LSD
“Taking LSD was a profound experience,
one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my What is LSD? sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putLysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, is a hallucinting things back into the stream of history ogen which is a drug that causes hallucinations. It is and of human consciousness as much as I manufactured from lysergic acid that can be found in a could.” fungus called ergot, rye, and other grains. It was discovered in 1938. LSD can be taken as small tablets (microdots), capsules or gelatin squares (known as window panes), liquid form, or an absorbent paper with cartoon characters on the squares (known as blotters or loony tunes). Thirty to ninety minutes after taking the drug, the effects will kick in. The user can hear sounds, images, and feel sensations that feel like reality but are just a hallusion. Commonly, the pupils will dilate, body temperature will change, and heart rate will change. The effects will then last up to 12 hours. In 2013, there was a National Drug Strategy Household Survey that found that 9.4% of Australians ages 14 and above had ever tried hallucinogens, while 1.3% has used hallucinogens in the year before the survey. Also an estimated 20.2 million U.S. residents aged 12 and older used LSD at least once in their
liftime. Also, 742,000 people 12 to 17 years old and 4.5 18 to 25 years old used it at least once. But what is the great appeal of this drug?
-Steve Jobs