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While Spain is getting its cackles up over unruly British tourists pooing in their gardens, Colombia is having a hard time dealing with a recent surge in tourists drinking a tea-like hallucinogenic drink which is usually used as shamanic medicine.

Two women and a man were seen strutting around Caldas, in Medellín, Colombia, completely naked, in a viral video that has raised the ire of locals who don’t like ‘trippy-tourists’ that cheapen their traditional customs.

‘Pscycadelic appropriation’ might become a new woke word if this keeps up. You heard it here first.

Footage of the incident shows the two women and a man walking around after they allegedly ingested a ‘new age’ brew known as Yagé — which is known to have psychoactive effects. Believed to be similar to Ayahuasca, the drug is usually ingested as part of a ritual, but the foreign tourists were left shaking uncontrollably as paramedics tried to treat them curbside.

The Daily Star reports that the tourists were taken to a hospital for treatment, but some locals aren’t convinced it was Yagé, with some claiming their behaviour rather resembles Ayahuasca madness.

“Yagé must be taken with respect, with suitable and specialised people, not with anyone who offers it to you.”

Both substances reportedly originate from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine but are prepared slightly differently. Ayahuasca is usually prepared with the bark left on the vine and is only slightly pounded before being boiled, while Yagé is prepared by first pounding off the bark to leave just the vine’s woody bone before boiling.

The substances are considered safe when practised with specialists who prepare them correctly and encourage physical and mental preparation beforehand.

In other words don’t drink mind-altering psychedelics while sightseeing, or your bare ass will be a meme before you get back to Liverpool, Ohio, or wherever you hail from.

[source:dailystar]