2012, is a peer-reviewed scholarly article tracing Brazil's regulatory sequence for ayahuasca from the first CONFEN rulings of the mid-1980s through CONAD Resolution No. 1 of 2010. Labate is a leading specialist scholar on ayahuasca's legal and social history specifically, and the article rests on standard peer review and direct documentary research into the regulatory record. It addresses the Brazilian and international legal history specifically, not the plant medicine's ritual use within any one Indigenous tradition, which needs separate ethnographic sourcing.