Argumentative Essay On Hallucinogens

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Hallucinogens should be considered for public use as a medical form to treat mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, compulsive disorder and dementia. Studies prove hallucinogens have beneficial use, but no treatment has been established, then why should they be placed in such low regard, hallucinogen’s can lend a hand in providing aid for perpetual disorders. The effects of hallucinogen’s can encourage social behavior, while culture dependence on pharmaceutical drugs discredit other drugs so no change in the push to help someone in need for experimental treatment, but to kept them sick and dependent on government funded and approved drugs, while America has trouble wrapping its hypocrisy around itself other cultures around …show more content…

While hallucinogenic drugs have been used for centuries, it was not until the discovery by Western society of their mind-altering properties (Hofmann 1959; Stoll 1947; Delgado, Pedro L; Moreno, Francisco A) that these compounds began to be more widely used for treatment of mental disorders (see Abraham, Aldridge & Gogia 1996; Strassman 1995; Neill 1987; McGlothlin & Arnold 1971; Freedman 1968; Delgado, Pedro L; Moreno, Francisco A). Hallucinates are derived from plants or the fungus that grows on plants, the first recorded hallucination was a tossup between mental issues that were then used for a political push or the ergotamine during the Salem witch trails in 1962, far after that Albert Hofmann became the creator of LSD from ergotamine a chemical from the fungus ergot, in Switzerland 1938. From that time LSD has played a part in history, studies have shown that much has changed in the half-century since LSD was first used by psychiatrists and then found widespread recreational use in the 1960's and 70's. Modern psychiatry has embraced drugs that affect the same brain molecules that are tweaked by hallucinogens (Blakeslee,

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