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LSD
or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a hallucinogenic
drug (which means you’re likely to experience a
distorted view of objects and reality, including in
the form of hallucinations). It originally derived
from ergot, a fungus found growing wild on rye and
other grasses.
LSD is commonly called ‘acid’. The experience is
known as a ‘trip’ and these trips can be good or
bad. 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. How the trip goes can be
affected by who you are, how you're feeling and how
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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.
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- A
‘trip’ can appear to involve a speeding up and
slowing down of time and movement.
- Colour,
sound and objects can get distorted and you can
experience double vision.
- Trips
can heighten the mood you’re already in.
- There
is no evidence that LSD is addictive.
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LSD
or ‘acid’ has very random, and sometimes very
frightening, effects. Trips feed off a person's
imagination.
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If
panic sets in, the experience can be scary and
confusing. Bad trips can be terrifying.
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Flashbacks
sometimes happen. This is when part of the trip is
subsequently re-lived after the original experience.
(This usually occurs within weeks or months after taking
the LSD but can be longer).
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There's
no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to
the body or long-term psychological damage.
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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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LSD
could have serious, longer term implications for
somebody who had a history of mental problems and may
also be responsible for triggering a mental health
problem that had previously gone undetected
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Sex
on LSD
LSD can
make you feel horny, heighten your sense of touch and
hallucinations can be erotic. Sex on acid can seem to last
much longer than it actually does.
Because the drug can lower your inhibitions and change how
you see reality, it might be easier to act out sexual
fantasies. Lower inhibitions can also cloud your judgement
about safer sex.
Because there’s always a risk of a bad trip, sex on LSD is
best done with someone you know well and trust.
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LSD is a Class
A drug - illegal to have, give away or sell. Possession
can get you up to seven years in jail. Supplying
someone else, including your friends, with LSD can get you a
life sentence and an unlimited fine.
You can also be refused a visa in some countries if you hold
a drug conviction.
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National
Drugs Helpline
0800 77 66 00
Talk To Frank
Drugs information web site
www.talktofrank.co.uk
Antidote
A London service for gay and bisexual men concerned
about their alcohol or drug use. Weekly drop-in,
one-to-one counselling, support groups and more.
Call 020 7287 8743 or go to www.thehungerford.org/antidote.asp
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