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The three most misunderstood letters
Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD, is a
derivative of lysergic acid which occurs in the alkaloids
of ergot growing on cereals and grasses. Already in
the microgram area the colourless LSD crystals have a
mind-altering effect. The threshold dose for slight bodily
and weak psychic effects for most people is under 25
microgram; at techno parties the doses usually are 50 to
150 microgram; during the hippie area 300 microgram
were prefered; within therapeutical frameworks up to
850 microgram are used. A fatal LSD dosis for humans
is not known. On the black market LSD mostly is sold
in the form of paper trips, or in micro tablets containing
between 50 and 250 microgram.
LSD is absorbed by the body within one hour. Two hours
later the LSD level in the blood – and its effect – is at
maximum. Generally the effect lasts about eight to twelve
hours. Especially in the initial stage respiration, pulse rate,
blood pressure, body temperature, and blood sugar level
can be heightened; sometimes dizziness and a dazed
feeling occur. These bodily side effects are of a temporal
nature, however, they rarely have a negative effect.
Like mescaline and psilocybine LSD belongs to the
psychedelic drugs. It differs from other psychoactive substances
in many ways: even when used repeatedly over
an extended period of time it is neither addictive, nor
does it lead to any organic harm. The high it triggers is
being experienced consciously. With it similar states may
occur as they are experienced in meditative contemplation:
the feeling of effusive joy, profound inner freedom,
and all-embracing love.
Those experienced with LSD also report that memories of
certain events become much clearer, and the imagination
extremely vivid; creativitiy and the capability to associate
intensifies. For many people the experience with LSD is
Ein neues Hofmann-Standardwerk erscheint
Zum 100. Geburtstag Albert Hofmanns erscheint im AT-
Verlag (Baden) das Buch »Auf dem Weg nach Eleusis«,
herausgegeben von Roger Liggenstorfer und Mathias
Bröckers. Roger informiert mit seinem Nachtschatten
Verlag seit mehr als 20 Jahren über Drogen und
Kultur und steht Albert Hofmann sehr nah. Mathias
ist Journalist, Buchautor (mit dem Bestseller »11.9.«),
Hanfexperte und Hanfaktivist.
Ein Teil des Buches besteht aus Gespräche über
wichtige Lebensstationen für den Wissenschaftler und
Menschen Albert Hofmann. Dieser persönliche Teil
so profound and confrontative that any avoidance or suppression
are almost impossible. By it, a constructive and
creative potential is being released which can transform
a neurotic, psychotic, or addictive behavior, and make a
permanent connection with natural life energy possible.
Risks are:
Acute panic reactions, triggered by particularly intense
alterations of perception, by the re-experiencing of suppressed
traumatic experiences, or by working oneself up
into a spiritual crisis.
Flashbacks: about 15 percent of LSD users report that at
least once drug effects return without taking LSD again.
Being stuck: with psychologically unstable persons, for ,
alterations of perception, unpleasant hallucinations, and
other mental disorders might occur, which can last for
quite some time.
Psychological crisis: now and then temporary depressions,
or paranoid and schizophrenic behavior patterns
occurred with people after having ingested psychedelica.
Whether these present a purely pharmocological effect
of hallucinogenic drugs is doubtful, however. Possibly the
consumption of drugs induced the outbreak of a crisis
which, sooner or later, would have become manifest
anyway.
Whether LSD has negative effects depends decisively
on the personality structure of the person in question, of
his or her predominant and momentary state of mind,
and the environment. When all of these conditions are
favorable there are (or such is the opinion of experienced
users, therapeuts, and researchers) hardly any risks.
Apprehensions as far as organic disorders, mutagenicities,
and other bodily risks could not be scientifically
confirmed.
Translation: Udo Breger / www.LSD.info
enthält auch Fotos sowie Textauszüge aus Hofmanns
früheren Büchern »LSD – mein Sorgenkind« und
»Einsichten – Ausblicke«. Der zweite Teil bietet Beiträge
unter anderem von Tom Wolfe und Günter Amendt
sowie Interviews mit Wissenschaftlern wie Stanislav
Grof und Ralph Metzner über die Bedeutung des LSD
und die Erforschung von Entheogenen.
Eleusis war das geistige Zentrum im antiken Griechenland,
wo LSD ähnliche Stoffe dazu dienten, sich
mit dem göttlichen Sein zu verbinden.
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