How to Use hallucinogen in a Sentence

hallucinogen

noun

• Not all hallucinogens have the same effects on the brain.
  — Meghana Keshavan, Scientific American, 9 July 2019
• And then Teresa hails a man who pops a hallucinogen in her mouth.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• And then there’s the sample: Who raises their hand and does a hallucinogen?
  — Simone Kitchens, The Cut, 3 May 2018
• Rates of past-year hallucinogen use also came in at five- and 10-year highs.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 18 Aug. 2023
• The point is to make veterans well, not high on hallucinogens.
  — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Up at the front of the train, the wealthy dine on biennially farmed sushi and bliss out on hallucinogens; back in the tail section, though, people live in squalor.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 21 July 2019
• Segnitz, of Lexington, took his first drink around 14 years old, then tried pot and hallucinogens at 18.
  — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
• There’s like one hundred and seventy-five different kinds of herbs and plants, all kinds of hallucinogens and cure-alls.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2013
• In 2015, Hachey was convicted of the sale of a hallucinogen/narcotic, a felony offense.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
• The mode of thinking of hallucinogen users has been compared to that of primitive peoples, children and schizophrenics.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• It has long been known that the Wari used beer and feasting as part of their political control, but the research proved their access to vilca and its use as a hallucinogen.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• In western terms, the hallucinogen is a Faustian bargain.
  — National Geographic, 18 May 2016
• In western terms, the hallucinogen is a Faustian bargain.
  — National Geographic, 18 May 2016
• Doses of the street drug can be an unknown mix of other stimulants and hallucinogens, and an overdose can be fatal.
  — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• Along with hallucinogens like mescaline and psilocybin (that is, magic mushrooms), LSD was often blamed for bad trips that sent people to the psych ward.
  — Michael Pollan, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• And people of the state of Tiwanaku were known to mix such hallucinogens with alcohol, specifically maize beer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2023
• In the same region, another hallucinogen called the mescal bean, which was used in a similar way to peyote, has been found in caves and rock shelters extending back to 9,000 years ago.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
• Ketamine is a hallucinogen that has been approved for use as an anesthetic by the Food and Drug Administration since the 1970s.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 12 May 2023
• And in a sign of possibly the most significant generational shift around drug-use habits, use of hallucinogen drugs is also on the rise.
  — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• They were grouped in a sheet of tin foil that local officers did not want to fully open and risk contact exposure to the possible hallucinogens.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 15 May 2020
• Both a hallucinogen and an energy source, spice is mined in the deserts of the planet Arrakis, which has been colonized for that purpose and, at the emperor’s orders, run by the evil House Harkonnen.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• There have been attempts to regulate or ban the plant because of its reputation as a hallucinogen.
  — AJC.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Why, for example, do mushrooms make a hallucinogen at all?
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
• The not-unconstant use of hallucinogens suggests an ancient epic hijacked by a midnight movie.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• The push and pull of her mental illness grips each scene as the bar battles a pest problem and Maggie takes hallucinogens to cope with the anxiety that comes with an impromptu social exchange.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• Muscimol is a potent hallucinogen that interacts with receptors in the brain and can cause distortions in size, time and space.
  — Todd McFliker, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2023
• The agency dosed Bulger with the powerful hallucinogen more than 50 times – something his lawyers never brought up in his federal trial.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
• Two women were found passed out on the steps of a New London church Saturday, under the influence of hallucinogens and with an infant beside them, according to police.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 6 May 2018
• Her drug use continued to progress into hallucinogens, too.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 8 May 2024
• And in 2022, archaeologists uncovered evidence that an ancient Peruvian people laced the beer served at their feasts with hallucinogens.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024