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...book, Yaje: The New Purgatory, suggests, ayahuasca is not for the faint of heart - or stomach. Drinking a few ounces of the sludgy brown liquid usually leads to a violent purge from both ends of the body. Beat Generation novelist William Burroughs, seeking to get high on Colombian ayahuasca in the early 1960s, described hurling himself against a tree and barfing six times. At a recent ceremony on the outskirts of Bogotá, most of the 40 participants packed sleeping bags, water bottles - and rolls of toilet paper. Sting, in a Rolling Stone interview, made clear that ayahuasca...
...investigators have found, neither Wong nor Poplawski previously fit that criterion. With laws varying from state to state, the gear can often be bought off the Internet or at specialist retail outlets. (Posh London department store Harrods recently began carrying a line of "high-security fashion" by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero...
...used until President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 to announce "an all-out global war on the drug menace." While reports of widespread heroin use among soldiers in Vietnam sparked an intense outcry, but by 1975 attention had turned to Colombia's cocaine industry. When Colombian authorities seized 600 kilos of cocaine hidden in everything from shoeboxes to a dog cage containing a live dog, drug traffickers retaliated by killing 40 people in one weekend. Nicknamed the "Medellin Massacre" after the city at the center of Colombia's drug trade, the murders ignited years of raids...
...Suspected of helping Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers launder as much as $20 billion in wholesale profits during his 8 years...
...since escaping federal prison in 2001. As Forbes senior editor Luisa Kroll told The Times of London: "He is not available for interviews, but his financial situation is doing quite well." But while he's not the first narco-kingpin to make the list (that dubious honor went to Colombian cocaine czar Pablo Escobar in 1989), Guzman's inclusion has rankled more than a few readers. As one commenter wrote on Forbes.com: "Since you have started glorifying drug lords and letting younger people see them as 'Billionaires,' this will be my last article...