With its crumbling walls, concrete floor and grubby mattresses, blankets and pillows, the old stone outhouse looks more like a seedy squat than a wellness retreat.Ominously, several buckets and a toilet roll are placed on the floor. And for the next three days, a group of 20 people – each paying £800 for the privilege – will vomit, wail and hallucinate here for up to 15 hours at a time after indulging in the latest craze for the South American psychedelic drug ayahuasca.In this nondescript farm building on the outskirts of the historic mill village of Compstall, near Stockport, hundreds of people have already flocked to try the drug, tempted by claims that it can help to alleviate addiction, and anxiety.
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