vis com: effects of drugs

thought i would look up some effects of drugs and see if i get any inspiration from it. thought it would be interesting towards my project, and i might figure out some cool patterns.

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

found some imagery and stuff that people had come up with about the effects of magic mushrooms but put down visually rather than wordy. 



 

What are magic mushrooms?
‘Magic mushrooms’ is a slang word for psilocybe semilanceata or ‘liberty cap’ mushrooms (the most common type of ‘magic mushroom’ in the UK) and any other mushroom which produces similar ’trippy’ effects, like hallucinations.
It is important to know that different types of ‘magic mushroom’ will differ in how strong and how toxic they are.

For example, the amanita muscaria or ‘fly agaric’ mushroom is stronger than the traditional ‘liberty cap’ mushroom

After picking, magic mushrooms are often eaten raw or are dried out and stored. Some people use the dried mushrooms to make tea. Drying reduces the weight of the ‘magic mushrooms’, but not their potency. People don’t tend to eat fly agaric mushrooms raw as they can make you feel really sick and also because there is a greater risk of poisoning and death from this family of mushrooms.

Here are the main effects and risks of magic mushrooms:

• Colours, sounds and objects appear distorted.
   
• Your sense of time and movement can speed up – or slow down.
   
• You may feel disoriented, tired or sick – and some users can get stomach pains or diarrhoea. 

LSD

  

What is LSD? LSD stands for its chemical name, lysergic acid diethylamide, and is commonly called ‘acid’. It’s a powerful hallucinogenic drug – this means that users are likely to experience a distorted view of objects and reality, including seeing and sometimes hearing things that aren’t there (these are hallucinations). The experience of taking LSD is known as a ‘trip’. Trips can be good or bad, but until you take it you don’t know how it will affect you – and once it's started you can't stop it.

Here are some of the main effects and risks of taking LSD:

• Time and movement can appear to speed up and slow down. Colour, sound and objects can get distorted and you can experience double vision.

• These distortions of your senses can be quite unpredictable, sometimes pleasant, but sometimes very frightening (these are called 'bad trips').