Sentences with phrase «on psychoactive plants»

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

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On this week's show: New research shows psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies, and a long - term study that questions how plants will deal with rising carbon dioxide levels

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

Whilst much of the past research on Cannabis sativa has focused explicitly on Tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), the chemical responsible for the psychoactive effects that the plant is more renowned for, research supporting CBD is beginning to emerge.

Paine chooses to depict undesirable and toxic classes of plants or fungus; in the case of this installation 25 different fungus species from the psychoactive to the poisonous compete for space directly on the wall.

The buzz around Fred Tomaselli's meticulous painting - collage hybrids frequently centers on the work's more loaded materials — ephedrine, aspirin, saccharine, an assortment of brand - name pharmaceuticals, marijuana, and other psychoactive plants — which Tomaselli assembles into kaleidoscopic patterns and scenes; looking at his pictures, one might infer that «using» a drug as a raw material should constitute or symbolize «being on drugs.»

Although the ditchweed is primarily being eradicated in mid-western states where it was once grown to support WWII efforts with the encouragement of the federal government, these plants would have little or no psychoactive effect on people who might smoke them because they contain very low levels of THC, the drug component in marijuana.

Hemp seeds are harvested from non-psychoactive industrial hemp plants grown in Canada and Europe, for example, under strict regulatory regimes, and have no potential psychoactive «drug» effect, and do not interfere with drug testing even when unrealistic amounts are eaten on a daily basis.