Psilocybin

The complex history of LSD was quite unpleasant. The military and CIA were taking advantage of LSD as an interrogation weapon. I do not feel using LSD upon other individuals is the correct strategy in the military, CIA, or for other purposes. Moreover, individuals in the late 1950s such as, various movie stars relied heavily upon this drug rather than yoga or meditation. I was surprised that the government wanted to insure individuals were not misusing regulated substances but there are…

Anthropology (pp. 145-151). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. National Institute of Drug Abuse. (2014, December). From National Institute of Drug Abuse DrugFacts: Hallucinogens - LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, and PCP. Retrieved October 16, 2015,: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/hallucinogens-lsd-peyote-psilocybin-pcp Petraco, N., & Sherman, H. (2006). Processing the Scene of a Burglary. In Illustrated Guide to Crime Scene Investigation (pp. 1-25). Boca Raton : CRC Taylor & Francis…

Food Contaminants Over the past few years, concerns about food contamination have surfaced in the minds of the American population. Food contaminants and their subsequent health effects have been documented plaguing humanity since the Roman Empire. The public needs to be educated about food contaminants, their effect on the body, and the need for regulation. The term ‘food contaminant’ is broad and covers many different substances and sources. Common contaminants include bacteria, chemicals,…

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…

Packet Question #31 If you and a close friend were attracted to each other and neither of you were involved with anyone else, how do you think it would impact your friendship if you decide to become a couple? Explain your answer. If me and a close friend were attracted to each other and were both not involved with anyone else, and decided to become a couple, I think that it would be a little awkward at first, because we would probably make jokes about kissing, or talking about relationship…

perceptual 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…

Sometimes, when i get bored i like to watch them. The little people. I like to observe the chaos from a safe distance. Its interests me to watch these apparent random pieces all fit together to make what they all search for. The big picture. The grand meaning behind it all. I laugh at the people stuck in traffic on the way to and from their jobs. I watch into schools where the young are herded and forced to sit for the majority of their day. I'm not sure wether to laugh or feel sympathetic. I…

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,…

approved of its use 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…

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or better known as LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman in 1938 in an attempt to find a blood stimulant. After accidentally absorbing a small amount of the drug through his fingertips, Hoffman realized the powerful and pleasant psychedelic effects the drug had and researched the psychological effects of the drug years after. This quote is from Hoffman's journal and is his description of his first LSD trip “I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world…