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Pubdate: Sat, 03 Nov 2012
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 The Vancouver Sun
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Author: Ian Mulgrew
Page: A13

ANCIENT TRADITIONS GET NEW LIFE

Plant-based drugs win accolades as treatments for substance abuse

Cynthia Davidson still glows at mere mention of ayahuasca, the Amazon plant known to the Indians as “the vine of the souls.” She says it gave her back her life.  “The experience I had was literally like 10 years of therapy in one night,” enthused the 32- year-old Haida woman, who has struggled with chronic addiction for more than a decade.

“I went from cigarettes to drinking to marijuana to snorting cocaine to smoking rock cocaine, then starting to shoot cocaine and heroin.  It all just escalated.  But after I experienced the ayahuasca =C2=85.”