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Don't Waste Time! 5 Facts Until You Reach Your Treat

The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics BCSP One month after cessation of 0.16 mg/kg LSD treatment, rats also had significantly altered social behavior, with reduced sniffing, grooming, and following and markedly enhanced aggressive and exploratory behaviors. The preference for sucrose solution in control rats was also lost in rats chronically treated with 0.16 mg/kg LSD, indicating a state of anhedonia in these rats. On the basis of these results and their earlier studies, the authors suggest that rats chronically treated with LSD may represent a new animal model of psychosis, with the advantage that the animals can be used long after the LSD treatment has been ended. Recently, the term entheogenic has come into use to denote the use of psychedelic drugs, as well as various other types of psychoactive substances, in a religious, spiritual, and mystical context. Neo-psychedelia (or "acid punk") is a diverse style of music that originated in the 1970s as an o...

2022 FIFA World Cup Wikipedia

The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England. The first international tournament for nations, the inaugural British Home Championship, took place in 1884. As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the start of the 20th century, it was held as a demonstration sport with no medals awarded at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics , and at the 1906 Intercalated Games. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s association football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country. However, in April 2022, a senior security official overseeing the tournament stated that there were plans to confiscate pride flags from spectators—allegedly as a safety measure to protect them from ...