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by swores 603 days ago
You're right I worded that badly, but as I acknowledged in my previous comment it's an area I know little about and only mentioned it as a known example that's not the same as the rest of what I explained.

I do however believe there are various cultures that do use ayahuasca unrelated to the sort of expensive retreats Americans might travel to.

And you're right that Western / non-Western was a poor way of explaining what I meant, but I'm not sure if there's a widely accepted good phrasing for what I meant which was really "countries or communities within countries whose cultures, including in healthcare, are more significantly unlike the cultures in Western Europe & North America than the cultural differences between countries & states within NA+EU".

In hindsight I probably should have just said "I believe there are completely different styles of psychedelic use for mental health such as with Ayahuasca but I don't know enough to say more about that"!