LSD 

Generic Name: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Common or street names: LSD is sold under more than 80 street names including Acid, Blotter, acid, Doses, Dots, Trips, Mellow Yellow, Window Pane, as well as names that reflect the designs on sheets of blotter paper (for example, “purple dragon”).

Furthermore, LSD But over the past decade, some scientists have begun to challenge that conclusion.

Secondly Far from being harmful, they found, hallucinogens can help sick people:

They helped alcoholics drink less; terminal patients eased more gently into death.

Thirdly And it’s not just the infirm who are helped by the drugs.

Psychedelics can make the healthy healthier, too

On this subject, only a handful of peer-reviewed studies have been conducted; sample sizes are tiny.

There’s still a great deal researchers don’t know.

But early results suggest that, when used by people without a family history or risk of psychological problems,

psychedelics can make us kinder, calmer and better at our jobs.

They can help us solve problems more creatively and make us more open-minded and generous.

Some experiments even suggest that a single dose can change our personalities forever.

Americans have had a complicated history with psychedelics like LSD, magic mushrooms and peyote.

Between 1953 and 1973, the federal government funded 116 studies on the subject, affecting thousands of people.

At the same time, large numbers of Americans started using these drugs recreationally.

As many as 2 million had dropped acid by 1970.

Stories about “bad trips” and psychotic breaks emerged in the press.

In one widely publicized incident, a 5-year-old accidentally took her uncle’s drug; people got scared.

Meanwhile, soldiers were returning from Vietnam addicted to heroin;

By 1968, President Richard Nixon had declared drugs “public enemy number one.”

Congress banned all psychedelic use in 1970, which made research nearly impossible.

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