Mescaline

What do James “Whitey” Bulger, Al “Scarface” Capone, and George Celino “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes all have in common? The first thing that comes to mind is they are all leaders of Crime families and gangs, but they were all prisoners of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the country if not the world for what happened there and for its notorious prisoners. “The Escape of Alcatraz”, the LSD trails, and the life on “Uncle Sam’s Devil Island” are all…

To date, the topic of Legalizing Marijuana has been an ongoing issue in society for a long time. However, people still do not know whether marijuana is good for the health or if it simply causes negative effects to the human body. Some believe that using Marijuana will embed side effects to people having red, blurry and bloodshot eyes, slow reaction time, addiction and a lot more. While because of its therapeutic nature, marijuana has on the other hand, been perceived to be beneficial to the…

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…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel that has been banned due to its dangerous content. The novel encourages people to adopt a lifestyle of drugs, isolation, and polygamy. It urges people to have a negative attitude toward their family and have repressive tolerance. It displays these things in a positive light and can prove to easily manipulate weak minded people into believing the ideas are accurate. The amount of drug use, isolation,the negative attitude toward family,…

word "Kava" is used to refer to the plant and the beverage which is used for religious, medical, political, and social purposes because it has a calming effects for rituals in tribes of the Western Pacific. Peyote whose principal component is the mescaline, has been used by indigenous peoples from Mexico and America who argue that this plant has the power of helping in deep introspection and insight in the metaphysical. The cannabis plant has an ancient history of rituals as a trance inducing…

Have you ever had a dream? Obviously, the answer for most people is yes; dreaming is a natural process of the human brain. On average, most people dream about 4-6 times per night, according to dreamresearch.net, but most of them tend to be forgotten. Dreams are one of the many phenomena of the human brain. One thing that makes them even more unexplainable is the concept of daydreaming. A daydream is “a pleasant dreamlike fantasy indulged in while awake” (www.thefreedictionary). For most people…

“I stumbled upon the philosopher’s stone, I had the veil of illusion pulled back, and was confronted by the levels of energy and many realms of consciousness which were available to man. I opened the Pandora’s box of multiple realities.”- Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary was a very important person in the psychedelic culture of San Francisco, California in the 1960’s. I would like to focus this essay on the music and culture, as I personally enjoy these things and the music to this very day. No…

Drug Abuse is an epidemic in the adolescent age group in the USA. Stronger synthetic “street” narcotics like Ecstasy, Inhalants and Prescription Abuse are being used by teens at an inexperienced and blooming age throughout America. Many teens that are addicted to these drugs aren 't going to notice the problem in their drug usage. Different types of narcotics usually makes the user relieve the stress of school, problems at home, disagreements with friends, and other pressures of growing up.…

distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.”(Rubin 15) Whereas psychedelic art is described as the visual displays inspired by these drugs. LSD is the main drug used for inducing psychedelic states. Psilocybin and mescaline are also experiences or states caused by drugs like LSD; however, drugs like LSD were not the only influence of the art. Issues and events that were happening in history at that time were factors that transformed art and music for…

by others. The use of the term dope here instead of drugs is deliberate. To the hippies, it served to draw a line between the drugs perceived to be good and those deemed bad ”(Miller 25). Substances as marijuana, LSD, hashish, psilocybin, peyote, mescaline and morning glory seeds are most approved by hippies. Tom Coffin said that dope is part of the revolution, if you fear dope more than you fear Richard Nixon and his Machined Men of Death, then you have indeed sold out and bought in. According…