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Question 1

Psychedelic

Answer 1

Mind clearing or mind expanding. More potent than marijuana

Question 2

Hallucinogen

Answer 2

Means seeing things that aren’t there

Question 3

Psychotomimetic

Answer 3

To mimic psychosis

Question 4

What is LSD

Answer 4

LSD is a synthetic drug, all the other ones are derived from plants

Question 5

How potent is LSD?

Answer 5

LSD is 100-1000 more potent than any of the other psychedelic drugs

Question 6

How long are the half-lives of psychedelic drugs?

Answer 6

All of them have very long half-lives except for DMT, which is very short acting (30 min)

Question 7

What is the first thing people experience with psychedelics?

Answer 7

Autonomic effects, they all have a little bit of a stimulant effect and affect the sympathetic nervous system (increase heart rate). Always a slight sympathetic response that precedes the psychedelic effects

Question 8

What are the 4 stages of a psychedelic trip?

Answer 8

1. Sensory Stage
2. Recollective-analytical stage
3. Symbolic Stage
4. Integral Stage

Question 9

1. Sensory Stage

Answer 9

Objects take on a visual tinge, everything is enhanced in your perception, space and time distorted (seems to last forever) and synethesia is more dramatic

Question 10

2. Recollective-Analytical Stage

Answer 10

Remember things that were presumably forgotten or repressed thoughts or feelings. This experience is carried back into sober reality and changes the person, person is forced to think in a new way. Have a long-term memory of what happened

Question 11

3. Symbolic Stage

Answer 11

Profound change to sense of self and depersonalization

Question 12

Depersonalization

Answer 12

When your ego separates from your body, so your feelings and perceptions seem to belong to someone else or no one, you don’t know who you are anymore.Its like watching yourself

Question 13

4. Integral Stage

Answer 13

Profound state of serenity and contemplation (for an eternal moment), unity with god or the essence of the universe. The white light.

Question 14

What can ecstasy do?

Answer 14

Argument that ecstasy produces the symbolic and integral stage without the first two and the depersonalization stage, it binds you more with the universe and other humans (emphathogen) amphetamine derivative

Question 15

Behavioral Toxic Effects

Answer 15

Flashbacks, metaphysical bad trips, and psychosis. All are minor

Question 16

What is a flashback?

Answer 16

Sudden re-occurrence to the LSD experience long after it happened, short phenomenon, can still happen long after drug has worn off and cleared your body

Question 17

What causes a flashback?

Answer 17

Entering a dark environment, thinking about having one, and marijuana (marijuana won’t cause flashbacks to marijuana experience.

Question 18

What is a metaphysical bad trip

Answer 18

Can range from a panic reaction to full blown psychosis. Has to do with how you go into your psychedelic experience. Fixed intense emotion and distortion of reality that seems to last forever

Question 19

What happens when you inject DMT

Answer 19

As powerful as LSD but less potent, when injected it will propel you dramatically into the later stages and be short in action

Question 20

What is psychosis?

Answer 20

LSD can produce a psychotic like state if someone ingests it without knowing or if they are vulnerable to LSD (had a psychosis attack before)

Question 21

How is tolerance to psychedelics?

Answer 21

Rapid tolerance, repeated doses become nothing after 3-4 days, but then tolerance also disappears just as quickly

Question 22

What is cross tolerance?

Answer 22

Outside of your drug class, there is tolerance, if you did LSD 3 days in a row, and you try mushrooms, you will get less of an effect to the mushrooms too, but not marijuana

Question 23

What is the abuse and addiction potential of psychedelics?

Answer 23

Abuse depends on the circumstances and is common. Addiction is rare and withdrawal symptoms are not pronounced sinc ethe tolerance building is so dramatic