Hallucinogens can be taken in pill or dissolvable strip form and have street names like Acid and Looney Toons. They act on the central nervous system and contain different chemicals depending on the drug. Hallucinogens can cause harmful effects like hallucinations and impact the nervous, cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory systems. There are no medical uses for hallucinogens and mixing them with alcohol can have euphoric but dangerous effects. Long term use can negatively impact family and social relationships.

1. Hallucinogens
Caitlynn Harwood

2. History
● There was a cactus that the Native
Americans found sacred. It had powers of
seeing things that wasn’t there.

3. Goes into body how?
● You can take it in pill form or you can take a
dissolvable strip.

4. Street Names
● Acid
● Battery Acid
● Looney Toons
● Tab
● Dots
● Purple Heart

5. Classification
● CNS depressants.

6. Chemicals
● Depending on the drug it has different
chemicals.

7. Harmful effects
● It messes with what you see and make you
see things that are not there.

8. Effects of Nervous System
● It changes your state of mind.

9. Effects of Cardiovascular System
● It makes your heart race and could go into
cardiac arrest.

10. Effects of Digestive System
● Gas is a side effect.

11. Effects of Respiratory System
● You can go into respiratory arrest.

12. Medical uses?
● There are none.

13. Mixing w/ alcohol
● It can give you a euphoric high.

14. Effects on family
● It can ruin your family and social life. You will
slowly lose friends and loved ones.

15. Works Cited
● http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/172024/drug-use/40515/History-of-hallucinogens
● http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/lsd.html
● http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/lsd/street-names-for-lsd.html
● http://www.druged.ednet.ns.ca/Supplement/Appendices/IRE/Classifications/Classifications.html
● http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1880
● http://www.drugbeat.org/Facts&Effects/hallucinogens.html
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