ESPD 50
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs
ESPD 50
SPEAKERS
Speakers and Recordings
speakers & recordings
Christopher McCurdy
Medicinal Chemist
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) as a potential therapy for opioid dependance.
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
What a long, strange trip it’s been: Reflections on the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs 1967-2017
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
Ethnopharmacology meets the receptorome – Bioprospecting for psychotherapeutic drugs in the Amazon rain forest
Evgenia Fotiou
Anthropologist
Plant use and shamanic dietas in contemporary Ayahuasca shamanism in Peru.
Glenn Shepard
Ethnopharmacologist
Substance, soul and sensation in Amazonian shamanism.
Jean François Sobiecki
Ethnobotanist
Psychoactive Initiation Plant Medicines: Their Role in the Healing and Learning Process of South African and Upper Amazonian Traditional Healers.
Jeanmaire Molina
Associate Professor
Phylogenetic analysis of traditional medicinal plants: discovering new drug sources from patterns of cultural convergence.
Jerry D. Patchen
Attorney
Reflections on the Peyote Road with the Native American Church – Visions & Cosmology
Keeper Trout
Author
Mescal, peyote and the red bean; a peculiar conceptual collision in early modern ethnobotany.
Kenneth Alper
Associate Professor
The Ibogaine Project: Urban ethnomedicine for opioid use disorder.
Luis Eduardo Luna
Anthropologist
Ayahuasca, a powerful epistemological wildcard in a complex, fascinating and dangerous world.
Manuel Torres
Professor Emeritus
The origins of the ayahuasca/yagé concept. An inquiry into the synergy between DMT and ß carbolines.
Michael Heinrich
Professor of Ethnopharmacology
Ethnopharmacology – from Mexican hallucinogens to a global transdisciplinary science.
Nigel Gericke
Medical Doctor
Kabbo’s !kwaiń Sceletium species – The past, present and future of Kanna.
Snu Voogelbreinder
Ethnobotanist
Psychoactive Acacia Spp. In Australia & Their Alkaloids.
Stacy B. Schaeffer
Professor Emerita
Fertile Grounds? Peyote and the Human Reproductive System.