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WHAT  ABOUT  DRUGS

PSILOCYBIN (Psilocube Mexicana)

 

Psilocybin is extracted from a Mexican mushroom.  It has been used by primative societies seeking supernatural powers and commuunion.  Its effects are indistingushabie from those of mescaline and LSD.  A dose of twenty to  sixty milligrams will give hallucinogenic effects which last up to six hours.

 

Description

 

Psilocybe mexicana cheilocystidia and spores 400x

Cap: (0.5)1 — 2(3) cm in diameter, conic to campa nulate or subumbonate and often with a  slight papilla, hygrophanous or glabrescent, even to striate at the margin, ocherous to brown or beige to straw color in age, sometimes with blueish or greenish tones, easily turning blue when injured.

     Gills: Adnate or adnexed, gray to purple-brown with whitish edges.

     Spore Print: Dark purple-brown

    Stipe: 4 — 10(12.5) cm tall x 1 — 2(3) mm thick, equal, hollow, straw color to brownish or reddish-brown, becoming darker where injured,annulus absent.

     Odor: Farinaceous

     Taste: Farinaceous

     Microscopic features: Spores 8 — 12 x 5 — 8 µm. Ovoid and smooth. Cheilocystidia 13 - 34 µm, fusoid-ampullaceous to sublageniform, sometimes with a forked neck. Pleurocystidia sublageniform or absent.

Consumption and cultivation

 

Like several other psilocybin mushrooms in the genus, Psilocybe mexicana has been consumed by indigenous North American and Central Americanpeoples for its entheogenic effects.  In the Western world, sclerotia of Psilocybe mexicana are sometimes cultivated for entheogenic use. The sclerotia have a lower content of active substances than the actual mushrooms themselves

BUFOTENINE (5 - Hydroxy-N, N-dimethyltyptamine)

 

Bufotenine, weak hallucinogenic agent active by intravenous injection, isolatedfrom several natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis. Bufotenine is a constituent of toad poison, the poisonous, milky secretion of glands found in the skin on the back of the animal. It was first isolated in 1934.

 

Structurally, bufotenine is an indole hallucinogen that is capable of blocking the

action of serotonin, which is the indole amine transmitter of nerve impulses and

can be found in normal brain tissue (and in toad poison). Bufotenine also functions as a powerful constrictor of blood vessels, causing a rise in blood pressure.

Other sources of bufotenine are the fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) and the tropical American tree Piptadenia peregrina, the seeds of which were used at the time of the early Spanish explorations by the Indians of Trinidad and of the Orinoco Plain to make the hallucinogenic snuff called cohoba, or yopo.

 

Bufotenine is obtained from the seeds and pods of Piptadenia, a shrub found in the northern parts of South American and in the West Indies.  It is related chemically to DMT.  It has been used as a snuff which produces a kind of intoxication during which hallucinations are reported to occur.  It has also been reported that Indians use it to become fearless and insensitive to pain.  Bufotenine does not appear to have an effect when taken orally, bit if taken as a snuff or intravenously, symtoms will be evident almost immediately.

IBOGINE

 

Ibogaine is obtained from the root, bark, stems and leaves of the African shrug (Tabernanthe Loboga).  Africans are said to use the extract while stalking game to enable themto remain motionless for almost two days and still retain mental alertness.  The root is also used to combat fatigue.  In high doses, excitement, drunkenness, mental confusion and possibly hallucinations are reported.

"SMASH"

 

This is a new concoction that is reportedly being sold by narcotic peddlers.  Marijuana is cooked with acetone to obtain oil of cannabis.  The oil is then added to hashish to form a tar-like material.  This is then rolled into small pellets and smoked.  It is reported that "smash" is beingmanufactured in Mexico.

LBJ (JB-336-N-Methy-3piperidyl) (benzilate hydrochloride)

 

This is a dangerous hallucinogen that was reported in a underground newspapers. Reactions are very similar to those from LSD and include:  visual hallucination, musclar relaxation, a psycohotic state, and drunkennes.  Samples have consisted of both capsules and powder.  The powder is off white with specks of blue.

THC (deita 1, tetrahydrocannabinol)

 

A discovery that rapidly became popular as an abuse drug.  THC is synthetic marijuanaand is being used in medical reaserch.  The effects of possible chronic toxicity resulting from long term use of marijuana can now be accurately studied.  It is a colorles, odorless liquid which prodesired strength.  Two or three drops of THC on a tobacco cigarette produce the same effect as regular marijuana.  A trip may last for four to six hours.

NUTMEG -

(Nutmeg Treated as Drug for Hallucinogenic High)

 

If large amounts of nytmeg or mace are taken, they can induce a drunken, confused state.  This requires a substantial quanitity, which can severely irrate the kidneys.

 

Nutmeg contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses. The buzz can last one to two days and can be hallucinogenic, much like LSD.

According to reports this week from the ABC affiliate WPLG in Miami, theFlorida Poison Information Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital has recently seen a small spike in phone calls reporting people who snorted, smoked or ate the spice.

 

"It's the flavor of the month," said Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director at the center. "But most people only try it once because they have such nasty side effects. The rewar.

Nasty Side Effects

About 30 minutes to an hour after taking large doses of nutmeg, people usually have severe gastrointestinal reactions, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. But that's just the beginning. Hours into the high, people can suffer from heart and nerve problems as well.

 

"This is where people have to be really alert.  The director of the Georgia Poison Center in Atlanta says, "A person who has an unrecognized heart ailment could have problems that could lead to irregular rhythms. One plus one can add up to nine really quickly."

 

Visual, auditory or sensory hallucinations do not set in until hours after ingesting the spice, so there is also the worry that someone could overdose, thinking they haven't taken enough to feel anything.  The medical director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, said that it is fairly common for teenagers to experiment with household products to get high. And the results can be devastating.

The director of the Connecticut Poison Control Centers, said that, though fairly uncommon, nutmeg abuse is periodically rediscovered.  The director said, "We'll see cases like clusters with nutmeg." "As people share their experiences on the Internet, we see more and more clustering of those events.  "Nutmeg intoxication epidemics were seen in the early 1900s, and a small resurgence was seen in the mid-1960s. Now, many doctors say the Internet has played a large role in its most recent, albeit small, upswing.

These weeds have long been used as intoxicants.  In large amounts they produce  hallucinations, dryness of mouth and skin, high fever and dilated pupils.

 

Atropa belladonna or Atropa bella-donna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the familySolanaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, Western Asia ,and some parts of Canada and the United States. The foliage and berries are extremelytoxic, containing tropane alkaloids. These toxins  include scopolamine and hyoscyamine, which cause a bizarre delirium and hallucinations, and are also used as pharmaceutical anticholinergics. The drug atropine is derived from the plant.

It has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison. Before the Middle Ages, it was used as an anesthetic for surgery; the ancient Romans used it as a poison (the wife of Emperor Augustus and the wife of Claudius both were rumored to have used it for murder); and, predating this, it was used to make poison-tipped arrows. The genus name Atropa comes from Atropos, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology, and the name "bella donna" is derived from Italian and means "beautiful woman" because the herb was used in eye-drops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear seductive.

A drug containing a combination of belladonna and stramonium, prescribed as an asthmaremedy, but occasionally misused for its hallucation effects.

 

Asthmador was a nonpresciption treatment for the relief of bronchial asthma made by the R. Schiffmann Company. It consisted of a mixture of belladonna, stramonium and potas-sium perchlorate,[1] and was a fine powder intended to be burnt and the smoke inhaled. The  primary alkaloid present in the mixture was hyoscyamine, and when the powder was ingested rather than burnt, could be used to induce hallucinations.

A stimulant is a substance which acts on the central nervous system.  The most widely known and used stimulant is caffeine which is found in coffee, tea, cola and other beverages.  Caffeine is, of course, very mild.  The amphetaminer, syntetic stimulants, are the types that are most often misused.  They are covered by drug abuse laws.  Cocaine, covered by the narcotic laws, is a stimulant manufactured from the leaves of a coca bush.

Household goods, including nutmeg, magic markers and whipped cream cans can cause seizures, cardiac damage and even something called sudden sniffing death syndrome.

 

The syndrome: "One minute, they're alive and abusing the product and in the next, they've dropped dead."  "The most common story in these cases is that the person gets scared or spooked [while on the drug], "For most people, there is a small increase in the heart beat, but for these folks on these drugs, their heart beats uncontrollably fast and they die."

According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there were 67 cases of nutmeg exposure in 2010.  To put the numbers in perspective, there nearly 5,000 marijuana phone calls counted by the AAPCC in 2010. The AAPCC said the most common drugs treated by poison center are legal and illegal pharmaceuticals, including opioids and analgesic drugs.

Danger Drugs in the Home

BELLADONNA DN JIMSON WEEK (Stramonium)

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