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The Story of Richard Evans Schultes and Peyote
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Richard Evans Schultes, a Harvard Botanist, discovered Peyote and its hallucinogenic effects when he studied the plants of the Kiowa people in Oklahoma in 1930s, which led him to try it himself and changed him as a person.
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Richard Schultes, a Smithsonian scientist, discovered the hallucinogenic properties of mushrooms in the new world in Mexico, Central America, and Amazon despite the belief at the time that there were none.
14:55 - 23:54 (08:59)
Hallucinogenic mushrooms
Summary
Richard Schultes, a Smithsonian scientist, discovered the hallucinogenic properties of mushrooms in the new world in Mexico, Central America, and Amazon despite the belief at the time that there were none. He experimented with peyote cactus and felt he was a changed person after spending the night in a ritual setting led by a shaman.