LSD Persuasive Speech

Imagine you are walking to your car from a restaurant and a homeless man limps towards you and begs for 20 dollars. It’s late and you’re all alone. You give him the money and he limps away toward an alley. You wonder, how exactly did this man end up like this? Chances are, he’s a drug addict.

When most people think of drugs, they simply visualize Marijuana and Cocaine, the drugs so pervasive in our pop culture. But really, there's a lot more to the world of drugs. There’s a plethora of drugs, such as prescriptions, over the counter drugs, herbs, crystals and so much more.

Oxycontin is an opioid originally meant to help relieve people of pain, but many of people have been misusing it. Some are as reliant on it as they are on their glasses. “People who are hurting are desperate” says one New Hampshire man. The U.S is spending 10 billion dollars

It’s made out of lysergic acid. LSD is produced in illegal labs, like most other drugs, and is commonly made in crystal form. It’s also sometimes sold in small tablets known as acid. LSD is packaged in many different ways, such as little stickers, sheets, gel tabs, liquid, and pills. Some LSD dealers put drops of it into candy. LSD gives you extreme hallucinations. Everything looks distorted and you get paranoia. The reality is, it ruins your mental and physical health and will eventually kill you.

Drug use and crime are directly related. Drug use causes crime, and crime causes drug use. 64% of American inmates used drugs regularly and 21% are serving sentences for drug related crimes. In 2007, 5,477 people were found guilty of crack & cocaine related crimes. Only 2% of drug abusers entered substance abuse treatment. Marijuana is the most common drug and cocaine comes in second.

People don’t choose the addict life, nor do they think they’ll get addicted. Drugs just get people hooked. The more you take illegal drugs, the more the side effects multiply. Some side effects