W. Bryan Hubbard
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and a refusal to honor what the statute actually says, which is one of these numerous examples of the use of fictitious legal realities to do violence to legitimate reality.
The DEA needs to be told to relent on its misinterpretation and extrajudicial interpretation of federal right to try, to interpret it as written, so that once any phase one study on Ibogaine is completed,
delivery can be effectuated through the medical system immediately.
Theoretically, it could be... Is it climate dependent?
It's climate dependent.
It's soil dependent.
It is considered an entourage plant whereby it absorbs essentially...
The essence, not just of the soil around it, but of the other botanicals.
One of the things we learned in Gabon is that much like we have grape varietals in California for all the different kinds of wine that they produce, there are different varieties of the iboga shrub.
How it grows in the north of the country is very different than how it grows in the south.
In terms of the amount of compound that's in it or the type of compound that's in it?
The potency, the strength, the nature of its effect on the person, the way that it kind of facilitates the spiritual journey.
There's some of it that will kind of have a dark angle.
There's some of it that has more of a light angle.
We are just really scratching the surface of knowledge as to all the ways in which it can vary
based on how it grows naturally.
One of the most fascinating things that we learned there, and this is going to give you chills.
We visited a five-hectare, they use the metric system, we visited a five-hectare iboga plantation right in the center of Lieberville.
that is run by one of their former prime ministers.
It's an experimental farm to kind of understand how it grows, the optimal ways in which to grow it, and what different outcomes are.