Effects of LSD
About half an hour after you have taken a kit of LSD or acid you will start to experience a distorted view of reality. Objects may move or communicate, time may slow down or speed up, you may experience double vision and feel like you are in another world. Trips often enhance the mood you were in before you took a ‘hit’.
LSD addiction
There is currently no indication or evidence that LSD is addictive. However, like any drug, if you enjoy it, you can be tempted to do it on a regular basis and with that comes increased risks.
LSD laws
LSD is a Class A drug which makes it illegal to possess, sell or supply for free. Possession will get you around 7 years in jail whilst supplying will put you at risk of a life sentence and unlimited fine.
How LSD is used
LSD most commonly comes in tiny squares of paper on which the acid has been previously dropped. The small tabs of paper usually have pictures on them from which that type of acid may take it’s name. The paper in put under your tongue and the acid is absorbed through the mouth. Sometimes acid will come in liquid or pellet form.
Contamination risk
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Side Effects / Health Risks of LSD
- ‘Bad trips’ on LSD are very common. More likely to happen if you were in a negative mood before taking, these trips can be very frightening, especially if panic sets in
- Flashbacks are a side effect that can happen weeks or months after you took the initial hit of acid. A flashback is where you relive the original experience of the trip.
- Although there is no evidence to suggest that LSD increases the risk of long term body or psychological damage, if you have a history of mental illness, there is a distinct possibility of further issues and side effects.
- There have been cases of LSD triggering mental health implications that have previously gone undetected.
Mixing the D’s what to avoid
Mixing your drugs is never advised, however a hit of acid can be so potentially intense that when combined with a other drugs there is a huge risk of paranoia and experience a bad trip. There have been cases of serious injury due to drug users experiencing psychosis and paranoia when taking LSD and combining it with other drugs.
LSD overdose
Although there is no evidence to suggest that taking too much acid will result in death there are countless reports of people not returning to a normal mental state after taking too much LSD. It is difficult to measure the amount of LSD in the body which may account for deaths going unreported.
LSD withdrawal
As with any drug, once you get a taste for acid and begin to enjoy the effects, there is the likelihood that you will want to take it more frequently. Prolonged use of acid or taking it in large doses does potentially have a risk of harming your mental health or leading you into dangerous situations that you are unaware of due to a distorted reality.
Withdrawal from any drug you frequently enjoy can be a difficult upsetting process that can result in depression and ill health.
LSD drug test
There isn’t an individual drug test available, but you can test for a number of drugs at once.
LSD in the news
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LSD or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a hallucinogenic drug more commonly known as acid. Making a popular appearance on the 1960s loved up music scene, LSD is derived from a grass fungus called ergot and taking it results in an intense ‘trip’ that distorts reality, encouraging hallucinations and mixed up visions of objects and real life.
