article_snippet: the African plant has been classed by the World Health Assembly as likely to cause harm to humans, and has been identified as having psychedelic and psychoactive properties.
article_snippet: The hallucinogenic is part of a program to treat drug addiction in Thailand's Ko Phangan island .
highlights_snippet: Brodie Smith was taking the African plant - which has hallucinogenic properties - to 'cure' a drug addiction .
  