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Hallucinogens Powerpoint
Hallucinogens Powerpoint
DEFINITION
Hallucinogen – A drug that causes
hallucinations, or profound distortions in the
person’s perceptions of reality.
Jimsonweed
Ayahuasca ( ay-a-was-ca)
Bufotenine ( bu-fot-en-ine)
Anxiety
Feeling of dying
Street names:
Magic mushrooms
“Shrooms”
Is it addictive?
It is not considered an addictive drug like cocaine,
heroin or alcohol because it does not produce the
same compulsive drug-seeking behavior. However,
like addictive drugs, it produces greater tolerance in
some users who take the drug repeatedly. These
users must take higher doses to achieve the same
results as they have had in the past. This could be an
extremely dangerous practice because of the
unpredictability of the drug effect on an individual.
JIMSONWEED
Jimsonweed - A common name for a plant known
botanically as Datura stramonium, which has
been used as a medicine and intoxicant for
centuries.
It’s name comes from colonial Jamestown, where
settlers became very ill after mistakenly eating it
in a salad.
It is found in most of the continental United
States from New England down to Texas.
JIMSONWEED CONT.
Jamestown story - As told by Robert Beverly in The
History and Present State of Virginia (1705): The
soldiers presented "a very pleasant comedy, for they
turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would
blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws
at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was
sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and
making mows at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and
paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a
countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.
"In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they
should, in their folly, destroy themselves - though it was
observed that all their actions were full of innocence and
good nature. Indeed they were not very cleanly; for they
would have wallowed in their own excrements, if they
had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks
they played, and after 11 days returned themselves
again, not remembering anything that had
passed."
JIMSONWEED CONT.
Street names:
Thornapple
Stinkweed
Locoweed
Increased breathing
Dilated pupils
Blurred vision
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF
JIMSONWEED
Amnesia
Confusion
Blocks serotonin
Cramped muscles
Blurred vision
Temporary paralysis
LABORATORIES
LSD
PCP
DMT