Salvinorin A
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Salvinorin A is a κ-opioid receptor agonist and hallucinogen and is the main active constituent in Salvia divinorum. It is usually taken via inhalation such as smoking or via oral administration.
Salvinorin A
Albert Hofmann
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Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide. Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesi
Salvinorin A
…the genus Salvia in 1957, but was unable to completely identify it at the time due to absence of flowering material. Finally, Robert Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann collected flowering specimens of the plant in the early 1960s and sent them to Carl Epling, the leading expert on the Salvia genus of the time, who…
Hofmann in 1993
Albert Hofmann in 2006