Farewell to Jonathan Ott, the Last of the Enlightened Pharmacophiles
Writer and researcher dedicated to studying the psychoactives and defending the right to use them, Ott has died at the age of 76. Jonathan Ott (Connecticut, 1949), writer, chemist, and ethnopharmacologist dedicated to the study and dissemination of psychoactive species and substances, died last week at the age of 76. Ott passed away at his […]
Student discovers a new hallucinogenic fungus growing on a common ornamental plant
After years of speculation, the fungus that lives in symbiosis with the Ipomoea tricolor vine has been found. A microbiology student at West Virginia University has discovered a new species of fungus that, in symbiosis with a plant, produces a hallucinogenic substance very similar to LSD. The plant is Ipomoea tricolor, a common vine that […]