psilocybin

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Ellison possessed 7.4 grams of methamphetamine and 22 grams of psilocybin, the arrest warrants state.

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  • From Haight-Ashbury to Cambridge, otherwise normal citizens subjected themselves to a massive, uncontrolled experiment in random dosing of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, THC (the active ingredient in marijuana and hashish), and other hallucinogens. —  Omni: October 1993
  • Chemicals like psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, and MDMA are now listed alongside heroin as controlled substances on the DEA's Schedule I: drugs with a very high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. —  Omni: October 1993
  • Human beings created an altruistic communal society; then, by withdrawing the psilocybin or having it become unavailable, we've had nothing to fall back upon except old primate behaviors, all tooth-and-claw dominance. —  Omni: May 1993
  • Omni: What's the difference between DMT and LSD, psilocybin, and so forth? —  Omni: May 1993
  • I wouldn't compare antibiotics to methamphetamine, or thorazine to LSD, or cocaine to psilocybin or various phenylethylamines.
 

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  1. New Latin Psīlocybē, mushroom genus (Greek psīlos, bare + Greek kubē, head) + -in.
 

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