The Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

This book by Dennis McKenna was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Dennis McKenna. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “i got my hands on this amazing book called the ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs but i digress”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i got my hands on this amazing book called the ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs”
  Dennis McKenna · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202100:08:20

  Said during "The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions, Dennis McKenna". The episode features Dennis McKenna: Ethnopharmacologist and ethnobotanist focused on Amazonian plant medicines, with doctoral research on ayahuasca and a key role in the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical study of ayahuasca. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna and a founder of the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna on 500+ ayahuasca sessions, the science of plant medicines, and preserving Amazonian knowledge.