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name: picked iboga
image: SS3_chicagodetroit_ancient_gabon_iboga.PNG
archetype: Chicago Detroit
swag_score: 2
date_added: "2024-12-09"
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# picked iboga

## Visual Elements

a bright yellow small chilli-shaped fruit.

## Cultural Context

Iboga is a powerful psychoactive plant from Central Africa, used in Bwiti religious ceremonies in Gabon for spiritual initiation. Its active compound ibogaine is remarkable for its ability to interrupt opioid addiction, making it one of the most medically significant psychedelics known.

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## Justification

A plant that can both open a spiritual doorway and interrupt opioid addiction. Iboga bridges the sacred and the clinical in a way no other substance in the collection does. Paired with the Gabon ancestor lineage.
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**Archetype:** chicago detroit
**Ancestor:** [gabon](../../../core-lore/ancestors/gabon.md)
**Swag Score:** 2
**Date Added:** 2024-12-09