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- From: honig@ruffles.ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Physiological Effects of LSD
- Message-ID: <2B0A7CAD.29034@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:26:05 GMT
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- mjcrouch@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Matt J. Crouch) writes:
- >In article <BxrKK7.AIz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> obradovi@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Zo Obradovic) writes:
- >>Can anyone tell me what the physiological effects of LSD are, apart from
- >LSD is the most powerful hallucinogenic drug known to man. It takes
- >only doses as little as 10 micrograms to be effective. You were
- >correct about the serotonin. It is the inhibitor substance (it could be
- >a protein or hormone) in our brain. In a normal state of conciousness,
- >we typically use only 10% of our brainpower at any given moment. When
- >LSD enters the central nervous system, the chemical
- >(d-lysergic acid diethylamide), LSD-25, attactes to the serotonin,
- >causing the natural resistance to be reduced. In turn, this causes the
- >electrical current flowing between the neurons to run with far less
- >resistance. If you think of your CNS as an engine, LSD could be thought
- >of as an octane boost. It fires more often, with greater effenciency.
- >Note: This is a very simplified explaination of what goes on. To
- >further understand the drug, i recommend the following book:
- >
- >LSD- A Total Study, by D.V. Siva Sankar
- >PJD Publishing Ltd. Westbury, N.Y. 11590
- >Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72-95447
- >
- >'ta
- >-Matt
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- Wow, a post in which just about every other statement is totally hosed
- though some appropriate jargoin is included. Ah, usenet...
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- David Honig
- "To get to the new paradigm, you don't just think about what it would be
- like. You put down stakes and try to start living in it." Marc Weiser,
- head of Comp Sci Lab, Xerox PARC, as reported in Advanced Imaging Aug 92
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