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Gayle, other than ONAC and its various branches, do you know of anyone else running commercial public ayahuasca operations in USA, similar to Trinity? Similar in New Age hustler marketer style?
Not similar to Trinity in that way. There are a lot of small groups happening under the radar. That includes circles with stable fellowships, people who bring Amazonian curanderos to lead ceremonies, professional therapists doing work underground with drug addicts and PTSD sufferers, and, increasingly, retreats that take paying guests for a short period. But they all have kept a low profile due to the legality issue, and the DEA has seemed to be willing to look the other way as long as these groups stayed quiet and more or less invisible. They are across the board upset with what Trinity is doing, because he is potentially threatening to bring down a legal crackdown on all of them.
I like the status quo, that allows these small groups to operate as long as they are quiet about it. That keeps any of them from expanding or proselytizing. The trouble is, they vary in competence. Some are good at what they do and some are not.