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Introduction
Appearance and use
Cost
Purity
Effects
Chances of getting hooked
The risks
The law
LSD or Lysergic
Acid Diethylamide is a hallucinogenic drug originally derived from
ergot, a fungus found growing wild on rye and other grasses. It's
commonly called acid. The experience is known as a trip and these
trips can be good or bad. A good trip can be a lot of fun. A bad
trip is your worst nightmare come to life.
This isn't the drug for people who like to stay in control of
their environment.
ID: Acid, blotter, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L,
lightening flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms,
rainbows, smilies, stars, tab, trips, tripper, window. Sometimes
LSD is known by the pictures on them e.g strawberries. top Appearance and use As a street drug it's usually sold as tiny squares of paper,
usually with pictures on them. But it can be found as a liquid
or as tiny pellets. A trip can take from 20 minutes to an hour to start and usually
lasts about 12 hours. Once it's started you can't stop it. And
until you take a tab of acid you can't tell how strong it is
or how it's going to affect you.
top Cost £ 1 - £5
a tab
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Purity
It's rare
to get duff acid. The mistake some people make is that they
think it hasn't worked so they take more and find it's too
much for them to handle. Some acid can take up to two hours
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The effects Acid has
very random and sometimes very frightening effects. Trips feed
off a person's imagination. One person can spend 12 hours in
a very happy place while someone else who's bought the same
stuff can spend 12 hours lost in their own fears and paranoia.
How the trip
goes has everything to do with who you are, how you're feeling
and how comfortable you are with the people you are with.
- A trip can
speed up and slow down time.
- Trips can
speed up and slow down movement.
- Colour,
sound and objects can get distorted. Think dancing wallpaper,
angry traffic cones and double vision.
- Trips can
make a happy person happier and a freaked out person more panicky
and confused.
There is a
flip side:
- If panic
sets in the experience can be scary and confusing.
- Bad trips
can be terrifying.
- Flashbacks
sometimes happen. This is when part of the trip is re-lived
way after the trip was taken. This is usually weeks or months
after taking the LSD but can be longer.
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Chances
of getting hooked
Not addictive.
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The
risks
- There's
no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to the
body or long-term psychological damage.
- However,
if you have mental health issues, acid can make them worse.
- If you have
a history of serious mental health problems in your family
it may be a bad idea to take acid as it can bring underlying
problems to the surface.
- Avoid taking
acid if you're in a bad mood. People have been known to harm
themselves during a bad trip.
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The law
LSD is a Class A drug
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For
more information or if you would like to talk to someone
at the Advice Centre, please feel free to phone (01202
262291), email (info@quayadvice.co.uk)
or call in to the Quay Advice Centre (map)
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