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Animals on Psychedelics: Survival of the Trippiest

There's a recent article in the Pharmaceutical Journal by Andrew Haynes that talks about the widespread use of psychedelics in the animal kingdom. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-playing-field/201012/animals-psychedelics-survival-the-trippiest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen

Entheogen

A group of peyotes , in cultivation. Peyote has been used in ritual contexts for thousands of years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An entheogen ("generating the divine within") [ 4 ] is a psychoactive substance used in a religious , shamanic , or spiritual context. [ 5 ] Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for healing, transcendence , and revelation , including: meditation , psychonautics , art projects, and psychedelic therapy . Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context for thousands of years; their religious significance is well established in anthropological and modern evidences.
A list of plants that are used for psychedelic drugs . Some of them have been used for thousands of years for religious purposes. The plants are listed according to the substances they contain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychoactive_plants

List of psychedelic plants

Project MKULTRA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Declassified MKUltra documents
In all other studies in the last 10 years (and yes, there have been quite a number of them), the psilocybin was created synthetically in a lab associated with the university doing the study, in accordance with any number of laws.

This is what your brain on drugs really looks like

http://io9.com/5878523/what-your-mind-really-looks-like-on-shrooms-cigarettes-weed-and-booze
http://io9.com/5876304/10-scientific-and-technological-visionaries-who-experimented-with-drugs You know who's a thousand times cooler than Carl Sagan?

10 Scientific and Technological Visionaries Who Experimented With Drugs