Exam 14: Hallucinogens

What is the anticholinergic plant with a forked root that is mentioned in the Bible?

What position is the Canadian government considering regarding Salvia divinorum?

Atropa belladonna is also known by what name?

The term entheogen has been used for those drugs thought to create spiritual or religious experiences.

Identify the anticholinergic hallucinogens, where are they found, and what effects they have when used?

Describe the term phantastica and how they are differentiated.

Production of ecstasy has dropped dramatically in Canada in recent years.

MDMA (Ecstasy) is a close chemical relative of methamphetamine.

Describe who the Canadian Pioneers in the Use of LSD were and where and how they were brought together.

What are Psilocybe mexicana and Psilocybe cubensis?

What does the plant Jimsonweed contain?

Amanita muscaria is a red and white speckled mushroom that has been used widely in various religions throughout the world.

Some evidence suggests that ecstasy may be neurotoxic, affecting serotonin neurons in the brain.

Although LSD has complex effects in the brain, the best evidence indicates that its hallucinogenic properties are due to stimulating which of the following?

In early societies, shaman or medicine man (or women) were specialists in the ways plants were harvested. They were important not only for understanding what we now call medicine, but also because he or she was which of the following?

What are hallucinogens and describe the more popular terms used to describe hallucinogens?

Besides hallucinations, what else does mescaline produce?

What is the indole that is originally found in toad skins yet turned out not to be a very potent hallucinogen?

The catechol hallucinogens include mescaline plus a variety of synthetic derivatives of which of the following?

Describe the early use of LSD in psychotherapy, and discuss why this type of research was stopped in the 1970s.