What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They can all produce psychedelic substances – and now their powers have been combined in one plant, like a trippier Captain Planet. In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana ), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously. As interest grows in psychedelics as potential treatments for illnesses such as