Psychoactive fungi

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…

Most medications come with a lengthy list of unpleasant side effects. Opioids, for example, can make you drowsy or nauseous. It won’t surprise you to learn medical marijuana has side effects too. While some of them aren’t exactly pleasant, others are actually beneficial! The Effects of Medical Marijuana Many people seek medical cannabis for its painkilling properties. Cannabis is also effective in the management of a number of conditions, including epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s…

Imagine you are suffering from a chronic or terminal illness. Struggling day in and day out with symptoms that are debilitating and diminishing your quality of life. Nothing your doctor has prescribed takes the edge off these excruciating symptoms. You’re exhausted, in pain and desperate for any relief. You’re willing to try anything just to experience the slightest reprieve. In a last ditch effort you decide to give marijuana a try and are surprised at the relief from the symptoms you are…

The concentration of THC (Marijuana) in driver system while driving. The relationship between marijuana use and motor vehicle crashes has been both experimental and observational. Laboratory and simulator studies have found that a component of marijuana will decreased driving performance. Modest functional impairment experimental have shown with drivers has been that marijuana use alone has minimal effects on a driver’s performance. When marijuana is combined with other drug such as alcohol…

All drugs are chemicals. There are various methods used to introduce these chemicals into the body; these include smoking, injecting, inhaling, or ingestion. Upon entering the body the chemicals accumulate in the brain where nerve cells send, receive, and process information. Different drugs will work differently. In this presentation, I will describe how drugs affect the brain. In general, drugs work by imitating the brain’s neurotransmitters or over stimulating the brain’s “reward” circuit.…

Hi All, Legal highs can be defined as chemicals which are not controlled by the Misuse of Drug Act, 1971, not licensed to be used legally such as alcohol and tobacco. They are often labelled and sold as “bath salts” or “plant food” and to evade drug abuse legislation; these substances are labelled as “not for human consumption” (Posser & Nelson, 2012). These chemicals alter the normal functioning of the brain; producing changes in our experience and behaviour. Majority of usage leans towards…

Drugs have come a long way since they were first used as either medicinal, spiritual or recreational purposes, but none of them have been argued more than marijuana. Marijuana, pot, grass, weed, ganja, Mary-Jane are just a few of the names this psychoactive drug has acquired through its life. During this lifetime marijuana has been one of the most debatable drugs in this world since it’s been prohibited and legalized all over the world. Some want it, some hate it, and some need it, but at the…

During the early 1900s, individuals used cocaine as an anesthetic, yet this practice has long been discontinued. In fact, this drug currently has no known use in medicine, yet many people turn to it as a recreational substance, one that can have long term lasting effects on them. With time, a person may become addicted to the drug and this can have dangerous consequences, thus everyone should be aware of the signs of cocaine use and addiction. The sooner a problem is detected, the sooner the…

Drugs are chemical substances that are used to cause changes in human bodies, it being either for the cure, treatment, or prevention of diseases or to improve patients physically or mentally. However there also exists harmful drugs referred to as recreational drugs that are meant to cause changes psychologically and alter mood or feeling, recreational drugs are taken by people as forms of enjoyment and do so in order to get a feeling of euphoria referred to as a “high.” More times than not these…

Marijuana is among the most widely used psychoactive substances in the United States (U.S.)(Cerdá, Wall, Keyes, Galea, & Hasin, 2012; Louisa Degenhardt, Hall, & Lynskey, 2001). The rate of use will continue to increase with legalization across the country; with many using it for it its relief of pain caused by medical conditions, such as HIV (Bedi et al., 2010), and for its antidepressant and anxiolytic effects (Walsh et al., 2017). Nonetheless, there have been substantial research examining the…