Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
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The Ethnoboteness of LSD
Richard Evans Schultis had a tremendous impact because of his position at Harvard he was somewhat of a maverick I don't know. He collaborated with Hoffman in one book later about but he was a cat just you had to use full names here with Albert Albert Hoffman who discovered LSD or synthesizing and then synthesizing in the 40s. Did a lot of firsthand research among indigenous peoples and other peoples in Colombia and in the Amazon and he had this anthropologists ethnoboteness idea of drugs, which is something to be studied it's something to be relativized all societies use them.
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