DRUGS!

DRUGS!

Etymology: The word hallucinogen is derived from the word hal.  lucination. The term hallucinate dates back to around 1595–1605, and is derived from the Latin hallūcinātus, the past participle of (h)allūcināri, meaning "to wander in the mind."

LSD for you and me :-)

In a US survey published in 2013 found that 13.4% of adults have used a psych drug. LSD, also known as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, also also known as ACID, is a popular hallucinogenic drug. Common effects typically include altered thoughts, feelings, and awareness of one’s surroundings. Many users see or hear things that do not exist. 

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. They discovered LSDs psychedelic properties 5 years later when Hofmann himself accidentally ingested an unknown quantity of the chemical. By the mid-1960s, the youth countercultures in California, particularly in San Francisco, had adopted the use of hallucinogenic drugs, with the first major underground LSD factory established by Owsley Stanely. They later sponsored Acid tests accompanied by light shows, film projection and discordant,  improvised music known as the psychedelic symphony. That sounds so fucking cool. The pranksters helped popularize LSD use, through their road trips across America in a psychedelically-decorated converted school bus, which involved distributing the drug and meeting with major figures of the beat movement, and through publications about their activities such as Tom Wolfe’s the electric Kool-Aid Acid test.  

Physical Effects

• Pupil Dilation 

• Reduced appetite

• wakefulness

And that’s it, no bad side-effect, go try it to find out! 

Among the reported symptoms are numbers, weakness, nausea, hypothermia or hyperthermia, elevated blood sugar, goose bumps, heart rate increase, jaw clenching, perspiration (no big deal since im always sweating like the Niagara Falls, it’s probably an unhealthy condition but ya know what, tis life), saliva production?? Like assembly line? Does the saliva have a union that treats them fairly? Tis should not be sal-i-va, rather it should be sal-we-va

Of the 20 drugs ranked according to individual and societal harm by David Nutt (hehe), SD was third to last, which is approximately 1/10th as harmful as alcohol. Hmmmmm. Ice-rest-ing

The CIA and Department of Defense

Publicly available documents (because after like 20 years I think the government has to release documents of projects and top secret info) and have discontinued research into the use of LSD as a means of mind control, research from the 1960s suggests that both mentally ill and healthy people are more suggestible while under its influence. Perhaps because the Serotonin machine was kicking on overtime? Unionized??? The big ol happy factory was HAULING ASS, CALL THE FLOORMAN, GET THOSE WORKERS OUT OF THERE, WATCH OUT BECAUSE THAT SEROTININ IS FUCKING FLYING FUUUUCK!!!!

Serotonergic Psychedlic

A subclass of psychedelic drugs with a method of action strongly tied to the neurotransmitter serotonin. If y’all have not met La Sertoe-nin, or have a rocky marriage with her, then you should seek counseling and talk it out, do some journaling, perhaps find ways to rebalance yourself to endure the disconnect. Serotonin is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter which is tied to positive mood, certain involuntary muscle control, and countless other functions, many of which are not yet fully understood!

Examples

• DMT

• LSD

• Mescaline

• Psilocybin 

BAD Trips

Psychiatric reactions are possible, such as anxiety, paranoia and delusions. Distressing flashbacks might occur in spite of no further use, a condition called hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.

Spiritual Use

LSD can catalyze intense spiritual experiences and is thus considered an entheogen. This includes out of body experiences, some kinda Astral Projecting agenda? So in 1966, Timothy Leary (an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs), established the League of Spiritual Discovery. This group strove for legal use of LSD for the purpose of meditation, insight, and spiritual understanding. It only existed in New York for one year and had this lotus looking mandala as their official seal, the end-less circle circumscribing the lotus made by the double infinity sign. 

Music and Art

LSD was soon being more widely seen and heard thanks to the bands that participated in the acid tests and related events, including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson airplane and big brother and the holding company , and through the inventive poster nd album art of San Francisco-based artists like Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Bonnie MacLean, Stanely Mouse & Alton Kelley, and Wes Wilson, meant to evoke the visual experience of an LSD trip. LSD had a strong influence on the Grateful Dead and the culture of “Deadheads”. 

DMT

Scientifically known as N-dimethyltryptamine in medical talk - is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug. Sometimes referred to as Dimitri, this drug produces effects similar to those of psychedelics, like LSD and MAGIC MUSHROOOOOOOMS more like vrooms into the higher dimensions babey ayeee.

Other Names:

• Fantasia 

• Businessman’s trip

• 45-minute psychosis

• Spiritual molecule

Origin

DMT naturally occurs in many plant species, which have been used in religious ceremonies in South American countries for centuries, but it can also be made in a laboratory

Similarities to Ayahuasca?

Kinda?? DMT is one of the main ingredients in ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is traditionally prepared using two plants called Banisteriopsis and Psychotria viridian. The latter contains DMT while the former  contains MAOIs, which prevent certain enzymes in your body from breaking down DMT

Experience

Some truly enjoy the experience! People have described feeling like they’re traveling at warp speed through a tunnel of bright lights and shapes. Others describe having an out-of-body experience and feeling like they’ve changed into something else.

There’s also some who report visiting other worlds and communicating with elf-like beings? Dude what the fuck

It’s a synthetic DMT usually comes in the form of a white, crystalline powered. It can be smoked in a pipe, vaporized, injected, or snorted. 

Effects

• Euphoria

• Floating

• Vivid hallucinations

• Altered sense of time

• Depersonalization

Physical effects of DMT can include:

• Rapid heart rate

• Increased blood pressure

• Visual disturbances

• Dizziness 

• Dilated pupils

• Agitation

• Paranoia

• Rapid rhythmic eye movements

• Chest pain or tightness

• Diarrhea YO whAt the fUUUCK??? Get a bidet for that lmao clean up on aisle wagon ass nerd here lmaooooo

• Nausea or vomiting

check out:

Ken Kesey research and wrote “One Flew over the cuckoos next”

questions

• How do you suggest one prepares for their journey into the realms of psychs?

• What was one of the most memorable experiences partaking in the problematic psychedelics?

• When do you know you have to recharge and take some time off in a dry period?

• If you can trip anywhere in the world, where would you trip?

• Without considering the constraints time and space has caged us in, Who in the history of existence, would you want to drop a tab with the most?

• Why are trips necessary for creativity and self-exploration and identity?

• have you ever entered a drug experience with hesitation?

Citations

Organization for Understanding Cluster Headaches Research Library - 5HT and Hallucinogens (Archive.org index, Aug 28, 2005)