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Iboga Compared
Ibogaine set beside ayahuasca, ketamine, psilocybin, methadone and buprenorphine. Direct answers, then the table, then the detail.
Iboga Experiences
What an ibogaine experience is actually like, hour by hour. Verified accounts, microdosing, integration, and the parts nobody advertises.
The Iboga Plant
Tabernanthe iboga: what the shrub is, where it grows, which part holds the alkaloid, and how it differs from ibogaine itself.
Is Ibogaine Legal? Status by Country
Ibogaine's legal status runs from prohibited to prescribable. Twenty-six jurisdictions, each with the instrument behind it and whether we read it.
Ibogaine Science and Research
What the peer-reviewed literature establishes about ibogaine, what it only suggests, and what remains untested. Plain language, primary sources.
Ibogaine News and Policy
Legislation, clinical trials and the companies involved. Weekly briefs plus standing files on the stories that keep moving.
Ibogaine Safety and Risks
Cardiac risk, contraindications, interactions and dosing. Every page in this section is reviewed by a clinician and dated.
Ibogaine Treatment: What to Know
How treatment works, what it costs, how to judge a clinic and when to walk away. No referrals, no rankings, no affiliate links.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ibogaine in Australia
Ibogaine is a Schedule 4 prescription-only medicine in Australia. Widely reported as legal, which is not what Schedule 4 means.
Ibogaine in Brazil
Brazil's regulator says ibogaine treatments are unregulated. A São Paulo council said hospitals only. The federal government says no.
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.
Ibogaine in Costa Rica
Ibogaine appears unscheduled in Costa Rica, but addiction programmes need IAFA approval and no ibogaine facility has ever held it.
Ibogaine in Colorado
Colorado decriminalised personal possession of ibogaine in 2022 and has authorised a research pilot it has not yet funded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ibogaine in New Zealand
New Zealand gazetted ibogaine as a prescription medicine in 2010, and published what happened when a clinic got it wrong.
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.
Ibogaine in Oklahoma
Oklahoma's Breakthrough Therapy Act ties ibogaine trial contracts to access conditions after approval. Kentucky did the same a month earlier.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.