LSD

She called me her friend a lot, which always made me feel guilty for not doing the same. We’d actually been friends for a time, and then it was just easier to say we were friends instead of actually saying that we had almost nothing in common and made each other uncomfortable. I think that’s because the familiar is easy enough and I didn’t want to put any effort into saying anything that might make her upset. Sure, I was called for help a few times, I stayed up telling her that everything would…

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It is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States ”, with an estimate of 22 million monthly users. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) lists cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug (same category as heroin, LSD), making it illegal under federal law. Studies suggest a plethora of short-term adverse effects of marijuana that include: “problems with memory and learning; distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch); difficulty in thinking and problem solving;…

Hasan Saleem Weekly Critical Reading Review #4 The readings over the past two weeks and the film La Haine focused on the issue of social and spatial discrimination in cities. The major theme present in the movie and essays is the socioeconomic conditions of the marginalized, African Americans in United States and the poor French working class and immigrants. The essays also focused on the power of the states and how those in power marginalize others. The film La Haine centers on the fact that…

Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the 1960s, after participating in LSD experiments at a mental hospital in California. The novel is a metaphor for the 60s, taking place in a mental ward run by the controlling Nurse Ratched, who represents the silent majority. Chief, the Native American narrator, lives in silence and isolation until McMurphy, a new patient, defies Nurse Ratched’s authority, drawing parallels to the counterculture. Throughout the novel, Chief sees a fog in the…

effect; Huxley looked for “drugs that would release [the] mind [and make one] forget [his or her] problems [and] escape from the present [with] no negative effect” (Bradshaw). Personally, Huxley found these through uses of drugs such as mescaline and LSD. Searching for the “perfect drug”, Huxley created the fictional soma to suffice for his failure to find a truly perfect drug. Huxley’s obsession with drugs and dedication towards discovering the “perfect drug” is exemplified in his promotion of…

The Beatles embarked on a highly publicised trip to the region of Rishikesh in Northern India in February of 1968. The reason for their joint venture was, principally, to attend a transcendental meditation course taught by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose exclusive seminars they had previously attended in London and Wales. The images of the four men and their wives at the train station leaving Britain for India made headlines all over the international press, and greatly spread the idea of…

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different is a biography written by a critically acclaimed children’s nonfiction writer and longtime journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Karen Blumenthal. The biography was published by Feiwel and Friends in New York. The main idea of the biography is to “Think Different”. “Think Different” for those who have a passion to change the world for the better like Steve Jobs. I love this book because it has great info and because I knew Steve Jobs as Apple but…

War on Drugs The war on drugs it a constant battle that we have going on in America. We are going to look at where it all started, what our government has done to stop it, what are the out come of drugs in the us, and last what are alternative solutions to help. These are going to help us get a better understanding of how the war on drugs became a priority, who put it into place, and how it is going so far for the American people. Drugs were intro discovered to the united states in the 1800’s.…

On August 15-17 1969 in Bethel, New York, was a 3 day event that was all about peace, love, music. It was a historic event that changed what was known back then as the “hippie movement”. This concert would feature many influential artists that later generations would embrace as a cultural revolution of sorts. Blending a sentiment and mood of what Woodstock would come to represent. People didn’t realize (until later) how historic Woodstock really was. Woodstock was actually supposed to be a…