Ibogaine, the active ingredient in a ritual used in obscure West African tribal initiation rites, is not a recreational drug as such, as the trip tends to be long and harrowing. However, it also turns out to have remarkable properties. There is much evidence of long term heroin and cocaine addicts taking it once and - after the comedown - simply no longer being addicted. Most notably there is the case of Howard Lotsof, who after beating his own addiction with the drug, devoted the rest of his life to establishing Ibogaine as a treatment for addiction.
After my story was commissioned, but before I had written it, the editor at the IoS I was dealing with left and was replaced. The successor did not want my story and fed me some line about 'not seeing why it was of interest to their readership.' It had been commissioned, so I got paid a token fee anyway, in order to help me go away, but the fact that this obviously fucking great story was being canned was basically the straw that broke the back of my journalism career. Not long afterwards I drifted into coding for a living instead.
Imagine my surprise, tonight, when I discovered this.
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