Argumentative Essay On Hallucinogens

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

the world have been using hallucinogen’s treatment for mental illnesses and spiritual practices. Native Americans use hallucinogenic for religious ceremonies, Mexican-American use Morning Glory seeds (Ipomoea Tricolor) for ritual practices.

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,

2001).
Tools for studying the brain's neurochemistry and response to drugs like LSD are far more advanced than they were in the 1960's and 70's (Blakeslee, 2001, pg.1).This being said everything comes with a price some side effects can be long term but this may not be the only reason to sway someone from using. There is also the fear of the unknown, of how the drug will affect a person while under the influence, psychotherapy may aid patients with fear stemming from a post dramatic experience or just the fear and the thought imprinted in the persons mind. Hallucinogenic use visual and auditory changes along with the chemical change in the brain that causes the disorders to manifest into and alternate reality, these studies on users find the effects and what level of tolerance for doses should be used for medical treatment. With the helpfulness of hallucinogen’s some side effects can be present in high blood pressure, high heart rate and body temperature to rise, as it is different for each person users may experience loss of appetite increase appetite along with rapid emotional changes from fear and euphoria states that coexist with peaks that create more euphoria peaks of the high that can the mood or increases. Rapid transition of the motions including nervousness paranoia and panic attacks along with agitation hallucinogenic frequently altering reality and distorts one thinking, also creates a state of awareness to make a positive statement for research, this can also change one's physical affects as sensory change along with seeing hearing touching and smell, causing Mixed senses.
This changes a person with major depression anxiety disorders and OCD thinking, it helps by a chemical change to reduce what is going on inside a person’s brain while having these disorders. Hallucinogen’s is a chemical substance that distorts the senses that also produces hallucinogens this can be used as a tool for psychotherapy. If these practices cannot be used in today’s society what it the expectation of curing the mentally ill, if placed in a medical form to find benefits of these drugs and how they can fix someone who's even an addict.
Society has a choice to use what is legal and judge it as good or judges what is bad because it is illegal. So many legal drugs fail to meet patient’s needs, hallucinogens should be used to treat mental disorders, and more published trails may help educate the public to sway a change without scrutiny or be pushed to the wayside. Hallucinogen’s can be a wave of the future possibility of helping the ones who suffer from an internal battle, if the medical practices provided a safe environment to change the way hallucinogenic were viewed then the public might have a chance to finally be heal of mental afflictions, hallucinogenic should be consider for legalization for medical purpose.