Psychedelics morning-glory seeds

Humphry Osmond, an early LSD, mescaline, morning glory seed and adrenolutin researcher, proposed the word psychedelic. 

Morning glory seeds contain the toxin lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide, which has one-tenth the potency of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The toxic effect, at an equivalent dose, is similar to that of LSD. To avoid abuse of morning glory seeds, commercial seed producers treat the seeds with essential oils, which are irritants, which induce nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain which precede the psychedelic effects. 

Although morning glory seeds contain a substance closely related to LSD-25 - the archetype par excellence for a "psychedelic" drug in Western culture - there is a significant contrast between the subjective effects of the amide versus the diethylamide form of the molecule. 

Knowing that the seeds have a strong sedative component, the question becomes how many of them are necessary to attain a reasonably psychedelic state of consciousness Correspondents have described a wide range of dosages for morning glory seeds. Here is a formula from the high end of the scale ... 

My own experience with morning glory seeds can serve to indicate the tremendous power of these seeds as an hallucinogenic agent. It turned out to be a bad trip, done in a poor set, with no clear purpose or expectation in mind, other than to have a high time. It was a trip from which it took about two years to recover mental confidence in psychedelics. The ill outcome was, of course, due to the reckless... 

Der Marderosian, A.H., Guarino, A.M., DeFeo, J. J., Youngken, H.W. A Uterine Stimulant Effect of Extracts of Morning Glory Seeds Psychedelic Review (1964) 1 317-323... 

DerMarderosian,A.H, etal 1964B. A uterine stimulant eSect of extracts of morning glory seeds The Psychedelic Review 1(3) 317-3 3-... 

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