[Vegetables as new psychoactive drugs: a narrative review].

A review of psychoactive plants, including those used in shamanic ceremonies and traditional contexts, notes their increasing popularity among consumers of varying experience levels, partly due to easy online access for purchase, cultivation, and information exchange. The authors summarize current knowledge about the most important psychoactive plants, drawing from Internet forums, harm-reduction portals, and scientific texts, to provide updated information for medical professionals and health workers.

Study at a glance

Abstract

There is growing interest in plants with psychoactive effects among consumers with different levels of experience. This has generated a need for updated knowledge among medical professionals and other health workers. These plants, which may be used in shamanic healing ceremonies or rituals or just for traditional purposes, have emerged in the Western world as new psychoactive drugs; largely thanks to the ease of purchase, sale, cultivation and exchange of information that the Internet offers. This review summarizes the current knowledge about the most important psychoactive plants, either by their mention in Internet forums or harm-reduction portals or by their allusion in scientific texts.