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This is a list of plant species that, when consumed by humans, are known or suspected to produce psychoactive effects: changes in nervous system function that alter perception, mood, consciousness, cognition or behavior. Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for
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Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Mescaline is List I of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances prohibiting the purchase, transporting, and possession of substances. [17] Slovenia Legal: Legal: Legal: Legal: The cactus itself is legal to grow, import and sell, but extracting the mescaline from it is illegal. [18] Sweden Legal: Legal: Legal: Legal
[citation needed] In addition, coca use in shamanic rituals is well documented wherever local native populations have cultivated the plant. For example, the Tairona people of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta use to chew the plant before engaging in extended meditation and prayer. [55] Cocoa: Theobroma cacao: Bean: Theobromine, small ...
The following is a table of drugs organized by their year of discovery. Naturally occurring chemicals in plants, including alkaloids, have been used since pre-history. In the modern era, plant-based drugs have been isolated, purified and synthesised anew.
Illegal: It is illegal to prepare plants that contain narcotic drugs. [21] United Kingdom Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: DMT is a Class A Drug and is therefore illegal to distribute or possess. [22] As a DMT containing plant, ayahuasca is therefore illegal in the UK. [23] United States Illegal, unless for religious use: Illegal, unless for ...
Another issue is that the illegality of drugs causes social and economic consequences for users—the drugs may be "cut" with adulterants and the purity varies wildly, making overdoses more likely—and legalization of drug production and distribution could reduce these and other dangers of illegal drug use. [37]
The 1961 Convention seeks to control over 116 drugs that it classifies as narcotic. These include: plant-based products such as opium and its derivatives morphine, codeine, and heroin (the primary category of drug listed in the convention); synthetic narcotics such as methadone and pethidine; and; cannabis, coca, and cocaine.