Hallucinogens

HALLUCINOGENS
Hallucinogenic drugs affect the visual, sound, touch, smell perceptions, thinking and emotions of a person; giving it the nickname, “the mood changing drug”.
Natural Hallucinogens
Some hallucinogens come from natural sources, like mescaline from the cactus peyote (a) and psilocybin “magic mushrooms” (b).
Synthetic Hallucinogens
The synthetic hallucinogens or semi synthetic areLSD ( c), (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA). For example, LSD is derived from funguses that grows on rye grains, but are transformed by chemical means.

Some of the natural hallucinogens (eg. Mushrooms) are sold in its natural form, but when they are refined (eg., Mescaline) are available as liquids, tablets or capsules. Similarly, synthetic orsemi synthetic hallucinogens are produced as pills, capsules or liquid (drip on blotting paper, sugar cubes or sheets of gelatin).
History
In the 60's and 70's as part of the counter- culture hippie movement the Hallucinogenic drugs were use frequently. Also have been used as medicinal agents as well as having served religious purposes. Hallucinogens such as mescaline have been used in NativeAmerican ritual ceremonies

EFFECTS
Short-term physical effects
Cardiac disorders and vascular disorders: tachycardia, arrhythmias, and decreased of blood pressure.
Gastritis, nausea, dizziness, vomiting.
Problems in motor coordination, muscle cramps, stiffness.
Elevated body temperature, insomnia, loss of appetite, tremors and chills.
Convulsions may occur and eventually coma.
Blurredvision due to dilation of the pupil.

Short-term psychological effects
Emotional instability, anxiety, aggressiveness, euphoria, suicidal thoughts.
Altered perception of time.
Delusions and visual or auditory hallucinations of paranoid type (c visions ideas of persecution).
Acute panic states.

Long-term effects
Physical and psychological dependence on continued use of PCP and ecstasy.
Youcan resubmit the effects for days, weeks or Aryans after using the drug: flashbacks.

Symptoms
Symptoms presented by a person who uses hallucinogens
Under the effect of the drug his language is incoherent and inconsistent (no sense or logic).
Isolation and spatial and temporal disorientation.
Indifference and neglect daily activities.
Strange behavior and movements associated withhallucinations.
Feeling of weightlessness (floating sensation).
Evidenced by small strips of paper and sugar cubes impregnated with hallucinogens as well as white and yellow tablets.

What is Serotonin?
Serotonin is a monoamine neurotransmitter. It plays a part in the regulation of mood, sleep, learning and constriction of blood vessels (vasoconstriction). A low level of serotonin in the space betweennerve cells is connected to depression. Serotonin is created in the body from the amino acid tryptophan. Serotonin may also have a role in appetite, vomiting, migraine and anxiety. (d)

Hallucinogens and the brain
For example, ketamine, an anesthetic/Dissociative., an alteration of perception and the subject of experience, with dilated pupils perceive the space around curved, warped and twisted,show that amazes him strange that both scares and gives the feeling of going through another reality.
These scientists trying to understand how hallucinogens operate in the brain, which are the receptors that are activated and what the functional outcome caused by these interactions.
A research on hallucinogens, it was determined that hallucinogenic drugs structurally resemble serotonin (5-HT)Serotonin is found in specific neurons in the brain that mediate chemical neurotransmission in the brain. Neurons containing serotonin can be found in the brain stem section of the brain. Axons of serotonergic neurons project to almost every part of the brain, affecting and communicating with all sections of the brain. Serotonin also acts at many receptor areas of neurons. Because hallucinogenic...