Magic Mushrooms Around the World

This volume presents the results of more than a decade of research into psychoactive mushrooms. It features dozens of species and covers a broad range of mushroom-related topics, from distribution maps to comparisons of cultural attitudes to laboratory analyses of active ingredients. One of the book's most remarkable features is its multidisciplinary approach: chemistry, botany, biology, history, anthropology, religion, pharmacology, medicine—all of these are among the fields contributing a diversity of data and information that are assembled into one of the most comprehensive and intriguing portraits of psychoactive mushrooms ever created.