Essays Tagged: "LSD"

Drug Abuse Among American Teens

s, arrests, impaired school and job performance. These drugs that teenagers use range from Alcohol, LSD, Marijuana, and even Cigarettes. Most of the teenagers that are involved in drug abuse have eith ...

(6 pages) 501 1 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drug Use Among Teenagers

them at the end of my essay). ~~~The three main drugs that are used among teenagers are Marijuana, LSD, and a variety of inhalants. The use of these drugs seem to be of an astronomical amount accordi ... the main active chemical inmarijuana. But there are also 400 other chemicals in themarijuana plant.LSDLSD is very potent: the effective dose is measured in micrograms (ug) -- however, the lethal dose ...

(2 pages) 170 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Need for Weed

trol Act, won 65% of the vote. It says that Arizona's doctors can prescribe marijuana, heroin, and LSD for patients when there is 'medicinal value' (California 62). The passing of these two proposit ...

(4 pages) 132 1 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The New Age Movement This paper outlines the New Age movement as a social movement including their basic beliefs and goals, who they are, and what they do, as well as their place in society.

the late nineteen-sixties among the younger, hippie generation. The use of mind-altering drugs like LSD opened their eyes to a greater reality that called for explanations that traditional religions c ...

(8 pages) 290 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Drug Abuse...This essay is about drug abuse, and more commonly the club drugs of today, and the effects they have on people.

rwarded to the rise in the consumption of the club drugs, such as MDMA, ecstasy, ketamine, GHB, and LSD. Ecstasy or MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a stimulant that combines the properties of ... cstasy is a close derivative of methamphetamine and can be described as a hallucinogenic stimulant. LSD is a potent hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic. Ketamine is a powerful animal tranqu ...

(11 pages) 718 2 3.7 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drugs

een trying euphoriant drugs. At some discos it is even normal being high of drugs like for instance LSD, marihuana etc. So actually you can say that drugs are more and more normal in the young people' ...

(3 pages) 49 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Legalization of Marijuana - Persuasive - Against

quarters of the U.S. population oppose the legalization of psychoactive drugs like heroin, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamine, and marijuana. Therefore, the term "drug legalization" has rightfully acquired ...

(3 pages) 212 1 4.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Biography of Ken Kesey and his studies towards "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

with several drugs to participate in studies for the Psychology department. Among these drugs were LSD, mescaline, and acid. Kesey even became famous on campus for throwing parties where these drugs ... majority of the novel was written while Kesey was under the influence of green Kool-Aid laced with LSD, which later became known as "The Electric Kool-Aid Test". The most prominent example of halluci ...

(2 pages) 40 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

A spech on the harmful effects of ecstasy. It includes every part of the speech and it is in outline form. This speech convinces the audience to not take this drug.

lly doubled from 5% in 1995 to almost 10% in 2000. That makes it equal to teen usage of cocaine and LSD.B. Link to Audience: I am a young adult like many of you in this classroom and enjoy having fun ... th. Some of those extras are deadly.3. Mixturesa. Many ecstasy users combine the drug with alcohol, LSD, pot, or other drugs. This ups the risk of death by affecting your body's ability to function.4. ...

(3 pages) 199 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey

n as The Merry Pranksters who drove around in a, "Day-Glo-Painted bus," (Larson 580) and introduced LSD to people all across the United States. This group gave Kesey a lot of support in his writings a ... ention. It is known that, "parts of the novel were written while [Kesey] was under the influence of LSD and peyote." ("Biographical" para 1) Being high gave him ideas on how to write the book and spec ...

(3 pages) 67 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Teen Drugs Use.

cause it is so easy to get and usually cheap. But there are many other kinds of drugs, you got PCP, LSD, Hash, and many others that come from the same plant but all of them are hazardous to your body ...

(3 pages) 52 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Exploring the Relation Between LSD and Serotonin in the Brain.

Exploring the Relation Between LSD and Serotonin in the BrainLysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is one of the most potent mind-alteri ... sergic acid, a chemical foundwhich is found in ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains ("LSD"). LSD wasaccidentally discovered in 1938 by German scientist Albert Hofmann, who discovered the ... mount through hisfingertips during a routine synthesis of lysergic acid (Albert Hofmann Foundation).LSD can be administered a number of ways. The most popular method has been orallythrough paper, suga ...

(9 pages) 153 1 3.9 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Drug abuse in Canada.

s, arrests, impaired school and job performance. These drugs that teenagers use range from Alcohol, LSD, Marijuana, and even Cigarettes. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2001, it w ...

(7 pages) 72 1 2.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

This essay is about the effects of drugs and it talks about what each does. It gives facts concerning drugs also.

oken down the effects into the three most widely used types of drugs today: marijuana, cocaine, and LSD.MarijuanaMarijuana is a green or brown mixture of dried, broken up flowers and leaves of Cannabi ... e-related deaths are usually a result of cardiac arrest or seizures, followed by respiratory arrest.LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)LSD is one of the major hallucinogenic drugs found today. It was dis ...

(5 pages) 118 1 3.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

LSD.

LSDWhere it comes from and what it does to the body:------------------------------------------------ ... comes from and what it does to the body:-----------------------------------------------------------LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is a commonly abused hallucinogen drug. It is made from lysergic ac ... ich comes from ergot, a fungus that lives on rye and other grasses. Despite the popular theory that LSD was found by accident, it was really discovered by Louis Pasteur. He was hired by a pharmaceutic ...

(3 pages) 51 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Flirting With Disaster: The OxyContin Epidemic In The U.S.

s that have no medicinal purpose, and going down from there. Schedule I includes heroin, marijuana, LSD and PCP. OxyContin is a schedule II drug. This means that it has a high potential for abuse or p ...

(9 pages) 95 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Reality of Drugs - Discuss the different drug groups, popular drugs in each group, the affects each drug has on the body, and what actions can be taken for treamtment

ears to be approved for public use. Unstable drugs are street drugs such as crack, cocaine, heroin, LSD, and MDMA that are made up of several chemical substances that are produced illegally under poor ... c for human and veterinary use. Ketamine produces effects similar to PCP with the visual effects of LSD. Users tout its trip as better than that of PCP or LSD because its overt hallucinatory effects a ...

(16 pages) 421 5 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Legality Control over one's behavior

drug" or "truth serum". In 1955, under operation code name "Midnight Climax," the CIA administered LSD to US citizen subjects unknowingly. This experiment was sanctioned under the M.K.-Ultra Project ...

(1 pages) 25 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Trip to Nowhere:an overview of LSD

under Bob Wallace has claimed computers would not have advanced as quickly as they have without it. LSD had to be one of the most controversial chemicals in the history of pharmacology, the once popul ... ow illegal in most parts of the world (although still widely available).Lysergic Acid Diathylamide (LSD) is a psychoactive hallucinogenic drug. It comes in a variety of forms, but is most commonly sol ...

(18 pages) 130 1 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Why do you think many young people turn to drugs?

Drugs can mean everything from cigarettes and alcohol to heroin, cannabis, amphetamines, LSD and cocaine. They are dangerous for many reasons. They lead to depression, unconsciousness or ev ...

(1 pages) 32 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters