# Ask the Psychotropic drug guy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychotropic-drug-guy/15129>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 24, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychotropic-drug-guy/15129 "2000-03-24T07:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![quadell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@quadell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quadell)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychotropic-drug-guy/15129/21 "2000-03-25T05:15:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Foamfoot:  
> \*\*Does anyone have any experience with wormwood or absinthe?  
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Yeah, it’s a good high, but it tastes **NASTY**. It’s basically wormwood soaked in hard liquor for a week or so, with some other things soaked in to improve the buzz and (hopefully) make it taste slightly more drinkable.

It’s a euphoric, (very unlike being drunk), makes everything seem really amazing an exciting for about a half an hour. Then you feel slightly drunk.

And it’s illegal - a schedule I narcotic with jail time and whatnot. All the ingredients are legal, but when you put them together, it’s illegal. (Warning - it’s also very unhealthy, addictive, etc.) [Here](http://www.frognet.net/~dxm/absinthe.txt)’s more info than you probably want.

Your Quadell

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychotropic-drug-guy/15129/22 "2000-03-25T10:07:00Z")

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> I can’t say I have done Dimethyltriptamine (DMT) . You have to inject it or smoke it.

DMT can be potentiated orally with a short term MAOI, such as harmaline.

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> Shrooms (Pslocybe Mexicana) have an altered (weaker) form of DMT, less powerful, but it works on the same brain chemicals.

Actually the fly agaric mushrooms I was talking about are something totally different. They’re from the [Amanita](http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/Amanita/) family, not psilocybe.

And psilocybe Mexicana a.k.a. Cubensis contains psilocybin, which, while also a tryptamine, has far different effects than DMT.

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> a friend of mine is growing a salvia plant (is this technically illegal yet?)

As far as I know, it’s still 100% legal in the U.S. I tried to grow it myself once, since I live in such a humid climate. I guess I kind of slacked a bit on watering it, though, so it died.

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