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Plant Chemicals: Healing, Hallucinogenic, and Harmful
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The Botanize Podcast logo features the word Botanize! in bold white letters on a green background with black line drawings of various plants, ferns, mushrooms, and a leaf. The Encyclopaedia Britannica emblem and name appear at the bottom. “Plant Chemicals: Healing, Hallucinogenic, and Harmful” Rows of green Nicotiana tabacum tobacco plants growing in soil, showing broad, bright leaves and healthy foliage. Coffee cherries Marijuana sacred datura Purple opium poppy flower (Papaver somniferum) with a yellow center and dark markings, surrounded by green, lobed foliage. Two Afghan workers harvest resin from scored green poppy pods in an opium poppy field, with mountains visible in the background. Heroin Cluster of purple, tubular common foxglove flowers (Digitalis purpurea) with spotted white interiors, growing outdoors with blurred greenery in the background.

Plant Chemicals: Healing, Hallucinogenic, and Harmful: References & Edit History

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  • Melissa Petruzzello
    Melissa Petruzzello (she/her) is Assistant Managing Editor and covers plants, algae, fungi, insects, spiders, renewable energy and environmental engineering. She also handles certain topics in Christianity, notably Protestant history and churches. 

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