An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia

Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by ThinkBeat on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:51PM (#38847582)

This is something that would quite easily kill other people who ventured into it.

Recommending it is not a safe and good idea.

At the most elemental level How can a person obtain medical grade pure LSD?

Further people have widely different reactions to the drugs mentioned, Making it into a cocktail is a recipe for disaster. Perhaps not for you, and perhaps not for a few others but the odds are against anyone who gives it a try.

Our current level of technology cannot even predict how a single person will react to one of our many anti-depressants. Here try this for a while.

" Dont like, doesn't work, lets try a different one. " (repeat until something works or you run out of drugs).

I am not advocating anti-depressants over the drugs you mention above necessarily. I have some faith that progress can be made in the realm of chemistry and medicine there.

I am saying dont do this on your own kids.

There are some that clean you can have great insights, magical experiences and some orgasm if you choke yourself nearly to death. Not quite death, just before.

Given the cocktail above, self-administered controlled strangulation might be safer.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by ever1337 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:16PM (#38849049)

Virtually all LSD that is sold is pure. The synthesis is well known and it's so cheap there is virtually no incentive for adulterants. Obviously some level of regulation would be better. But it is not at all difficult to acquire such a thing.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by brotchie on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:12PM (#38849463)

Yeah, and the Ehrlich test agent is hyper-specific, so very easy to test if it's legit or a potentially harmful analog.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by GuB-42 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:36PM (#38850803)

Reagents only test if what you are looking for is there. They don't tell you anything about what you are not specifically looking for. For example if you have both LSD and a NBOMe (a generally undesired analog), it won't tell you anything about the NBOMe. Furthermore, it is not that specific (it reacts to indoles). So it is possible for someone to mix an chemical that reacts with the Ehrlich test with, say, a NBOMe for effect and pass it off as LSD.

I don't know if it happens in the wild, but it is a possibility. By using more reagents, you may be more certain, but unless you take it to a lab with good enough equipment (such as GC/MS), you never know.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by radicaldreamer on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:09AM (#38851518)

This might happen with random sellers at raves or festivals but it almost never happens outside of that specific low quality high volume sales environment. Nobody is peddling NBOMes.

There are plenty of 4-aco synthetics out there though but those are all mostly very safe and are usually sold as mushroom/psilocybin equivalents not LSD.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by willsoon on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:00PM (#38849780)

Maybe in the USA. Where I live I got some LSD once in my life. A guy sold me some n-bome as LSD. By the time I felt the acid on my tongue, it was too late. I saw Fenrir the Wolf eating the moon. I saw the bricks of a wall propeller outside, like in a film about dreams. But that was all. Nothing even close.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by radicaldreamer on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:36PM (#38884550)

Where are you located? I thought LSD was fairly widespread in most places and relatively easily accessible.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by radicaldreamer on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:29PM (#38849144)

I'm sorry strangulation is not safer than psychedelics... they have virtually no physical harm potential and have an extremely strong tolerance build up that is virtually instant which resists dependency.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by temp0826 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:35PM (#38848659)

>> Given the cocktail above

I really don't think he meant these combined in anyways. I don't think it'd be very ideal to mix any of them.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by LoganDark on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:40PM (#38848728)

> Recommending it is not a safe and good idea.

They didn't. They're merely sharing their own experience.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by 19h on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:57PM (#38848890)

The 'odds are against anyone who gives it a try'? What odds are those exactly? Psychedelics have an extremely high safety profile and low addiction potential. Your comparison to antidepressants is laughable.

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Re:An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechos... by labrador on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:59PM (#38849775)

I don't take them together. I'm not recommending it, rather I'm saying let me do it in the privacy of my own home if I want. It's a free country (US) isn't it?

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