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Scientists engineered tobacco plants to produce five mind-altering psychedelic compounds

Nature can be pretty trippy, with mind-altering psychedelics coming from all sorts of wild sources. Certain mushrooms produce ...

Scientists Gene Hacked a Plant So It Grows Five Types of Psychoactive Drugs at Once

From the psilocybin in magic mushrooms to dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in toads to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana, a ...