OH MY F@#$$%# GOD THANK YOU raggablue. I can't believe I just read all that crap. You all are brain washed c'mon. Any body know who Ken Kesey is? He might have done acid 400 500 times, died at 66 because of cancer. And I quote, "Kesey died at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, two weeks after cancer surgery to remove 40 percent of his liver." (commondreams.org) This guy was still pretty normal, watch some interviews with him. Albert Hofmann, the CREATOR of acid died last April. He was 102 years old. After all the years after lsd and still taking lsd he still pursue science. He attended colleges to do research and to talk to the students. OH yeah, while all this was happening, he was taking lsd. On his death bed, he asked his wife for acid. And died tripping, on his scientific "headache cure" discovery. I guess what I'm trying to say is people, c'mon unless you got really f##@$& up friends, lsd won't kill, or really even harm them. OH by the way, a bad trip has nothing to do with the quality of the acid. PLus I know plenty of adults who have great lives who have taken lsd many times in their youth. Im dating a girl who's mother took plenty of lsd in her youth, and she is woderful, oh yeah and completely normal. Their family is just peachy so don't pull that sh*@ please. People please do some research before you post complete

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If your friend is doing acid - he's playing Russian Roulette with his brain literally. Some times you can have a good trip if the acid is high quality (this is rare, by the way anymore). BUT if your friend gets ahold of some bad acid that is cut with say strychnine, your friend will have worse than a bad trip. He can suffer very bad poisoning from this mixture. Strychnine is a "kicker" that is added to acid on a regular basis by some of the mom and pop makers. Your friend just might end up in the ER with a really bad case of psychosis or poisoning.

Each time your friend takes drugs he is that much closer to either death or the total abandoment of his mind and mental capacities. Have him seek help to get off all drugs if you value your friend.

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"he's playing Russian Roulette with his brain literally" "you can have a good trip if the acid is high quality [... ] BUT if your friend gets ahold of some bad acid that is cut with say strychnine, your friend will have worse than a bad trip. "

You should talk about things that you don't know about. Don't GIVE PEOPLE WRONG INFO. People the quality has nothing to do with a good or bad trip, its usaually the setting and the state of mind the user is in. And people you are not going to get acid cut with stychinine, it happened like twice like 30-40 years ago. Everybody has their own movie, what are you going to do with yours?

Just tell his parents!

Yes drugs are bad... is this statement narrow? Very.

I think its unfair that all recreational drugs are given a bad name.

I take magic mushrooms maybe once a month and smoke marijuana once a week at most. I get to enjoy the drugs in moderation and with no physical or psychological effects afterwards. I'm currently a 3rd year engineer, live a healthy lifestyle and yes... take recreational drugs on the odd occasion. Is my life ruined? No.

People need more education about the statement "drugs are bad, they will ruin your life" as most governments will tell the public.

Ive done my reading and I would never touch the disgusting drugs like meth or heroine which are known to mess people up.

There are intelligent people out there who can enjoy drugs and still live a healthy, happy and prosperous life.

Thank you Raggablue!

Sneeze: There hasn't been a case of lung cancer linked solely to marijuana, and you said the reason for this is that pot smokers don't go through a pack a day. I have seen Rastafarians who smoke every hour. If marijuana does effectively cause cancer, then half of Jamaica would be going through chemo. Marijuana has been in society for centuries, throwing carcinogen numbers as scare tactics is nullified by plain old history. Might as well tell me not to go out in the sun cause ill get skin cancer *rolls eyes*

J_9: sure anyone can OD on acid, anyone can also OD on carrots. It takes a lot of acid to overdose and you would need a lot of money to do so. "We have serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, all of these neurotransmitters are affected by drugs. Whether it be the first time, or years worth of use." Aren't all those neurotransmitters affected by our present environment? Our diet? Our psychological addictions? Your neurotransmitters aren't some independent factory that runs on its on power supply and CPU, and taking acid will somehow ruin these untouched transmitters. You should replace that statement with: "We have serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, all of these neurotransmitters are affected by life. Whether it be the first time, or years worth of use."

Greg Quinn: your claims are too ridiculous to reply to. I can not even

The error in this entire thread is that acid(psychedelic) is being lumped in the same category as weed(antidepressant) meth(stimulant), alcohol(depressant) crack(stimulant), and heroin(opiate). All of these act on the body in completely different ways, so they should all be taken in new light(tip: its delusion if you dont). Acid does no substantial amount of physical damage to the body within moderate usage (this may be a surprise to the sober sallys out there, but people have had positive profound experiences on acid). While crack, alcohol, and heroin do tons of damage physically including a physical addiction through substantial body chemical imbalances. Psychedelics in general do not cause these substantial imbalances. If want to argue on something argue on this, another than that you throwing misinformation on web labeled as "answers." Even then, you are still wasting your time arguing on this

There are badder things you can do to your body than to take acid, we should also make skateboarding illegal because you can break your arm or leg while riding it :O and just because I skateboarded and I rollerbladed before, that is not a direct indication that I like riding bicycles or bungee jumping.

N0help4u: "Ignorance to drugs being harmless. Right now I am surrounded in the hood with at least 30 neighbors that prove the reality of drugs." nothing is harmless. I can choke you with a pillow. Just because 30 neighbors prove to you that heroin/meth/crack/pcp/alcohol is harmful (I double dog dare you to find an acidhead who only indulges in acid within those 30), doesn't mean that taking acid is harmful, and for instance eating a tub of ice cream is harmless. Ragga, probably made that statement in terms of you categorizing acid in the same category as heroin. Which is absolutely ignorant.

As long as he spaces his trips out he'll be fine. Doing cocaine and meth as a one time thing is NOT wrong. He's not addicted and doesn't do it on a regular basis so stfu.
It's his life, let him enjoy himself. He probably doesn't like you and would hate it if he had someone telling him what to do with his life when he's just doing acid.
Also, PCP is NOT acid.

Seriously? What the hell is going on in this thread? "nohelp4u" and J_9" or w.e. are so blind its unbelievable. I don't particularly care about the things you believe (about drugs at least in this instance) hell, go believe that one weed spliff can kill you instantly for all I care. Just don't PUSH it onto other people! There has NEVER been a (soley) weed related death in all of recorded history, I don't know statistics on Acid related deaths, but I've heard of people taking up to 10,000 micrograms-average dosafe being about 100 micrograms- (Jim Morrison of the doors, for one!) and living to fight another day, albeit being a bit freaked out about it, but still over all fine and healthy!
Its ridiculous how all these anti drug posters started bringing up Alcohol, tobacco, meth, heroin, crack etc. the OP was asking about ACID! Not those drugs that really do mess with you after consistent usage. The drugs you mentioned kill 100's to thousands of people each every year (over a few hundred thousand all together) if someone were to come to me and ask about acid (my kids for example, whom are way too young right now, but when they were in the late teens at least) I would RECOMMEND IT. Yes that's right! Weed, lsd, and most other psychadelic drugs (shrooms, salvia mescaline etc.) I would recommend it as a unique experience to at least try once, you only live once right? Oh and also, acid definitely isn't pcp...

Also: cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's

I know it's a cannabis site, but its based on a scientific study!

Also the beatles did lsd loads, look at Paul and Ringo now! Rip John and George.

If you eat cannabis the potential threat is gone