Friday Fact: Richard Evans Schultes

He spent over a year at a time in the rainforest finding plant species new to science, traveling solo with minimal supplies, and joining native people in religious ceremonies involving psychoreactive drugs. As Davis remarks, the Kof indians are the masters, the patrons of ecstatic intoxication. Schultes, born in 1915, was a labcoat-wearing scientist, an orchid-garden curator, a demanding biology professor.

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