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The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS) is a non-profit organization (NPO), headquartered in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). ICEERS is dedicated to transforming society's relationship with psychoactive plants by engaging with some of the fundamental issues resulting from the globalization of ayahuasca, iboga, and other ethnobotanicals. Founded in 2009, ICEERS is registered as a non-profit organization, and has charitable status in the Netherlands and Spain, and through partner organizations in the US and UK. ICEERS also has consultative status with the United Nations' ECOSOC. Vision ICEERS envisions a future where psychoactive plant practices are valued and integrated parts of society. Dedicated to turning challenges into opportunities, their vision is that of a future where society's relationship with these plants is transformed – where every individual and each community is granted the right to pursue healing and self-empowerment, where indigenous cultures are respected, and where bridges are built between traditional knowledge and science. ICEERS is dedicated to bridging the ethnobotanical knowledge of indigenous peoples with modern science and therapeutic practice, responding to the urgent need for efficient tools for personal and social development. According to their website, the organization's mission includes: Conducting scientific research around the therapeutic use of psychoactive plants; Studying and promoting policies in the fields of psychedelic science and drug policy, based on scientific evidence and human rights; Developing the field of support and integration for people wishing to access treatment or experiences with plant teachers; Convening community events and gatherings with the aim of bridging knowledge; and Offering legal information and support to people experiencing legal challenges related to transport or use of ayahuasca or other psychoactive plants. History The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS) was founded on May 20, 2009, by Benjamin De Loenen (director of the 2014 documentary Ibogaine - Rite of Passage) as a philanthropic, tax-exempt non-profit organization (charity) dedicated to the integration of ayahuasca, iboga and other traditional plants as therapeutic tools in modern society, and the preservation of indigenous cultures that have been using these plant species since antiquity. According to its founder and executive director, Benjamin de Loenen, "Over time more people joined the team with scientific and drug policy reform backgrounds, and we started to broaden our scope and address the subject matter from these different angles. Right now, we do scientific research, we also try to make science understandable for policy makers and broader audiences. We educate through the website, offering harm reduction and risk reduction information, and we are involved in policy reform." ICEERS has grown since 2009 from having a few volunteers and no budget at that time, to 14 staff in 2019. In 2010, ICEERS offered their first training to health departments about ibogaine, as well as organizing a conference about this subject at the Catalan Health Department in that same year. They have also engaged in relationship building and advocacy with decision-makers and international bodies at the United Nations. In 2010, in a letter responding to an ICEERS' query, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) confirmed that "no plant or concoction containing DMT, including ayahuasca, is currently under international control." Moreover, ICEERS has participated in the development of important guidelines for human rights and drug policy, led by the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, co-published by the WHO, UNDP and UNAIDS. They have also organized side-events at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna for several years and have engaged several times at the UN Human Rights bodies in Geneva. Between 2016 and 2019, the team supported more than 120 legal cases with plant medicine in 27 countries through their legal defense program, the Ayahuasca Defense Fund, creating positive legal precedents. ICEERS has built a united, culturally diverse and international community through the World Ayahuasca Conference, held in Ibiza, Spain, in 2014, Rio Branco, Brazil, in 2016, and in Girona, Spain, in 2019. The 2019 edition was the largest ever ayahuasca event in history with 1400 participants from 35 countries. ICEERS has also seeded community self-regulatory processes in different countries fostering collective responsibility, ethics, safety and efficient strategies towards regulation. In Catalonia and Spain, ICEERS has played a leading role advancing an integral cannabis regulation and creating spaces for the voices of medical cannabis patients and medical doctors in the political debate. Moreover, they have published dozens of scientific peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and other educational materials. ICEERS has organized events at the United Nations, EMCDDA, numerous government agencies, and has presented at conferences worldwide. In 2019, the Catalan Health Department commissioned ICEERS to write and publish a new informative guide on ayahuasca, which is a compilation of basic ethical and security standards for the use of ayahuasca in non-Amazonian contexts and deals with areas of legality and both individual and collective responsibility. Through their support service they have helped hundreds of people who have faced challenging or adverse experiences after the use of psychoactive plants and are leaders in developing approaches to the integration of psychedelic experiences. Apart from that, they are committed to learning new ways of reciprocal alliance building with indigenous peoples, and gaining and sharing deeper understandings of the indigenous knowledge that surrounds these plants. They collaborate with the Union of Indigenous Yagé Doctors of the Colombian Amazon, an organization created in 1999 that includes five indigenous ethnicities from southwestern Colombia that works to preserve the Amazon rainforest and to revitalize and protect cultures and ancestral medicines. Initiatives Ayahuasca Defense Fund (ADF) ICEERS has a decade of legal defense experience, which was formalized in 2016 with the launch of the Ayahuasca Defense Fund program. By September 2019, they had offered support in over 56 cases in 22 countries, several of which set positive legal precedents, and negative precedents were avoided in most other cases. From 2008 to 2017, the ADF noted a significant increase in the legal incidents across the globe. The ADF continues providing assistance around legal incidents, creating new supporting documents for legal teams, updating their online legal information, and developing new legal and human rights arguments based on previous casework. Crisis Support This service provides integration psychotherapy sessions for people in cha.... Discover the Genis Ona Jose Carlos Bouso popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Genis Ona Jose Carlos Bouso books.