Re:Why Scientists Need to Get High
by xXTyrannosXx on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:46PM
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The dose for LSD to be harmful is extremely high and you would likely never encounter anyone selling anywhere close to the amount needed. The biggest threat to the user is the contamination of the LSD by possibly fentanyl or other opiates due to the unregulated nature of the black market.
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On a previous thread here about LSD I learned about NBOMe -- it's a hallucinogen that's sold on paper tabs; if a dealer (or their supplier) is unscrupulous they might sell it as LSD. Only problem? Where psychonauts feel comfortable eating mouthfuls of LSD tabs, the difference between noticeable and harmful doses is quite small with NBOMe.
Lsd is one of the hardest substances to synthesize but the effective dose is so small that the price is almost free. Therefore someone who has real LSD to sell would not bother contaminating it. (At least I have not heard of that.)
However you may be sold something that's not LSD at all but is advertised as such.