Word: hallucinogenic
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...knew that we had been through the oddest of codes, and that few ever ended this happily. I went back to finish evening rounds and fell asleep thinking - about an old Avengers' episode in which Diana Rigg's black leather gloves keep her from being affected by a transcutaneous hallucinogen that bad guys have put on children's toys. And how lucky I was to be sleeping that night, in this great, big hospital...
...faces up to 10 years in prison for possession of the hallucinogen LSD with intent to distribute, one year for possession of marijuana, and between two and 15 years for committing a drug violation within a school zone. The University-affiliated Radcliffe Child Care Center on the first floor of DeWolfe is across the street from Quincy...
...HALLUCINOGENS Things are trickier when it comes to LSD and its hallucinogenic kin, but reports suggest that most '60s trips ended relatively benignly. The most rigorous studies of hallucinogens have been conducted not on boomers, who used the drugs intermittently and furtively, but on Native American populations for whom consumption of the hallucinogen peyote is part of their cultural and religious fabric. In November researchers from the McLean psychiatric hospital outside Boston released a five-year study that found no cognitive or psychological problems among Native American regular users, some of whom even performed better on psychological tests than those...
...mescaline, which are often whipped up in unpoliced labs in uncontrolled ways, present different problems. The condition that the experts call HPPD (hallucinogen persisting perception disorder) and that users call flashbacks is a very real problem. But Halpern says it is relatively rare, striking mostly people who use LSD specifically. But there are other risks too. Some trips have ended catastrophically, with suicides or fatal accidents. In other cases, the disaster was not physical but emotional. "There were a lot of people who decompensated into major mental illness," says Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's school...
Though immortalized by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, the hallucinogenic cactus peyote may not have discernible long-term consequences on the people who regularly consume it for religious sacrament, according to a recent study. A report released on Friday by the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital indicates that the mescaline-containing plant leaves users psychologically unscathed and may even contribute to an increase in certain types of mental performance.In 1994, peyote was declared legal for consumption in the rituals of the Native American Church, although it is still classified by the U.S. government as a controlled substance whose non-religious...