LSD

D-lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. A typical dose of LSD is only 100 to 150 micrograms, a tiny amount roughly equal to one-tenth the weight of a grain of sand. Threshold effects can be felt with as little as 20 micrograms. LSD causes a powerful intensification and alteration of senses, feelings, memories, and self-awareness for 6 to 14 hours. In addition, LSD usually produces visual effects such as moving geometric patterns, "trails" behind moving objects, and brilliant colors. LSD usually does not produce hallucinations in the strict sense, but instead illusions and vivid daydream-like fantasies. At higher concentrations it can cause synaesthesia.

External links

Media

• Wired News: Long Trip for Psychedelics, September 27, 2004
• Who's Got the LSD? These Days, Almost Nobody
• Northern Californian LSD makers found guilty
• Pickard And Apperson Sentenced On LSD Charges Official DEA press release on the "Largest LSD Lab Seizure In DEA History"
• LYSERGIC Book Written About Pickard Case
• Salon.com: Dr. Hoffman's problem child turns 58, April 16, 2001

Academic

• A Critical Review of Theories and Research Concerning LSD and Mental Health
• Definitions of Addiction, Physical Dependence, and Tolerance
• LSD - My Problem Child online, by LSD inventor Dr. Albert Hofmann (highly recommended, pun intended)
• The Neurochemistry of Psychedelic Experience, Science & Consciousness Review
• Aldous, F. A. B., Barrass, B. C., Brewster, K., Buxton, D. A., Green, D. M., Finder, R. M., Rich, P., Skeels, M., and Tutt, K. J., "Structure-Activity Relationships in Psychotomimetic Phenylalkylamines," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 17, 1100-1111 (1974)
• Current LSD Research
• Searchable LSD Bibliography
• LSD Synthesis Procedure in TIHKAL

Urban legends

• Blue Star Tattoo myth
• Strychnine myth

General

• Erowid LSD Vault
• Good Drugs Guide
• LSD Visual experiment
• Spirit Plants Forums
• Dr. Timothy Leary
• The Lycaeum Archive -> LSD
• Yoism - Scroll down for an optical illusion that demonstrates some of the visual effects of LSD

Blotter Art

• Erowid gallery of blotter art
• Mark McCloud's Blotter Barn

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