To be clear, we're not advocating the use of any of these drugs, and we're outright telling you not to break the law unless you want to risk ruining your life. But that said, there are a lot of myths out there in need of busting.

As a kid, chances are you heard a wide range of "facts" about drug use from a variety of sources. Even as your parents were telling you that a single bong hit would land you directly in some disease-ridden Mexican prison, your stoner friend was pulling you aside to tell you that one hit off of his bong would make you at one with the universe and cure any potential cancers you might have. But as with many things on which opinions vary so widely, much of what you've been told is utter horseshit.

5 LSD Makes You Insane

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The Myth:

Trip on LSD more than seven times and you'll be declared legally insane. The government will grab its official red Sharpie and scrawl "Total Nutjob" across your permanent record, and your family will probably desert you to some Cuckoo's Nest-esque psych ward. If you're lucky, you might start believing that the laws of physics don't apply to you, allowing you to escape from your self-induced hell (by attempting to "fly" off the roof of a building or dodge freeway traffic).

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The Reality:

The first problem with this myth is that "insane" isn't a real legal term, except in rare cases of pleading the insanity defense (the media love to latch onto such cases with their little lamprey mouths, but in actuality they don't occur very often). Plus, there's no scientifically accepted mental disorder that can be diagnosed simply based on past drug use.

The second problem with this myth is that LSD can't make you insane. In a 1960 study, LSD was given to 2,000 people, half of whom were known to be either mentally ill or genetically predisposed to mental illness. Only 0.13 percent of the test subjects exhibited any form of psychotic behavior, and nearly all of those who did were in the "already kind of crazy" bucket. Scientists hypothesized that LSD doesn't "cause" psychoses, it triggers them -- meaning that the people exhibiting psychotic behavior already had underlying mental problems. Even so, many of the horror stories you've heard about people jumping off the high dive at the Crazytown pool after tripping on acid are completely made up.