The Negative Influence Of LSD In Pop Culture
LSD By Bix
Lysergic acid diethylamide (or LSD for short) is an illegal potent hallucinogenic drug.
History
Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized LSD for the first time in 1938, in Basel, Switzerland, while looking for a blood stimulant, But its hallucinogenic effects were unknown until 1943 when Hofmann accidentally “ate” some LSD. It was later found that an amount as little as 25 micrograms (equal in weight to a few grains of salt) is capable of producing vivid hallucinations.
LSD in Pop Culture/Famous People
LSD has had a huge impact on the pop culture as it was said to enhance creativity. Among its Users there was Paul McCartney(A member of the beatles) who said that it “opened …show more content…
Fun Facts
LSD is known by various street names like acid, trips, tabs, blotters, microdots, stars, white lightning, purple mike, blue mike, windows, superman, strawberries, etc. experiment tried to intoxicate spiders with different drugs in order to see if they will still build an effective web or not. All of the drugs used on the spiders reduced their web regularity except for small doses of LSD. It actually increased their web regularity.
LSD simulates serotonin and endorphins among other chemicals in the brain which makes you elated and pleasured. The pathway between the sensory areas of the brain is also increased as a result of using LSD and therefore the person literally sees sounds or hears the feelings received by skin.
Unlike many other drugs which lead to addiction, LSD is physically a non-addictive drug. LSD is as addictive as a T.V; the only thing making you take it again is that you want to as opposed to the need to take it.
William Leonard Pickard is convicted to be the largest manufacturer of LSD in the history since, from 1991 to 2000, 90% LSD in the world was produced by him …show more content…
Following my first ‘trip’ on LSD, I would eat it frequently, sometimes up to four or five times per week for an extended period. Each time I would take the drug, mentally I was drifting more and more out of reality. The eventual effect was the inability to feel normal in my own skin.”
“Within my own little trip world I started to get paranoid, feeling my friends were conspiring to do something, maybe even kill me. I thought to myself, I have to get out of here.
“I ran into my friend’s bedroom, opened the window as wide as it would go and jumped out. Luckily for me my friend lived on the ground floor. I ran across a wooded area toward a bridge. I could feel my heart starting to beat faster and faster. I heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and die.
“This was not the end. Years later, I was running and all of a sudden, bam, I was having flashbacks of the time I was running in my trip. I started to have a bad panic attack and heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and die.
“I would tell anyone even thinking of taking LSD to
Lysergic acid diethylamide (or LSD for short) is an illegal potent hallucinogenic drug.
History
Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized LSD for the first time in 1938, in Basel, Switzerland, while looking for a blood stimulant, But its hallucinogenic effects were unknown until 1943 when Hofmann accidentally “ate” some LSD. It was later found that an amount as little as 25 micrograms (equal in weight to a few grains of salt) is capable of producing vivid hallucinations.
LSD in Pop Culture/Famous People
LSD has had a huge impact on the pop culture as it was said to enhance creativity. Among its Users there was Paul McCartney(A member of the beatles) who said that it “opened …show more content…
Fun Facts
LSD is known by various street names like acid, trips, tabs, blotters, microdots, stars, white lightning, purple mike, blue mike, windows, superman, strawberries, etc. experiment tried to intoxicate spiders with different drugs in order to see if they will still build an effective web or not. All of the drugs used on the spiders reduced their web regularity except for small doses of LSD. It actually increased their web regularity.
LSD simulates serotonin and endorphins among other chemicals in the brain which makes you elated and pleasured. The pathway between the sensory areas of the brain is also increased as a result of using LSD and therefore the person literally sees sounds or hears the feelings received by skin.
Unlike many other drugs which lead to addiction, LSD is physically a non-addictive drug. LSD is as addictive as a T.V; the only thing making you take it again is that you want to as opposed to the need to take it.
William Leonard Pickard is convicted to be the largest manufacturer of LSD in the history since, from 1991 to 2000, 90% LSD in the world was produced by him …show more content…
Following my first ‘trip’ on LSD, I would eat it frequently, sometimes up to four or five times per week for an extended period. Each time I would take the drug, mentally I was drifting more and more out of reality. The eventual effect was the inability to feel normal in my own skin.”
“Within my own little trip world I started to get paranoid, feeling my friends were conspiring to do something, maybe even kill me. I thought to myself, I have to get out of here.
“I ran into my friend’s bedroom, opened the window as wide as it would go and jumped out. Luckily for me my friend lived on the ground floor. I ran across a wooded area toward a bridge. I could feel my heart starting to beat faster and faster. I heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and die.
“This was not the end. Years later, I was running and all of a sudden, bam, I was having flashbacks of the time I was running in my trip. I started to have a bad panic attack and heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and die.
“I would tell anyone even thinking of taking LSD to