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> but LSD is incredibly easy to hide from regular law enforcement Not that I intend to leverage that knowledge, but you can't just write this and leave it at t

> but LSD is incredibly easy to hide from regular law enforcement Not that I intend to leverage that knowledge, but you can't just write this and leave it at that. Why so? I've never seen any LSD, so I am not sure why that would be.

jrimbault 6y ago
Google "lsd paper sheet". It looks like a paper sheet.
- totony 6y ago
  Bottler usually has drawings and cutoff that make if very easy to recognize though.
  - tazjin 6y ago
    Only if you buy it already in sheet form.
    - ryanlol 6y ago
      Yeah, but you aren’t going to be buying crystals lay blotter from unless you’re a dealer. If you’re buying small quantities of lsd in a liquid you’d be silly to try and lay blotters from that.
      - tazjin 6y ago
        YMMV
    - totony 6y ago
      I feel like you wouldnt carry around liquid in big enough volume not to be sketchy.
  - kitteh 6y ago
    There is a famous story of how the album from Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) had a blotter paper album cover that was perforated landed someone in jail because they thought it was LSD. The father of the son arrested contacted the label (novamute I think?) and they shipped another copy to the law enforcement agency to explain. Sheet One is the title of it, not in a position to share the URL but please take a look. Great album and artist too.
    - _bohm 6y ago
      link for the curious http://music.hyperreal.org/library/publicity/plastikman/sheet_one_arrest http://music.hyperreal.org/library/publicity/plastikman/shee...
- scarecrowbob 6y ago
  NB: if you do this, note that a lot of the images you may get are quite magnified because they are focusing on the art. While it's very difficult to predictable dose LSD off blotter, it may be helpful to know that most folks aim to have a single "dose" be 6-8mm squares
lm28469 6y ago
It's odorless and colorless. You can literally dip a Bible in liquid LSD, let it dry and it would be impossible to tell you're carrying thousands of individual doses.
- hanselot 6y ago
  And just like the real thing can cause delusions and hallucinations.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
  > dip a Bible in liquid LSD How’s /that/ for a religious experience?
kerkeslager 6y ago
Most people who have taken LSD have never seen any LSD either, because the dosage is so small. A strong dose is something like 300 micrograms--this amount of crystal is almost invisible to the naked eye. This also presents problems for chemists, because measuring out such small amounts is prohibitively difficult. So typically they dissolve a measurable amount (say, 30mg) into a volume of liquid (water or alcohol) and distribute it across a sheet of blotter paper divided into 100 squares, so that when the liquid dries, each square contains the desired dose (in the example, 300mcg)[1]. This is why the image most people have of LSD is a half-centimeter by half-centimeter square of paper--they're not seeing LSD, they're seeing the paper the LSD crystals are trapped in. Since I'm posting this under my real name, I should clarify that the reason I've researched this is that I did volunteer harm reduction at festivals. I don't even drink alcohol, let alone take drugs. [1] To be clear, LSD at stable temperatures is a solid crystal. There's no such thing as "liquid LSD"--that's LSD dissolved in a solvent.
- MayeulC 6y ago
  Thanks a lot for this insightful comment. I guess it could be hidden in any liquid or absorbing medium (paper, cardboard, textile, sponge, whatever... thus making it easy to conceal). I had no idea the drug was that potent... Presumably some neurotoxins have the same potency? This is quite scary to think of.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
    LSD also seems to be extraordinary non-toxic. This document (PDF) from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) claims: The LD50 of LSD varies from species to species. The most sensitive species is the rabbit, with an LD50 of 0.3 mg/kg i.v. [52]. The LD50 for rats (16.5 mg/kg i.v.) is much higher [52,53], though mice tolerate doses of 46– 60 mg/kg i.v. [52,54]. These animals expired by paralysis and respiratory failure. Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) have been injected with doses as high as 1 mg/kg i.v. without any lasting somatic effects [55]. There have been no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose. Eight individuals who accidentally con- sumed a very high dose of LSD intranasally (mistaking it for cocaine) had plasma levels of 1000–7000 μg per 100 mL blood plasma and suffered from comatose states, hy- perthermia, vomiting, light gastric bleeding, and respira- tory problems. However, all survived with hospital treat- ment and without residual effects. https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_23067_1.pdf https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_2306...
BTCOG 6y ago
Blotter sheets and disguised in other liquids in plain sight. For example, if you were to sell LSD it could be as disguised as being a simple spiralbound notebook, but the parties in the know understand that the cardboard backing is entirely laid with LSD.
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jrimbault 6y ago

Google "lsd paper sheet". It looks like a paper sheet.

totony 6y ago
Bottler usually has drawings and cutoff that make if very easy to recognize though.
- tazjin 6y ago
  Only if you buy it already in sheet form.
  - ryanlol 6y ago
    Yeah, but you aren’t going to be buying crystals lay blotter from unless you’re a dealer. If you’re buying small quantities of lsd in a liquid you’d be silly to try and lay blotters from that.
    - tazjin 6y ago
      YMMV
  - totony 6y ago
    I feel like you wouldnt carry around liquid in big enough volume not to be sketchy.
- kitteh 6y ago
  There is a famous story of how the album from Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) had a blotter paper album cover that was perforated landed someone in jail because they thought it was LSD. The father of the son arrested contacted the label (novamute I think?) and they shipped another copy to the law enforcement agency to explain. Sheet One is the title of it, not in a position to share the URL but please take a look. Great album and artist too.
  - _bohm 6y ago
    link for the curious http://music.hyperreal.org/library/publicity/plastikman/sheet_one_arrest http://music.hyperreal.org/library/publicity/plastikman/shee...
scarecrowbob 6y ago
NB: if you do this, note that a lot of the images you may get are quite magnified because they are focusing on the art. While it's very difficult to predictable dose LSD off blotter, it may be helpful to know that most folks aim to have a single "dose" be 6-8mm squares

lm28469 6y ago

It's odorless and colorless. You can literally dip a Bible in liquid LSD, let it dry and it would be impossible to tell you're carrying thousands of individual doses.

hanselot 6y ago
And just like the real thing can cause delusions and hallucinations.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> dip a Bible in liquid LSD How’s /that/ for a religious experience?

kerkeslager 6y ago

Most people who have taken LSD have never seen any LSD either, because the dosage is so small. A strong dose is something like 300 micrograms--this amount of crystal is almost invisible to the naked eye. This also presents problems for chemists, because measuring out such small amounts is prohibitively difficult. So typically they dissolve a measurable amount (say, 30mg) into a volume of liquid (water or alcohol) and distribute it across a sheet of blotter paper divided into 100 squares, so that when the liquid dries, each square contains the desired dose (in the example, 300mcg)[1]. This is why the image most people have of LSD is a half-centimeter by half-centimeter square of paper--they're not seeing LSD, they're seeing the paper the LSD crystals are trapped in. Since I'm posting this under my real name, I should clarify that the reason I've researched this is that I did volunteer harm reduction at festivals. I don't even drink alcohol, let alone take drugs. [1] To be clear, LSD at stable temperatures is a solid crystal. There's no such thing as "liquid LSD"--that's LSD dissolved in a solvent.

MayeulC 6y ago
Thanks a lot for this insightful comment. I guess it could be hidden in any liquid or absorbing medium (paper, cardboard, textile, sponge, whatever... thus making it easy to conceal). I had no idea the drug was that potent... Presumably some neurotoxins have the same potency? This is quite scary to think of.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
  LSD also seems to be extraordinary non-toxic. This document (PDF) from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) claims: The LD50 of LSD varies from species to species. The most sensitive species is the rabbit, with an LD50 of 0.3 mg/kg i.v. [52]. The LD50 for rats (16.5 mg/kg i.v.) is much higher [52,53], though mice tolerate doses of 46– 60 mg/kg i.v. [52,54]. These animals expired by paralysis and respiratory failure. Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) have been injected with doses as high as 1 mg/kg i.v. without any lasting somatic effects [55]. There have been no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose. Eight individuals who accidentally con- sumed a very high dose of LSD intranasally (mistaking it for cocaine) had plasma levels of 1000–7000 μg per 100 mL blood plasma and suffered from comatose states, hy- perthermia, vomiting, light gastric bleeding, and respira- tory problems. However, all survived with hospital treat- ment and without residual effects. https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_23067_1.pdf https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_2306...

BTCOG 6y ago

Blotter sheets and disguised in other liquids in plain sight. For example, if you were to sell LSD it could be as disguised as being a simple spiralbound notebook, but the parties in the know understand that the cardboard backing is entirely laid with LSD.

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