Exam 14: Hallucinogens

Synesthesia refers to the experiencing of hallucinogenic effects even months after taking the drug.

Which drug has been reported to produce an increase in sociability and euphoria as well as an increase in blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse?

Which Quechuan name, describes the combination of two plants, one containing DMT and the other containing harmaline (an MAO inhibitor), that is used in the Amazon region?

LSD and psilocybin are examples of catechol hallucinogens.

A close relative of LSD, d-lysergic acid amide, is found naturally in which two of the following plants?

Why is LSD considered to be the most potent psychoactive agent known to man?

Anticholinergic plants like Datura have potent psychological effects but are not very dangerous physiologically.

Although PCP was tested on humans, it was eventually adopted primarily for use in animals as an anesthetic and also in so-called "tranquillizer" guns.

Who was the first to report the psychological effect of LSD?

It was believed that if a plant contains a spirit, then eating the plant transfers that spirit to the person who eats it, and the spirit of the plant can speak to the consumer, make that person feel the plant's joy, or provide special powers.

Ricaurte and colleagues were forced to retract their paper one year after it was published in The New York Times on September 27, 2002, because they discovered what drug had been mistakenly given, rather than MDMA?

The suggestion has been made that the ambrosia (food of the gods) mentioned in the secret rites of the god Dionysius in Greece was a solution of the Amanita mushroom.

In the 1950s, what was the Parke, Davis & Company investigating, and which animal did they use while conducting their research?

Give some examples of the use of hallucinogenic plants or drugs in connection with religious practices.

Martha was telling her friends she was using peace pill and angel dust. Which substance was she describing?

During the 1950s and 60s the Canadian government funded the research of Dr. Donald Cameron who some have suggested used LSD with psychiatric patients, and often without their consent to investigate which of the following?

LSD is the most potent and notorious of the hallucinogens found in nature.

How does Canada's MDMA availability rate among other counties in the world, and what is the consequence?

The Native American Church includes aspects of Christianity and uses __________ as a sacrament.

Which term might describe the following belief that if a plant contains a spirit, then eating the plant transfers that spirit to the person who eats it?