LSD is something of vast potential. . .but for what, exactly, I cannot say.
About 1959 Cary Grant said that he had done more living after taking acid than all his previous years put together.
The stuff is powerful enough that if someone has troubles, it can push them over the edge. Maybe with no return.
When Albert Hoffmann (first chemist to synthesize it) took his first intentional dose, it was enough for quite a few hits; he had no idea how potent it was. He tripped his ass off, and he was afraid he would never come down. In other words, he took way too much.
But his doctor found no physical evidence of any change at all--his respiration, blood pressure and heart rate were all normal--except for one thing: Hoffmann's pupils were dilated. That was pure LSD-25, at a major dosage.
Well, it's been almost 30 years since I have done any acid, and one reason is that I never had anything that clean. Of course, who knows who made the stuff we got on the black market? Our hearts pounded for many hours, our jaws would grind, we'd sweat a lot: more like speed than LSD. What the hell was really in it? Maybe those tales of strychnine were true.
It is NOT for general consumption, but I have a strong hunch that there are indeed fundamental therapeutic applications for real LSD in proper doses, in the proper settings. The abandonment of all organized research into the stuff was a gross overreaction.
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LSD is something of vast potential. . .but for what, exactly, I cannot say.
About 1959 Cary Grant said that he had done more living after taking acid than all his previous years put together.
The stuff is powerful enough that if someone has troubles, it can push them over the edge. Maybe with no return.
When Albert Hoffmann (first chemist to synthesize it) took his first intentional dose, it was enough for quite a few hits; he had no idea how potent it was. He tripped his ass off, and he was afraid he would never come down. In other words, he took way too much.
But his doctor found no physical evidence of any change at all--his respiration, blood pressure and heart rate were all normal--except for one thing: Hoffmann's pupils were dilated. That was pure LSD-25, at a major dosage.
Well, it's been almost 30 years since I have done any acid, and one reason is that I never had anything that clean. Of course, who knows who made the stuff we got on the black market? Our hearts pounded for many hours, our jaws would grind, we'd sweat a lot: more like speed than LSD. What the hell was really in it? Maybe those tales of strychnine were true.
It is NOT for general consumption, but I have a strong hunch that there are indeed fundamental therapeutic applications for real LSD in proper doses, in the proper settings. The abandonment of all organized research into the stuff was a gross overreaction.