Boing Boing » hallucinogens http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 17:23:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The history (and future) of psychedelic science http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:25:17 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=211757 Nature Reviews Neuroscience published an article looking at the neurobiology of psychedelic drugs and why researchers were returning to this field after 40 years of stagnation. As part of that, they commissioned four of the best neuroscience bloggers on the Internet to write posts about the history of psychedelic psychiatry and the possible ways we could use these drugs to help people. I stumbled across this collection recently, and thought you all might enjoy it. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html/feed 5 Dosing cats with Uncle Sam http://boingboing.net/2012/03/01/dosing-cats-with-uncle-sam.html http://boingboing.net/2012/03/01/dosing-cats-with-uncle-sam.html#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:38:28 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=146651

Over on Submitterator, frycook keeps finding these amazing/horrible old U.S. Army newsreels. He or she has posted some great stuff, including this gem, in which the chemical corps tests psychoactive substances on a cat while the narrator cheerfully natters about the strategic military benefits of hallucinogens.

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]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/03/01/dosing-cats-with-uncle-sam.html/feed 19 A Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants http://boingboing.net/2012/01/09/a-golden-guide-to-hallucinogen.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/09/a-golden-guide-to-hallucinogen.html#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:48:31 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=138025

Boing Boing reader Kenneth is a weird-and-rare book lover who is painstakingly scanning and posting online some of his favorite obscurities. Among the Golden Guides he's posted (dig the iconic visual style!) is the exceedingly hard-to-find and out of print "Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants" from 1976. I haven't seen it in the wild in ages; it's as rare as an Amanita Muscaria in Siberia. Where, by the way, the native people once ritually drank each other's pee so multiple people could trip off a single 'shroom.

Do check out the rest of his Golden Guide collection, while it lasts.

Update: Pesco has blogged about the "Hallucinogenic Plants" one before.

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