LSD

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This paper examines LSD, known as lysergic acid diethylamide, a hallucinogen, that produces psychotic- symptoms. It looks at how, since the 1990s, the usage of LSD had resurged as a major problem in the national and local arena in the United States, and because of the massive increase in the usage of LSD, there has been an increasing interest and awareness to understand the long-term negative effects on the consumers of the drug.

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"The long-term effects would also include blurred vision, halo effects, shimmering, or reduplications of percepts, distortion of spatial planes, and changes in normal coloration, which would extend even after one year of the consumption of the drug. (Horowitz, 1969) LSD users would experience trailing effect implying a slow motion of several exposure effects. Even though a person who is heavily under the influence of the drug experiences such a condition, some consumers of LSD report that such a situation would prevail with them even up to one year. (Harvey, 1971) Another risk associated with LSD is contaminated LSD. The makeshift labs in which these drugs are produced often do not have quality checks and the drug would often be mixed with other chemicals or drugs, to increase the effect of LSD."

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