The pharmacology of psilocybin
- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Addiction Biology
- Vol. 7 (4), 357-364
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1355621021000005937
Abstract
Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is the major psychoactive alkaloid of some species of mushrooms distributed worldwide. These mushrooms represent a growing problem regarding hallucinogenic drug abuse. Despite its experimental medical use in the 1960s, only very few pharmacological data about psilocybin were known until recently. Because of its still growing capacity for abuse and the widely dispersed data this review presents all the available pharmacological data about psilocybin.Keywords
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