A new study published in Communications Biology sheds light on how the psychedelic compound DMT changes the brain’s dynamic ...

In a new study, archaeologists uncovered 2,500-year-old psychoactive drug paraphernalia in an archaeological site in the ...

An ancient society in the Peruvian Andes likely used psychoactive drugs during exclusive rituals that may have helped ...

Researchers discovered that pre-Inca stone structures from the mountains of Peru had secret rooms accessible to only the most ...

DMT is a Schedule One drug (meaning it has no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse), that is pressed from plants in the Rutaceae family. “Crist traveled to Hawaii to ...

The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

Although their own name for themselves remains unknown, the Chavín of Peru clearly shared common agricultural techniques, ...

Neither of the two plants have an hallucinogenic effect when taken individually. Yet when cooked together, the beta-carbolines found in the ayahuasca vine potentiate the dimethyl tryptamine (DMT ...

Classic examples are psilocybin, which is synthesized by certain species of fungi, and N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is produced by some plants. The basic chemical structure of DMT is embedded ...

or DMT, a powerful psychedelic that occurs naturally in plants and animals. In four of the six articles, researchers said they found microremains related to the roots of wild Nicotiana species ...