I thought another American who spent the 1930’s to the mid 1940’s in the South American jungles actually found the compunds for LSD and gave them to this guy??
There was a story about it on National Geographic the other night.
Hoffman wrote to the guy in the jungle and talked about his “trip” and the guy in the jungle said that’s nothing you need to try this new stuff or something like that.
The guy in the jungle went from native village to native village without wepons of any type and never had a problem.
Whoops wrong guy.
Richard Evans Schultes, the most important scientific explorer in South America in this century, whose exploits rival those of Darwin and the great naturalist explorers of the Victorian age. In 1941, after having identified ololiuqui, the long-lost Aztec hallucinogen, and having collected the first specimens of teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of Mexico, Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later, he returned from South America, having gone places no outsider had ever been, mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes. He collected some twenty thousand botanical specimens, including three hundred species new to science, and documented the invaluable knowledge of native shamans. The world’s leading authority on plant hallucinogens, Schultes was for his students a living link to a distant time when the tropical rain forests stood immense, inviolable, a mantle of green stretching across entire continents.
I think you mean Shultes, from Harvard U. He wrote the Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants, a hard-to-find classic field guide.