X-Nico

unusual facts about psychoactive



Alex White Plume

Although the Oglala Sioux have sovereignty on their land and hemp does not have psychoactive properties, the agents operated under a 1968 federal anti-drug law prohibiting the cultivation of Cannabis-related crops.

ARCI

Addiction Research Center Inventory, a standardized questionnaire for assessing subjective effects of psychoactive drugs

Banana peel

Bananadine, a fictional psychoactive substance in banana peels

C4H6N2O2

Muscimol, the major psychoactive alkaloid present in many mushrooms of the Amanita genus

Christian Rätsch

The encyclopedia features 168 detailed monographs on the major psychoactive plants (e.g., Cannabis, Datura, and Papaver) as well as 20 full monographs on psychoactive fungi (e.g., Psilocybe and Amanita).

Drug trade

Illegal drug trade, the manufacture and sale of illicit psychoactive substances

Etai

Ethyltrifluoromethylaminoindane (ETAI), a psychoactive drug and research chemical

Galbulimima belgraveana

Several psychoactive alkaloids structurally related to Himbacine, a muscarinic receptor antagonist, have been isolated from the plant, but the primary psychoactive constituent responsible for the plant's hallucinogenic effects has not yet been identified.

Heimia

Through a series of exaggerating and dramatizing citations, especially by Victor A. Reko in the first half of the last century, the plant became known as a hallucinogen despite that psychoactive properties of the plant have never been demonstrated.

Huasca

Ayahuasca, psychoactive concoction prepared from the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi

Joseph Biederman

Chuck Grassley led a 2008 Congressional Investigation which found that well-known university psychiatrists, who had promoted psychoactive drugs, had violated federal and university regulations by secretly receiving large sums of money from the pharmaceutical companies which made the drugs.

Mary Brandenburg

Salvia divinorum is a psychoactive herb which can induce strong dissociative effects.

Muscimol

Muscimol (agarin, pantherine) is the major psychoactive alkaloid present in many mushrooms of the Amanita genus.

Nymphaea caerulea

Sacred Weeds, a Channel 4 TV series examining the effects of various psychoactive plants (including the Blue lily) on volunteers

Salema porgy

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish poisoning, is common in other species of fish but not in Sarpa salpa, which is not normally psychoactive.

Susan Orlean

The book formed the basis of Charlie Kaufman's script for the Spike Jonze film Adaptation. Orlean (portrayed by Meryl Streep in an Oscar-nominated role) was, in effect, made into a fictional character; the movie portrayed her as becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug production operation, in which orchids were processed into a fictional psychoactive substance.

Suzanne Crouch

Crouch was proposed a bill that would have declared the psychoactive herb Salvia divinorum a Schedule 1 controlled substance.


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