Hallucinogens

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Hallucinogens

• Psilocybin (shrooms) organic
• LSD (acid), PCP (dust, angel dust) synthetic
• Not physically addictive, but tolerance develops
• LSD
• Usually comes in tabs, or liquid. Put into sugar
  cubes, jello squares, tablets
• Effects of LSD
• Hallucinations, distortion of time, space and
  identity
• feelings of terror, despair, going insane, dying

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Hallucinogens

• Distorted reality often makes user put themselves
  in life-threatening situations
• Flashbacks LSD experience trip occurs after
  stopping the drug (sometimes 20 years later)
• Long lasting psychoses schizophrenia, severe
  depression, permanent insanity
• Birth defects in children

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PCP

• First used as an intravenous anasthetic
• Bitter tasting white powder
• Dissolves easily into liquid (easy to dip or lace
  MJ or tobacco cigarettes into sherm)

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PCP

• Effects
• Hallucinations, delusions, paranoia much like
  schizophrenia
• Compulsive seeking behavior
• Craving
• Violent suicidal behavior
• Sometimes super human strength
• Negatively affects hormonal growth
• Impedes learning processes
• Kidney failure
• Seizures, coma, death

• PCP long term effects
• Memory loss
• Difficulty processing thought into speech
• Depression
• Weight loss
• Can persist for years after drug
• Muscle damage

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Mushrooms

• Much the same as LSD
• Not usually violent, but can be crazy, paranoid
• Hallucinations
• Can be poisonous cause death