ECUADOR: American patent revoked on sacred Amazon Ayahuasca
In what is being hailed as a historical legal precedent by Amazon indigenous groups in Ecuador, the United States has revoked the patent of the Ayahuasca plant held by the North American Pharmaceutical Laboratory.
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