But please understand: I didn't drink ayahuasca so I could write an article about it.
I wrote an article about it so I could drink ayahuasca.
I was desperate to drink ayahuasca — I had been for several months, in fact — and the formality of an assignment would help me out at home.
Instead, a friend of a friend linked me up with an ayahuasca sangha, a Buddhist word for a spiritual community.
I thought of my old friend, Scott, who, many years before, had declined an opportunity to drink ayahuasca.