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I don't know of a universally accepted scientific definition. but you might find this section of the wiki page for hallucinogens helpful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen#Effects_by_type



I can see some argument for certain substances having, at the least, some adjacency to psychedelia, e.g. by way of some shared or similar mechanisms based around 5-HT receptor agonism and key involvement of the dopaminergic & serotonergic systems. But in the end we can't accurately split a hair whose bounds we can't define.




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