Psychedelic drugs (also called hallucinogens) make your mind hallucinate in different types of ways. Hallucinations can be good or bad. the main drugs that make up psychedelic drugs are meth, ecstasy, LSD, and magic mushrooms. Hallucinogens can affect the choices you make in the real world outside of your hallucination. They are usually taken to have fun and relieve stress. Different drugs affect different parts of your body. LSD (full name is Lysergic acid diethylamide) does not personally affect your body from what is known, but the people making the poor decision of taking LSD can hurt themselves while hallucinating/tripping. These people can fall or get into an accident and break a bone or get an STDs because you are not in the right state of mind. …show more content…
Short term and long term effects can differ based on how much of a hallucinogen you take. Short term effects are usually effects such as sickness, hallucinations, anxiety/depression, and especially impaired judgement. Some of ecstasy's (formal name is MDMA) short term effects are chills and sweating, depression, paranoia, nausea, teeth clenching, etc. Short term effects of LSD are sleeplessness, sweating and chills, psychosis, severe depression, loss of appetite, etc. Short effects of meth are panic and psychosis, poor sleep patterns, loss of appetite, nausea, seizure or death at high dose, etc. Short term effects of magic mushrooms are paranoia, anxiety, fear of insanity, terrifying thoughts,