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Psychedelic plants of natural nations
 BURKOŇ, Vojtěch
The aim of this thesis is to outline the diversity of cultural uses of psychedelics and the resulting possibilities for modern society. The bachelor thesis explores psychedelic plants and their use within the indigenous cultures of Mexico. The theoretical part provides a detailed description of the biology of these plant species, including taxonomy, morphology, distribution and habitat, and their active compounds. Chapters on the history and traditional uses of these plants follow. The final chapter of the theoretical part summarizes current knowledge about the potential of psychedelics in clinical practice. The practical part expands the topic to a global scale with a table of plant species containing psychedelics and being utilized to some extent by indigenous people. Informations about these species were selected from available literature. The table shows that the predominant species are from the families Cactaceae na Fabaceae, from Central and South America. Most comonnly from arid or moist habitats. From psychedelics, they mainly contain various tryptamines and phenylethylamines. Parts of the plant used are primarly seeds, stems and leaves.
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Spiritual searching with salvia divinorum in Prague and its surroundings
 Zelený, Jan ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Bureš, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is concerned in the topic of spiritual searching with Salvia divinorum. Prague and its surroundings have been chosen as the region of interest. Salvia divinorum is extremely potent hallucinogenic substance that can be applied through smoking of extracts or chewing of leaves. Even though prohibited in 2011 In the Czech Republic, the substance is easy to acquire even to this day. In the qualitative part of the research semi-structured interviews were conducted with the users of this plant to obtain information about Salvia divinorum and its relationship to spiritual searching. The analysis of the discourse in the interviews resulted in findings which point us to the conclusion that the experimentation with Salvia divinorum is indeed tightly bound with spiritual searching.
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