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What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain

posted by on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the whoa-dude dept.

mrpg writes:

A puff of this, and the world transforms into a colorful kaleidoscope of dancing patterns and waves of sound; a sip of that, and the muscles in your body relax like jello.

We know different drugs make us experience the world around us in very different ways — and their after-effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce.

So what exactly are these drugs doing to prompt these feelings?

[Ed. Note: the rest of this article is infographics.]

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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday March 10 2017, @02:19AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Friday March 10 2017, @02:19AM (#477227) Journal

    I disagree from first- and second-hand experience. I stopped 15 years ago, no problem except for the nicotine withdrawal. When I consumed, I successfully worked on my computer science master while working 40h a week, and the reason I stopped was because my girlfriend that time asked me. (No, she was not insisting or anything.)

    So: I was performing well, I obviously wasn't addicted and I obviously still had other interests. I was just a little less stressed out, more calm and thereforr enjoyed my work more.

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