Sounds like a stupid question, but why don't peole take LSD?

Clearly a bunch of drug addicts on this thread.
Sorry that I don't chose to take drugs guys. I think its stupid and I value my life. Sorry if that offends you!

I am not going to bother to respond to each one individually because I CBA with an arguement. Its well known scientific fact that drugs harm your health. They also alter the way in which your brain functions.

The difference is that LSD can **** someones mind after little use. Alcohol is only very dangerous if you become addicted.

You can't compare LSD to Alcohol, you fool

LSD is too dangerous unless you have friends who are willing to look after you for more than 12 hours just in case you did something stupid, like started peeling your own skin off thinking you're an orange

I think most people go for ketamine or mushrooms to achieve a similar 'high' and trip out. Ketamine is fairly ok at that and only lasts about 2-3hrs when tripping out. In smaller doses it will last even shorter time but without giving you a trip, just some 'cool special effects' on what you're seeing....


In my opinion I would rather do mdma/e on a night out than smoke weed... but obviously I don't encourage any drug use...

Neither is any activity, situation or circumstance.

In fact looking at this screen is straining your eyes and giving you an unhealthy dose of radiation. Radiation is never healthy.



That's like saying getting into a car, riding a bike or taking a skydive is harmful. It's not when you take simple precautions.

Like wearing a seatbelt, bike helmet and wearing a parachute. Like sipping water and taking occasional breaks with MDMA and having a sitter watch over you in a safe secure place with LSD. First trips on LSD are never ever bad trips.



Of course there are intellectual benefits, whole books have been written on the subject. Of course it opens minds, and can improve the lives of some people. Drugs don't exist to suit any predefined purpose.

Did you know, some people are allergic to peanuts?

the problem is not the harm it personally causes you but those it effects cause

it makes your thirst unquenchable resulting in you drowning yourself by drinking to much water (yes it is possible refer to your biology books)

LSD is fun for 6-8 hours, then you feel like a twisted piece of **** for a day or two. Not really worth doing on the regular.

On Wikipedia, it says LSD is less physically addactive and does less physical harm than Marijuana, alcohol and tobacco. Why then would a lot of people not take it? The only real reason I can think of is because the high lasts upto 12 hours, but surly many people would like to experience it?

Also, with regards to flash backs, there has been much research into their causes and effects and there has been little evidence that they even exist.

That i did not know

If you can function on LSD, you're getting some weak acid. LSD strength has dropped considerably over the decades. From maybe 200µg in the 60s down to about 20µg these days.

Functionality depends entirely on the dosage and the stage of trip you're experiencing.

An average trip about 5 years ago when I used to experiment was anywhere between 50-150mcg (impossible to judge any batch of acid accurately before you've had it) and lasted from 6-10 hours. Apart from the peak of the trip, around the halfway mark, in the preceding and following hours if one is experienced with the sensations and visuals, you can disguise the fact that you're tripping to a point where a normal person may not even notice you acting out of the ordinary at all.

Also, i'm not doubting you as I havent looked up any statistics but 20mcg seems really, really weak... I wouldnt have thought it would be enough to do much apart from a slightly buzzy stoned-yet-alert feeling, let alone to trigger a proper trip with visuals.

The strength of illicit LSD nowadays ranges from 20 to 80 m g per dose, which is considerably less than doses reported during the 1960s and early 1970s, of 100-200 m g or higher per unit. Experienced users typically administer 100-200 m g for a “good high”. The potency of liquid LSD in dropper bottles may vary because the liquid is water based.

No one thinks they're an orange, that one was doing the rounds back in the 80s.

Ketamine is quite dangerous btw. Very addictive and destroys the urinary system.

I'm trying to remember where I read those stats, to no avail.

How do you know how strong the acid you took was? Did you have it analysed?

It was just an example I used. LSD is very powerful and can give you hallucinations where you don't know what's real and whats not in high doses. Like you could be thinking there are aliens after you and maybe try and knife someone without knowing it... although it should be 'safe' if used in a small/normal dose with 'sober' friends in a safe environment, like your room.

I know about ketamine, I read about it before and even after doing it. I only done it twice and nothing bad happened as such, just high doses of it made me pretty much trip out for a few hours without any control, lost sense of my body too, no feeling of the tongue which was rather scary... I didn't find it addictive but obviously I respect my body and won't be touching drugs for sometime now.. It's all good fun a few times a year, but doing it weekly like some club-goers isn't worth the risk of damage.