Probably for your whole life you have been taught that drugs are awful for your health they can destroy your brain and your body, which is true for most drugs and even some prescription drugs. But what if i were to tell you that some of these so called dangerous drugs are not as dangerous as you have been told but they also can have psychological benefits. The main hallucinogens i will be talking about include Psilocybin mushrooms, LSD-25. Hallucinogenic drugs have psychological benefits in humans.
To start this paper off I will give an explanation of what hallucinogenic drugs are and how the work on the human brain. LSD was invented in 1938 by a swiss chemist Albert hoffman he created LSD while trying to find a drug that helps respiratory …show more content…
Studies have shown that there are many beneficial uses for hallucinogenic drugs. For example one use of a hallucinogenic drug such as mushrooms or lsd, is that they can actually help a cancer patient cope with death somehow the drugs effects can help people who are dying look past the fear of death this can be a great thing for them because the anxiety of the most unknown death an experience that most people are terribly afraid of. To add another great benefit of this drugs it is actually a cure for addiction drugs such as lsd can have a 50% cure for alcoholism (www.medicaldaily.com). In fact the co founder of alcoholics anonymous Bill Wilson used lsd in his treatments in the early years of his study but it was quickly ended by the true founder Bob Smith he said that using a drug to stop dependence on another is a not smart way to help addiction. War veterans can also benefit psychologically from using these drugs. Some users of the drug can revisit traumatic events and help them come to terms so it's essentially a cure for PTSD (Health). Therefore hallucinogenic drugs can be …show more content…
A true fact about hallucinogenic drugs is they can cause bad trips. A bad trip is when the user sees unpleasant or scary images or there flat out paranoid. This does happen but there are ways to stop or prevent a bad trip. To stop or prevent a bad trip you can take these easy steps to end it, be in a comfortable the bad trips happen when a person is uncomfortable with people they don't know. Another reason why bad trips happen maybe the user isn't getting the real or pure substance that they paid for, because LSD or Shrooms are schedule 1 drugs it can be very hard to get a pure substance because normally the people selling these drugs are pretty sketchy people. But thankfully there is a way to test if your substance is pure with an iodine test. The worst thing about psychedelic drugs it that they can potentially cause bad trips but they can be helped by following two simple steps be comfortable and iodine test the drugs before you use them so essentially they're not actually that awful at all even less though than a legal drug such as alcohol. Another reason it isn't that dangerous is because it has a very high overdose the LD-50 for lsd is 14 milligrams where a regular dose is 100 micrograms. There have been a few cases of very high doses of LSD in all cases it was mistaken for cocaine. In a case a person injected 320 milligrams of LSD 320,000 micrograms
To start this paper off I will give an explanation of what hallucinogenic drugs are and how the work on the human brain. LSD was invented in 1938 by a swiss chemist Albert hoffman he created LSD while trying to find a drug that helps respiratory …show more content…
Studies have shown that there are many beneficial uses for hallucinogenic drugs. For example one use of a hallucinogenic drug such as mushrooms or lsd, is that they can actually help a cancer patient cope with death somehow the drugs effects can help people who are dying look past the fear of death this can be a great thing for them because the anxiety of the most unknown death an experience that most people are terribly afraid of. To add another great benefit of this drugs it is actually a cure for addiction drugs such as lsd can have a 50% cure for alcoholism (www.medicaldaily.com). In fact the co founder of alcoholics anonymous Bill Wilson used lsd in his treatments in the early years of his study but it was quickly ended by the true founder Bob Smith he said that using a drug to stop dependence on another is a not smart way to help addiction. War veterans can also benefit psychologically from using these drugs. Some users of the drug can revisit traumatic events and help them come to terms so it's essentially a cure for PTSD (Health). Therefore hallucinogenic drugs can be …show more content…
A true fact about hallucinogenic drugs is they can cause bad trips. A bad trip is when the user sees unpleasant or scary images or there flat out paranoid. This does happen but there are ways to stop or prevent a bad trip. To stop or prevent a bad trip you can take these easy steps to end it, be in a comfortable the bad trips happen when a person is uncomfortable with people they don't know. Another reason why bad trips happen maybe the user isn't getting the real or pure substance that they paid for, because LSD or Shrooms are schedule 1 drugs it can be very hard to get a pure substance because normally the people selling these drugs are pretty sketchy people. But thankfully there is a way to test if your substance is pure with an iodine test. The worst thing about psychedelic drugs it that they can potentially cause bad trips but they can be helped by following two simple steps be comfortable and iodine test the drugs before you use them so essentially they're not actually that awful at all even less though than a legal drug such as alcohol. Another reason it isn't that dangerous is because it has a very high overdose the LD-50 for lsd is 14 milligrams where a regular dose is 100 micrograms. There have been a few cases of very high doses of LSD in all cases it was mistaken for cocaine. In a case a person injected 320 milligrams of LSD 320,000 micrograms