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Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Arizona

Arizona put $5 million into an ibogaine trial in traumatic brain injury through its 2025 budget. What the grant requires, and what it does not.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Australia

Ibogaine is a Schedule 4 prescription-only medicine in Australia. Widely reported as legal, which is not what Schedule 4 means.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Brazil

Brazil's regulator says ibogaine treatments are unregulated. A São Paulo council said hospitals only. The federal government says no.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Is Ibogaine Legal in Canada?

Health Canada made ibogaine a prescription drug in 2017. What that regime allows, and why it is not the same as approval.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Costa Rica

Ibogaine appears unscheduled in Costa Rica, but addiction programmes need IAFA approval and no ibogaine facility has ever held it.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Colorado

Colorado decriminalised personal possession of ibogaine in 2022 and has authorised a research pilot it has not yet funded.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Germany

Ibogaine is outside German narcotics law but inside medicines law. Possession is not an offence; supplying it is a crime, and importing it is penalised.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Kentucky

Kentucky enacted an ibogaine research framework over a governor's veto. The $42 million it started with was stripped before it passed.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Is Ibogaine Legal in Mexico?

Ibogaine is not named in Mexican drug law, which is why the clinics are there. What that absence does and does not guarantee a patient.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Mississippi

Mississippi created an ibogaine trial framework in 2026 and attached no money to it. What the law does, and what the $5 million figure actually refers to.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in New Zealand

New Zealand gazetted ibogaine as a prescription medicine in 2010, and published what happened when a clinic got it wrong.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in the Netherlands

Ibogaine is not on the Opium Act lists, and the Dutch public health institute has formally advised against using it. Both are true at once.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Oklahoma

Oklahoma's Breakthrough Therapy Act ties ibogaine trial contracts to access conditions after approval. Kentucky did the same a month earlier.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in South Africa

South Africa places ibogaine in Schedule 6, with morphine and fentanyl. A practitioner may administer it, but no product is registered.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Ibogaine in Texas

Texas funded a clinical trial of ibogaine, yet the substance stays Schedule I under federal law. What the 2025 legislation does, and what it leaves unchanged.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Is Ibogaine Legal in the UK?

Supplying ibogaine in the UK carries seven years, simple possession is no offence, and one narrow lawful route exists that nobody appears to have used.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Is Ibogaine Legal in the United States?

Ibogaine is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law. What that means, and how recent state-level activity does and does not change it.

Legality13 Aug 2026

Why Is Ibogaine Illegal? The 1970 Schedule I Decision

Congress wrote ibogaine into the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, before its claims were tested and decades before its risks were understood.

Compare12 Aug 2026

Iboga vs Ibogaine: The Difference

Iboga is the plant, ibogaine one of its alkaloids. Why the distinction matters for dose, for legality, and for what people are actually taking.

The plant12 Aug 2026

What Is Iboga?

Iboga is a Central African shrub whose root bark contains ibogaine. What the plant is, where it grows, and how it differs from the alkaloid.

Experiences12 Aug 2026

What an Ibogaine Experience Feels Like

An hour-by-hour account of what people report during an ibogaine session, from onset through the long tail that follows.

Safety12 Aug 2026

Ibogaine and the Heart

Cardiac effects are the reason ibogaine is administered under monitoring. What the literature describes, and what screening is meant to catch.

Safety12 Aug 2026

Ibogaine Side Effects

What is documented about ibogaine side effects, from the common and expected to the rare and serious, and what the evidence does not settle.

Science12 Aug 2026

How Ibogaine Works in the Brain

A plain-language account of ibogaine pharmacology: the receptors involved, the active metabolite, and the limits of current understanding.

Tradition12 Aug 2026

The Bwiti Religion

Bwiti is a spiritual tradition of Gabon and neighbouring countries in which iboga is central. Its branches, its practice, and its place today.

Tradition12 Aug 2026

Iboga in Gabon

Gabon treats iboga as a national heritage plant. What that status means in practice, and the conservation questions it raises.

Treatment12 Aug 2026

How Much Does Ibogaine Treatment Cost?

What providers charge, what the figure usually includes, and the costs that sit outside it. Ranges by country, with the date they were checked.