History Channel Shultes Documentary

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Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

Premiere airing on The History Channel April 20, 2008


Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose
discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic
sixties.

Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis,
follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to
the western world.

Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen
native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the
Psychedelic Sixties.

Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew
Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story
of the discovery of pey ote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known
quest to classify the Plants of the Gods.

Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never
imagined.

Director:

Peter von Puttkamer

Writers:

Wade Davis (writer)
Peter von Puttkamer (writer