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Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol. 7(1):73-84. January-March, 1975. |
| PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT WHEN DR. STEVEN HAYDEN POLLOCK WROTE THIS PAPER IN THE MID 1970s,
THAT THE FOLLOWING AND SOMEWHAT CONFUSING STUDY CONTAINED MANY DOZENS OF ERRORS RELATED TO THE GENUS PSILOCYBE,
ESPECIALLY NUMEROUS SPECIES OF PSILOCYBE THAT HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IN NUMEROUS ACADEMIC JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND
OTHER FICTION AND NON-FICTION LITERATURE AS POSSIBLY CONTAINING THE PSYCHOACTIVE ALKALOIDS, PSILOCINE AND/OR PSILOCYBINE,
SEVERAL OF THOSE PUBLICATIONS LISTED IN THE REFERENCE PORTION OF THIS STUDY BY DR. POLLOCK MISTAKENLY DESCRIBED ERRORS ON
BOTH PANAEOLUS AND PSILOCYBE SPECIES FROM LITERATURE AND FOLKTALES DATING AS FAR BACK AS FROM THE 2nd CENTURY A. D.,
UP TO THE EARLY 1800s. UNTIL THIS REVIEW OF PANAEOLUS AND THE FOLLOWING PAPER ON PSILOCYBE BY DR. STEVEN H. POLLOCK APPEARED
IN 1975 AND 1976, ALL MYCOLOGISTS AND SCHOLARS WHO STURDIED THESE FASCINATING FUNGI RELIED ON THE EARLY LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH
HISTORIANS AND MYCOLOGISTS AND BOTANISTS OF THE TIMES. Readers, please take note that in the Spring of 1975 and 1976, these two documents were presented to the public and academic communities by Dr. Steven Hayden Pollock on Panaeolus and Psilocybe species and were originally considered by scholars, as well as Dr. Pollock's peers, to be outstanding revelations in a new field of pioneering research of all the reviewed literature of the mid 1970s, and brought to the attention of the world through academic publications; And through Pollock's drive for information on these interesting mushrooms His papers help create and were partially responsible in helping shape the nature of what was earlier coined by the Wassons' as the base foundation for what is now described and reerred to as the "Field of Ethnomycology."
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