Why did LSD just basically disappear? If anyone offered any today, I'd assume it's fake because people are doing so much other shit and no LSD, but back then it appears to have been common.
It's pretty hard to make and degrades over time and while hiding small quantities is easy, the feds will absolutely annihilate your ass for producing it. It's been a long time since I've been involved in this shit but synthetic mushrooms (psilocybin analogs) were going around for a bit and I'm pretty sure E is what people do these days... it's got the psychedelic feel good thing, creative energy thing going on without the tripping. You used to be able to get pretty wild stuff at festivals or on the dark web (including good ol Lucy) but these days you probably have to be more careful.
For me Acid was always the mother of all Psychedelics, I've done stuff with stronger visuals but there is nothing like the introspection of an acid trip. The way you can see things with almost instant clarity and detachment. How you can process your past and yourself and even life and death and make peace with it and feel connected to everything. It's hard to even do basic math and money just seems absurd on acid... It's hard to explain how much the hippies were influenced by it unless you have tripped on it. It permeates all of the art, music, culture and politics of the era either directly or indirectly.
I don't do drugs any more, either, but mushrooms were reasonably popular when I did. I wish we had LSD. LSD is something I might actually do. I could use the introspection, and it seems like something one wouldn't get addicted to.
You literally can't get addicted to it, if you try to do it again the next day it will have no effect (like might as well just throw it in the trash, nothing at all). You're also going to be fucking beat/hungover/unable to sleep the next day. You do have to be careful with the dosage, 2 tabs of blotter is usually about right, 3 if your shit is weak or you are experienced. There are plenty of stories of people doing high doses and tripping hard for days and going mad. It also permeates your skin so be careful with it (The Dead were famous were doing 'thumbprints' which absolutely ruined peoples sanity).Store it in the freezer. If/when you trip remember set and setting and give yourself some options and distractions and maybe even a baby sitter if you are the uppity type and if you're schizo inclined just don't fuck with it at all. The hippies either absolutely fried their minds from over dosage and over indulgence or turned to harder stuff like meth in the end. It's the kind of thing you do once or twice a decade but it's pretty amazing.
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