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UK
/sˌaɪkəʊˈæktɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes
psychoactive drugs
How To Use psychoactive In A Sentence
- Since the late 1970s, increasing work has focused primarily on human hair analysis for illicit psychoactives and medicinals.
- Why do more than a hundred species go to the trouble of manufacturing this one psychoactive molecule?
- The receptors are also sensitive to the compound THC, the primary psychoactive chemical in marijuana.
- The psychoactive ingredients in the bark of yagé are the beta-carbolines harmine and harmaline. One River
- A multidisciplinary international team demonstrated through botanical examination, phytochemical investigation, and genetic deoxyribonucleic acid analysis by polymerase chain reaction that this material contained tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis, its oxidative degradation product, cannabinol, other metabolites, and its synthetic enzyme, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, as well as a novel genetic variant with two single nucleotide polymorphisms. 2,700-year-old marijuana stash found
- The main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, the element that induces the high, is tetrahydrocannabidinol, or THC. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
- Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a synthetic, psychoactive drug chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline.
- The compounds found in spice can be anywhere between 10 and 200 times more potent than THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
- Hallucinogens are psychoactive substances that powerfully alter perception, mood, and a host of cognitive processes.
- No one could have anticipated that a president who "presided" over a fraudulent war, a disgrace in the Attorney General's office, an epic natural disaster outdone only by the epic futility of the response to that disaster, an economic downturn that shows no sign of moderating, stagnant wages, creeping unemployment, tainted food sources, skyrocketing energy prices and a stock market in need of serious psychoactive drugs would have such low approval ratings by the time he's ready to leave office. Obama Entering White House With High Favorables -- And Bush Leaving With High Disapproval