PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Mind Control, Ergot, Benzodiazepine

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Trip lasts 3 to 7 hours: mescaline: active ingredient in peyote. Flashbacks, when it gets trapped in the fat cells and when the burns it gets released and gives you the same effect. There is no physiological but there is psychological, they love the effect. Semi-synthetic hallucinogen (switzerland, 1938) derived from ergot fungus growing on rye cereal. Intelligence services used lsd for interrogation and social engineering in 1950s. Psychological effects vary between individuals and over time. They wanted to create a mind compulsion and universities did research without telling their subjects. Cannabis: marijuana: dried flowers/leaves of cannabis plant. Effects: relaxed euphoria, enhanced sensory awareness, pain relief, poor memory, increased appetite. Abuse can cause throat & lung irritation; short-term memory deficits. Do not have any of the active ingredient thc. Cbd is the other active ingredient but is for medicinal use and it counters cbd. Over the years people have been cultivating marijuana with high thc and low cbd.