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  1. the-rx: Phantastic, die Betaubenden und Erregenden Genussmittel fuer Artze und Nichtarzte.,  Berlin; Verlag von Georg Stiler:  1927.  (“Narcotics and Stimulating Drugs, their Use and Abuse). Dr. Louis Lewin (1850-1929) Pharmacologist and leading toxicologist, and what he was help to establish the field of ethnobotany through his deep scientific investigation of drug use around the world.  This was an entirely new approach to this issue: by investigating how the plants produced their effects Lewin took another step into a new field apart from the prevailing anthropological approach, which looked at the methods and beliefs and such in the use of the drugs. Lewin experimented with peyote, tea, heroin, coffee, cannabis, alcohol, opium, kava and of course tobacco, as well as many other drugs, and published them in his book 

    the-rx:

    Phantastic, die Betaubenden und Erregenden Genussmittel fuer Artze und Nichtarzte.,  Berlin; Verlag von Georg Stiler:  1927.  (“Narcotics and Stimulating Drugs, their Use and Abuse).

    Dr. Louis Lewin (1850-1929) Pharmacologist and leading toxicologist, and what he was help to establish the field of ethnobotany through his deep scientific investigation of drug use around the world.  This was an entirely new approach to this issue: by investigating how the plants produced their effects Lewin took another step into a new field apart from the prevailing anthropological approach, which looked at the methods and beliefs and such in the use of the drugs. Lewin experimented with peyote, tea, heroin, coffee, cannabis, alcohol, opium, kava and of course tobacco, as well as many other drugs, and published them in his book 

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