psychoactive

Example Sentences

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But the mushrooms used in coffees, like lion's mane, are a different species to magic mushrooms and aren't psychoactive.

From BBC

In fact, pretty much the only reason drugs have a psychoactive effect on us at all is because they closely resemble chemicals our body already produces.

From Salon

Psilocybin, the psychoactive component of “magic mushrooms,” is the most-studied psychedelic, but there’s a lot we don’t know about how it works.

From Los Angeles Times

"The war and its consequences have led to an increased use of licit and illicit psychoactive substances."

From Reuters

Unlike tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the cannabis component that gets users high, CBD is not psychoactive.

From New York Times