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Hallucinogens

  • Date Submitted: 01/28/2010 04:11 AM
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Hallucinogens mess with your brain they alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and your environment. They also affect your senses like hearing and seeing. This can make you think that you are seeing stuff and feeling things that don’t even exist.



Using Hallucinogens makes your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Hallucinogens may put you into a coma. They can also cause heart and lung failure.



Hallucinogens can change the way that you feel emotionally. They may also make you feel suspicious, confused, and disorientated. Hallucinogens affect self-control there impact vary from time to time so there’s no way to know how much self control you’ll be able to keep. They can cause you to be violent and/or aggressive, make meaningless movements, lose control of your muscles, and mix up your speech.  



It’s really easy to develop a tolerance to Hallucinogens so eventually it will take more of the drug to get the same effect that you used to get from a little of the drug.   This is dangerous because taking large amounts of the same drug can lead to overdose with severe effects.



Mescaline



Mescaline is the psychoactive ingredient of the peyote cactus. Ecstasy is the common name used. Some nicknames are E, X, and XTC. Ecstasy is actually a mixture of mescaline and methamphetamine.



Ecstasy may give a short-term feeling of euphoria but can result in confusion, depression, paranoia, psychosis,   increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and cause long-term damage to brain cells.   Some effects are also influenced by thoughts, environment, and people who are with you when you take the drug.   Vivid changes in color and form occur. Sometimes the user becomes disoriented loses sense of time, place, and identity or has sensations of knowing and feeling what everything in life (and life itself) is all about.   Emotions from the past, present, and future flood the user’s mind.   Depression,...

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