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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Grainne who wrote (35156)4/18/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>The ancient world was rife with hallucinogens of all sorts.<

You have to be careful about geographic distribution. Cannabis as a hallucinogen - that is arguable. The only hallucinogen available in the Levant would be atropine-containing plants, like belladonna. These are a harsh trip, man. More psychotomimetic than our modern psychedelics. The Middle easterners did not have mushrooms, cactus or vines containing the trippier chemicals. There is "syrian rue" but it is a source od harmaline. This is not in itself psychedelic but is an important component of ayahuasca, a South American mindblower. Ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamine, an undeniably powerful psychedelic. It is orally inactive until it is admixed with harmaline.

Disclaimer: I am no ethnopharmacologist.
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