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Monster Essays - Synthetic Drugs of Abuse
Synthetic Drugs of Abuse
It seems that primitive man at times wished to escape his reality. He or she
probably found some natural herbal drugs to facilitate this desire. In fact
abuse of the coca leaf and the opium poppy has been occuring the last 3000 years,
and probably longer. The mescaline containing peyote cactus has been abused by
the indians for even longer. They thought it was a gift from god because they
often realised profound truths when they where inebriate(at least, thats what
they thought!).
In the 19. century the structure of mescaline was elucidated. It was also
discovered that the synthesis of N-methyl mescaline, would increase the dru....
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