| LSD was first discovered in 1938 by a Swiss scientist and was then marketed as a respiratory stimulant. The drug was soon to discovered to have no benefits and research on LSD was halted. In the 1940s, interest in the drug resumed when scientists found that it might be a treatment for schizophrenia, and it was then used in mental illness research.
The effects of LSD are completely unpredictable and they depend on the user's personality, how much is taken, their mood and what they expect the drug to do, and even the surroundings where the drug is used. About 30-90 minutes after a person takes LSD they begin to feel the effects of the drug, which normally include dilated pupils, increased body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, sweating, dry mouth, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, and even tremors. However, sensations and feelings change much more than the physical changes. LSD can make a person delusional and hallucinate. The images and feelings the person experienced may be happy or they could be very frightening. Terrifying feelings and emotions during an LSD episode are commonly called "bad trips" by users.
LSD can be hidden inside candy sweet tarts by placing a clear drop of the drug on the sweet tart. This makes it very difficult to detect the drug; other candies can be used for this purpose as well.
LSD (D-lysergic acid diethylamide) is the strongest hallucinogenic known and has caused some users permanent insanity and even death. This drug is 4000 times stronger than mescaline.
LSD is classified as a Schedule I drug in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. As a Schedule I drug, LSD meets the following three criteria: it is deemed to have a high potential for abuse; it has no legitimate medical use in treatment; and, there is a lack of accepted safety for its use under medical supervision. |
