Psychoactive Plants

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2020-2021

Thematik

The course includes 28 lectures. The aim of the course is to present the most commonly used psychoactive plants and hallucionogens around the world. The course gives a general overview about the botanical character and medicinal value of the most frequent plants and fungi. In addition legal regulation, international guidelines for their control and the problem of addiction are also discussed.

Vorlesungen

• 1. Attitude of psychoactive drugs in Hungary and Europe. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 2. Classification of psychoactive drugs: psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. Drug or medication? - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 3. Opium and opiates around the world I.: Middle East, Western-, Middle- and South Asia - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 4. Opium and opiates around the world II.: Southeast Asia, Europe, America - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 5. Poppy seed (Papaver somniferum): legal use, illegal use - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 6. History of international audit of psychoactive drugs - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 7. Worth it or not? - Legal regulation of drugs - Dr. Horváth Orsolya Melinda
• 8. Investigation and legal consequencies of drug abuse - Dr. Horváth Orsolya Melinda
• 9. Synthetic opioids - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 10. Detection of synthetic and plant originated hallucinogens. Analytics of psychoactive agents. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 11. Hallucinogenic plants I.: Solanaceae species - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 12. Hallucinogenic plants II.: Ergot - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 13. Hallucinogenic plants III.: Plants from Asia - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 14. Hallucinogenic plants IV.: Plants from South-America - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 15. Hallucinogenic fungi - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 16. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants I.: Erythroxylum coca - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 17. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants II.: Catha edulis I. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 18. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants II.: Catha edulis II. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 19. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants III.: Ephedraceae I. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 20. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants III.: Ephedraceae II. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 21. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants IV: Cannabis sativa indica I. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 22. Medicinal use of psychoactive plants IV: Cannabis sativa indica II. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 23. Legalization problems of psychoactive agents I. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 24. Legalization problems of psychoactive agents II. - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 25. Drug abuse and addiction I. -
• 26. Drug abuse and addiction II. -
• 27. Exam - Dr. Ács Kamilla
• 28. Exam - Dr. Ács Kamilla

Praktika

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Ratsch C., Hofmann A.(2007): The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications.
McKenna D. (2018): Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (Vol. 1 & 2): 50 Years of Research.
Schultes R.E. (2001): Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers.
Willis C.(2015): Hallucinogens: The Truth About Hallucinogenic Plants.
Meuninck J. (2014): Basic Illustrated Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants.

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Maximum of 25 % absence allowed

Semesteranforderungen

Fulfillment of the final test (minimum 60%).

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

Downloading of lectures in Neptun.

Prüfungsfragen

Topics include the lectures of the semester.

Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen