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LSD

LSD

Lysergic acid diethlyamide (LSD) more commonly known in our culture as “acid,” belongs to a group of illicit drugs classified as hallucinogens.  Hallucinogens, when ingested, can cause severe hallucinations that may last anywhere from six to twelve hours depending on purity.  Hallucinations are by definition “profound distortions in a person’s perceptions of reality.”  The use of hallucinogens is not a new phenomenon.  Psilocybin, peyote, and mescaline (derived from the peyote cactus) have been dated back thousands of years to ancient Indian religious ceremonies.  An archeological dig in Mexico uncovered ancient writings, preserved by lava, that indicate the use of hallucinogens as long as four thousand years ago.
	Hallucinogens, especially LSD, were prominent in the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s, but their popularity declined during the 1980s, giving rise to harder substances such as cocaine.  In 1972 it was reported that five percent of the nation, primarily under the age of eighteen, had experimented at least once with LSD.  In 1974 that number had leapt to seventeen percent, and by 1979 the numbers were up to twenty-five percent.  These numbers dropped steadily as heroine and cocaine gained popularity in the 1980’s, but

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