• Produce visual illusions and visual hallucinations (usually)

• Some of them (LSD), psilocybin and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) – have structural resemblance to serotonin

• Another group is chemically related to Dopamine & NE, such as mescaline, methylenedioxy metamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy) and Dimmethoxy and metamphetamine (DOM or STP)

• Usually PO

Other Hallucinogens

• Methylenedioxy amphetamine (MDA)

• Bufotenine

• LSD Semisynthetic (Claviceps Purpurea) – fungus that grows on rye

• Ergometrine: similar drugs may come from the morning glory seeds; Usual dose 100-200 mcg – very potent!! (OBGYN – stop bleeding)

• Psylocybin (mushrooms) psylocybe mexicana heims – natural alkaloid; weaker than LSD; dose 10 to 200 mushrooms

• Dimethyltryptamine – synthetic (DMT)- dose 50 to 100 mg

• Bufotenine – toad skin – bufovularis dose?

• Mescaline – peyote- cactus – natural, Lophophoria Williamsii or Ahalonium Lewinii; you eat the cactus
  

  Tags: Ataxia, Bufotenine, depersonalization, derealization, dimethyltryptamine, dysarthria, hallucinations, hyperacusis, illusions, mescaline, Methylenedioxy amphetamine, methylenedioxy metamphetamine, paranoid ideations, PCP, psilocybin, rigidity, seizures or coma, synthesias, Tachycardia, tremors

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