Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.

5.6

100 min

Cast

Wade Davis

as Self / Presenter

Timothy Leary

as Self (archive footage)

Andrew Weil

as Self

Jeremy Narby

as Self

Randy Borman

as Self

Aldous Huxley

as Self (archive footage)

Martin A. Lee

as Self

Ralph Metzner

as Self

Bob Weir

as Self

Jonathan Ott

as Self

Richard Evans Schultes

as Self (archive footage)

Albert Hofmann

as Self (archive footage)

Ken Kesey

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Forte

as Self

Director

Peter von Puttkamer