Is ketamine a psychedelic?

 

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While ketamine is a powerful psychoactive substance, it is technically not a psychedelic. Instead, it is a dissociative anesthetic that can produce hallucinogenic effects.1

Footnotes

1. Drug Enforcement Administration. (2020 April). Drug Fact Sheet: Ketamine. Department of Justice. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Ketamine-2020.pdf