The history of hallucinogenic drugs goes as far back as the ancient civilizations. Such as the Chinese, Egyptians, and Sumerians. They used opium s, cannabis, coca leaves, alcohol, peyote, and psychedelic mushrooms. The middle-ages is when we mainly used these drugs for healing. Many where plants such as belladonna and mushrooms. Other things we used to change or mental state or to give a person a boost is coffee and distilled alcohol. Then we have an early industrial revolution during this era society refined the drugs and made morphine from opiates, and came up with hypodermic needles and rolling machines for tobacco. With all this new change it caused were increased in abuse and chances in addictions to the drugs. In the 20 century, we
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The substances affect the mind in unique ways that result in altered states of consciousness, which are qualitatively and phenomenologically different from the ordinary states (Szabo, 2015). These can also help with depression and anxiety and mood disorders. Making the receptors either take a break not allowing information to process as normal or to distort the information. Peyote was founded and is still used today in a religious manner to give a person the individual needs to become closer to god. To have a better understanding and an out of the body experience. Many people who have tried these drugs get more vivid sense .Although these drugs can be used to help with medical issues most are illegal because they have a high chance of being overused and making people addicted. Many of the synthetics medications of the hallucinogenic drugs have more negative side effects. This is one reason why it is illegal and why we don’t use them to help medical issues. Countless of these drugs have been abused and many people become deathly ill because of them and that they are unable to stop taking these drugs. Some of the positives are profound life-changing spiritual experiences, euphoria, perspective shifting, and internal visions. The negatives are an overly intense experience suck as fear and or panic …show more content…
Is a psychedelic compound of the tryptamine family. DMT can produce powerful psychedelic experiences including intense visuals, euphoria and hallucinations. Magic Mushrooms Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and psilocin. Many cultures have used these mushrooms in religious rites. In modern Western society, they are used recreationally for their psychedelic effects. Ayahuasca, also commonly called yagé, is a hallucinogenic brew of various plant infusions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. It is either mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine (DMT)-containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria or with the leaves of the Justicia pectoralis plant which doesn’t contain DMT. The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of AmazonianPeru. Salvia divinorum (also known as Diviner’s Sage, Ska María Pastora, Seer’s Sage, and by its genus name Salvia) is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of “visions” and other hallucinatory experiences. Its native habitat is in cloud forest in the isolated Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, where it grows in shady and moist locations.Mazatec shamans have a long and continuous tradition of
The substances affect the mind in unique ways that result in altered states of consciousness, which are qualitatively and phenomenologically different from the ordinary states (Szabo, 2015). These can also help with depression and anxiety and mood disorders. Making the receptors either take a break not allowing information to process as normal or to distort the information. Peyote was founded and is still used today in a religious manner to give a person the individual needs to become closer to god. To have a better understanding and an out of the body experience. Many people who have tried these drugs get more vivid sense .Although these drugs can be used to help with medical issues most are illegal because they have a high chance of being overused and making people addicted. Many of the synthetics medications of the hallucinogenic drugs have more negative side effects. This is one reason why it is illegal and why we don’t use them to help medical issues. Countless of these drugs have been abused and many people become deathly ill because of them and that they are unable to stop taking these drugs. Some of the positives are profound life-changing spiritual experiences, euphoria, perspective shifting, and internal visions. The negatives are an overly intense experience suck as fear and or panic …show more content…
Is a psychedelic compound of the tryptamine family. DMT can produce powerful psychedelic experiences including intense visuals, euphoria and hallucinations. Magic Mushrooms Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and psilocin. Many cultures have used these mushrooms in religious rites. In modern Western society, they are used recreationally for their psychedelic effects. Ayahuasca, also commonly called yagé, is a hallucinogenic brew of various plant infusions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. It is either mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine (DMT)-containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria or with the leaves of the Justicia pectoralis plant which doesn’t contain DMT. The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of AmazonianPeru. Salvia divinorum (also known as Diviner’s Sage, Ska María Pastora, Seer’s Sage, and by its genus name Salvia) is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of “visions” and other hallucinatory experiences. Its native habitat is in cloud forest in the isolated Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, where it grows in shady and moist locations.Mazatec shamans have a long and continuous tradition of