LSD-25
COMMON & BRAND NAMES
Acid; L; Tabs; Blotter; Doses; Trips
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Psychedelic
CHEMICAL NAME
d-lysergic acid diethylamide
DESCRIPTION
LSD is the best known and most researched psychedelic. It is the standard against which all other psychedelics are compared. It is active at extremely low doses and is most commonly available on blotter or in liquid form.
GENERAL INFORMATION #
HISTORY #
1987 DEA Blotter Catalog (5 MB PDF)
I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world
became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief;
they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing.
Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the
eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing
kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation,
which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared.
what had caused this condition?
- - Albert Hofmann
- - Laboratory Notes (1943)
MEDICAL USE #
HEALTH #
MYTHS & URBAN LEGENDS #
ASK EROWID ANSWERS #
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
The Road to Eleusis, by R. G. Wasson, A. Hofmann, C. Ruck
The Joyous Cosmology, by Alan Watts
The Center of the Universe, by W. S. Moxley
The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God, by W. Braden
An LSD Commentary, by Alice Dee
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
"LSD Overdose" Raises Questions - Oct 2004
EXPERIENCES #
Impossible to Understand Reality, by G.T. Currie
For a Short Time, I was There, by Sean Le Blanc
BOOKS #
The Little Book of Acid, by Cam Cloud
LSD, My Problem Child, by Albert Hofmann (Online Version)
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, by Jay Stevens
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, by David Solomon
The Psychedelic Experience (Online Version), by by Leary, Metzner, & Alpert
LSD Psychotherapy, by Stanislov Grof
Acid Dreams, by M. Lee & B. Shlain
LSD : Still With Us After All These Years, by L. Henderson & W. Glass
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
HEALTH #
LAW #
LSD-25 likely to be legalized in Russian medicine - July 2005, pravda
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Who's Got the Acid?" - Slate.com, Apr 2004
The Trip - LA Weekly, 1998
Atlantic Monthly : LSD and the Third Eye - The Atlantic, 1996
The Exploding Threat of the Mind Drug that Got Out of Control - Life Magazine, 1967
Acid Dreams excerpts - 1985
VIDEO & DOCUMENTARY #
Power & Control : Documentary on LSD, directed by Aron Ranen
Getting High: A History of LSD, History Channel
SYNTHESIS & EXTRACTIONS #
ANALYSIS & TESTING #
GOVERNMENT & MILITARY USE #
MI6 pays out over secret LSD mind control tests, Feb 24 2006, Guardian.co.uk