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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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Grateful Dead Short Term
1,472 wordsIn a house sits a man with no mind. Heart beating, lungs wheezing, mouth agape, and eyes wide open. He is not someone who has a condition; his condition is something chooses, something that is the result of a hallucinogen. Compared to the 60 s and 70 s today's society is able to get stronger forms of hallucinogens. Stronger hallucinogens mean stronger effects. Hallucinogens take a toll on the body and the mind that a person would never think about. That's how they got the name hallucinogen. The ...
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Lysergic Acid Maximum Penalty
1,572 wordsEmbarking on an Acid Trip: Analysis of the benefits and dangers of LSD HP 200 Abstract A thorough analysis of the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD- 25) and its effect on humans are given. The various uses of the drug are also examined throughout several decades, beginning with its first synthesis in 1938 as well as first use by humans five years later to its current usage today by young adolescents. Various myths have also surrounded the capacity of the drug. For example early...
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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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Religious Ceremonies Native Americans
1,104 wordsPeyote is one type of cactus grown in southwestern U. S. and in neighboring parts of Mexico. The active ingredient in peyote is mescaline, a somewhat potent hallucinogenic chemical. It has the capability of being a psychoactive drug causing the user to change what he / she sees, thinks, and feels. Down through the centuries, it has been used as a painkiller, a stimulant, and a spiritual tool in religious ceremonies. As a controlled substance, not unlike marijuana and LSD, its use is illegal exce...
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Aldous Huxley Lysergic Acid
1,626 wordsAldous Huxley, English novelist, established himself as one of the premiere fiction writers of the twentieth century. Such works as Brave New World and Doors of Perception sparked positive reviews from critics and readers across the globe. He was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. Ever since he was very young, Huxley's peers and family considered him to be different. This was not necessarily a bad thing to anyone. Aldous brother considered this to be a form of superiority. It ...
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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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Bad Trips Peyote Mescaline
482 wordsMescaline comes from the Mexican peyote cactus, which is small, scoreless cactus that grows in the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest. Whenever the crown is sliced and dried, it forms a hard brownish disc thats known as a button. The buttons are chewed for its hallucegenic properties. The Indians first chewed them in the sixteenth century for religious and spiritual purposes, but when Spaniards reached the New World they outlawed peyotism which they thought had something to do with wit...
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Hallucinogenic Drugs In Modern Part 1
1,674 wordsHallucinogenic Drugs in Modern Society Humans are involved with hallucinogens since thousands of years. The use of Hallucinogenic Drugs is not limited to particular area. It has been extensively consumed in all over the world. Several modern intellectuals think that ancient Hindus used hallucinogenic substance for purposes of religious ritual and elation. It is well documented that Chinese used opiates as a drug to overcome their dilemma. Native Americans also accepted hallucinogenic mushrooms t...
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Brave New World Designer Drugs
1,785 wordsBrave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, not scientific prophecy. Hence to treat his writing as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point. Yet the knee-jerk response of Its Brave New World! to any blueprint for chemical...
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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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Drugs And Alcohol Friends And Family
1,022 wordsAlways Running, by Luis T. Rodriguez, is a book based on a certain chapter of the author s life story. Rodriguez s life was centered in the fact that he was involved in gang life during his teen years. Like the title of his book, he was constantly running, whether it be a crime scene or the police. La Vida Loca, a Spanish phrase meaning, the crazy life, is the term used in the novel to depict the gang warfare that Rodriguez went through as he was growing up. A crazy life is a vague and general t...
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Schedule I Drug Period Of Time
926 wordsMairjuana is a drug that has been with us for quite awhile. It was used in ancient China and India for pain relief, tension relief and anxiety problems. Over the course of time, the drug made its way from other countries, such as India and China, and came to the US. A user of this drug will feel the effects anywhere from a few seconds of smoking it to about ten minutes. Its chemicals go into the lungs, then get dispersed into the bloodstream. The user then gets a feeling of being high or stoned....
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Aluminum Foil Distilled Water
1,174 wordsalright dude i guess i can step in here. now what you are looking for are some really good things and i hope you are just wowed by the awesomeness organics. Syrian Rue- is one wierd things slike a trip you have never had by its self, but its used to potentiate other drugs (LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ans countless other tryptamines) but its kinda something that you have to listen to the warnings. Tyramine poisoning is not fun at all. well i have done alot of checking out prices for al...
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Native Americans American Indian
665 wordsDrug use for religious purposes Jamie Gipson Some of my ancestors are Native American so choose the book: The Peyote Cult La Barre, Weston. (1969). New York: Schocken Books. This book is a study of the background of the Mexican and American Indian rituals based on the plant that produces profound, but temporary sensory and psychic derangements. Peyote is a spineless cactus (Lophophora williams), ingested by people in Mexico and the United States to produce visions. The plant is a light blue-gree...
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