If you've heard of the Datura stramonium plant (it has many names, including the commonly used "jimson weed"), you've likely heard about its hallucinogenic effects, or, perhaps, how it may be used to ...

Genetically based variation in outcrossing rate generates lineages within populations that differ in their history of inbreeding. According to some models, mating-system modifiers in such populations ...

On July 14, 2004 Eric Sears and Ben Fogelstrom went on a camping trip to Joshua Tree State Park in California. The two seventeen year olds had recently graduated from Carlsbad High School. Ben ...

I have sent a leaf and cone of a plant growing in my garden this year. It has a lot of these cones and big leaves. I have no idea what it is, can you help? (Mrs B Prielis, Toftwood) Answer: The plant ...

Sharon Nowell, 36, thought the green shoots appearing in her parents' garden were the beginnings of a marrow or possibly a common weed at first. But after a bit of research she soon discovered that ...

— -- Psychoactive herbs such as salvia and kratom may be legal in most states, but are they harmless? For every positive experience reported by someone who ingested a legal mushroom, smoked ...

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