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Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world
independent.co.uk — It's the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped the music, art and literature of a generation. As the world bids farewell to the bicycling Swiss chemist who created LSD, John Walsh explores his mind-altering legacy
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- OgniAsuob, on 05/01/2008, -20/+5I wist I could drop some now to forget about digg.
- BXRWXR, on 05/01/2008, -8/+5I wist you'd just drop yourself out of a 10-story window.
- OgniAsuob, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1yeah ..whatever schatzi
- BXRWXR, on 05/01/2008, -8/+5I wist you'd just drop yourself out of a 10-story window.
- ericdano, on 05/01/2008, -26/+3What the hell? 25 diggs and it's on the front page?
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -8/+5its LSD.
- Neoanarchist, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3Thank you, thats the first thing I thought when I read his comment haha.
- BXRWXR, on 05/01/2008, -2/+5Cheese. Whine. You know the rest.
- nickcozy, on 05/01/2008, -4/+3Maybe digg is still maoning over the death of Hoffmann.
- schwallman, on 05/01/2008, -1/+8who cares if its on the front page. its news and it interesting
- kipmartin, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2its because it is in 'Art and Culture'. if it was in 'Politics', it would have to crawl higher to make the front page. its all relative--Some categories dont require the top stories to do much digging. either that, or we're on LSD.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -8/+5its LSD.
- ErikHarrison, on 05/01/2008, -12/+5Yeah..... mannnn... the colors, mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
- thumperings, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6spoken like someone who has never traveled outside the box for anything.
- JohnnyRad, on 05/01/2008, -11/+3I thought cocaine rocked the world?
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2It actually did at a far greater scale, so lets digg this down in the tradition of digging down anything relevant or sensible.
- JustFender, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1i'd argue weed has rocked the world much more, but then again, alcohol may have even more
"when the truth is found, to be lies"
- dmurray14, on 05/01/2008, -7/+8It really did. Nothing like spinning both tires at once. One wheel wonders suck...
- dhVyse, on 05/01/2008, -4/+2LULZ.
- mehan, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3you're on digg, the concept of spinning tires is foreign to people driving jettas, priuses, civics, etc.
- motherwell, on 05/01/2008, -4/+6Where can one find some LSD?
- Hetman, on 05/01/2008, -1/+860s and 70s. These days it is like one of the hardest things to find. Due to the fact that it does not make drug dealers money like herion and Coke.
- BrosDuCK, on 05/01/2008, -2/+0I can get it quite easily, and as for "one of the hardest things to find" DMT is a lot harder to come by.
- xerox, on 05/01/2008, -0/+8although DMT is easily extracted from a lot of common plant material.
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Xerox beat me to it.
- Tweekster, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5Most labs would rather make E anyways
- BrosDuCK, on 05/01/2008, -2/+0I can get it quite easily, and as for "one of the hardest things to find" DMT is a lot harder to come by.
- mxmj, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6In every major western city and many smaller ones too.
- pegothejerk, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3If you can stomach the bigger jam bands, just follow them around until you get accepted into the culture. Soon you'll have plenty of free LSD.
- qwertydvorak, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1that's what i have. tons of free time to just aimlessly follow a band around the country. too bad lsd can't be made as easily as meth.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5Raves and hippie fests.
- jotatmo, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2missoula montana!
- SheilaNoya, on 05/01/2008, -4/+5A better question would be "Where can one find some QUALITY LSD?". It seems like the old recipe was somehow lost, because the crap being sold today is mostly speed with hardly any hallucinations. Today's acid is only good for an intense body rush and extreme paranoia. What happened to the truly mind altering acid of the good old days that made you hallucinate so vividly? The stuff made today can't make you smell a number, taste a word, feel a color, or twist your mind into the wonderful state of total cross-connected thoughts and visions like the acid of the late 60's and early 70's.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3While you might be able to feel the amount of speed someone could fit into a blotter, you wouldn't feel it much. 99% of the time when you buy a piece of blotter (or microdot, or gel), you are either getting completely ripped off or you're getting a low dose of lsd. If you want that kind of mind bending trip you got back in the 60's, when the average dose on a hit was 250mcg, take 5 of todays hits, whose average dose is more like 50mcg. Acid is acid, and there are very few other psychedelics that are active in the submilligram range, so that dude who just sold you a 'mescaline microdot' had no idea that a low dose of mescaline is 250 milligrams, about the size of a large aspirin. All of the variation between trips is caused by your expectations, not the drug.
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4Can I just say that if you get some random blotter on the street, take one blotter at a time, because you honestly don't know how powerful a batch of doses is until it's too late.
And, I say that 'lsd-25/50' is too hard to come by these days, and you're better off with other tryptamines.- Azurensis, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1>Can I just say that if you get some random blotter on the street, take one blotter at a time, because you honestly don't know how powerful a batch of doses is until it's too late.
Surely! Though I don't know where you can just find it "on the street", an even better idea is to buy a few, try one, and then next time take as many as you think you need to get where you want to go.
>And, I say that 'lsd-25/50' is too hard to come by these days
I have no idea what lsd-50 is, but what exactly do you imagine you'd get on a blotter besides plain old lsd? None of the byproducts of the manufacture of lsd are active at anywhere close to the same dose, and the few other chemicals that are active in that range are no easier/cheaper to make. So what else could you be getting? - qwertydvorak, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1the way we always did it is: buy a sheet or a vial, figure out the best dosage the first two times around and then you know till it's gone. with a sheet of blotter it is safe to assume that you need a minimum of 4 hits.
- Azurensis, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1>Can I just say that if you get some random blotter on the street, take one blotter at a time, because you honestly don't know how powerful a batch of doses is until it's too late.
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+4Can I just say that if you get some random blotter on the street, take one blotter at a time, because you honestly don't know how powerful a batch of doses is until it's too late.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3While you might be able to feel the amount of speed someone could fit into a blotter, you wouldn't feel it much. 99% of the time when you buy a piece of blotter (or microdot, or gel), you are either getting completely ripped off or you're getting a low dose of lsd. If you want that kind of mind bending trip you got back in the 60's, when the average dose on a hit was 250mcg, take 5 of todays hits, whose average dose is more like 50mcg. Acid is acid, and there are very few other psychedelics that are active in the submilligram range, so that dude who just sold you a 'mescaline microdot' had no idea that a low dose of mescaline is 250 milligrams, about the size of a large aspirin. All of the variation between trips is caused by your expectations, not the drug.
- Hetman, on 05/01/2008, -1/+860s and 70s. These days it is like one of the hardest things to find. Due to the fact that it does not make drug dealers money like herion and Coke.
- stonewaljacksn, on 05/01/2008, -4/+8why are all the best scientists in switzerland
- philz, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/zurich-is ...
- Doomsan, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4Because thery're neutral
- csw1342, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Ph.D balanced?
It had to be done.
I am not a chemist.
- csw1342, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Ph.D balanced?
- Hetman, on 05/01/2008, -2/+44I think everyone should take a hallucinogens at least once. Be it mushrooms or Acid.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -8/+1or a ***** ton of caffeine will do it.. and DMT..
- BrosDuCK, on 05/01/2008, -5/+0Salvia is where it's at.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Saliva Sucks.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -3/+1DMT is a dissociative, which isn't really the same. Go for the real thing!
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4No, DMT is a psychedelic, and quite possibly the most intense one out there. PCP and Ketamine are dissociatives.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Look up Joe rogans discussions on it.... I have researching it. Its real. It does it.. Only prob is getting it to grow.. and harvesting and finding it.
- kelt65, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2um, no. trips should be 6-10 hours at least.
- Maver1c, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4taking a "***** ton" of caffeine is uncomfortable, unenjoyable, and has nothing to do with psychedelics.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1It causes Hallucination's
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Hallucination's what?
- Maver1c, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1No, it doesn't. Show me one study where it has, please.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1It causes Hallucination's
- BrosDuCK, on 05/01/2008, -5/+0Salvia is where it's at.
- Doomsan, on 05/01/2008, -4/+1I want so bad aghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
- dafragsta, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5For those looking to try something legal, Salvia Divinorum is a VERY powerful hallucinogen and it's still legal in most places. It's the first and only one I've ever taken and it caught me off guard. I think you have to be in a happy and non-paranoid state of mind beforehand though, and it's ideal to find a good quiet place with very little to no outside noise pollution.
- TheKillDoctor, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2It's also good to have someone around to prevent you from standing up and doing something stupid until it wears off (10 -15 minutes). Salvia is really hard to judge how much to smoke. Also it doesn't have as much visuals as LSD or shrooms, but it does have one hell of a kick!
- TekTrixter, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3I'd recommend NOT taking Salvia for a "good time". Use it to change your perspective, but not for entertainment.
- NoCt1, on 05/01/2008, -8/+1or a ***** ton of caffeine will do it.. and DMT..
- etx313, on 05/01/2008, -2/+9It definitely rocked my face in high school. Good times.
- orangefly, on 05/01/2008, -2/+7i still prefer shrooms....no disrespect though....
- i3rYs0n, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3shrooms are a scary roller-coaster compared to a nice L trip
- orph3us, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Have finding real L these days though, mushies are safer because you know what you are getting (hopefully, well at least they are natural)
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Shrooms are not a scare roller coaster. Commonly people take too much though because you never know when they will be strong or weak. They rip my stomach up though if I need to eat a lot when they are not too potent. Ecstasy takes the edge off both nicely too, but I wouldn't trust most of that these days. Same goes for acid really.
- i3rYs0n, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3shrooms are a scary roller-coaster compared to a nice L trip
- imbob, on 05/01/2008, -2/+8so tempted now............ Digg pressure!
- jordanmerle, on 05/01/2008, -1/+7Dropping acid makes a road trip to Vegas literally fly by.
- kipmartin, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4literally?
- rayraym0fucka, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1In a hallucinogenic kind of way ;p
- insllvn, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2literally.
- dafragsta, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6Just look out for the huge bats.
- daeken, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2We were somewhere outside of Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
- kipmartin, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4literally?
- JohnnyRad, on 05/01/2008, -2/+31"The only thing I'm high on is love...love for my son and daughters. Yes, a little LSD is all I need."
-Marge Simpson - trumpeter617, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6A really good read.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -1/+14I love that old video of the British soldiers tripping out - looked like most of them had a good time (except for the guy who freaked out). I kind of wish it would come back into vogue with the kids (instead of meth, blow, alcohol, etc). A drug that makes people happy, introspective, and peaceful would be such a better alternative!
- Triachus, on 05/01/2008, -7/+2Acid made me lose my nuts and I've got a lifelong dissociative illness due to the damage it created. Strangely though, I still think it made me a better person in the long run by taking it, despite the permatrip.
- Triachus, on 05/01/2008, -4/+2I love how i got dugg down, thanks digg for your shades of grey once and a while. I'm sticking exclusively to Reddit from now on, until that ultimately gets overrun by ***** idiots as well.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5Out of curiosity, how was it directly linked to the acid? I've heard of people with problems already having them exacerbated by LSD, but have not read of any cases where the LSD was the actual cause.
- Tweekster, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1E does that, and energetic.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2But it also messes with the pleasure center of your brain, making it difficult for habitual users to feel pleasure without it.
I tried E once in college (before it was really popular) and remember thinking this is alright, but I should have just gone with good old vitamin A.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2But it also messes with the pleasure center of your brain, making it difficult for habitual users to feel pleasure without it.
- Triachus, on 05/01/2008, -7/+2Acid made me lose my nuts and I've got a lifelong dissociative illness due to the damage it created. Strangely though, I still think it made me a better person in the long run by taking it, despite the permatrip.
- GoldenZero, on 05/01/2008, -0/+14Dropping acid can be one of the most fun things you can ever do!
- purplehaze420, on 05/01/2008, -14/+1It can also ***** up your life and activate a gene which causes schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder just like my fathers cousin(s). Because of this I will never try it...
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4How the hell does it activate a gene?
You can have a bad trip though. Last few were kind of like that. I think you just get too old eventually. - tarrmachine, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2LSD is good times but MDMA trumps them all.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Yep. While I've heard of people having a bad time on lsd, I have yet to meet anyone who tried MDMA and didn't enjoy it.
- chewbie, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1which should mean that LSD leaves room to explore yourself instead of being a happiness-infested moron who's only thoughts are "happy fun happy"
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I tried it once and decided I preferred LSD. MDMA seemed like a shallow experience in comparison.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1MDMA is certainly more shallow. I'm just talking about 'good times'! ;)
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1chewbie's right, MDMA is okay, but it lacks depth and the possibility for introspection that is offered by hallucinogens.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Yep. While I've heard of people having a bad time on lsd, I have yet to meet anyone who tried MDMA and didn't enjoy it.
- PnkRckMiguel, on 05/01/2008, -0/+12LSD has some pretty good therapeutic qualities as well. Harvard professor and psychologist Timothy Leary conducted experiments at the Concord Prison which effectively reduced the recidivism rate by 60%. Harvard has just been approved to do the first human experiments on LSD since the 1970s. Personally, I find this whole subject to be very interesting. I think psychedelic drugs can prove to be very useful. Ecstasy has also been used to treat people with OCD and various mental conditions. Go psychedelics!
- JohnGalt72, on 05/01/2008, -0/+10Nice article, takes me back to the good old days.
I too, believe that tripping a few times can be a huge benefit to people. It's leaves one with a point of reference both spiritually and physically that one may have not discovered otherwise. Things aren't always as they seem....- thumperings, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4basically it shows people that sober reality is as subjective as any other. That tnds to blow the squares minds though, so they get defensive and make bigger bombs.
- JohnGalt72, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Yes, reality is subjective. Although I always felt like I saw the "objective truth" when on a trip. I felt as though I could explain everything that had to do with the world we're in, until I sobered up, of course. Then I could never quite find the words to describe it lol.
- rigorx, on 05/01/2008, -0/+8I can attest to the fact that people can definitely benefit from psychoactive substances and come out for the better because of them. I was a straight laced kid (besides drinking) all through high school and in my early 20's. I had grown up with the "Just Say No" of Nancy Reagan in the 80's. I had an uncle who was in and out of prison due to drugs. Drugs were "bad", and that's all I knew and could tell you... w/o ever having taken any.
I met a good friend through work when I was 26, and didn't discover for several months that he worked hard, but also played hard. I completely trusted this individual with my safety, and swallowed my first dose of MDMA (Ecstasy) with him and some other casual friends. Totally blew my mind, and I instantly saw why people could get hooked on drugs (in a bad way). However, we were smart folks with good jobs, and instead of going crazy and being stupid with no knowledge and just starting to try all the recreational drugs out there, I instead ordered books from Amazon and read tons and tons of info about all kinds of drugs. There are great websites online as well. So, certain recreational drugs, with lots of knowledge, became like science experiments to me, limiting myself to only dabbling and playing at certain times (generally only about once a month, if that). I would explore and log and write about these experiences. I always seemed to get something out of most of them - some more, some less. At any rate, a person with knowledge and information about what drugs do, the safety measures that need to be taken, and someone who has self control, can certainly find even "dangerous recreational" drugs useful, and mind opening. They have certainly provided eye opening experiences for me, and I think I now see the world and people in more, and better ways, than I use to, because of these experiences.
- thumperings, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4basically it shows people that sober reality is as subjective as any other. That tnds to blow the squares minds though, so they get defensive and make bigger bombs.
- blacklilyninja, on 05/01/2008, -6/+6all i remember is calling 911 saying
" omg i've taken acid and i really feel unsafe."
ambulance rides while tripping .. not fun
cops taller than your ceiling ... not fun
jacobs ladder feeling the next morning... not fun- spinaltap87, on 05/01/2008, -0/+22Dumbass
- eviljolly, on 05/01/2008, -0/+14It take a certain type of person to enjoy acid.
You sir...are not one of those people.- i3rYs0n, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4agreed
- orph3us, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3yes, but anyone can become that type of person, and that's the whole point. Get rid of your insecurities to a point where you can live through anything!
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+14Where were your friends?
- hockeysmurf, on 05/01/2008, -0/+10Improve your trip environment next time and be sure to unplug phones.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Or go where there are no phones. I highly recommend the desert.
- TekTrixter, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Little fluffy clouds / You don't see that - / You might still see them in the desert.
- TekTrixter, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Little fluffy clouds / You don't see that - / You might still see them in the desert.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Or go where there are no phones. I highly recommend the desert.
- elliotys, on 05/01/2008, -9/+3In my opinion heroine has been much more instrumental in making good music. Can't play the funk, without the junk.
- Owwmykneecap, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1but its so moreish.
- moxley, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5Sounds like the opinion of someone who hasn't really done much (if any) heroin.
Been there, done that...and trust me, if you're doing that stuff before that long the only music that is going to matter to you are the musical instruments (which you no longer play) that you can sell to get more junk.
And while being high as ***** on dope (and especially speedballs of coke and heroin) feels like nothing else in the world - it is so not worth it and is basically a road to destruction.
Heroin turns the world off. Heroin insulates you. LSD (on the other hand) explodes your world and shows you many connections and paradigms that were never before conceivable to you.
Leave the opiates for when you really, really need them...Do yourself a favor and avoid that temptation to use Opiate drugs. It'll be the best thing you ever did for yourself.
Opiates have their time and place, and being a regular recreational drug is not one of them.- elliotys, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2Your right, I have never, nor would I ever, do heroine, or rather 3,6 diacetyl-morphine. My statement shouldn't have been taken too seriously, I was just basing it off the fact that Led Zepplin, Hendrix, Joplin, Ray Charles, and many others of that time used heroine, and it seemed to make their work better, it seemed to add soul. With this said, I fully understand the dangers of heroine use, and I strongly recommend that people DO NOT take heroine.
- Owwmykneecap, on 05/01/2008, -1/+13Look at all the great Music and Lyrics and art and Poetry (Ancient Mariner anyone) made due to in some part to Drugs and Alcohol.
Then Look at Straight Edge.
Hahaha. - NonLeftistDiggr, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2(vitamin C is the only known cure for bad trips).
HAHA, yeah right.... that doesn't work.- neodorian, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2The urban mythology when I was in college was that vitamin C exacerbated a trip. We would wash down our tabs with OJ to make sure we tripped soon and well.
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1same here, I never drank the orange juice, but I ended up in the same damn state as those who did, thinking how cool trees, radiohead, and the moving textures on the walls were.
- Azurensis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2A good strong dose of Valium seems to cure anyone's bad trip. Mostly because they are asleep.
- neodorian, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2The urban mythology when I was in college was that vitamin C exacerbated a trip. We would wash down our tabs with OJ to make sure we tripped soon and well.
- kipmartin, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Ever seen pics of young, hip, longhaired Dick Cheney? hmmmm...tripping with Dick Cheney. get the Thorazine!
- xerox, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1though formerly the anti psychosis drug of choice for bad trips, its now more commonly treated with Risperidone.
- Noodleson, on 05/01/2008, -0/+22One of the things I've always thought was kind of interesting about acid is that Francis Crick, co-founder of the DNA double helix was on acid when he made his discovery. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have both personally said they've taken the drug (Steve Jobs even said it was one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life). It kind of makes you wonder what impact LSD has had on our society...
- neodorian, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4Dunno why you are being buried. All of these things are true.
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I know Steve Jobs and Crick have dosed, but Gates??
- Noodleson, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0He said it in playboy:
http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/bl ...
- Noodleson, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0He said it in playboy:
- Jaguwar, on 05/01/2008, -1/+22A 'real LSD trip" is not just a mind changing, it is a life changing experience.
By "real LSD trip" I don't mean being really high, really stoned, really messed up, I don't mean having some weird hallucinations. I mean an experience in which you leave this world and enter another world, you don't merely see hallucinations based on your current environment, the hallucinations replace your current perceptual world with a hallucinated world.
That is how the term "trip" originated you take a "trip" to another reality. Getting really stoned is not a "trip" You don't drive a car on a 'trip' if you try the steering wheel might melt in your hands and become the reigns of a magical iridescent unicorn.
For example if you go to a movie stoned, the movie can seem more profound or have all sorts of deeper meanings, a dramatic movie can appear to you to be a comedy. If you go to a movie on LSD you might spend 2 hours focusing on the people sitting in the first three rows of the theater integrating them into the action on the screen, thinking they were part of the movie and being surprised to still be seeing them when the movie ends.
Also, a real LSD trip almost always (at least the first several trips) reveals some very important, often repressed truth about the person taking the trip. A persons, early "real trips" often contain profound spiritual/psychological/philosophic/religious learning aspects; which can be both shattering and transforming as well as integrating and focusing.
Also, a real trip can be dangerous, in particular if you are in denial about something significant or there is something you have been repressing or in general if your psychological make up is weak or fragile. If you are not fairly certain about your state of psychological health and stability, you are not ready for LSD. In other words, it can reveal and greatly amplify your inner angels as well as your inner devils.
The word I (and many others) most associate with LSD is Truth.- Owwmykneecap, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3So its not just Chemicals ***** around in you brain?
- zigunerweisen, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6The fact that chemicals ***** with your brain produces the effects you experience leads you to certain revelations of truth.
- smartass007, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5there are always chemicals '***** around' with your brain 24/7. the human body (and its brain) is an electro-chemical machine. all of the great thoughts, concepts, discoveries, advances, art, sciences, doctrines, theories, insights, inventions, etc. are all a result of the chemicals of our body influencing our brain. so what's so extraordinary about the idea of chemically altering the default environment of the brain and noticing its profound effects on everything a brain is capable of doing?
seems to me the people who belittle LSD are most likely the ones who may secretly be afraid of unsettling their little, narrow-minded worldview. - dafragsta, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3What is life, if not chemicals ***** with your brain in an attempt to grasp a world that might not really be as we see it, but rather how we've evolved to deal with it. Go read the quantum physics article linked earlier today. Most matter is comprised of empty space, yet we perceive solids as solid and matter in various states as we think they are. Anyone who holds to tightly to the "real world" because they are anchored to it, is missing out on some profound truth in their life that is far more real than religion. We are in one corner of an unimaginably huge universe and the solidity of the real world is often wrongly taken for granted. One day, we won't be here anymore and all the things we've anchored ourself to will be gone as well. The only look into what might be out there, that we can take is by circuit bending our brains a bit to break the translation of this real world for a while.
- Hetman, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4It is just chemicals ***** around in your brain. However it is like waking up to a new world around you that you have not previously seen. It seems to break down the fundemental way we think about everything. It is definatly a life changing experience.
- Tweekster, on 05/01/2008, -10/+0People that make taking a substance a religious experience are fools.
I better go to the bar, er i mean my church and have an awakening experience on jaeger.
Yeah that doesn't quite cut it,
if you are profoundly changed from takinga simple drug like LSD you are a pretty simple person to begin with- charbo187, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3go ***** yourself.
- MattB123, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4You know from experience? Sounds like the words of someone whose never experienced it.
- dafragsta, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4People who insist they've got the answer and everyone else is wrong are delusional. If you've never done these things, how can you say they aren't true? Nothing rattles the fabric of your existence more than actually ratting the fabric of your existence.
- Maver1c, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3wait, how did i get on erowid? i could swear i was reading stupid digg comments a few seconds ago..
- Owwmykneecap, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3So its not just Chemicals ***** around in you brain?
- danwallace, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1"Wherever he looked, the landscape became distorted as if seen through a funfair mirror."
Haha... funfair. I've been playing too much GTA4. - diggopolous, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2We're so sorrry Uncle Albert....
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2But we haven't done a bloody thing all day.
Leebooweeboo li'l gypsy get around.. get your feet up off the ground with a little get around.
- ummagummas08, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2But we haven't done a bloody thing all day.
- yellowcakewalk, on 05/01/2008, -2/+6All the hype aside, the careful and responsible use of psychedelics can improve your state of mind.
- omnithought, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Mama, mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home...
- ScottyMcBaggs, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1goin home, goin home..
***** now i'm going to have to throw american beauty on
- ScottyMcBaggs, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1goin home, goin home..
- worldsbestgamer, on 05/01/2008, -7/+1PCP makes you feel better, and you can still trip.
DMT is better and it doesn't last so damn long too. - Tweekster, on 05/01/2008, -10/+0LSD is overhyped,
X is better - YogiWanKenobi, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1They forgot to mention computers
- madmaggie, on 05/01/2008, -2/+0I just learned, recently, that Nostradamus used mind altering drugs in connection with Black Magic & a few other things!
- amuk, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Error in article!!!
Albert Hoffman did not take 250 mg (milligrams) of LSD when he tested it on himself. He took 250 micrograms. 250mg is about 2500 doses.- charbo187, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1ya according to erowid 150-400 ug (micrograms) is a strong dose. It also says that the LD50 (Lethal Dose*) is 12,000 ug. so if 1000 ug = 1 milligram than 12 milligrams of LSD would be a lethal dose. so there is no way he could have taken 250 milligrams. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_dose.shtml
- tehbored, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Whoops, bury me.
- charbo187, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1ya according to erowid 150-400 ug (micrograms) is a strong dose. It also says that the LD50 (Lethal Dose*) is 12,000 ug. so if 1000 ug = 1 milligram than 12 milligrams of LSD would be a lethal dose. so there is no way he could have taken 250 milligrams. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_dose.shtml
- jotatmo, on 05/01/2008, -2/+5if you have not done LSD, you should.
- orph3us, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5take precaution, don't follow blanket statements! Read up on it, don't be dumb. Not something you take to be hip. Do not treat with disrespect, yourself or the drug!!!
- vonsydow, on 05/02/2008, -1/+2But seriously, take it.
- phosphite, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Limited Slip Differential's rock my world too!
- pdxnick, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1only the man climbing the tree, to feed the birds, truly understood his path...before he burst in to laughter. classic!
- tehbored, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I want do it sometime in the future, but I have a phobia of spiders, so I can really see how it could end badly.
- Pegritz, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1A friend of mine once told me to never do LSD, as apparently--and I'm just repeating his explanation--I apparently think and act like I'm on acid all the time. Hell, if I took acid, it'd probably make me *normal.*
- g0tistt0t, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1"Bender! The secret ingredient was nothing more than ordinary water, with just a few spoonfuls of LSD"
Also you can tell the author never did acid in his life cuz all he does is report book facts and outside observances. - Neo2627, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1My 'first' hit of window-pane; was exhilarating, and scary! For the most part,I must have laughed my ass off over something that would not have made me laugh, if I had been straight. . colors,sounds,people,music,things and the air, distortion to the utmost high! Then frying my brains out, and the fear that this ***** would never end (try driving from San Diego, to Santa Monica, while on purple haze!). Somewhere I heard you could see GOD! I saw HIM, and a lot more!
- 1ncu3us, on 06/16/2008, -1/+1If only i knew how to get my hands on some.. ready and willing
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