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Virginia Murray

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Review of Enquiries made to the NPIS Concerning Psilocybe Mushroom Ingestion, 1978-1981

Human Toxicology April 1, 1983 J. Francis, Virginia Murray 18 citations

The historical, botanical and chemical aspects of hallucinogenic mushroom are well described (Lincoff & Mitchell, 1977; Cooper, 1980). The use of hallucinogenic mushroom stretches back as far as ancient Aztec civilisation and it has become fashionable in the West since the 1950s, with publicity from popular writers such as Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castenada (Huxley, 1976; Castenada, 1970)....