How to Use psychoactive in a Sentence

psychoactive

adjective

• Yet psychoactive substances can be good for more than just a tremendous trip.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
• This is a compound that does not have psychoactive properties.
  — Teresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
• Hemp farmers would only have been allowed to grow crops with no psychoactive substances.
  — al, 18 Feb. 2022
• Doctors and chemists are still learning about the compound and its effects, though it is known to be psychoactive.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2023
• Plants and fungi with psychoactive properties have been used for thousands of years.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• The earthy drink—made from the Piper methysticum tree root—can be numbing and has light psychoactive effects.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2022
• Many have psychoactive effects that are much more intense than those of traditional drugs.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• Hemp has very low levels of THC, the psychoactive compound that gets you high.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• Is the name Martha Stewart enough to convince her to give the non-psychoactive cannabinoid a try?
  — Nicola Fumo, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Cali sober is not for everyone and there are plenty of people who may need to refrain from all psychoactive substances.
  — Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Goodlife will allow the sale of cannibidol and hemp, both of which lack THC’s psychoactive punch.
  — Sebastian Montes, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 5 May 2017
• Though rarely deadly, this species contains the psychoactive compounds ibotenic acid and muscimol.
  — Matt Kasson, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2025
• The market for these psychoactive edibles has grown substantially in just the last few years.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
• Neither the participants nor the researchers knew who had been given the psychoactive drug.
  — Zoe Cormier, Scientific American, 12 May 2021
• If your dad is new to cannabis, consider starting him off with some non-psychoactive CBD treats.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Of course, these levels are nowhere near high enough to affect humans negatively or to have psychoactive effects.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• To try to achieve this, the researchers chose a generic antihistamine with some psychoactive effects as the placebo.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022
• Ibogaine is a powerful psychoactive compound that has been used for decades to treat substance use disorders.
  — Gavin Escott, USA Today, 6 July 2026
• What remains to be seen is whether or not evidence of the psychoactive substance can be found in the pottery that might have been used in this ritual.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
• Add a few drops of New Highs under your tongue or in your favorite drink to unwind without psychoactive effects.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 8 Aug. 2019
• The awesome thing about CBD is that it can be taken without any psychoactive effects.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• When the psychoactive brew starts to take effect, the shaman guiding the ceremony chants, usually to the birds and the spirits in the sky.
  — Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2022
• Cannabinoids are found naturally in the brain in a non-psychoactive form called endocannabinoids.
  — Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
• The finding could shed light on how the psychoactive substance affects the animals’ behavior.
  — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2026
• The idea was to allow farmers to promote commercial uses of hemp without relying on the psychoactive parts of the plant.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• Food is a psychoactive drug, so when the high carb, bad fat and sugary stuff that usually passes as comfort food hits the brain, the impact is palpable.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2017
• Hemp is a type of cannabis plant with low levels of the psychoactive compound that gets people high, known as delta-9 THC.
  — Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
• Out of the three popular cannabinoids, Delta 9 produces the most psychoactive effects.
  — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
• The use of psychoactive plants has its roots with Indigenous tribes, who’ve used them for healing and cultural practices for thousands of years.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2023
• Some of the reports were pulled from Erowid, an online library of information about psychoactive substances.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026