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>edit: Actually, it's worth mentioning that there are other non-Western cultures using psychedelics to treat mental health issues, such as Ayahuasca ceremonies in various South American countries.

South America is non-western culture now? Lmao ok. Also, practically nobody uses Ayahuasca to treat mental health issues over here. That kinda thing is an extremely niche and small practice of usually affluent people. Ayahuasca retreats are super expensive and half of the people you see there are rich Americans looking for some anecdata to share in sites like this. Everyone else is using standard medicine and therapy.

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You're right I worded that badly, but as I acknowledged in my previous comment it's an area I know little about and only mentioned it as a known example that's not the same as the rest of what I explained.

I do however believe there are various cultures that do use ayahuasca unrelated to the sort of expensive retreats Americans might travel to.

And you're right that Western / non-Western was a poor way of explaining what I meant, but I'm not sure if there's a widely accepted good phrasing for what I meant which was really "countries or communities within countries whose cultures, including in healthcare, are more significantly unlike the cultures in Western Europe & North America than the cultural differences between countries & states within NA+EU".

In hindsight I probably should have just said "I believe there are completely different styles of psychedelic use for mental health such as with Ayahuasca but I don't know enough to say more about that"!