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I know a woman who was a junior at Dartmouth. She came home for Christmas. She went to a concert with friends. She allegedly took LSD. She woke up the next

I know a woman who was a junior at Dartmouth. She came home for Christmas. She went to a concert with friends. She allegedly took LSD. She woke up the next day, and didn't recognize her parents. She didn't recognize her boyfriend whom came running over. She finished her degree 25 years later, and she still has trouble functioning in society. She never got back to that high functioning individual. She's still very smart. She can't wake up early. Can't function in a unfamiliar work setting. She basically falls to pieces if slightly stressed. She would be homeless if not for a caring/understanding financially well off family (This is a true story. She might have had an underlying mental illness, but mental illness is not in her lineage. I'm just passing this story along.)

ap22213 11y ago
One of the biggest issues with illicit drugs is that you never know what you're getting. There's no quality control. Even your usual dealer may not know what they have. There are people that I know who won't eat beef unless they see the farm and cow beforehand, but yet they'll gladly ingest whatever chemical is given to them. (That said, I've personally never heard of anyone who'd been severely damaged by drugs... well, except for heroin, alcohol, and cocaine. Six of my childhood friends had died of heroin, two from alcohol, and one from cocaine. Heroin is the scourge of the working poor.)
- abrookewood 11y ago
  Even if you can source drugs legally, people need to recognise that psychedelics can trigger underlying conditions. They're not risk free.
- GordonS 11y ago
  If you are buying 'raw' ingredients, such as mushrooms or marijuana, there is a much better chance of getting what you expect. Of course, it's not guarenteed (they could for example be sprayed with another substance), but even in terms of economics for the dealer, it probably wouldn't make sense to try to adulterate such things. Adulteration is much more prevelant when dealing with relatively expensive, highly processed drugs, where there are many levels of people in the supply chain; the temptation to cut it to increase margins is just too high.
coldtea 11y ago
>This is a true story Not very reliable, as this is also what old wives tales and urban legends claim too ("I know this guy/gal that..."). In this case for example, you might really know that woman, and she might have been a junior at Dartmouth that had those issues, but unless you were there with her that day, there's no way to know whether she did take LSD that night (or something else, or even nothing), or whether she didn't have any issues before, etc. It could just be some rumor people tell about here, or what she wanted other people to know about it (e.g. not to admit a mental illness but instead cover it with "had bad acid"). Let's rather stick to the medical literature that describes several cases of LSD use, how it affected or brought up psychosis, etc (and after what frequence of use, and with what mental issues the patient had before, etc).
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pc86 11y ago
> This is a true story. It almost certainly isn't. Do you have even a single reputable source? I mean, especially if you know her personally as you claim it should be pretty easy to pull up some news articles or something, right?

ap22213 11y ago

One of the biggest issues with illicit drugs is that you never know what you're getting. There's no quality control. Even your usual dealer may not know what they have. There are people that I know who won't eat beef unless they see the farm and cow beforehand, but yet they'll gladly ingest whatever chemical is given to them. (That said, I've personally never heard of anyone who'd been severely damaged by drugs... well, except for heroin, alcohol, and cocaine. Six of my childhood friends had died of heroin, two from alcohol, and one from cocaine. Heroin is the scourge of the working poor.)

abrookewood 11y ago
Even if you can source drugs legally, people need to recognise that psychedelics can trigger underlying conditions. They're not risk free.
GordonS 11y ago
If you are buying 'raw' ingredients, such as mushrooms or marijuana, there is a much better chance of getting what you expect. Of course, it's not guarenteed (they could for example be sprayed with another substance), but even in terms of economics for the dealer, it probably wouldn't make sense to try to adulterate such things. Adulteration is much more prevelant when dealing with relatively expensive, highly processed drugs, where there are many levels of people in the supply chain; the temptation to cut it to increase margins is just too high.

coldtea 11y ago

>This is a true story Not very reliable, as this is also what old wives tales and urban legends claim too ("I know this guy/gal that..."). In this case for example, you might really know that woman, and she might have been a junior at Dartmouth that had those issues, but unless you were there with her that day, there's no way to know whether she did take LSD that night (or something else, or even nothing), or whether she didn't have any issues before, etc. It could just be some rumor people tell about here, or what she wanted other people to know about it (e.g. not to admit a mental illness but instead cover it with "had bad acid"). Let's rather stick to the medical literature that describes several cases of LSD use, how it affected or brought up psychosis, etc (and after what frequence of use, and with what mental issues the patient had before, etc).

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pc86 11y ago

> This is a true story. It almost certainly isn't. Do you have even a single reputable source? I mean, especially if you know her personally as you claim it should be pretty easy to pull up some news articles or something, right?