W. Bryan Hubbard

One of the things that we learned is that there is a healthy underground international market for the bark.

Just like we use vitamin B complex or we use valerian root to help us go to sleep, people in Gabon will use the iboga bark for mental acuity and just like drinking a cup of coffee.

I mean, to get the psychoactive effect,

You have to eat like five big, huge heaping plates of this stuff over the course of time.

It's so bitter it will burn your mouth.

I mean, it's an Olympian ordeal.

This is the bark.

Yes, sir.

It's an Olympian ordeal to consume the amount of bark that's necessary to get that mystical effect.

And you're sicker than a dog the whole time you're doing it.

But apparently piracy in the country for the shrub is fairly prominent.

And they explained that what poachers will do is that they will take the poison imposter and basically like the street supply where you put pollutants in with cocaine or whatever here.

They put that imposter bark in with the real because you cannot visually differentiate.

The Ambongo Pygmy, who we had the privilege of meeting, who hosted us for an overnight ceremony of blessing and protection that was just phenomenal.

They apparently can just taste the bark, even when it's mixed together, and they can tell if it's adulterated with the imposter.

Wow.

Yes.

That's a great way to put it, an Ibogaine sommelier.

Might have to go over and get tutored.

Well, here's what we need to make change happen.