spudnik wrote:
If you haven't taken LSD, then don't, my own mind was too f**** over by this stuff, back in the 80's, when I had someone put it in my drink at a party, it didn't enlighten me, it put me in the hospital when I tried to kill myself, if anything it made my life a living hell which still effects me to this day, with some bad flashbacks and more hospital stays, I have post traumatic stress disorder, which was most likely caused by LSD, so even the thought of suggesting this drug as the answer to enlightenment, is nuts, and should not be even mentioned here. The problems with LSD or any other psychedelic drug, are to numerous, everything from extreme psychosis, flashbacks, convulsions.
There was, however, a pretty sizeable qualitative difference in effect just by the fact that you a) had never done it b) didn't know you were ingesting it and c) had no idea what was going on when it kicked in. When someone does that as a party joke to someone who's never done it its extremely dangerous and yeah, being that a person has no idea what to make of what's happening its really bad.
Most people with any common sense who do try it and want to try it rarely take more than either a hit or half a hit - its like beer or anything else, just a little gives you a body buzz and maybe a slight amount of colors and emotional/psychological effect - enough that most people could endure unless they're natural genetic chemistry is already tipped on the high end in that direction by default (hedging toward schizophrenia or the like). Not invalidating what you suffered, I have a feeling someone probably dumped at least a few drops and it could well have been mescaline if it was more visual. On a different parallel though I had my own horror story about psychiatric meds - lasted over 10 years, about as bad as your story about what the LSD did to you (maybe worse considering it revolved around ongoing pride issues certain psychiatrists had - stole the entire time from when I was 11 to 19 or 20, would never have ended if I hadn't wisened up), yet in the end I will admit that my own experience with that was not the norm and I understand that it went wrong because of people, circumstances, and not specifically because those particular meds are bad in general - they were just about the exact opposite of what I personally should have been on.
04 May 2008, 8:25 pm
