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LSD and its adverse affects

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  LSD and its Adverse Effects
       In the nineteen sixties, the United States was overwhelmed with a new revolution of cultural and social change. Along with that change came a large counterculture. This counterculture embraced the experimentation of drug use and a drug called LSD in particular. LSD, or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide has been present in the United States since the nineteen forties, and has short and long-term effects.
       LSD was first produced by a Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann in 1938 (Bennett 29). Hofmann, at the time, was searching for a new drug for the treatment of the common headache (30). Albert Hofmann obtained the first part of LSD from ergot, which is a parasitic fungus that only grows on rye plants (31). After doing this he synthesized lysergic acid and created lysergic acid diethyl amide or LSD (32). Hofmann first tested LSD in laboratory animals because he believed LSD could be used for its painkilling properties. He eventually disregarded LSD because it appeared to produce no results among the animals that were tested (Glass 102)...