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May 2022
16m 59s

Plants of the Gods: S3E2. Peyote: Richar...

Mark Plotkin, Ph.D.
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Today, we'll follow Dr. Mark Plotkin as he shares the story of Richard Evans Schultes, who, as a busy work-study undergraduate student at Harvard, chose the shortest book he could find to serve as the subject of his term paper for his Plants & Human Affairs class. As fate would have it, this short book – which happened to be about peyote – would launch his c ... Show More
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