Quote: (05-28-2018 12:19 PM)Mikestar Wrote:
Acid is not for the faint hearted. I do see the positives, it can open up new perspectives for looking at everything. However, If you are prone to loneliness, depression, being neurotic and a deep thinker then I think taking it is like playing russian roullette - you can get a mental illness and suffer long term effects. A person I know had an acid flashback 10 years after usage and crashed a car leading to an accident, just one of the bad stories i've heard.
No proper and or standardized pharmacological or clinical studies on LSD have been conducted within the last 40 + years. The studies that were conducted were not performed according to modern research standards and did not include controlled conditions or systematic characterization of psychotropic effects.
You're friend might claim it was a LSD flashback but technically there is no clinical way to prove that and we should not base science on individual experiences.
While I can't dispute your opinions you also can't technically defend your opinions and nor can I defend my own.
To your point I'm not advocating anyone going out and self treating themselves with micro dosing LSD for PTSD. I would agree with you that fucking around with such substances could also end badly.
Also as a side note you can control the dosage of LSD better than psilocybin as LSD will be a manufactured and measured concentration as opposed to naturally produced concentration in which case you'd need access to mass spectrometry to know exactly what you're actually ingesting from a dosage standpoint.
Maybe LSD is less forgiving at high doses but I've taken small amounts of shrooms that turned out to be highly concentrated doses. Also I don't really buy you can control one easier than the other when dosed.
Most people who have fucked around with both LSD and psilocybin on a regular basis have stories of having bad and good experiences on both. Also most bad experiences I've heard of either usually had a back story of other drugs involved, bad company and being in a really terrible place in their life as a whole.
I personally think a low dose of either is highly unlikely to have any long-term effect. But I'm not an expert on the matter nor have a PhD in neuroscience.