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“To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.”
What is Psychedelic drug
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Differing with other psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and opioids, psychedelics tend to qualitatively alter ordinary conscious experience. Whereas stimulants cause energized feelings and opioids produce a relaxed euphoric state, the psychedelic experience is often compared to non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, yoga, religious ecstasy, dreaming and even near-death experiences. Most psychedelic drugs fall into one of the three families of chemical compounds: tryptamines, phenethylamines, or lysergamides. Although lysergamides are their own group, they are in fact both a tryptamine and a phenethylamine.
Many psychedelic drugs are illegal worldwide under the UN conventions, occasionally excepting use in a religious or research context. Despite these controls, recreational use of psychedelics is common.
There are numerous psychedelic substances, used in many different cultures. Here are some of the best-known varieties:
Acid, Lysergic Acid or LSD
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LSD is a chemically synthesized hallucinogen, developed from ergot, a kind of mold that grows on the rye grain. LSD was widely used in the 1960s, particularly among young, middle-class people, until it was made illegal. Use of LSD has continued, despite being a controlled substance, although its use has gone through phases of greater or lesser popularity.
DMT
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DMT is a naturally occurring plant-based
psychedelic found in the bark and nuts of certain trees from Central and South America. The effects of DMT are much shorter than those of other psychedelics, typically lasting only an hour. This has lead to the term “businessman’s trip” or “businessman’s lunch” being used to describe a DMT trip.
Ololiuqui is a naturally occurring psychedelic which is found in the seeds of the morning glory flower. The effects are similar to those of LSD, but the drug has remained unpopular, due to many unpleasant side effects. These include nausea, vomiting, headache, high blood pressure, and drowsiness.
Psilocybin or Magic Mushrooms
Magic mushrooms contain a naturally occurring type of hallucinogen, called psilocybin, which is found in certain fungi. There is a wide variety of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and their legal status is somewhat ambiguous, as they can be found growing wild in many parts of the world. This can make them appealing to young people, keen to experiment with these “free drugs,” but mushrooms carry particularly high risks given the toxicity of some varieties, which can even be lethal.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is more difficult to categorize as a psychedelic because the hallucinogen effects are less pronounced, and the mood-enhancing and stimulant effects are more noticeable to the user than some other psychedelics. However, despite popular myths, ecstasy can induce hallucinations and delusions, and it is possible to have a bad trip on ecstasy, although this is nowhere near as common as bad trips on LSD or mushrooms. Ecstasy has also been associated with increased risks of health problems arising from overheating, dehydration and water intoxication, although this may be more a result of excessive dancing without adequate hydration than a result of taking the drug.
Mescaline or Peyote
Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic substance found in certain species of cactus, the most well-known being the peyote cactus. The effects of mescaline, which are similar to those of LSD, were well documented in the classic text on hallucinogens,
The Door of Perception, by Aldous Huxley, as well as by renowned psychologist, Havelock Ellis. Mescaline was the subject of the movie,
Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus.
There is often confusion about the legal status of peyote seeds and peyote buttons; although peyote is a schedule 1 drug, and is therefore illegal, the listing of peyote as a controlled substance in Schedule I do not apply to the nondrug use of peyote in bona fide religious ceremonies of the Native American Church, and members of the Native American Church using peyote in religious ceremonies are exempt from registration. Any person who manufactures peyote for or distributes peyote to the Native American Church, however, is required to obtain registration annually and to comply with all other requirements of law.
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