…So we were looking at the ethno botanical literature at the same time and about that time an early paper by Schultes emerged from the Harvard Botanical museum leaflets which was called varroa as an orally administered hallucinogen. Well of course from our…

…orally active form of varroa which was used by only a few tribes, the wet Oto Among others, was new and as Schultes pointed out in that paper there were interesting pharmacological questions because as you know, DMT is not orally active by itself that's…

…the Amazon and collect this orally active form of DMT. Well when we got there and we went to I mean from following Schultes references and his work we knew that la charrera in the Colombian Amazon was the center of distribution of this wet Oto…

…feel that I was but to be able to actually do that was an affirmation that I was okay. You mentioned you know, the Schultes Earlier a couple of things did you either have contact with Schultes and discuss with him the idea of entheogens or DMT actually…

…an affirmation that I was okay. You mentioned you know, the Schultes Earlier a couple of things did you either have contact with Schultes and discuss with him the idea of entheogens or DMT actually not being a drug but being a space, and what did he…

…or DMT actually not being a drug but being a space, and what did he think about that? Well I had contact with dick Schultes Actually in 1974 when I was still an undergraduate student. I wrote to him and I expressed an interest in coming to work with…

…mushrooms. So after three weeks there I continued on my trip. I went to Washington and then eventually ended up at Harvard and saw Schultes, spent a day with him. He was very nice to me and I told him of my interest in plant hallucinogens and I didn't…

…graduate work in epithelbotany and I was also an occasional. I had applied to Harvard during this time I was an occasional touch with Schultes but I was getting more and more. I was working at the same time that I was taking courses at csu I also had…

…so I became quite enthusiastic about that. I was growing these mushrooms at home and taking them fairly regularly. So I wrote to Schultes and I said I don't want to work on perola anymore I would rather work on mushrooms. And he wrote back a fairly…

…know whether he was offended or what but at any rate, as it turned out I was not accepted to Harvard, and whether Schultes withdrew his support or I suspect it I really didn't have the qualifications to be accepted into Harvard. So the dream of going…

…ever to attend a drug book. This is for you. Eduardo Luna's book on ayahuasca has come out. It seems that, well, Schultes book, the Healing plants of the Northwest Amazon, has come out. There's a resurgence of interest in this field, and I think…

…in their hammocks and they would speak to the little man. And so he said, this has got to be it. And Dick Schultes, Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard, had already published on the chemistry of Ukuhe, and it was definitely contained DMT. So we said,…

…lot of speed bumps this morning. Frankly, I don't give a shit, but I'm trying to make it pleasant for you. So Wasson and Schultes were, and then further back in time. And I think it's obvious from what I've said, Aldous Huxley. And Aldous Huxley is a…

…lead you on to another. A perfect example of this is actually in the chemical literature. Melvin Bristol was a student of Schultes in the late sixties, and he specialized in the Brugmansias, the arboreal Daturas. And he went to the valley of the sibundoy,…

…options available and put in place archaic options which will restore this balance. And to the good credit of people like Dick Schultes and Gordon Wasson and Albert Hoffman, we have in this century taken into our hands the tools, the information and the…

…He really looked at it as this exotic, foreign kind of thing. These guys were cautious. This first generation Hoffman, Wassen Schultes. These guys are not stoners by any means. I mean, their approach is cautious. And the psychedelic experiences can be…

…amazed when carrying out analytical work for Gordon Wasson on magic, morning glory seeds that had been sent to Wasson from Schultes. He discovered the same compounds, or very closely related compounds as he had synthesized to make LSD. I'm going to slightly…

…its greenness. You know, it was an unending thing of green. Later, when I went back with people getting their PhDs under Schultes in the botany department at Harvard and lived cheek by jowl for weeks with these guys, I quickly learned plant families,…

…in several different forms. This is the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology. And early on, Schultes understood…

…Albert Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology. And early on, Schultes understood that what native peoples were saying about disease and plants was very touched with folklore and cultural…

…so forth and so on. And it's good to be informed. I know that I often, I use reference books. I use Schultes, botany and chemistry of hallucinogens for those aspects. Peter Stafford's psychedelic encyclopedia is good for a kind of social history overview.…

…at drug and plant samples that we collected in the Amazon in 1982 when we went down there. For over ten years, Schultes and Bo homestead of the Karolinski Institute had published theories of the activity of ayahuasca, which stated that they believed it…

…dried material, all of this stuff us back to Canada. And our assumption was that we would pretty much confirm homestepp and Schultes assertion that this drug also worked by ammonoamine oxidase inhibition. It now appears not to be so. It also appears to…