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Melissa Frost

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Herbs That Madden, Herbs That Cure: A History of Hallucinogenic Plant Use in Colonial Mexico

July 10, 2017 Melissa Frost 2 citations

Herbs That Madden, Herbs That Cure: A History of Hallucinogenic Plant Use in Colonial Mexico," considers the development of the hybrid culture of hallucinogen consumption that developed in New Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Indigenous, European, African, and Asian peoples participated in the unsanctioned divinatory and medicinal use of psychoactive plants such as peyote,...