{"title":"Peyotl and mescaline.","authors":"W La Barre","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472090","url":null,"abstract":"Although only more recently studied than the well known mescaline-containing peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) of North America, the use of mescalinecontaining Cactaccae in South America now appears to be far older archeologically. Four Andean Trichocereus species contain the hallucinogenic drug mescaline: 7'. macrogonus; T. terscbeckii; T. werdermannianus; and T. pachanoi. Of these, the last is the most important ethnographically. Trichocereus pachanoi is a smooth, ribbed, comparatively slender, night-blooming, columnar species of cactus which was located in Andean Ecuador by Britton and Rose in 1920; in 1959 the German botanist Curt Backeberg extended this area to include northern Peru and Bolivia. In Peru this Trichocereus is known in folk medicine as \"San Pedro\" and in Ecuador as aguacolla. San Pedro als forms a part of the hallucinogenic drink cimora, which also includes other Cactaceae and a datura. The mescaline content of San Pedro is about 0.12 percent of the green plant and two percent when dried. In 1939 the Swedish pharmacologist Stig Agurell discovered seven other alkaloids in the plant but these occur in insignificant quantities. Peruvian medicine men most commonly use a sevenribbed San Pedro cactus in their shamanistic cures. But the rarer four-ribbed specimens, like a four-leaved clover, are regarded as especially lucky and powerful, because these symbolize the \"four winds\" and \"four","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"33-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11599844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnopharmacology and taxonomy of Mexican psychodysleptic plants.","authors":"J L Díaz","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472094","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"71-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11599854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional use in North America of Amanita muscaria for divinatory purposes.","authors":"R G Wasson","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"25-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11599845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entheogens.","authors":"C A Ruck, J Bigwood, D Staples, J Ott, R G Wasson","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"145-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11725906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shamanic origins of religion and medicine.","authors":"W La Barre","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472086","url":null,"abstract":"When we mention \"the world's second oldest profession,\" everyone understands immediately the ladies to whom we refer. But when we speak of \"the world's oldest profession,\" these individuals are not so immediately identified. The world's oldest profession is that of the shaman or first professional, the shaman is ancestor not only to both the modern medicine man or doctor and the religionis priest or divine, but also ancestor in direct lineage to a host of other professional types. It would seem odd that both the doctor, the most secular-minded, and the divine, the most sacred-minded of modern helpers of people, should derive from the same source. But we can readily understand the seeming paradox when we recognize the basic nature and function of the primitive medicine man of shaman.","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11599852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How LSD originated.","authors":"A Hofmann","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472092","url":null,"abstract":"Time and again it has been said and written that In the spring of 1929 at the conclusion of my LSD was an accidental discovery. This is only partly chemical studies at the Universit3.\" of Zurich, I joined the correct, because LSD came into being in the course of pharmaceutical-chemical research laboratoD\" of Sandoz systematic research, and only later in the game did the in Basel as a co-worker of Professor Arthur Stoll, accident occur: when LSD was already five years old I founder and director of the pharmaceutical department. experienced its unexpected effects in my own body; I chose this position because it afforded me the more correctly stated, in my own mind. Every discovery opportunity to work on natural products, whereas two has its prehistory that shows in the end all that must other job offers from the thenileal industries of Basel happen before the discovery becomes possible, had involved work in the field of synthetic chemistH'. When 1 look back in my thoughts to trace all the direction-giving events and decisions in my professional carrer that eventually steered my work into this field of FIRST CHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS research in which ! synthesized LSD, I am led back to My doctoral work under Professor Paul Karrer had my choice of employment after I had finished my already matched my predilection for the chemistH\" of training in chemistry. Had I at any point chosen the plant and animal world. I/Vith the aid of the otherwise, _hen this substance, which has become gastrointestinal juice of the vineyard snail, I succeeded in world renowned under the designation LSD, might never the enzymatic degradation of chitin, the structural have been created. If ! wish to relate the story of the material of which the shells, wings and claws of insectS, origin of LSD, I must therefore also describe briefly my crustaceans and other lower animals are composed. The career as a chemist in which the story is inseparably chemical structure of chitin could be derived from the + embedded, cleavage product obtained by this degradation, a nitrogen-containing sugar. Chitin turned out to be an","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"53-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11599848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of the identification of the major South American narcotic plants.","authors":"R E Schultes","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"119-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11598769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The legend of Miskwedo.","authors":"Keewaydinoquay","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"29-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11598770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On cannabis and health.","authors":"N E Zinberg","doi":"10.1080/02791072.1979.10472097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychedelic drugs","volume":"11 1-2","pages":"135-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02791072.1979.10472097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11725905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}