Michael Portillo

If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.

British Journalist

Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

British Writer

Evan Williams

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

American Businessman

Fran Lebowitz

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

American Journalist

Bill Hicks

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

American Comedian

Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Spanish Artist

Often used when referring to illegal or controlled substances that distort reality.

Drug Connotation

While commonly linked with drugs, 'hallucinogenic' can describe effects of medication or mental conditions.

Not Always Negative

In history and pop culture, hallucinogenics are associated with the '60s counterculture and spirituality.

Cultural Reference

 Ethan Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse. It turns out that, not only is the Galvao parrot very attractive, useful for headdresses, it evidently has certain hallucinogenic properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse.

Ethan Zuckerman: How to...

 and when we checked those plugs we didn't find the amphetamine we found psilocybin which is the comp the hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms so basically these fungi are drug dealers is what you're saying absolutely so not only are these flying salt

How Cicadas Become...

 is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it. It's made really of two different on the one hand, this woody liana which has in it a series of beta-carbolines, harmine, harmaline, mildly hallucinogenic --

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 the most hallucinogenic types of dreams. The brain wave activity actually starts to speed up again. It's during REM sleep that we receive almost a form of emotional first aid. And it's also during REM sleep where we get a boost for creativity,

A walk through the...

 Cocaine blocks the reuptake of dopamine and serotonin, pushing more into the network where they boost energy, create feelings of euphoria, and suppress appetites. And hallucinogenic drugs have some of the most puzzling effects.

How do drugs affect the...

 Because yeasts will ferment basically any plant sugars, ancient peoples made alcohol from whatever crops and plants grew where they lived. In South America, people made chicha from grains, sometimes adding hallucinogenic herbs.

A brief history of...

 provide valuable spiritual guidance at the heart of wheaty is a small shrub which grows deep in the tropical jungles it is called iboga and it's a cocktail of some of the most powerful hallucinogenic compounds known to man

Hallucinogenic Cocktail...

 There, they took out palm leaf baskets. There, they took out these green monkey frogs — these are big suckers, they're like this — and they began licking them. It turns out, they're highly hallucinogenic.

Mark Plotkin: What the...

 a hallucinogenic honey moly done on your enamel we did God is uh one of mothers here it'll be a 15 mile trek into a remote camp to get to the first honey

360° Dangerous Honey...

 the taste is very distinctive it's it's kind of oh how do you describe it it's bitter but it feels warm already as the hallucinogenic potion takes