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Informative, lively, and impeccably researched, Shroom is a unique and engaging study of this most extraordinary of psychedelic drugs.
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Andy Letcher has doctorates in both Ecology and Religious Studies. During the nineties he lived in a treehouse at the Newbury bypass campaign and toured in a variety of psychedelic festival bands. He currently lectures in critical psychedelic studies at the University of Exeter. He is married with three children and lives in Devon.
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