Sir, Ms. Sufentanyl, a charming “China girl,” and Ms. Mescaline, the cute Mexican lady, were invited by Mr. Marijuana at a dinner in “Chinese restaurant” in an “angel dusty” evening. Ms. Mescaline felt “ecstatic” and “Echo de la pensee” and on the occasion she “DRESS”ed herself with “heavenly blue” frock and adorned her eyes with mascara of “belladonna.” Ms. Sufentanyl wore a necklace with...
Despite reports of apparent benefits, social and political pressure beginning in the late 1960s effectively banned scientific inquiry into psychedelic substances. Covert examination of psychedelics persisted through the 1990s; the turn of the century and especially the past 10 years, however, has seen a resurgent interest in psychedelic substances (eg, LSD, ayahuasca, psilocybin). This chapter...
ALTERED PERCEPTIONS: HOW VARIOUS SUBSTANCES INFLUENCE OUR PERCEPTION OF TIME BY AAYA ABDELSHAFY D o you ever feel as though you are stuck in time, or as if there are just never enough hours in a day? Our sense of time is unlike any other sense we experi- ence. It is physically intangible and yet is sustained throughout our lives from the moment we are born, unless a brain disor- der presents...
Keywords: Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Subject Health Psychology
Today the discipline of psychology is branching out to embrace research into more esoteric areas that can provide the means and techniques that will empower people to assume greater self-responsibility for their mental and physical health while simultaneously empowering each person with powerful tools for health and well-being. I refer to the increased interest and research in the contemplative...
This case was submitted to the Washington State Patrol Toxicology Laboratory in September 2014. A 15-year-old male went to a party where he ingested 25I-NBOMe and mushrooms. A short time later, he started to vomit and began seizing until he eventually passed out. Resuscitation efforts were made, but were unsuccessful. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died three days later of...
In the area of psychotropic drugs, tryptamines are known to be a broad class of classical or serotonergic hallucinogens. These drugs are capable of producing profound changes in sensory perception, mood and thought in humans and act primarily as agonists of the 5-HT2A receptor. Well-known tryptamines such as psilocybin contained in Aztec sacred mushrooms and N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT),...
Light microscopical examination of plant and fungal remains in the post mortem gut may be capable of demonstrating the ingestion of unexpected natural psychotropic materials. This is demonstrated here in a case in which a 'shaman' was accused of causing the death of a young man. The deceased had participated in a ceremony which involved the drinking of ayahuasca in order to induce a...
New title, or subtitle: „Current knowledge on the neurobiology of classical hallucinogens and their relevance for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders‘ Hallucinogenic substances have been used for millenia. Still, the scientific investigation into the effects and mechanisms of classical hallucinogens in humans has only commenced with the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. In the...