# From "The Hidden History of Beverages" by Alexander Lukashev

## 9. Taxed, Shipped Out or Outlawed: What Became of the Other Plants

Part One (history), chapter 9 of 14 · 15 footnotes to 13 sources
Page: https://herbalmind.bar/history/coffee-bans-coca-mate-ayahuasca/

What became of local psychoactive plants while coffee and tea spread — yohimbe, coca, mate, coffee in Sweden and ayahuasca.

Sections:
- **Africa: Yohimbe, Shipped Out** — yohimbe bark under colonial rule, and coffee as a plantation crop
- **The Andes: The Church Condemns, the Crown Counts Its Revenue** — coca under Spanish rule — the Church’s councils, the Crown’s silver mines — and the leaf’s legal status today
- **Mate: Banned, Burned and Then Planted** — how mate was banned and burned, and then planted and traded
- **Sweden: Health in Word, Money in the Ledgers** — Sweden’s coffee bans, and the reasons given and the real ones
- **The Amazon: Ayahuasca** — ayahuasca’s history, its legal recognition, and how to read the first controlled trial in depression

Questions this chapter answers:
- Why did the Spanish Crown protect coca while the Church condemned it?
  [The answer is in the book](https://books.apple.com/book/id6756108723)
- Why was mate banned and then allowed?
  [The answer is in the book](https://books.apple.com/book/id6756108723)
- How many times did Sweden ban coffee, and what was the real reason?
  Short answer: Five times between 1756 and 1823. The chapter sets the reason given, health, beside what the ledgers show.
- What did the first controlled trial of ayahuasca for depression actually show?
  Short answer: Published in 2019, with 29 patients: remission at one week in 5 of 14 on ayahuasca against 1 of 15 on placebo (p = 0.054). It shows the question is worth asking, not that the brew beats medication.

Short answers only. The full account, with its sources, is in chapter 9 of the book — https://books.apple.com/book/id6756108723

Sources:
- Nowacka, Agnieszka, Martyna Śniegocka, Maciej Śniegocki et al. “Multifaced Nature of Yohimbine — a Promising Therapeutic Potential or a Risk?” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25, no. 23 (2024): 12856. [DOI 10.3390/ijms252312856](https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252312856).
- Ngo Mpeck, M.-L., E. Asaah and Z. Tchoundjeu. “Contribution of Tree Domestication to the Conservation of Indigenous Medicinal Plants of African Forests.” Paper for the XII World Forestry Congress, Québec City, 2003. [fao.org/4/XII/0870-B1.htm](https://fao.org/4/XII/0870-B1.htm). Accessed October 4, 2026.
- Gagliano, Joseph A. Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.
- Ley 23.737 (Argentina). Sanctioned September 21, 1989; promulgated October 10, 1989.
- Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol.
- Sarreal, Julia J. S. Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.
- Hodacs, Hanna. “Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century: A Rural and Material History with Global Implications.” Journal of Global History 18, no. 3 (2023): 461–480. [DOI 10.1017/S1740022823000086](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022823000086).
- Knutsson, Anna and Hanna Hodacs. “When Coffee Was Banned: Strategies of Labour and Leisure among Stockholm’s Poor Women, 1794–1796 and 1799–1802.” Scandinavian Economic History Review 71, no. 2 (2023): 176–198. [DOI 10.1080/03585522.2021.2000489](https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2021.2000489).
- Linnaeus, Carl (praeses) and Henricus Sparschuch (respondent). Dissertatio medica, in qua potus coffeae leviter adumbratur. Uppsala, 1761.
- Nordisk familjebok. 2nd ed. Vol. 13, Johan–Kikare. Stockholm, 1910.
- Conselho Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas (Brazil). Resolução No. 1, de 25 de janeiro de 2010. Diário Oficial da União, January 26, 2010.
- Instituto Nacional de Cultura (Peru). Resolución Directoral Nacional No. 836/INC, Lima, June 24, 2008.
- Palhano-Fontes, Fernanda, Dayanna Barreto, Heloisa Onias et al. “Rapid Antidepressant Effects of the Psychedelic Ayahuasca in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.” Psychological Medicine 49, no. 4 (2019): 655–663. [DOI 10.1017/S0033291718001356](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718001356).

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