Hallucinogenic Plants

New York: Golden Press, (1976). First edition, 1st printing. 16mo. 160 pp. Illustrated by Elmer W. Smith. A Golden Guide book. Light edge wear, shelf and handling wear. Book is tight and firm. Light wear to edges and corners with a few light surface scratches, commensurate with light use. Some trace foxing to page edges. Scarce first printing with full alphabetical line to page 160 near the gutter.

Wraps: Near Fine

Text: Near Fine

“In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled that white Americans had no right to use psychoactive plants in religious rituals because Caucasians had no history of that practice. The Aztec gods celebrated psychoactive plants. Schultes is a cultural imperialist who helped lay the ground for the religious intolerance of the drug war. Schultes was one of the first scientists to study the hallucinogen use and rituals among indigenous people.  His intent for the book is quite clear in his introduction :  "A great body of scientific literature has been published about their uses and their effects, but the information is often locked away in technical journals. The interested layman has a right to sound information on which to base his opinions. This book has been written partly to provide that kind of information."