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A scene featuring a ballgame in a ballcourt, painted on a cylindrical ceramic vessel. (Dallas Museum of Art) It's no secret that sports fanatics tend to treat their favorite game as a sacred thing, but a new discovery suggests the ancient Maya took it to a whole new level. Beneath the paved floor of a plaza determined to be a court for Maya Ballgame, archaeologists have identified plants used for ceremonies. These plants have medicinal properties and are associated with religious use – including a plant with known hallucinogenic effects, whose use had never been previously seen in Maya contexts....

Okay, your HIGH is really screwin’ up my LAWN!!! People are IDIOTS and will ingest ANYTHING to catch a BUZZ — the latest — FLOWER SEEDS?! That’s right, people are CHEWING the seeds of: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Sleepy Grass Blue Morning Glory Because they’re LEGAL, and apparently, mimic the high of LSD.

No one is quite sure what caused bizarre 600-mile-long tubular clouds to form above a small Australian town. The fluffy white rods, known as Morning Glory clouds, can move up to 35 miles per hour, they can pose a problem for airplanes flying through the area. Wired reports: A small number of pilots and tourists travel there each year in hopes of “cloud surfing” with the mysterious phenomenon. Similar tubular shaped clouds called roll clouds appear in various places around the globe. But nobody has yet figured out what causes the Morning Glory clouds. Check out Wired’s blog to see...

They have such whimsical names as heavenly blue, crimson rambler and pearly gates, and delicate blooms that crawl quickly up trellises. But when morning glory seeds aren't planted -- when they are instead ingested -- whimsical thoughts can crawl through altered minds with kaleidoscope-like visions. Kristy Peterkin, whose family owns Ayers Variety and Hardware, says the owners caught two teenage boys stealing "13 or 14 packs of these seeds." And teenagers know this. Once popular in the hippie era of the 1960s, morning glory seeds as a hallucinogen seem to have sprouted once again. Local gardening shops have noticed their...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Your backyard garden is a quick and easy way for kids to get high, Oklahoma City television station KOCO reported. For gardeners, Heavenly Blue Morning Glories can be just the splash of color they need to illuminate their gardens. However, some teens have found a different use -- an LSD-like trip. "You can tell an avid gardener from a 15-, 16-year-old kid," said Linda Shackleford of the TLC Nursery. So, when packs of teens kept showing up at TLC Nursery, workers there smelled something other then flowers. The teens weren't there for the packs of pansies or...