Plants of the Gods: S3E2. Peyote: Richard Schultes and the Peyote Road

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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 career. Not only would he go on to teach this very same class years later, he has come to be revered as the father of ethnobotany.