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The following listing comes from information gathered through the
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Haight-Ashbury Journal of Psychedelic Drugs (later titled H-A J. of Psycho-
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active Drugs) and some personal interviews. Notes on the drug experiences
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follow the listing.
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* WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *
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Publication of this list is intended for education, and ingestion of
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many, if not all, of the plants described is not recommended. Things that
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should concern anyone who might consider such an action should include: toxi-
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city levels of the plant in question, research on long- and short-term side-
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effects, the type of experience encountered in use of the drug, purity of the
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plant (eg, most morning-glory seeds are sprayed with pesticides, mainly at the
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request of the gov't to discourage personal use), to _start_ with.
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A listing marked by a ? indicates that the plant may have either a psy-
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chedelic effect _or_ narcotic, and that there is insufficient evidence to de-
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termine which class it belongs to (the plant listings were obtained largely
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from the examination of their mood-altering use in other cultures, which tends
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to fall into either narcotic or entheogenic action). I haven't had time to
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track the legal status of these plants, but most are undoubtedly legal, al-
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though a few aren't, and some of the regulations are really screwy (One can own
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a San Pedro Cactus, but there's a law against its ingestion, I believe).
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Those that I do know are illegal, are marked with an asterisk. There
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may be some spelling errors, the info is somewhat dated, and some plants are
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known under several names (I list the others with aka). The use of a quote
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mark indicates repitition of genus or specie above (or, parenthetically, repe-
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tition of the genus or specie outside the parentheses), dependent on position
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in the Genus and specie listing. Finally, I substitute the word "entheogen"
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and "entheogenic" for "psychedelic". The latter has poor connotations, as
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while as being etymologically incorrect. "Entheogenic" connotes transcendence,
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release of the "God within" or of the "human potential", take your pick.
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sp. = species
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var. = variety
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Plant Family Genus and species
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Acanthaceae Justicia Pectoralis var. stenophylla
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Aizoaceae Mesembryanthemum expansum?
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" tortuosum?
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Apocynaceae Alstonia venenata?
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Araceae Acora calama (-us)?
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Ariocarpus retusus?
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Homalomena sp.
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Cactaceae Anhalonium lewinii (and williamsii, more popu-
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larly known as Lophophora williamsii, Peyote)*
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Ariocarpus fissuratus
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Coryphantha compacta
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" macromeris
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" palmerii
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Echinocereus salm-dyckianus?
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" troglochidiatus?
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Epithelantha micromeris
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Lophophora diffusa
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Mammilaria craigii
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" grahamii var. oliviae
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" senilis
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Campanulaceae Lobelia tupa?
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Compositae Calea zacatechichi
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Convolvulacea Ipomoeae vioacea
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(Morning Glory, known under the following names
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Heavenly Blues, Pearly Gates,
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Wedding Bells, Blue Star and Summer Skies)
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Coriariaceae Coriaria thymifolia
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Desfontainaceae Desfontainia spinosa
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Ericaceae Gaultheria?
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Euphorbiaceae Alchornea floribunda
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Elaeophorbia drupiferia
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Gomortegaceae Gomortega keule?
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Labatiae Coleus blumei?
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" pumila?
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Lagochilus inebrians?
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Leguminosae Anadenanthera colubrina var. Cebil
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" peregrina (aka Piptadenia ")
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Aragullus besey?
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Caesulpinia sepiaria
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Canavalia maritima?
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Cytisus canariensis
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Erythrina coralloides?
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" flabelliformis?
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Mimosa hostilis
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" verrucosa?
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Mucuna pruriens?
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Piptadenia macrocarpa (aka var. of Anad. col.?)
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Sophora secundiflora (I know I've heard it be-
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fore, I don't remember where... *?)
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Lythyroceae Heimia salicifolia?
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Malpighiaceae Banisteriopsis caapi
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" cabrerana
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" inebrians
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" rusbyana
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Mascagnia glandulifera
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" psilophulla var. antifebrilis?
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Moraceae Cannabis sativa*
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Cannabis ondica*
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Olmedioperbea sclerophylla
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Helicostylis pedunculata
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" fomentosa
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Myristicaceae Myristica fragrans?
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Iryanthera macrophylla
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Solanaceae Atropa belladonna
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(* WARNING! *) Brugmansia x insignis
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(Many plants of the) " versicolor
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(Solanaceae family) Brunfelsia chiricaspi
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(in general, and the) " grandiflora
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(Datura genus in) Cestrum laevigatum
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(particular, are) Datura aurea
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(potentially dan-) " candida
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(gerous, and should) " ceratocaula
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(be handled with) " discolor
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(care and treated) " dolichocarpa
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(with respect) " inoxia (aka, " meteloides)
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" kymatocarpa
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" metel
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" pruinosa?
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" quercifolia?
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" reburra
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" sanguinea
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" stramonium
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" suaveolens
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" vulcanicola
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" wrightii
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Hyoscyamus niger
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Iochroma fuchsioides
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Juanulloa ochracea?
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Latua pubiflora
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Mandragora officinarum (-is)
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Markea fornicarum
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Methysticodendron amesianum
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Nicotiana rustica
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Zingiberaceae Kaempferia galanga?
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NOTES
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Junkies In Silicon Valley?
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GQ did an article (sorry, issue not to hand) about Silicon Valley and
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use of entheogens. One of the wiser things mentioned in the article is the use
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of a "co-pilot" to help guide the trip. The idea was the use of entheogens to
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release creativity, not for joyriding on the sensations (well... maybe a lit-
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tle, grin). But it's stupid to have such an experience alone, as it not only
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wastes a potentially valuable state of mind, but also subjects the hardware to
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possible termination. If one wishes to have an entheogenic experience, set and
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setting, guidance are all important. I would particularly recommend reading
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Masters' and Houston's book, _The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience_ among
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others. "Co-piloting"'s been around for a while, you ought to be able to dig
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up quite a bit of material on it. Experience helps, but the primary requisite
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is the ability to engage in storytelling, and to be as non-threatening as poss-
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ible.
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Mind Your Mind
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The Gestalt Assassins seem intent on outlawing (they'd call it "main-
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streaming") experience, both natural and unnatural, except, of course, for Pop
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Kultur. Psycho-fusion is outlawed, and the mediocracy rules. Its bad enough
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to try legislating morality, but their actions, such as the restriction on the
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use of stevia extract as a natural sweetener, and the continued prohibition of
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pot, peyote and the like, take it a step further... they're outlawing Nature.
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Think about it.
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...Of the Jungle
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Included is a file, called just plain _Jungle_. It's a catalog of the
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more exotic plants, prices, etc. offered through this store. The store parti-
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cipates in botanical projects and efforts to save the rainforest. Good people.
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Miscellaneous
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Myristica fragrans comes from nutmeg, it has been used by students,
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prisoners, poor people, and some just generally curious people. The level
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at which effects occur, however, is sufficiently toxic to give one pounding
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headaches, hyper-rhythmia, a general toxic response in the body (aches, etc.)
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and has a delay time of about five hours. Further, depending on individual
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body chemistry, these effects may be heightened or near non-existent (rare) and
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the "psychedelic" experience may, or may not occur, and with variations in in-
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tensity. Not at all recommended. I hope this will give you some respect for
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the plants.
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The Banisteriopsis genus is used in mixtures used for divinations, &c.
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by various Indian tribes of Brasil. You may have, at one time or another,
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heard references to yage or yaje (pronounced ya-HAY), cohoba, or ayahuasca.
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This is it. Banisteriopsis caapi (the one mainly used) contains a family of
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alkaloids called harmalines (once, curiously enough, thought to be a substance,
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telepathine, as the visions did seem to be psychically-linked, in prophecy,
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clairvoyance, etc.). And Di-Methyl Tryptamine (DMT aka "The businessman's
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trip", a psychic three-martini meltdown) is suspected as well, though I am not
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sure if it is in caapi per se, and not rusbyana. The stuff is usually ingested
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as a snuff, because the tryptamine family cannot be absorbed into the blood-
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stream through the stomach and passes through quite harmlessly. Alternately,
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there are brews of the stuff containing other plants that seem to act as
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carriers for the tryptamines. But because the preparation of plants and number
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of materials used is quite complicated, it can be difficult to ascertain the
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separate actions of the plant materials. To top that, mixes change from one
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region to another. Make of it what you will.
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Coleus I have tried myself. It's a mint, but had a particularly odious
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taste (to me), and requires a good number of leaves, fresh, as the active che-
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mical loses its potency as the plant dries out. It's also a common house-plant
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with spade shaped leaves and a bright patch of fluorescent color emanating out
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from the leaf's center (I've mainly seen blue and pink). My experience was
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a "night-time" trip -- visual distortions were largely kept to unilluminated
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space. Some time distortion, but not much overall effect on the functioning
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of the brain. No real amplification of emotional feedback or other effects
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you get with the more notorious entheogens.
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