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Deep in the Andean highlands of Peru, Hamilton becomes the apprentice of a local shaman, learning how to use the night-blooming San Pedro cactus as a medicine.

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

The Cactus Apprentice

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Hamilton ascends the Carpathian Mountains to learn how Europeans use Amanita muscaria, and uncovers the chemistry behind a mushroom-inspired pharmaceutical.

A Fungal Fairy Tale

Hamilton meets an unsung hero of the psychedelic underground and hears a tragic tale of MDMA synthesis and chemiluminescence.

A Clandestine Chemist's Tale

Hamilton heads to India to see industrial Ketamine synthesis, and speak with therapists and luminaries in an attempt to understand the role of dissociative anesthetics in society.

Ketamine: Realms and Realities

Hamilton travels across North America to study how and why DMT exists in the environment and the laboratory.

Wizards of DMT

Hamilton investigates the pharmacology and traditional uses of Kratom, a Thai tree with opioid-containing leaves.

Kratom: The Forbidden Leaf

From the greenhouses of Thai cactophiles to the Tamaulipan thornscrub, Hamilton traces the history of peyote with the help of a Native American peyotist.

Peyote: The Divine Messenger

Hamilton embarks on a quest to answer the most important question in ethnoherpetological history and along the way, he finds the power of love.

The Psychedelic Toad

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In this docuseries, Hamilton Morris -- son of Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris -- explores the history, chemistry and societal impacts of some of the world's most unique drugs. Hamilton's work is driven by research -- his apartment is filled with books on the subject -- but he takes it beyond that by going to where the drugs are used to experience them first-hand and find out what happens to the people who use the substances. On his journey, Hamilton studies quaaludes in South Africa, where they are the nation's most commonly used recreational drugs, and traces the history of PCP while traveling across America to speak with addicts, dealers and chemists about the substance.

S2 E8 | The Cactus Apprentice

E8 | The Cactus Apprentice

E7 | A Fungal Fairy Tale

E6 | A Clandestine Chemist's Tale

E5 | Ketamine: Realms and Realities

E4 | Wizards of DMT

E3 | Kratom: The Forbidden Leaf

E2 | Peyote: The Divine Messenger

E1 | The Psychedelic Toad