Mycology/Chemistry
This is the scientific name of the most common magic mushroom species
What is Psilocybe cubensis?
What is psychedelic?
This is a famous song by the Beatles that has LSD in its title.
What is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
This war was declared by Richard Nixon as a political campaign against psychoactive substances, including psychedelics.
What is the War on Drugs?
This popular lysergamide induces a psychedelic trip that typically lasts 6-12 hours?
What is LSD?
This is a psychedelic that researchers have found to occur naturally in the brain.
What is DMT?
This person is known for being the first to synthesize LSD. He ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, which he thought would represent a prudently safe, small amount, but was in fact a very strong dose.
Who is Albert Hofmann?
This group of psychedelic musicians all died at the same age.
What is club 27?
This was the first state to legalize the supervised use of psilocybin.
What is Oregon?
In 2017, the FDA called this psychedelic drug "a breakthrough drug" for post traumatic stress disorder?
What is MDMA?
This is a psychedelic that is found in different cactus species, such as Peyote and San Pedro
What is Mescaline?
This is a famous psychologist who in 1966 coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
Who is Timothy Leary?
This book of Aldous Huxley gave the psychedelic rock band The Doors their name?
What is The Doors of Perception?
This law was passed in 1970 and classified magic mushrooms, LSD, Peyote and MDMA as Schedule One substances therefore declaring that they had high risk for abuse with no beneficial medical application?
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
This drug was tested in a randomized controlled trial against the SSRI escitalopram for treating depression.
What is psilocybin?
This is an alkaloid-containing fungus that LSD was originally derived from.
What is Ergot?
This indigenous Mexican woman introduced the sacred Indigenous mushroom to the NY couple Valentina and Gordon Wasson in 1957, which in turn spread it to the Western World.
This is the later name of the local band "The Warlocks". Their members played music at the first "acid test" in November, 1965 in La Honda arranged by Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters.
Who are The Grateful Dead?
This was the name of the illegal CIA operation during the Cold War (1953-1973) that used LSD during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture?
What is Project MKUltra?
This person founded MAPS, a multidisciplinary association to design and fund studies on the safety and therapeutic potential of MDMA
Who is Rick Doblin?
This is a rare mutation of the Tidal wave psilocybin mushroom strain that has no fruiting bodies and looks like little brains.
What is Enigma?
This person first coined the term psychedelic in a poem.
Who is Humphry Osmond? (a British psychiatrist working in Canada in the 1950s. “To fathom hell or soar angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic,” he wrote in a letter to the writer Aldous Huxley.)
This Australian psychedelic rock band has a name with a magical reptilian theme.
What is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard?
These psychedelic-adjacent objects are legal in the U.S., except in Idaho, Georgia, and California.
What are psilocybe mushroom spores?
A study published in 2021 by the University of Heidelberg found that psilocybin quelled this craving in rats?
What is alcohol addiction?