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Article: Experts debate benefits, risks of hallucinogenic drugs.
- Article from:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2003
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Byline: Faye Flam
PHILADELPHIA _ Long before Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey and the counterculture generation discovered hallucinogenic drugs, the Indians of western Mexico were using peyote to commune with their gods.
Anthropologist Peter T. Furst, who spent 30 years among the Huichol people, says that Indian shamans have been using hallucinogenic plants as a doorway to the divine for thousands of years, likely following a tradition carried by their ancestors over the Bering Strait.
And now, some U.S. scientists are exploring how these substances might be used by doctors to battle anxiety, mental illness and alcoholism.
"These compounds ...
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