Nidia Olvera-Hernández, Ph.D.

Nidia Olvera-Hernández is a historian and anthropologist who studies psychoactive substances. She has a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary history at the Mora Institute and works as Research Associate at Chacruna Latinoamérica in México. Currently she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University, Netherlands.

Psychedelics in the Global South: Relevance and Consequences of the Countercultural Movement in Mexico

Mexico, rich in psychoactive plants and Indigenous traditions, played a key role in the psychedelic...

United Nations on Psychedelics. The World Drug Report 2023 and the Renewed Interest in Psychotropics Substances

The United Nations has played a significant historical role in the control of psychedelic drugs...

Old Uses of Peyote in Traditional Mexican Medicine and its Inclusion in Official Pharmacopeia

Starting with Mexico's first National Pharmacopeia in 1846, Nidia Olvera-Hernández traces the long history of...

We Must Continue Calling the Cannabis Plant “Marijuana”

There are various hypotheses about the roots of the word “marijuana,” but it´s still uncertain...