The pharmacology of psilocybin

@article{Passie2002ThePO,
  title={The pharmacology of psilocybin},
  author={Torsten Passie and Juergen Dr Seifert and Udo Schneider and Hinderk M. Emrich},
  journal={Addiction Biology},
  year={2002},
  volume={7}
}
Psilocybin (4‐phosphoryloxy‐N,N‐dimethyltryptamine) is the major psychoactive alkaloid of some species of mushrooms distributed worldwide.These mushrooms represent a growing problem regarding hallucinogenic drug abuse. Despite its experimental medical use in the 1960s, only very few pharmacological data about psilocybin were known until recently. Because of its still growing capacity for abuse and the widely dispersed data this review presents all the available pharmacological data about… 
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