LSD
D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. A semisynthetic psychedelic first synthesized in 1938 by Swiss chemist
Albert Hofmann, later used in psychiatric research and mind-control projects by the CIA (
MKULTRA). LSD gained popularity in the 60s with the counterculture, and was quickly criminalized in 1966 in the US. It is a solid crystal, melting at app 175 deg. F, although it is highly unstable and is destroyed by heat, air, and esp. Chlorine.Dose: LSD is most commonly found on
blotting paper, sometimes in
sugar cubes, aqueous form, or as small pills called
microdots. The threshold is 20mcg (mcg-microgram is one millionth of a gram). In the 60s you could find doses about 500mcg, nowadays a usual dose is around 20-100
mcg, commonly in the lower range. Thus LSD is never sold
adulterated, it's impossible, but it is not uncommon to find other psychoactives such as MDMA laced with LSD.Effects: Come up is 30 min-1 1/2 hr, a trip lasts 6-14 hours depending mainly on dosage. LSD causes blood pressure and heart rate to increase, as well as
salivation and perspiration. Extreme emotional changes take place; whether they are good or bad depends on set and setting. Time and space are heavily distorted, surfaces may seem to ripple like water, walls might appear to breathe; sounds are also quite distorted. A crossing of stimuli normally takes place, this means one senses, most commonly, seeing sound, or tasting color. LSD can also cause nausea, panic, and, at much higher doses, psychotomimetic effects.
Traffick: Since the early 21st century, the price of LSD has risen dramatically. Another definition says it is one of the cheapest drugs; this is untrue. It is one of the cheapest drugs to manufacture, but the consumer can expect to pay $10/hit, $90 for ten, or sometimes 2 for $15. The price rose about 6 years ago after the
Pickard/
Apperson bust. Pickard/Apperson labs were responsible for the majority of acid produced domestically; about 100 clandestine acid labs remain in the US, most in northern Cali.Chemistry: LSD is synthesized most commonly from
lysergic acid, or lysergic acid amides which are found in
Morning Glory seeds, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds,
Ergot (a fungus that grows on rye), and possibly sleepy grass. LSD production requires many organic solvents, app. $5000 worth of glassware, and a couple years of organic chemistry. It is very difficult and dangerous, don't try it at home.Toxicity/Myth Debunking: LSD is non-toxic to the body, the
LD50 is somewhere in the 12,000-14,000 microgram range; the only overdose involved 360,000 mcg of LSD... most acid chemists don't even manufacture that much in one batch. It does NOT stay in your
spinal fluid (flash backs and
HPPD are rare psychiatric disorders), it is metabolized rather quickly into an inactive analogue. It does NOT cause your brain to bleed. Most acid heads will tell you it does, but acid heads are morons. Strokes, intracranial hemorrhaging,
CVA, and annuerysms cause your brain to bleed, not acid.LSD is a rather sophisticated and complex drug, so basically... It makes you trip balls!
LSD
by fuh? on Oct 14, 2003 19:48:46
D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Synthetic chemical which, when taken orally or, less commonly, in the lining of an eyelid or nostril, is the most potent
hallucinogen known to the common public.
One of the cheapest drugs available, it is neither addictive nor physically dangerous. Taken by an intelligent, open-minded person, it can create fantastic revelations and experiences.
It is not a good party drug, and, in a
hostile environment such as a party, it can lead to what is known as a 'bad trip', where the person under the influence of the substance in question has an experience which is totally frightening. Fear, depression and anger are accentuated to fill the entire body to a point where entire thought patterns are controlled by these emotions.
The same accentuation goes for happiness and relaxation, often leading to a state of artificial nirvana, the only difference being that the person is absolutely suggestible and can lose the ability to reason.
Example:
It's funny how there are actually quite a few serious definitions of LSD on
UrbanDictionary.
The ignorant and
uneducated fear LSD, but the intelligent, after reading about its effects, are the ones who try it, taking special care about risks and so on.
It is only when one becomes cocky and stupid that LSD causes bad effects.
LSD
by One of Them with no Name. on Jan 19, 2006 06:55:17
LSD (D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) is a synthetic hallucigenic drug, although it doesn't produce hallucinations but more severe distortions of the senses and thinking.
It was synthized By Albert Hoffman from Ergotamine which is found in the deadly poisonous
Ergot Fungus that used to grow on crops. it gives hallucinations and
gangreen.
LSD's treshhold dose is 25
micrograms. Common taken doses are about 100 micrograms. It is usually taken in the form of paper blotters; small pieces of absorbant paper with some liquid LSD
sprayed on them.
The effects are mood-changes, a lot of them, visual
tracers, colors, synthesia, and other 'distortions' of the senses. With higher doses everything seems to melt, move and change around you. Your thoughts become bizarre and often confused.
Very low doses give the feeling of being stoned.
The effects last 8 to 12 hours, depending on
the dose and the indifidual.
There have been accidents on LSD, even suicides, but compared to other drugs not many at all.
It was used mostly in the 60th's, untill it got made
illigal and people started speading nonsense about it.
It can cause
schitzophrenia in sensitive people; and post-traumatic stress after a bad trip (which means nothing more then that you fought of the effect too
mch) and in some
cazes flashbacks (random comming back of the effect).
Lsd is not very dangerous, its not poisionous and its
LD50 is far above the user dose. The psychological effects are more dangerous in that. You need almost grams to get you killed and take micrograms as effect. Blotters of paper can not contain enough of other drugs to give you dangerous ammounts of that.
Psysically it causes a raised bloodpressure, faster heartbeat, temperature increase, sweatyness, thighning of the neckmuscles and sometimes nausea and dizzyness. Most people hardly notice this trough the mind-effects.
Should still be used with causion.