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Are you kidding me? LSD/Acid lodges itself in fatty tissue and can cause people to re-experience acid trips at random when those acid crystals dislodge themselv

Are you kidding me? LSD/Acid lodges itself in fatty tissue and can cause people to re-experience acid trips at random when those acid crystals dislodge themselves years later... If you want to really fuck up your life then go ahead and take LSD. Can you imagine years after taking a drug and driving down the interstate and having a flashback and getting into an accident? What about holding your 3-month old and dropping them because you just had an acid flashback?! This is total BS. People who are stressed out need better nutrition, sleep, and to get people who are stressing them out off their backs. What they DON'T need is an acid trip.

dlss 12y ago
Source re: fatty tissue?
chroma 12y ago
I'm not sure where you heard it, but your your statement regarding flashbacks and "crystals dislodging" is simply incorrect. Judging by your submissions[1], you are not a fan of many drugs. While this position is understandable, I think it is mistaken. Drugs such as LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin allow us to achieve mind-states that would otherwise require years (if not decades) of dedicated meditation. Most of the people who have used psychedelics (including myself) are better for it. I can't say the same for nicotine and alcohol. Psychedelics benefit humanity much more than they hurt it. It is comically inconsistent to jail users of psychedelics while merely taxing nicotine and alcohol addicts. The harm caused by the latter is much, much worse than the harm caused by the former. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imperio59 https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imperio59
- imperio59 12y ago
  I don't think it's incorrect, see http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-trip-really-give-you-flashbacks http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-t...
  - leot 12y ago
    The article you link to doesn't really support your claim: "Case reports of mental health problems following psychedelics are often comparable to case reports of mental health problems linked to intensive meditation, visiting holy sites, or viewing beautiful artwork and sublime natural scenes," they write." Consider this: many of the world's most successful and effective individuals have taken LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and more besides. This is not to say there's no risk, however ambitious mountaineering, riding a motorbike, and traveling by bus at night in a country with poor road infrastructure, all carry (I would wager) more risk of major harm or death. Yet all three are perfectly legal.
jqm 12y ago
I'm up-voting your post for it's amusement value impereo. A nice long belly laugh is good medicine indeed! Edit... the down votes indicate I'm coming across as snarky. Not my intent. It's just that ill informed and over the top sensationalistic propaganda has always amused me. I'm just trying to imagine a rash of baby dropping and unexplained auto accidents due to flashbacks. Apologies for the public display of mirth. "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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girvo 12y ago
I've taken acid upwards of 50 times, and my life isn't "fucked up", funnily enough. Come on now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you any drug is "safe" (because that's a silly claim, everything has risk and every drug is different -- blanket statements are laughable in their uselessness), and I'm not going to convince you to give up your personal opinion on drugs, but flashbacks due to fatty tissue drug residue is entirely disproven. It's a myth, nothing more.
swombat 12y ago
Your comment is entirely misinformed. There's about 0.01% chance that this comment will change your mind, but hey, I like hopeless causes! Have a look through http://erowid.org http://erowid.org and make up your own mind about drugs instead of swallowing what other people have told you, hook, line and sinker. Please consider the possibility that you've been severely misled by the people who provided you with this understanding of drugs. If you are still young, perhaps it is just because your understanding is just your parents' prejudices untainted by actual experience. If you are old enough to have lived your whole life, perhaps you've just not met the right kind of people, only people who were misled like yourself, or who were actively engaged in anti-drug propaganda. Either way, you owe it to yourself and to your sense of intellectual curiosity (the same that drives you to this site) to actually research this for yourself, perhaps even find some people who take drugs in moderation, get to know them better, and figure out whether there is truth in what you've been told about drugs. Chances are you already know those people, they're just not telling you because they know how you'd react and they care about you, so don't want to get you riled up about a topic on which you're unwilling to entertain other points of view. Either way, the onus is now on you to find out more about the world rather than perpetuating the incorrect dogmas which you've been fed. Note: I used to be just as intolerant as you. Then I looked things up and I experienced them for myself.
- jqm 12y ago
  Reading back on previous comments it appears that Scientology may be one of the deciding factors in the line of reasoning....
  - tedks 12y ago
    Yeah, "acid flashbacks" is a rumor originally started by L. Ron Hubbard.
dghf 12y ago
Apart from anything else, the article is about MDMA, not LSD.

dlss 12y ago

Source re: fatty tissue?

chroma 12y ago

I'm not sure where you heard it, but your your statement regarding flashbacks and "crystals dislodging" is simply incorrect. Judging by your submissions[1], you are not a fan of many drugs. While this position is understandable, I think it is mistaken. Drugs such as LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin allow us to achieve mind-states that would otherwise require years (if not decades) of dedicated meditation. Most of the people who have used psychedelics (including myself) are better for it. I can't say the same for nicotine and alcohol. Psychedelics benefit humanity much more than they hurt it. It is comically inconsistent to jail users of psychedelics while merely taxing nicotine and alcohol addicts. The harm caused by the latter is much, much worse than the harm caused by the former. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imperio59 https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=imperio59

imperio59 12y ago
I don't think it's incorrect, see http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-trip-really-give-you-flashbacks http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-t...
- leot 12y ago
  The article you link to doesn't really support your claim: "Case reports of mental health problems following psychedelics are often comparable to case reports of mental health problems linked to intensive meditation, visiting holy sites, or viewing beautiful artwork and sublime natural scenes," they write." Consider this: many of the world's most successful and effective individuals have taken LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and more besides. This is not to say there's no risk, however ambitious mountaineering, riding a motorbike, and traveling by bus at night in a country with poor road infrastructure, all carry (I would wager) more risk of major harm or death. Yet all three are perfectly legal.

jqm 12y ago

I'm up-voting your post for it's amusement value impereo. A nice long belly laugh is good medicine indeed! Edit... the down votes indicate I'm coming across as snarky. Not my intent. It's just that ill informed and over the top sensationalistic propaganda has always amused me. I'm just trying to imagine a rash of baby dropping and unexplained auto accidents due to flashbacks. Apologies for the public display of mirth. "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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girvo 12y ago

I've taken acid upwards of 50 times, and my life isn't "fucked up", funnily enough. Come on now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you any drug is "safe" (because that's a silly claim, everything has risk and every drug is different -- blanket statements are laughable in their uselessness), and I'm not going to convince you to give up your personal opinion on drugs, but flashbacks due to fatty tissue drug residue is entirely disproven. It's a myth, nothing more.

swombat 12y ago

Your comment is entirely misinformed. There's about 0.01% chance that this comment will change your mind, but hey, I like hopeless causes! Have a look through http://erowid.org http://erowid.org and make up your own mind about drugs instead of swallowing what other people have told you, hook, line and sinker. Please consider the possibility that you've been severely misled by the people who provided you with this understanding of drugs. If you are still young, perhaps it is just because your understanding is just your parents' prejudices untainted by actual experience. If you are old enough to have lived your whole life, perhaps you've just not met the right kind of people, only people who were misled like yourself, or who were actively engaged in anti-drug propaganda. Either way, you owe it to yourself and to your sense of intellectual curiosity (the same that drives you to this site) to actually research this for yourself, perhaps even find some people who take drugs in moderation, get to know them better, and figure out whether there is truth in what you've been told about drugs. Chances are you already know those people, they're just not telling you because they know how you'd react and they care about you, so don't want to get you riled up about a topic on which you're unwilling to entertain other points of view. Either way, the onus is now on you to find out more about the world rather than perpetuating the incorrect dogmas which you've been fed. Note: I used to be just as intolerant as you. Then I looked things up and I experienced them for myself.

jqm 12y ago
Reading back on previous comments it appears that Scientology may be one of the deciding factors in the line of reasoning....
- tedks 12y ago
  Yeah, "acid flashbacks" is a rumor originally started by L. Ron Hubbard.

dghf 12y ago

Apart from anything else, the article is about MDMA, not LSD.