A new way to produce cocaine in the leaves of a genetically modified tobacco plant could make it easier for researchers to study the drug.
A concoction of vilca seeds and fermented alcohol may have provided a mild hallucinogenic experience, enabling Wari leaders in South America to bond with their peopleThis new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawton
explains in this personal account, we are finally starting to make inroadsMichael Pollan's This is Your Mind on Plants explains how the psychoactive plants that produce opium, caffeine and mescaline fuelled innovation, sedatives and even the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade
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