Plants of the Gods: S4E1. Richard Evans Schultes and the Search for Ayahuasca
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Schulte's Life and Work
Schulte's entered Harvard College as a scholarship student in 1933, intending to study pre-medicine. He conducted one of the first field investigations of peyote employed as a healing sacrament by indigenous peoples. Schulte's remained in the Amazon for over a decade, conducting the first detailed studies of ayahuasca. In 1941, he obtained a grant to study arrow poisons in southeastern Columbia,. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and seized the rubber plantations in Southeast Asia.
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