Drugs capable of inducing illusions, hallucinations, delusions, paranoid ideations, and other alterations of mood and thinking. Despite the name, the feature that distinguishes these agents from other classes of drugs is their capacity to induce states of altered perception, thought, and feeling that are not experienced otherwise.
    

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Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Ecstasy : a ravers' guide / District Drugs Team.

Catalogue 45 : altered states / Willliam & Victoria Dailey, Ltd.

I have America surrounded : the life of Timothy Leary / John Higgs.

How to change your mind : the new science of psychedelics / Michael Pollan.

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Hallucinogens

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Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Ecstasy : a ravers' guide / District Drugs Team.

Catalogue 45 : altered states / Willliam & Victoria Dailey, Ltd.

I have America surrounded : the life of Timothy Leary / John Higgs.

How to change your mind : the new science of psychedelics / Michael Pollan.