LSD is a potent hallucinogen with unpredictable effects on the mind, lasting up to 12 hours. It is not addictive but can lead to tolerance and dangerous dosage increases. Flashbacks can occur, and it has no medical use in the US. LSD was discovered accidentally by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who was researching ergot mushrooms. It was initially seen as valuable in treating alcoholism but was later restricted by the government. It is now sold in various forms and often abused at concerts and clubs.
LSD, the common nickname for lysergic acid diethylamide, is the most popular hallucinogen in the United States, and also the most potent. LSD trips can be perceived as really good or terribly bad. The hallucinations it causes can be visual, auditory and tactile, but the unpredictable effects on the mind can also include delusions and terror. One of the distinguishing factors of LSD is the duration of the trips it induces, which can range from 10 to 12 hours.
LSD is not an addictive drug, but use leads to tolerance, so habitual users are inclined to increase the dosage to obtain the previous effects. This is a highly dangerous practice because increasing the dosage is linked to a higher likelihood of adverse effects.
Additionally, flashback episodes have been known to occur, where people who no longer use have repeated the experience of a bad trip. LSD is a Schedule I drug, classified so because there is no acceptable medical use for it in the United States.
The discovery of LSD by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was a dead end on the way to another place. Hofmann was researching ergot mushroom for a pharmaceutical company and this work required the synthesis of lysergic acid. Because lysergic acid is unstable, Hofmann worked to create a number of different compounds to address this problem. LSD-25, the 25th compound in his search for a more stable form of lysergic acid, was lysergic acid diethylamide, produced in 25.
LSD-25 did not address the ergot problem and no further tests were conducted. It wasn’t until 1943, considering it might have some further use, that Hofmann produced another example. Having accidentally and unknowingly taken LSD on his skin, Hofmann had a pleasant hallucination that day. Determined to clearly identify the source of the hallucination, three days later he intentionally ingested LSD, the first trip planned, but a very bad trip.
LSD first became available in the United States in 1949 and was initially seen as valuable in the treatment of alcoholism in the 1950s and 1960s. It was in 1963 that LSD was first sold on the street, according to reports, and just a few years later, in 1966, its use was initially restricted, initially by the state of California, and by the federal government the following year .
In the early 21st century, LSD is sold in capsule, jelly, liquid, sugar cube and tablet form. Like ecstasy, concerts, nightclubs and raves are often occasions for abuse.
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