torsdag den 3. marts 2011

What is LSD? - biology

LSD
LSD is an abbreviation of the chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide and is a man-made (made by humans) synthetic drug. It was created in the 60’ies and it is categorized as a hallucinogen drug. This means that when you take the drug, after a few minutes (this can take up to 90 minutes depending on the dose) you will start to hallucinate. Things will pop up that aren’t really there, your hearing will be much better and the things you touch are feeling much, much better. People describe this as something divine. Your sight is getting brighter and you look at your surroundings in an entire new way. LSD is hard to get addicted to, the only thing is that people who take this drug constantly need a higher dose as time pass by because their body get used to it.

Health damages
for some people LSD help them feel better after a depression; it makes them come back to life because they see all these good things! LSD cannot create any physical damages but if you are having ‘a bad trip’ you can feel paranoid for the rest of your life or things like that. It is unpredictable to tell what the risks are because it is depending on the user’s personal mood. As I said before, some people will get paranoid after this trip, get extremely terrified, lose self-control or even die. It can give you long-lasting psychoses such as schizophrenia or severe depressions if you are taking LSD constant.
Legal or illegal
LSD is no longer legal. When it was created doctors were trying to find out what it did. They even tried it on soldiers to see if they could use it as some secret weapon, but when the British leader of the soldier team started to climb a tree – they realized that it was no good.
LSD is
produced in crystalline form and then diluted as a liquid for production in ingestible forms. Pushers put two drops of the liquid on a sugar cube. That was the way to do it in the beginning but when the weight was the matter of the bill if you got caught by the police (if the drug cube weighted 25 grams the bill would be higher, or time in prison longer), pushers started to use something called blotter paper. It was sheets of absorbent paper soaked in or impregnated with LSD. The size is mostly one-quarter inch squared. 



Flashbacks
you have maybe heard of people telling about having ‘flashbacks’. In this case it is when a hidden amount of the drug is getting used of your body. Without knowing your body can starve some of the drug in your fat so when you start using the fat, the drug will be triggered. So, if you take two drops of LSD and starting your ‘trip’ after 30 minutes, you can be on this ‘trip’ for 12 hours. When your little ‘trip’ has finished and you are on your way back home on your bike, after a long day at work a few days after your trip, suddenly you feel a bit dizzy and your hallucinations will pop back in your mind.

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