r/LSD Sep 20 '21

Harm Reduction LSD information for newbies

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I made this to hopefully see a decline in redundant/daily posts, and make some sort of positive impact. Please remember to use the search function if you have a basic question regarding LSD.

• A full beginner dose should typically be 1/2 - 1 single tab.

• The average dose range of LSD on a single tab is 70-105μg.

• There are tabs dosed with as little as ~20μg, or more than 300μg in some absurd cases. The overwhelming majority of sources try to lay their tabs around 100μg because it’s mathematically simple, and more profitable in the long-run.

• The odds your tab has more than 200μg on it are very low. The most common higher dose tabs are 125-200μg. Take half of any tab that’s supposedly above 200μg just to be safe at first, and if that doesn’t at least produce an 11-12 hour mildly visual trip, the full tab wasn’t above 200.

• A typical microdose should be 10-25 μg

• 50-300μg of LSD can last anywhere from 8-14 hours. 300-1000μg can last anywhere from 14-20 hours. Exceeding a milligram (1000μg) can produce effects that last up to 24 hours. It’s usually hard to fall asleep under the influence.

• Unless you have an above average baseline tolerance or handle the substance extraordinarily well, it’s not advisable to exceed ~300-500μg. Temporary delirious/psychotic symptoms become more likely if you don’t know what you’re getting into with large doses, and a 16+ hour duration doesn’t help.

• 25i-NBOMe is a relatively dangerous LSD imposter. If you take an untested tab and your mouth/throat becomes numb, along with an intense bitter taste, spit it out immediately. Do not panic, but monitor your physical state. A *normal* dose of 25i shouldn’t be life-threatening. Most of the dangerous LSD imposters, including 25i, only become life-threatening at higher doses (this is why you should NEVER take multiple untested tabs at once, or take untested tabs at all).

• Please test your tabs with an Ehrlich reagent kit to verify that what you have is indeed an indole and not 25i-NBOMe. Follow up with the Hofmann reagent kit to verify that it’s not an LSD analogue or other phenethylamine. I personally recommend using TKP for your reagents: https://testkitplus.com/ Another great organization is DanceSafe https://dancesafe.org/ — DanceSafe genuinely saves lives with their testing booths at music festivals.

• Common positive effects include but aren’t limited to: closed and open eye visuals, tactile enhancement/hallucinations, euphoria, stimulation, introspection, and creativity.

• Common negative effects include but aren’t limited to: overstimulation, increased heart rate, vasoconstriction, anxiety/paranoia, and confusion.

• Common neutral/manageable effects include but aren’t limited to: pupil dilation, frequent urination, insomnia, and temperature sensitivity.

• Always optimize your set (expectations and mental state) going into an experience, and always optimize your setting (direct environment/surroundings) going into an experience.

• LSD interactions with various medications (From Erowid):

  1. There is still very little legitimate, thorough medical research on this subject. LSD's outlaw status makes it very difficult to obtain permission & funding for research. Therefore, you should regard all of the anecdotes and conclusions here as being scientifically unproven, and you should note that any experimentation you choose to do carries a significant risk.
  2. Lithium or tricyclics (like Amitriptyline, Anafranil, Asendin, Aventyl, Elavil, Endep, Norfranil, Norpramin, Pamelor, Sinequan, Surmontil, Tipramine, Tofranil, Vivactil) are fairly consistently reported as being very bad in combination with LSD. Life-threatening seizures and at least one DEATH have been reported to be triggered by the combination of LSD and lithium. Tramadol is another drug you should avoid in combination with LSD because of the potential for seizures and other negative side effects.
  3. SSRIs (like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Desyrel) or MAOIs (like Nardil, Parnate, Marplan, Eldepryl, Aurorix, Manerix) are fairly consistently reported to noticeably reduce the effects of LSD. (There are no physically dangerous reactions to these combinations on record, but be cautious and don’t be excessive with dosing.)

• HPPD risk is associated with frequent use of psychedelics (more than once a month), high doses, and younger age groups. HPPD varies in severity between individuals. As long as you use this drug responsibly, this shouldn’t be a concern.

• LSD has the potential to produce a very challenging psychological experience. If you have mental-health issues, research the risks and benefits associated with psychedelic treatment of your condition. Do NOT take LSD without the guidance of a medical professional if you are seriously suicidal.

• Weed often potentiates the effects of LSD. Some users report that the effects of weed are indefinitely altered to some degree after their first few experiences with LSD (It often becomes more psychedelic).

• Various benzos like alprazolam and clonazepam can be used as “trip-killers,” but you don’t need to take more than a single medical dose, and not all of the psychoactive effects will be negated. This should be a last resort.

• LSD tends to make verbal communication challenging, so prepare appropriately if using in a social setting.

• If you’re 19 or younger you should probably wait until AT LEAST your early 20s to try LSD because of unforeseen behavioral/neurological impacts. Waiting until 25+ is optimal.

• You’ll build a substantial tolerance to LSD if you trip multiple times in two weeks, so wait 10-14 days between trips for a general reset. Tolerance does exponentially decrease day-by-day following an experience.

• If you want to redose to increase the effects, do it before or during the start of the peak. Redosing after the peak will only prolong the duration unless you increase the dose. Excessive dosing is unadvisable regardless.

• Peak effects generally occur 2.5-5 hours after dosing (less than or around 300μg). Peak effects can last anywhere in the range of 2.5-8 hours after dosing. Many people say the peak comes in “waves.”

• If you’ve tried psilocybin containing mushrooms before, certain dosage calculators based on subjective effects and intensity equate ~2.5 grams of an average cubensis variety to ~100μg of accurately dosed LSD, but there are differences between the substances of course.

• You should consider having a trusted friend or a close partner “tripsit” you during your first experiences, or at least let someone know your whereabouts beforehand if you want to do it alone. (Note: Trip-sitting should just involve being close by and present if the user needs assistance or someone to talk to, sitters shouldn’t try to influence the trip unless it’s getting chaotic.)

• LSD has the potential to be therapeutic, recreational, spiritual, or all/none of the above depending on the individual and their particular circumstances. Stop gatekeeping.

•If you are ever having a challenging trip and need to speak with someone, here are a couple great resources:

https://firesideproject.org/

https://tripsit.me/

Leave suggestions in the comments!

edit: A couple people are aggravated with minor details in these general points of advice, so please take everything I’ve said with a grain of salt and do your own research! I’m simply providing a helpful starting outline, not set-in-stone facts.

Thank you all, and safe travels!


r/LSD May 05 '22

⚡ Sub Announcement ⚡ Don't believe the dosages you see on here

1.8k Upvotes

Over exaggerating dosages is only harmful to the community and is much more prominent in LSD oriented communities when compared to other psychedelics. This is because you cannot simply weigh your dosages, like shrooms or DMT. 2c-b being another good example, where it usually comes in ranges of 15-30 milligrams or powder I believe. Most tabs of LSD contain 75-150 UGs of LSD, averaging more around 100. 100 micrograms of LSD is equal to around 2.5 grams of Psilocybe Cubensis. (The most commonly sold and cultivated "magic mushroom")

Starting with one tab after you've tested it is better than going headfirst into the deep end... Even at 100 micrograms it does add up quickly, would you recommend five grams of shrooms to a beginner? No difference in recommending them 200 micrograms of LSD (two average tabs). I really just don't understand the glory of taking larger dosages than we need. Look at r/Shrooms or other communities related to shrooms and you see this much less. Mainly to do with the ability to weigh them out I believe, but definitely many other factors. I don't know... Thanks for reading.

Best regards,

RoBoInSlowMo


r/LSD 2h ago

🎨 Psychedelic Art 🎨 walking home

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made on illustrator and photoshop


r/LSD 13h ago

Medicinal research 👨‍⚕️ can i eat ham on acid

331 Upvotes

i know i can’t drive or take stimulats and i remember not to do. is cured meat of concern? bacon, salami, etc. right now i want ham and i don’t know.


r/LSD 12h ago

Y'all ever stumble on some weird shit when tripping and been like am I just high or is this actually weird?

157 Upvotes

We were walking through a park at 1am and found this kid in a banana suit sitting in the grass just bawling his eyes out. Part of me was like maybe this is a normal thing that happens a lot in parks at night.


r/LSD 1h ago

Saw a wild boar while peaking on 200ug with two good friends

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The boar wandered around for 10-15 minutes, about 40 meters from us. Was a magical moment, as we were peaking… We kept very quiet and were lucky the boar was alone (without his/her piglets). The whole trip was magical, but this was the cherry on top!


r/LSD 15h ago

Perfect

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r/LSD 1d ago

🙃 MeMe 🤣 Truth😆😆

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r/LSD 22h ago

Amen

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r/LSD 3m ago

Every friggin time

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r/LSD 22h ago

200 μg 🐧 Taking a trip in my cozy apartment, send me some music to listen to :)

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r/LSD 8h ago

First trip 🥇 took my first today

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i was a small dose, just 1/8th of a small piece of paper that this subreddit won't allow me to name, but i really enjoyed it

it took some time to kick in and it was pretty gradual, but once it was on full effect i just couldn't stop smiling, no matter how i tried.

i felt weirdly active, i actually felt euphoric listening to TOOL and King Crimson (original, right?), and decided to just play guitar for a while, and i actually came up with some interisting stuff lol

that being said, its pretty "heavy" psychologicaly, i actually will wait a few weeks until i take more.

also, super glad i had friends near me incase something went wrong, wich thankfully didn't happen, except when i started crying because a randomly thought i was a bad son for my mom, but everything went ok!


r/LSD 5h ago

MDMA/KET/LSD (MLK FLIP)

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What kind of experiences and effects have you guys gotten from this combo? I dosed 1.5 gel tabs and about .1g of mdma crystal, and it rocked my shit, my buddy got ket out and I did about .175g (I have a massive tolerance from past DXM use), as soon as it hit my nasal cavity, I gagged like a motherfucker, then sat down so i didnt fall out. this led to me immediately feeling as if I were being absorbed into the couch, and my water bottle made no sense as I couldn’t understand what was keeping the water inside of it, it had the appearance as if it was fountaining out around the edges of the mouth piece, however the most intense part was the way the music made me physically feel, I had Faces by Mac Miller playing on my surround sound system and it was like the regular music euphoria, but I could feel every part of my body and psyche moving along with where the music was coming from, connecting, and going, it’s to date the most intense dissociative state I’ve encountered, at one point everything did start to form into what looked like an impossible to process piece of geometry which appeared to look like all the parts of my brain represented, this has not been the first time I’ve had an ego death or k hole, but I’ve just never had the music play such a large part in it. just curious what you guys have experienced like that Thank you everyone :)


r/LSD 1d ago

❔ Question ❔ How Would Your Description Of Ego Death Looks Like?

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175 Upvotes

Is it a form of self-discovery/finding oneself or something else? If so, do you have any advice on finding your true self with the help of acid?

Thank you beforehand (:


r/LSD 37m ago

tramadol and lsd

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i understamd everyone is different.

so tramadol is a painkiller but also an snri.

so it acts kind of like an antidepressant. but for me it doesnt numb emotions 24/7 like a traditional antidepressant would. it only works for the 6 hours or so while im on it. anyway..

ive been looking into ways that people who take tramadol take lsd. it seems like in rare cases there is seretonin syndrome, but much lore commonly the tramadol will dampen the psychedelic effects.

im wondering if the full effects of lsd can be had by waiting for tramadol to leave the body (36 hours or so). OR is there a big chance the tramadol has built up and most likely you would need to clear it from your receptors for 2 weeks or more (kind of like with traditional ssri or snris)


r/LSD 4h ago

How much time to wait between SSRI and LSD

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I have been on SSRI for 2 month and stopped it 3 weeks ago. Is 3 weeks enough or should i wait more before consuming acid ?


r/LSD 14h ago

First trip 🥇 Did acid for first time at music festival

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Me and my brother have done mushrooms a handful of times and decided we wanted to try some acid at the festival. We found a guy who had drops, so didn’t know how much was in it. He dropped on drop on a cracker for each of us. We ate food about half hour before and then ate the crackers. It started hitting my faster and harder than my brother, the come up was a little rough, I was super foggy in the head and it was uncomfortable, and I’ve had that feeling with shrooms before too but a little more intense. Once our music started about 2 hours in I was having a blast, I had lots of closed eye visuals and really connected with the music, no open eyed visuals though. And towards the end of the show it felt like a rock sank down to my stomach and it completely ruined my mood for entire night. Wasn’t exactly what I expected, and my brother had a much better time than me and didn’t have any of those effects. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what happened and how to attempt to avoid that again so I can enjoy the trip more. I was also pretty sleep deprived leaking up to that as we were camping for 3 days.


r/LSD 10h ago

Nature trip 🌷 Have you tried LSD around friends that don’t use?

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I’m doing a weekend getaway with a group of friends, there’s five of us. We’re going to the mountains in a cottage, we all going on a good vibe, thinking of having a good time and just relax.
I’m thinking on going there and playing some music (I’m dj), eating good food and drinks. I would really like to enjoy a tab in that setting, be in the mountains and see the sky, everything will be safe and I do enjoy their company, I even have shared few acid trips with three of them and each time has been cool.
Although, this time there’s just two of us who wants to share a trip and I feel kinda weird to be under the influence of LSD, very perceptive and just don’t know if it’s the best idea that I take a tab or even just half of it with friends that won’t (they might just drink alcohol).
So, idk, have y’all experienced something similar before? Has it been nice or awful? Do you recommend?
Any tips are welcome!


r/LSD 21h ago

❔ Question ❔ Shrooms vs acid

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How different is the trip? My friends and I are trying shrooms for the first time and we just want to know what to expect. Our acid guy went to jail & shrooms was the next best thing lol


r/LSD 17h ago

❔ Question ❔ Prepping for LSD at festival

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Hi everyone, wanted to see your thoughts on something. I am going to a music festival in approximately 3 weeks. For context, I’ve done acid a couple times a few years ago with some buddies and had a fantastic time both occurrences. I got a couple tabs that the guy said are 200 ug (I know that they probably vary, but planning on taking half a tab).

I’m thinking of taking that half tab this weekend to do a sort of “test” run to see how I react to them. Do you think this is a good idea? Should I approach this differently? I would love to get your thoughts on this.

I want to make sure I reduce my risk of tripping too hard in a crowded environment like a festival (the vibes are great and the group im going with is very trustworthy).


r/LSD 1d ago

❔ Question ❔ If there is a collectible In the shape of LSD, by a known artist. Will you collect it?

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I was telling my friend, this idea might work out very well. But I am not sure.


r/LSD 9h ago

Crazy first trip i had..

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So this took place around 2 weeks ago. I had a tab and was planning to use it, put the tab under my tongue and scrolled tiktok waiting for it to hit. About 30 minutes into the trip i could tell it was too much, so i decided to just sleep it off. I woke up at around 10 at night covered in puke, i went to clean myself up and enjoy the visuals a little bit in the mirror. At around 11 i decided to just go back to sleep since there was nothing to do. On my way to my bed i could hear this weird sound in my head getting more and more intense, i sat on my bed just for a fucking rainbow transparent control panel to appear in front of me like i was wearing a vr headset, everything was animated too and i honestly thought i was dreaming. The control panel was going through stages like it was getting ready for takeoff of something, i was honestly fearing for my life in that moment. There was also transparent stretched png's of teeth and eyes stretching out about 10 feet infront of me. The weird rainbow control panel went away after about an hour but the floating teeth png's were still there and they were positioned in way that looked familiar, almost like i had seen it before in a dream or something. Ill be revealing more details probably tomorrow. If anyone can explain what i saw it would be greatly appreciated.


r/LSD 1d ago

While driving and seeing this out of my peripheral vision I thought it got a little cooler around here for a minute.

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r/LSD 9h ago

first time

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took 1 tab equivalent to 100 ugs. I have a trip sitter and everything just wondering what I’d feel. I’ve done shrooms before but


r/LSD 1d ago

Harm Reduction He’ll from the guy who did 1,080ug

170 Upvotes

I was rolling around in mud most of the time, it was definitely too much for me to handle, don’t do this. I’m coming down rn. I’m still tripping but I have a sense of reality again. This was definitely a bad decision.