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  3. The pharmacology of psilocybin

The pharmacology of psilocybin

  • Addict Biol. 2002 Oct;7(4):357-64. doi: 10.1080/1355621021000005937.
Torsten Passie 1,  Juergen Seifert,  Udo Schneider,  Hinderk M Emrich
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  • 1 Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany. dr.passie@gmx.de
PMID: 14578010 DOI: 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.

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