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Article: Designer drugs: CAT & LSD. (methcathinone, lysergic acid diethylamide)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
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- September 1, 1994
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Quick! Name three things from the 1960s still in vogue today. Did you come up with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and miniskirts? Add a fourth: LSD. This drug is back, along with a new illegal drug called CAT, short for methcathinone. Both are powerful drugs, although each affects the body in different ways.
Mind Voyages
LSD, which stands for lysergic acid diethylamide, is a hallucinogen. Hallucinogens alter mood, sensations, and thought, so that users see or hear everyday things as new and strange. It heightens feelings. One of the great dangers of LSD is that it is unpredictable, no matter who uses it.
An LSD trip, or drug experience, might bring ...