The Psychological Effects of LSD Introduction LSD has always been a center of controversy in American society‚ often times because peoplehave been miseducated about its effects or exposed to media bias. Its physiological effects onthe brain and body have become more and more apparent in the last few decades when research in neuroscience peaked. The psychological effects of LSD have been often difficult to describe and document very well -- they were first discovered on April 16‚ 1943 by
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LSD‚ otherwise known as acid and otherwise known as Lysergic acid diethylamide‚ is a psychedelic drug that belong to the ergoline family. It was founded and synthesized by Albert Hofmann in the year 1938 from ergot‚ which is a grain fungus known to grow on rye. The drug is well known for its effects. It alters the thinking process‚ it give hallucinations with both opened and closed eyes. Sense of time is not present when on this drug‚ and spiritual experiences have been known to happen. Although
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LSD was first synthesized on November 16‚ 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel‚ Switzerland as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives. LSD’s psychedelic properties were discovered 5 years later when Hofmann himself accidentally ingested an unknown quantity of the chemical. The first intentional ingestion of LSD occurred on April 19‚ 1943‚ when Hofmann ingested 250 mg of LSD. He said this would be a threshold dose
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LSD INFO Effects Short Term Effects dilated pupils higher body temperature increase heart rate and blood pressure sweating loss of appetite sleeplessness dry mouth tremors and more Long Term Effects Flashbacks- are the spontaneous and unpredictable replay of an aspect of the LSD trip‚ occurring some time after the initial effects of the drug have worn off. Visual or emotional experiences that were originally
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Sources 1. Europe | LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies" BBC News. 2008-04-30. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 2. LSD Discovery-Albert Hofmann + Hofmann at 99 years. Skeptically.org. 2009-11-16 3. Time Magazine. 1944-04-03 4. Novak J.‚Steven:"LSD before Leary: Sidney Cohen’s Critique of 1950s Psychedelic Drug Research"‚ Isis‚ Vol. 88‚ No.1 pp. 87-110 5. U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia‚ Diseases and Conditions‚ Alcoholism and
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Scientists have reported that LSD makes you creative. One doesn’t need a masters degree to figure that out‚ though‚ just throw on Dark Side of the Moon to get audial proof of that fact. It’s not necessarily the creative aspect that scientists are gushing over this week. Thanks to a new technology‚ scientist have created brain images of the human mind while on the drug. The results were fascinating but does marijuana have the same benefits? TRIPPY BRAIN IMAGES SHOW MIND ON LSD The past few years have
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LSD and other hallucinogens have flooded the drug market for the past forty years. Some of these drugs are natural while others are man-made‚ but almost all of them have the same effect on the people that take them. In its early years LSD‚ and LSD like drugs‚ were tested on all people in different walks of life including our military personnel. Of course the doctors did this not knowing the effects of the drug‚ long term or short term. With time knowledge grew‚ but sadly‚ so did the curiosity about
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My drug is LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) 2. Usually LSD is taken by mouth. It is dissolved into a liquid and soaked into blotter paper‚ which is then cut into quarter inch sized doses. These are also called tabs‚ trips‚ or hits. Although it is less common‚ LSD powder can also be squeezed into tiny pills‚ called microdots‚ or placed into capsules. The liquid itself can be squeezed into the eye. 3. LSD is manmade. 4. Battery Acid‚ California Sunshine‚ Dots‚ Golden Dragon‚ Pane‚ Looney Toons
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Acid Dreams The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA‚ The Sixties‚ and Beyond Authors: Martin A. Lee‚ Bruce Shlain Publisher: Grove Press Date: 1985 ISBN: 0-802-13062-3 “We do not see things as they are‚ we see them as we are.” —Old Talmudic saying Table of Contents Introduction: Whose Worlds Are These? .................................................................3 Prologue.........................................................................................................
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prior to this‚ but my friend who sold it to Will and Zachary said it was some of the cleanest L he had ever come across‚ so they bought a total of 18 tabs‚ 6 for each of us. A light dose of LSD is 25-50 micrograms. A large dose is 150-400 micrograms of LSD. A single tab typically has 30-100 micrograms of LSD‚ and being that this was some upscale acid‚ I’m going to say this was about 100 micrograms per tab. My friends and I were knowingly about to do around 600 micrograms a piece. As
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