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'From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma' – a college course explores nature's medicine cabinet and different ways of healing

  • Written by Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, Professor of Anthropology, Western Illinois University
imagePeople for millennia have used what grows around them as medicine.LorenzoT81/iStock via Getty Images Plusimage

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