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LSD

Ketamine

A pile of nitrous oxide canisters

Nitrous oxide

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca

ancient brazier

Humans

Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago

Antidepressants

people meditating

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Brain scans reveal magic mushroom drug enhances mindfulness meditation

Cannabis

Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Earth

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa

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The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost

A multimillion-pound programme has been launched to improve treatment for snakebites, which are thought to kill up to 138,000 people each year

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Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Comment

We should cautiously welcome use of a form of ketamine for depression

Physics

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the godfather of caffeine

AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs