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unusual facts about LSD



2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine

The misrepresentation as LSD has been described by the periodical "High Times," helping some users to identify what they are actually taking.

2006–07 Libyan Premier League

At the end of season, the lowest two placed teams were automatically relegated to the Libyan Second Division, with the winner of the LSD automatically taking its place.

5-MeO-aMT

Since the DEA arrests of the makers of a huge percentage of the United States' LSD in 2000, 5-MeO-AMT may have occasionally been sold under the guise of LSD in liquid, sugar cube, or blotter form, though this may be due to DEA reports of finding it on sugar cubes and blotters like LSD.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Set in London, the film follows Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan), the daughter of a respected politician, who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares consisting of depraved sex orgies and LSD use.

After Bathing at Baxter's

Many of the album tracks reflect the band's heavy use of the drug LSD.

Albert Hoffman

Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss scientist and discoverer of LSD-25

ALD-52

It is possible ALD-52 was the active chemical in the Orange Sunshine variety of LSD that was widely available in California through 1968 and 1969.

Alfred Hubbard

Alfred Matthew Hubbard (1901–1982), early proponent for the drug LSD during the 1950s

Alpha-Methyltryptamine

Reported side effects include anxiety, restlessness, muscle tension, jaw tightness, pupil dilation, tachycardia, headaches, nausea, and vomiting, among other effects that might commonly be attributed to LSD, psilocybin, DMT and MDMA, such as delusions and hallucinations.

Clyde Apperson

Allegedly Pickard and Apperson previously manufactured LSD in Oregon, in Aspen, Colorado, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Ellsworth, Kansas.

Diallyllysergamide

In their book TiHKAL, Alexander and Ann Shulgin describe it as being "an order of magnitude less potent than LSD itself".

Eye to Ear II

A modified version of the track "Gambling, Gods and LSD" also appeared on the soundtrack of the film of the same name, Gambling, Gods and LSD (2003) by various artists.

Friendlier Up Here

It refers to what band member Johnny Cronin called "a safer zone for your listening pleasure" and is "a big LSD reference too" in homage to Echo & the Bunnymen.

Future Home Building

Nixon is currently living in Birmingham, AL and working with John Grisham on his account of the story tentitively titled: "The N-Word, LSD, and 8 Other Ways to Not Build a House on Public Access Television".

Girl with Curious Hair

A rich young Republican living an alternate life steeped in punk rock and sadism spends an evening at a Keith Jarrett concert in Irvine, where his LSD-influenced girlfriend is distracted by a girl with curious hair.

Guru Guru

Their shows were extravagant and anarchistic, some of the musicians lived together in a commune in German Odenwald region, experimented with hallucinogens (one of their songs is titled The LSD March/German: Der LSD-Marsch).

Harold Alexander Abramson

Starting in 1954, Abramson published a series of articles on the effects of LSD on Siamese fighting fish.

Abramson was notably the attending physician in connection with the notorious (and allegedly LSD-induced) supposed suicide of Frank Olson, a doctor who was being given LSD as part of the CIA's psychedelics research.

Hugh Park

The 15 defendants, including two highly qualified chemists, two doctors of medicine, a teacher, and the American author David Solomon - a friend of the drugs guru Timothy Leary, were jailed by Park for a total of 120 years for their part in one of the biggest LSD rings ever uncovered.

Ken Ishii

He provided a track for the 2001 video game Rez by Sega: Creation The State Of Art which is the music used in the third level of the normal game, as well as arranging some tracks for the soundtrack release to the game LSD.

Kenn Thomas

Acid: A New Secret History of LSD, David Black (introduction by Kenn Thomas), Vision, UK, 2003, paperback, ISBN 1-901250-30-X

Linda Carroll

She divorced Harrison in 1969, alleging that he had given Love LSD, and brought her daughter with her to Marcola, Oregon.

Live/Dead

The top part of the word "Dead" on the back cover spells "acid", a slang term for LSD.

Louis Jolyon West

Attempting to prove that the LSD alone had not been the cause of death, Ronald K. Siegel of UCLA repeated a variant of West's experiment on two elephants; he administered to two elephants equivalent doses (in milligrams per kilogram) to that which had been given to Tusko, mixing the LSD in their drinking water rather than directly injecting it as had been done with Tusko.

One of the more unusual incidents of West's career came in August 1962, when he and two co-workers attempted to investigate the phenomenon of musth by dosing Tusko, a bull elephant at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, with LSD.

Ludwig von 88

Some of their songs are satires on stars like Louison Bobet, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maria Callas, Jacques Chirac, Jodie Foster or deal with more serious topics like war: "Libannais raides", "Hiroshima"; drugs: "Le Manège enchanté", "Kaliman"; and misery: "LSD for Ethiopie", "In the Ghettos" — always with irony.

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide (LA-SS-Az, LSZ) is an analog of LSD developed by the team led by David E. Nichols at Purdue University.

Missile launch facility

In the US William Leonard Pickard was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture large quantities of LSD in a decommissioned Atlas missile silo in Kansas.

My Life My Love: Boku no Yume: Watashi no Negai

A news anchorman and his assistant helps to cover important headlines including LSD becoming illegal and the release of Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Operation Julie

A further raid in the Dordogne region in France located documents that detailed and proved the LSD business had been immense.

Owsley

Owsley Stanley (1935–2011), also known as Owsley or Bear, "underground" LSD chemist and early Grateful Dead soundman

Psychedelic drug

Classical or serotonergic psychedelics (agonists for the LSD (also known as "acid"), psilocin (the active constituent of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms" or "shrooms"), mescaline (the active constituent of peyote), and DMT (the active constituent of ayahuasca and potentially an endogenous psychedelic compound).

Ronald Conway

In his opinion the ban on LSD was caused largely by the questionable professional machinations of Timothy Leary in the US.

Runciman Report

It also argued for the reclassification of LSD and MDMA from Class A to Class B and a reduction in the maximum sentence for possession of Class As, from seven years to twelve months.

San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock

United States senator Kay Hagan has asked if the LPD-17 construction line ought to be extended to a 12th ship as a bridge to building the LX(R) (formerly LSD(X)) on the same hull, but the USN has indicated that the requirements of the LX(R) have not yet been settled and that the LPD-17 hull might be too large for such a mission.

Souris Valley Mental Health Hospital

Many of the early techniques used by the hospital included insulin therapy, hydrotherapy, lobotomy and electroshock; by 1954 experiments using Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) therapy were done on volunteer staff and eventually applied to patients.

Synthetic Entertainment

In 2009 the label released the debut album for The Rabid Whole, Autraumaton, along with the remix record entitled Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited by label cornerstone act LSD.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties in which LSD-laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.

Three-strikes law

In 1992, Timothy L. Tyler was sentenced to life in prison for possession of 13 sheets of LSD, the third time he was found guilty.

Tim Scully

In December 1968 Nick Sand (through an intermediary) purchased a farmhouse in Windsor, California where he and Tim Scully set up a large LSD lab.

Veneta, Oregon, 8/27/72

Despite challenging technical conditions — the weather was unusually hot, and many of the people present were under the influence of LSD — the Dead's performance that day is highly regarded by tape traders.


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