Curated category
Entheogens
- Cannabis (drug)Archaeologists uncovered cannabis residue inside burners within the 2,500-year-old tombs of Jirzankal Cemetery in the Pamir Mountains.
- LSDOn the 16th of November 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
- CannabisThe genus Cannabis likely split from its closest relative, Humulus, during the mid Oligocene, around 27.8 million years ago according to molecular clock…
- TobaccoThe English word tobacco originates from the Spanish tabaco, which traces its roots to the Taíno language of the Caribbean.
- Hyoscyamus nigerThe name henbane dates from AD 1265, when the word bane meant thing that causes death. Other etymologies derive from the Indo-European stem bhelena meaning…
- Amanita muscariaAlbertus Magnus recorded the mushroom in his work De vegetabilibus before 1256. He noted that people called it the fly mushroom because they powdered it and…