History Channel presents 'A Psychedelic Odyssey'

Anyone planning on watching this? If so, please turn in a review for the rest of the class.

From Amazon jungles to the American Plains, British mental wards, Swiss labs, New York mansions and Grateful Dead shows, the history of hallucinogenic drugs is as fantastic as the visions the drugs produce. Wade Davis, is a modern-day anthropologist, author ("The Serpent and the Rainbow") and protege of one of psychedelia's most intrepid forefathers -- Richard Evans Schultes. Davis traces Schultes' life's work as one of the greatest botanist-explorers of the 20th century and reveals an illustrated history of the world's most mind-altering plants and substances in: PEYOTE TO LSD: A PSYCHEDELIC ODYSSEY, premiering Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel®.

This leads to a question that I've been curious about for a while now: when did psychedelic use truly jump the shark? Discuss.

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Posted By Scotto at 2008-04-09 22:31:35 permalink | comments

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zupakomputer. : 2008-04-10 13:50:51

The anti-druggies are always using that tactic of sending tagalongs to join in with any type of movement that will be otherwise successful in freeing human culture from being a slave to the war pollution economy, & the scare-nature-away mentality.

One reason they don't like things like LSD is because it forces them to acknowledge that their way of life is built on the mass-suffering of others.

Gastronomicon. : 2008-04-10 08:02:42

Anyone remember that one doc VH1 did about drugs in America? I was laughing at the one scene where all of the old ladies are on a tour bus in Haight Ashbury.

Great stuff.

DJ Velveteen. : 2008-04-10 04:27:00

Well, I think a lot of people would suggest Leary as psychedelia's shark-jumping Fonz, or it could have been those hippies who couldn't seem to differentiate coke and LSD... but I think we could also point to rave culture as doing the same thing.

It seems that psychonauts, whenever trying to popularize their own version of the divine search and struggle, always end up with a bunch of euphoria-seeking tagalongs who are just looking for a cheap high. And, of course, the tagalongs seem like the ones who get all the attention in the mainstream...

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History Channel presents 'A Psychedelic Odyssey'

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