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Drugs are a powerful lure for impressionable teens, providing a way to escape from the stressors of reality. With hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, the psychedelic effects transcend the banalities of everyday life, providing an easy alternative to day to day stress.

Teens who want to experiment with drugs without the negative associations that can accompany harder substances, like heroin or cocaine, LSD seems like a harmless alternative. After all, it’s easy to obtain, easy to take, and has no long-term presence within the body. With an estimated half-life of two to five hours, any physical signs are gone by the next day, creating an experience that seems innocent and fun.

However, drugs like LSD are anything but consequence-free. Like all illegal drugs, one time is all it takes to kickstart a cycle of addiction. Frighteningly,
over 10% of teens 12 and older will try LSD, indicating a common problem for high school students around the country.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/hallucinogens

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LSD is produced synthetically from a fungus that grows on rye grass. This odorless,colorless, and slightly bitter-tasting chemical is generally ingested orally and absorbed from the gastrointestinal system. Manufacturers commonly distribute LSD in small squares of absorbent paper soaked with the drug, which users chew and swallow. Use of LSD and other hallucinogens by secondary school students has decreased since 1998, but has increased among older teens and young adults attending dance clubs and all-night raves, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Acid

Battery acid

Blotter

Boomers

California Sunshine

Cid

Doses

Dots

Golden Dragon

Heavenly Blue

Hippie

Loony toons

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Microdot

Pane

Purple Heart

Superman

Tab

Window pane

Yellow sunshine

Zen

https://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/lsd/street-names-for-lsd.html

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These stamps are put on your tongue and are absorbed through the tongue

https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4828448/silk-road-lsd-avengers-drug-inspectors

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Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized LSD for the first time in 1938, in Basel, Switzerland, while looking for a blood stimulant. However, its hallucinogenic effects were unknown until 1943 when Hofmann accidentally consumed some LSD. It was later found that an oral dose of as little as 25 micrograms (equal in weight to a few grains of salt) is capable of producing vivid hallucinations.

Because of its similarity to a chemical present in the brain and its similarity in effects to certain aspects of psychosis, LSD was used in experiments by psychiatrists through the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. While the researchers failed to discover any medical use for the drug, the free samples supplied by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals for the experiments were distributed broadly, leading to wide use of this substance.

LSD was popularized in the 1960s by individuals such as psychologist Timothy Leary, who encouraged American students to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.” This created an entire counterculture of drug abuse and spread the drug from America to the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Even today, use of LSD in the United Kingdom is significantly higher than in other parts of the world.

While the ‘60s counterculture used the drug to escape the problems of society, the Western intelligence community and the military saw it as a potential chemical weapon. In 1951, these organizations began a series of experiments. US researchers noted that LSD “is capable of rendering whole groups of people, including military forces, indifferent to their surroundings and situations, interfering with planning and judgment, and even creating apprehension, uncontrollable confusion and terror.”

Experiments in the possible use of LSD to change the personalities of intelligence targets, and to control whole populations, continued until the United States officially banned the drug in 1967.

Use of LSD declined in the 1980s, but picked up again in the 1990s. For a few years after 1998 LSD had become more widely used at dance clubs and all-night raves by older teens and young adults. Use dropped significantly in 2000 or so.

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VERY ILLEGAL!!
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/lsd-penalties-for-sale-and-possession.html

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Hallucinogenic Drug
(A hallucinogen is a psychoactive agent which can cause hallucinations, perceptual anomalies, and other substantial subjective changes in thoughts, emotion, and consciousness. The common types of hallucinogens are psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. Although hallucinations are a common symptom of amphetamine psychosis, amphetamines are not considered hallucinogens, as they are not a primary effect of the drugs themselves. While hallucinations can occur when abusing stimulants, the nature of stimulant psychosis is not unlike delirium.)

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/lsd

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By interfering with normal serotonin signaling, LSD produces both the short-term effects mentioned above as well as the following negative side effects 4; 5:

Increased blood pressure and heart rate.

Elevated body temperature.

Insomnia.

Dizziness.

Loss of appetite.

Dry mouth.

Excessive sweating.

Tremors.

https://drugabuse.com/library/effects-acid-lsd/

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Visual hallucinations.

Amplification of sensations like sounds and smells.

Distorted sense of time.

Blending of senses, such as “seeing” sounds or “hearing” colors.

Sensation of the mind leaving the body.

Impulsive behavior.

Quickly shifting emotions.

Mystical or religious sensations.

https://drugabuse.com/library/effects-acid-lsd/

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Lysergic acid diethylamide - Molecular Formula- C₂₀H₂₅N3O