Listed below are a few of the drugs that we encounter throughout our daily lives, some legal, some prescription and some illegal. The purpose of this page is to give the chemical models of these drugs, a brief history, and the companies that manufacture these drugs. The Periodic Table is provided for the more curious and chemistry minded readers.
             Psychoactive drugs can be classified to whether they are natural or manmade, produced by our own bodies or plants, crude mixtures of substances or single, purified chemicals. These differences may influence the relationships people form with drugs and users, especially should be aware of them.
             The following information is provided by Rick Strassman MD
             Drugs with the most complex and interesting effects on the human mind, they come from plants, mushrooms, and the laboratory. People have used them for thousands of years, including for spiritual and healing purposes.
             Psychedelics change our perceptions and senses (mostly vision and hearing); emotions (rapidly shifting, and intense); thinking (faster or slower; new insights or confusion); physical sensations (hot, cold, stronger, weaker); and sense of self (more or less in control of ourselves).
             "Classical" psychedelics are: mescaline, LSD ("acid"), psilocybin, and DMT. Effects are similar, but differ in how fast they start and how long they last. Smoked DMT lasts 30-60 minutes, swallowed psilocybin 6-8 hours, and LSD and mescaline about 8-12 hours. They are physically safe. No one has ever died from an "overdose" of these drugs, except for lethal behavior caused by poor judgment. Reports of chromosome damage and birth defects in the 1960's later turned out to be false. Tolerance rapidly develops--taking them every day quickly reduces their effects on you.
             PCP ("angel dust") and ketamine ("K") are laboratory-made psychedelics, that in high doses produce unconsciousness. Physical effects can be similar to alcoho
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