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Love and Hate in Jamestown John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation

David Price

A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company–which financed the settlement of Jamestown–David Price tells a ta...

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The book argues that Chief Powhatan used a toxic hallucinogen against the Jamestown colony in 1611, though the specific substance is not confirmed in the podcast.

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And in this book which I haven't finished in this book he makes a pretty fascinating case he says that Chief Powhatan had deployed a toxic hallucinogen against the Jamestown colony in 1611, which I ha...

— Episode: Drugs as Weapons

Episode: Drugs as Weapons

The book argues that Chief Powhatan used a toxic hallucinogen against the Jamestown colony in 1611, though the specific substance is not confirmed in the podcast.

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And in this book which I haven't finished in this book he makes a pretty fascinating case he says that Chief Powhatan had deployed a toxic hallucinogen against the Jamestown colony in 1611, which I had not heard before, was it uh bread, was it was it that ergot? Ergot. I don't know man, I don't know this uh but this this is just these are two examples from across centuries and continents.

The less you know the better you sleep.

They were bodies were piled on top of another each other outside the theater entrance, no attempt to separate the living from the dead. A well-known songwriter died after spending seven hours alive in a bus packed with corpses. Golly. A 13 year old girl was also crushed beneath a mass of hostages in a in a minibus died on the way to the hospital.

The less you know, the better you sleep.

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