This chemist discovered the powerful psychoactive properties of LSD in 1943.
Who is Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
100
“Stealing from tomorrow is like going into debt, spending tomorrow today… After stealing from tomorrow for long enough… you start stealing from today… the ally takes today for her own service… Next is stealing from yesterday. The third stage of the ally’s conquest.” This quote is referring to this.
What is addiction.
100
This man conducted experiments with psychedelics as a member of the Harvard Psilocybin Project (“Harvard Psychedelic Club”) but was later fired from Harvard University.
Who is Timothy Leary?
100
The effects of psyschedelics
What is distortions of sensory perception, loosening of psychological defenses, increased emotional quality to stimuli, heightened awareness
100
These are classical psychedelics.
What are DMT (dimethyltryptamine), psilocybin, psilocin, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) and mescaline?
200
This is a two-part q: LSD became this level controlled substance in this year.
What is schedule one controlled substance in 1970
200
"The most dangerous man in America," was said by Richard Nixon about this guy.
Who is Timothy Leary?
200
Berkeley resident Augustus Stanley Owsley was most well known for doing this
What is manufacturing high-quality LSD?
200
These are possible adverse effects of pschedelics.
What is anxiety, panic, "bad trip," creation or exacerbation of long-term cognitive/emotional problems?
200
This is the range of LSD dosage
What is 40-400 MICROgrams?
300
This is the best approximate duration a dose of LSD is active in your body.
What is about 10 hours.
300
The Latin genus for psychedelic mushrooms.
What is Psilocybe
300
This band wrote a famous song in the 60s that spelled out LSD if you combine the first letters of each word in the song title.
What is the Beatles, (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)?
300
Certain tribal people in the Amazon jungle make a psychoactive snuff called epeña by powdering the
bark from the Virola tree. This is the primary psychoactive chemical in epeña.
What is DMT?
300
This is the primary psychoactive chemical in the peyote cactus.
What is mescaline?
400
LSD stands for this
What is lysergic acid diethylamide
400
The word "psychedelic" comes from the two Greek words meaning this.
What is the Ancient Greek words psychē (ψυχή, "mind") and dēloun (δηλοῦν, "to make visible, to reveal"), which translates to "mind-revealing."
400
This man wrote an essay titled "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" in a 1957 issue of Life Magazine describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Who is Robert Gordon Wasson?
400
In 1994, the US Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Amendment as a reaction to this Supreme Court case, regarding the use of a Schedule One substance in
ceremonies of the Native American Church.
What is the Employment Division, State of Oregon v. Al Smith?
400
The name of the Mazatec shaman who introduced the Western world to the ritual ethnobotanical practices of her culture.
Who is Maria Sabina?
500
LSD, psilocin, DMT, mescaline and other classical psychedelics are thought to act primarily as
agonists at receptors for this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin-2A (5HT-2A) receptors and others?
500
This is the Latin species name of a hallucinogenic sage with a genus name Salvia used by Mazatec shamans of southern Mexico.
What is divinorum?
500
This US Government Agency conducted extensive experiments with LSD during the 1950s in
order to identify its potential uses as a weapon.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
500
This enzyme in your body inactivates DMT when absorbed through the oral-digestive system
What is DMT (which is a monoamine) is inactivated by the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO)?
500
This is the primary neurotransmitter in the reward-reinforcement circuits of the brain, neural pathways that appear to be importantly involved in addiction.