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Timothy Leary Hippie Movement
1,164 words... e allowed to be done. Freedom of press is what won the case, and Hair was able to go on. (Butler p. 2) Visual art in the hippie culture was also influenced by the Eastern culture. Album covers of many acid rock bands had images and icons of Eastern art called mandala. Icons and images such as the Yin Yang and circular, geometric patterns originated from mandala art. The Beatles, The Mamas and Papas, Bob Dylan, and other sixties musical artist had album covers with mandala art on it. It was a...
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Good And Evil Due To The Fact
1,586 wordsThe use of hallucinogenic plants dates back thousands of years. Over the years, many different cultures and civilizations have used them for different purposes. The common belief that similarities exist between cultures that rely upon the use of herbal hallucinogens is greatly exaggerated. The cultural variables between these cultures are often so significant that the only major similarity between them is the fact that they use hallucinogens. The common generalization by society that every cultu...
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Visual And Auditory Australian Aborigines
1,614 words... misconduct, priests profiting from gifts in return for the drug, or simply the economic decline of the tribes which is said to be due to their peyote usage. In any event, peyotism is strongly look down upon by a majority of Navaho's, yet the members of the Peyote Cult still continue to practice. The fact that the Peyote Cult is only a small division of a larger culture also provides a distinct difference between them and the Aborigines. There is no division among the Aborigines over plant us...
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Central Nervous System Psychedelic Drugs
676 wordsA Hallucinogen is defined as a substance that causes excitation of the central nervous system, characterized by hallucination. Mood change, anxiety, sensory distortion, delusion, depersonalization; increased pulse, temperature, increased blood pressure, and dilation of the pupils are the many effects that occur. Psychic dependence may occur, and depressive or suicidal psychotic states may result from the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances. Some kinds of hallucinogens are lysergic acid, commo...
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Chelsea House Publishers Suicidal Tendencies
1,611 wordsPg. 8 LSD Longo-Vega To understand the ways that LSD affect the brain we must first discuss how the brain sends signals to the body. In the brain and the brain stem there are special cells called neurons. Neurons release a number of chemicals that are sent to various receptors. The receptors interpret chemical signals and use them to make you move, see, hear, learn, etc. These neurons are also responsible for such behaviors as obsessive-compulsive behavior and insomnia. The cells that are direct...
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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
1,965 wordsLas Vegas has always been known as the city of sin, and the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas corroborates this belief. From drug experimentation to gambling, this movie portrays a surprisingly thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. Though various drugs were used in this movie, psychedelics seemed to be the drugs of choice for the characters. The focus of this paper is to define the hallucinogens by using its most popular member, LSD. After LSD has been adequately def...
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Withdrawal Symptoms Drug Abusers
1,622 wordsDrug use is generally defined as the use of a drug with such frequency that the user has physical or mental harm or it impairs social abilities. The substances that are discussed in this report consist of hallucinogens, opiates, stimulants, and depressants. These drugs affect moods, emotions, feelings and thinking processes, or they can alter the workings of the mind. A person dependant on drugs usually carries three basic characteristics that are indicators. First, the user continues to use the...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure Brain Cells
1,057 wordsHallucinogens mess with your brain they alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and your environment. They also affect your senses like hearing and seeing. This can make you think that you are seeing stuff and feeling things that dont even exist. Using Hallucinogens makes your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Hallucinogens may put you into a coma. They can also cause heart and lung failure. Hallucinogens can change the way that you feel emotionally. They may also make you feel suspic...
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Increase In Drug Body And Mind
1,805 wordsFacing everyday problems in these recent years many people turn to drugs as an escape from the existance they hold. Drug use has rapidly increased in the last twenty years and has become a national crises. More people are experimenting with different drugs at a younger age. Due to the rapid increase in drug abuse our government has looked to rehab as an alternative to jail. When a person thinks of a drug abuser one usually pictures a person that looks like thay had just jumped out of a garbage b...
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Central Nervous System Psychological Dependence
1,765 wordsDrug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...
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Taking The Drug Timothy Leary
2,387 wordsA Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide? or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye, 1992, p. 2). Hoffman discovered the drug while trying to synthesize a new drug for the treatment of headaches. He obtained the lysergic acid from the parasitic fungus that grows on rye plants known as ergot. From the lysergic acid, he synthesized the compound LSD. He used the compound to test for its pain killing properties on laboratory animals. Being that appeared totally ineff...
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Psychoactive Drugs Peer Pressure
625 wordsDrug use is part of life in the United States. Some people use drugs for medical purposes and some use them to escape from reality or as a way to cope with problems. There are two main types of drugs, medicines and psychoactive drugs. Medicines are used to help the body fight injury and psychoactive drugs are used to cause a change in the users brain activity. Psychoactive drugs are very dangerous. They produce very powerful changes in the body. What a drug does is called its action and unwanted...
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Chelsea House Publishers Suicidal Tendencies
1,695 wordsPg. 8 LSD CHEMISTRY OF LSD Longo-Vega To understand the ways that LSD affect the brain we must first discuss how the brain sends signals to the body. In the brain and the brain stem there are special cells called neurons. Neurons release a number of chemicals that are sent to various receptors. The receptors interpret chemical signals and use them to make you move, see, hear, learn, etc. These neurons are also responsible for such behaviors as obsessive-compulsive behavior and insomnia. The cell...
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Don T Do Drugs T Do Drugs Vargas
574 wordsBy pure mischance a high school student named Vargas happens to walk by smokers corner on his way home. Unlucky for him, his friend Johnny Bluejean is one the corner smoking a blunt. Johnny stops Vargas and offers him a smoke. Vargas tempted with all Johnny? s endorsements, and peer pressure collapses and takes the blunt. 20 years later Vargas is in the hospital breathing off a respirator. This all occurred because of one unlucky? YES? ruined Vargas? life. This scenario transpires millions of ti...
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Central Nervous System Loss Of Appetite
1,804 wordsDrugs Abuse occurs when a drug is taken for unintended purposes and can lead to addiction. Addiction occurs when a person must use the drug to feel and function normally. Addiction occurs in two types, physical and psychological. Physical addiction is caused the brain, the brain produces fewer chemicals or neurotransmitters to make up for the extra chemicals therefore the brain needs the chemicals from the drug to reach the correct balance and individual becomes out of touch with reality. Psycho...
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Patients With Severe Illegally To Produce Drugs
526 wordsDrugs are Drugs 3 Drugs Drugs are chemical substances that alter mood, behavior, perception, or mental functioning. Throughout history, many cultures have found ways to alter consciousness through the ingestion of substances. In current professional practice, psychoactive substances known as psychotropic drugs have been developed to treat patients with severe mental illness. Psychoactive substances exert their effects by modifying biochemical or physiological processes in the brain. The message ...
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Don T Teens Find Drugs
686 wordsWhat you have just experienced is what it feels like to be on a TRIP. Now you might ask your self what is this TRIP that you speak of? Well let me explain. While some drugs speed up your nervous system, there are certain drugs that change the way you feel, hear, see, smell, taste, and think. These drugs are known as Hallucinogens. Hallucinogens, date back to early American days. They were sometimes used in Ancient Indian worships. Many hallucinogens are made in labs, but some are natural. Some n...
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Dance Clubs Side Effects
665 wordsEcstasy Chemically, ecstasy is known as methylene-dioxymethamphetamine or MDMA. It falls between two major categories of drugs, hallucinogens and amphetamines. Ecstasy usually comes in the form of a small tablet. In 1914, MDMA was first used as a prescription drug to reduce appetite. However it wasn? t until 1981 when American youths first started using it as a recreational drug. It was completely legal in the US until 1985 when it was added to the banned list. It was about the same time that th...
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Ascending Reticular Activating Synaptic Ally Agonizes Lsd
4,684 wordsTable of Contents Introduction Table 1: Effects of LSD A Brief Foray Into Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences The Suspects Figure 1: Structure of LSD Overview of Synaptic Transmission Theory: LSD Pre-synaptic ally Inhibits 5 -HT Neurons Theory: LSD Post-synaptic ally Antagonizes 5 -HT 2 Receptors Figure 2: LSD Binding at 5 -HT 2 Receptor Theory: LSD Post-synaptic ally Partially Agonizes 5 -HT 2 Receptors Theory: LSD Post-synaptic ally Agonizes 5 -HT 1 Receptors Conclusion References Introducti...
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Fight Or Flight Sleep Paralysis
1,937 wordsFear-Induced Hallucination: How Sleep Paralysis Triggers Hallucination I researched the web to find out how hallucination starts during an episode of Sleep Paralysis. As I have written in my previous paper, a Sleep Paralysis, although often believed as an evils work, results from some errors of the neural transmission in the brain during REM sleep (1). During a frightening state of Sleep Paralysis, one experiences total body immobility and cannot speak or move besides little eye movements and re...
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