|
LSD side effects
What are the adverse/negative effects on your body from taking LSD. I already researched it and all I could find was that it can mess you up psychologically but couldn't find any physically damaging properties. I need to find this for health class. thank you
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Health & Fitness category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Health?
For someone who has used it heavily, it apparently can cause schizophrenia and, in women, birth defects in their offspring.
For once in a blue moon users, it has no effect over the longterm. The wild card, though, is the chemist/organized crime outfit manufacturing the stuff. You never know what they are formulating it with. I have never taken acid myself (not a good personality type for it, I'm afraid). My brother has used it a few times with no ill effects, but the last time he used it was back in the 1970's. Make of that what you will.
]
Matt's myth is actually a reality. LSD is stored, in small amounts, in spinal fluid. A spinal tap will show LSD use for the rest of your life, as I understand. I don't know what causes flashbacks (tripping again) but it is very real.
As to the rest, there aren't any, really. LSD doses are tiny, I think the standard dose considered a hit back when it was actually being used in lab testing was 50 micro grams, so a gram of the stuff is 20,000 hits and the overdose threshold is several grams.
In other words, you would become permanently and completely insane long before you hit the actual physical overdose threshold for LSD.
The mental dangers, on the other hand, are significant. LSD is a dis-associative. If you've heard of "out of body" experiences that's what higher levels of tripping pretty much are. A feeling of lack of control, like you are looking down on what's happening without much control over it, or like you are not a part of it. Like you are a little guy inside your own head trying to push buttons and make things work and screwing it up some of the time.
It's difficult to come up with a subjective description any better than that. But people lose coherency, lose the ability to tell their hallucinations from reality. Enough time or an intense enough experience and you can break your ability to tell real from fake and end up lost in a fantasy you created.
]
From what I've seen, it's not physically damaging. There's a myth that it gets stored in your spinal chord and if you injure your back you can begin tripping again, but I've never seen that verified anywhere.
If you smoke weed after having taken acid weeks later, you can get acid flash backs like you're tripping again. A small amount of people can get flash backs to the acid trip without weed, and the drugs-are-bad crew have turned that into "you can crash your car from an acid flashback and die!" There have been no confirmed deaths from acid.
There is also a very unpleasant metallic taste in the mouth while tripping, and you cannot sleep on acid.
Oh, and an acid trip can last up to ten hours. Which sucks.
]
short term effects- dilated pupils, lowered body temperature, nausea vomiting, profuse sweating, rapid heart rate and convulsions
long term effects- a growing tolerance to the drug, disorientation, anxiety,distress and depression after you discontinue the use of the drug
]
More Questions: |