1. By Calvin Sumter and Anthony Sciabarrasi

2.  These are drugs that make you change your perception of reality.  They can cause you to see or hear things that are not real, or they distort things that are real.

3.  It causes sensations of the following:  Anxiety  Paranoia  Complete Psychosis ( a complete loss with realty)  They can lead us to do dangerous things unconsciously, which could lead to fatalities.

4.  The effects of hallucinogens begin within half an hour of taking the drug, are strongest in three to five hours, and last for up to 12 hours.  They can include:  seeing, hearing, touching or smelling things in a distorted way or that don't exist (you usually know that what you are sensing is not real);  intense sensory experiences (e.g. colors become very bright, sounds become sharper);  mixing of the senses (e.g. you 'hear' colors or 'see' sounds);  changed sense of time (e.g. minutes can seem as slow as hours, or you can 're-live' something that happened a long time ago);  space becomes distorted strange bodily sensations (e.g. as though you are floating or being pulled down by gravity, or that you are becoming part of another object);  changed and intense thoughts emotional swings (e.g. change from intense happiness to deep sadness).

5.  Hallucinogens disrupt how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter, Serotonin, interacts throughout the brain and spinal cord.  This leads to psychedelic trances and a loss with reality.

6. Types of Hallucinogens

7.  AKA: Acid

8.  AKA: Shrooms

9.  AKA: Cactus

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