Hallucinogens In Your Medicine Cabinet

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:56 in Psychology & Sociology

One of the crazy repercussions of the idiotic “war on drugs”, apart from destruction of innocent lives and whole countries like Mexico and the US, is that you cannot openly buy many quite harmless substances while relatively dangerous ones are freely available. An interesting chemical in this respect and also in regards to the philosophy of mind and what we understand to be “truth” is 2-(diphenylmethoxy)-N,N-dimethylethylamine, short Diphenhydramine (DPH). As a sleep aid it is available very cheaply in 99 cent stores (in the US). You can also spend a lot of money instead when buying the exact same marketed as Benadryl against allergies. read more

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