S2E42: Ibogaine Inquiries Part IV: Who Owns a Sacred Medicine?
For centuries, the people of Gabon protected iboga as a sacred medicine. Then a gift intended to help others changed everything.
In this episode, we trace Iboga's remarkable journey from colonial France to New York City, where a young man named Howard Lotsof discovered its potential to interrupt addiction and dedicated his life to bringing ibogaine into modern medicine. But as scientific interest grew, so did difficult questions about patents, ownership, and who should benefit from knowledge that had been safeguarded by Indigenous communities for generations.
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