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    Drugs and Abuse Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topic of drug abuse very difficult. From the most recent studies only can one find data that is presently accepted as correct. These numerous studies provide enough data to explain the

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    Take a moment and think about those your care deeply for, those you would give your life for. Now, imagine if he or she were sick, or in any other kind of trouble. What would you do to help them? Go to the edge of the world and back, fight, not stopping for yourself until they were in good health once more. Now imagine if you found a potential cure, or a solution, but it was held away because a few people who had more money than you did not want it to be used. You have seen and heard of this proponent

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    Illegal drugs Illegal drugs are drugs which have controls on them by a government and are illegal in certain situations (a person is not allowed to have them). A drug is any chemical designed to affect the human body. A psychoactive drug is a drug that affects the brain. Some controlled drugs are allowed if you have permission (called a "prescription") from a doctor. Other drugs are illegal - meaning you are never allowed to have them. Individual countries and places have different laws about different

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    murdering the king leads to Macbeth’s hallucinations and break away from reality. The crime further provokes Macbeth to enhance the idea of a machine killer as he targets more people to kill later on. With such motivation as strong as the effects of Psilocybin, Macbeth’s mental state deteriorates, leading to his

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    smoked, sniffed, eaten, or injected. The person who is using Cocaine feels a powerful urge that makes them feel over confident or even invincible. MAGIC MUSHROOMS: The magic mushrooms come in many different forms. It is made out to psilocin and psilocybin. You take this drug by eating it. The amount you take will vary on the effect. LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYL AMIDE: LSD is one of the biggest mood changing drugs. It is found from a fungus that is grown on rye and other grains. TREATMENT The treatment

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    Psychedelic Music, Psychedelic Mindset MUSIC 402 ZHIHE WANG 10112719 The definition of Psychedelic music Psychedelic has been seen as a psychedelic culture in 1960s, a subculture of people who used the psychedelic drugs such as: LSD, psilocybin mushrooms to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness. So as Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres influenced by the 1960s and emerged during the mid-1960s among

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    LSD (lysergic Acid Dyethilamide) A 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.

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    Timothy Leary and the LSD Movement A social movement can be defined as a dynamic phenomenon; the situation that is observed to exist/happen is in a state of flux. A vital analysis on social movements necessitates a proper theoretical perspective, that being an interactionist perspective as it provides a useful dynamic mode of analysis. A “temporal and developmental perspective” is also necessary in the sense that it greatly enhances the valuable analytic tools found within certain structural concepts

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    and hallucinogens. Hallucinogenic drugs are substances that distort the perception of objective reality. The most well-known hallucinogens include phencyclidine, otherwise know as PCP, lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD or acid, and psilocybin, or "magic" mushrooms. Under the influence of hallucinogens, the senses of direction, distance, and time become disoriented. You see sound and hear light. These drugs can produce unpredictable, erratic, and violent behavior in users that

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    The Spirit Molecule (DMT): An Endogenous Psychoactive "The feeling of doing DMT is as though one had been struck by noetic lightning. The ordinary world is almost instantaneously replaced, not only with a hallucination, but a hallucination whose alien character is its utter alienness. Nothing in this world can prepare one for the impressions that fill your mind when you enter the DMT sensorium."- McKenna. N,N-dimethyltryptamine(DMT) is a psychoactive chemical in the tryptamine family

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