![]() Adverse physical effects may include: loss of coordination, dizziness, and slurred speech. Salvia may also cause fear and panic, uncontrollable laughter, a sense of overlapping realities, and hallucinations. What Are the Risks Associated with Salvia Use? Salvia's psychic effects include perceptions of bright lights, vivid colors, shapes, and body movement, as well as body or object distortions. Salvia leaves can be chewed, smoked, or heated and turned to gas that can be inhaled (vaporized). Users may call it salvia, shepherdess's herb, diviner's sage, seer's sage, Maria pastora, magic mint, or Sally-D. It is not processed and looks like small dried leaves. Salvia divinorum is an herb in the mint family misused for its hallucinogenic effects. Long-term effects such as flashbacks, risk of psychiatric illness, impaired memory, and tolerance have also been described. Panic reactions and psychosis also may occur, particularly if a user ingests a large dose. Psilocybin has LSD-like properties and changes the function of smooth muscles of the heart, lungs, and glands, motor reflexes, behavior, and perception. What Are the Risks Associated with Psilocybin Use? The effects include hallucinations, an altered perception of time, and an inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. They may be brewed as a tea or added to other foods to mask their bitter flavor. Mushrooms containing psilocybin are available fresh or dried and are typically taken by mouth. Users may refer to this drug as magic mushrooms, mushrooms, shrooms, caps, or boomers. These mushrooms typically contain less than 0.5 percent psilocybin plus trace amounts of psilocin, another hallucinogenic substance. This chemical is found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms that are indigenous to tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Mexico, and the United States. ![]() Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is the active chemical in hallucinogenic mushrooms. A blank stare, rapid and involuntary eye movements, and an exaggerated gait are among the more observable effects. Other effects include numbness, slurred speech, and loss of coordination accompanied by a sense of strength and invulnerability. Users may develop severe mood swings, anxiety, paranoia and hostility, as well as psychosis. What Are the Risks Associated with PCP Use? Users may hear things that are not happening. PCP use causes users to feel detached, distant and estranged from their surroundings. For smoking, PCP is often applied to a leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano, or marijuana. ![]() It can easily be mixed with dyes and sold on the illicit drug market in a variety of tablet, capsule, and colored powder forms that are snorted, smoked, or swallowed. ![]() PCP is a white crystalline powder that dissolves in water or alcohol. Users may call it angel dust, embalming fluid, killer weed, rocket fuel, or supergrass. It is misused for its hallucinogenic effects. It is no longer used medically due to serious adverse effects. PCP (phencyclidine) was developed as an intravenous anesthetic. Users can also experience flashbacks, or recurrences of certain aspects of the drug experience for years after use. Some LSD users experience severe, terrifying thoughts and feelings of despair, fear of losing control, or fear of insanity and death while using LSD. The experiences and changes may be frightening and can cause panic. In large doses, the drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations and causes the user's sense of time and self to be altered. What Are the Risks Associated with LSD Use? Experiences may seem to 'cross-over' different senses, giving the user the feeling of hearing colors and seeing sounds. Users may feel several emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. LSD changes sensations and feelings in people under its influence. LSD is often added to absorbent paper, which is then divided into decorated pieces, each equivalent to one dose. LSD is sold in tablets, capsules, and, occasionally, liquid form. Users may call it acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, cid, dots, mellow yellow, or window pane. It is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the most potent perception-changing chemicals. Common hallucinogens include LSD, PCP, Psilocybin, and Salvia: LSD These compounds are typically found in some plants, fungi, mushrooms (or their extracts) or are synthetically produced. Some hallucinogens are also able to produce rapid, intense mood swings. Under the influence of hallucinogens, people see images, hear sounds, and feel things that seem real but are not. Hallucinogens are among the oldest known group of drugs. Hallucinogens (LSD, PCP, Psilocybin, and Salvia)
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