amateurs.

health.org:
* One use of LSD or PCP can cause multiple and dramatic behavioral changes. PCP = /= LSD
* Large doses of hallucinogens may cause convulsions, ruptured blood vessels in the brain and irreversible brain damage. Never heard of this, besides, you only need a tiny amount of LSD, and this does not mention actual amount
* Many hallucinogens cause unpleasant and potentially dangerous "flashbacks," long after the drug was used. Ive never person personally known anyone whos had one, though im sure they do happen
* Most hallucinogens cause "hallucinations," i.e., changes in perception of time, smell, touch, etc. duh, thats why they are taken

WebMD:
In 1996, an intriguing study from Abraham and Frank Duffy, MD, appeared in Psychiatry Research.

These doctors compared the brain waves of non-LSD users to those of chronic LSD users who complained of visual hallucinations years after taking the drug. They detected faster brain waves in the LSD users, suggesting that the regions of the brain that control visual perception were no longer restrained by other parts. Says nothing about the direction of causality, is a lone study

In effect, these visual brain centers were in a sort of electrical overdrive. This may account for the flashbacks that chronic LSD users report sometimes a decade or more after they've stopped using the drug.

There were also "serious" scientific/ medical studies that proved that LSD ingestion caused broken chromosomes, which would lead to certain birth defects in the progeny of LSD users.

I don't buy the crap that one lousy hit of acid will permanently damage your noodle.

No, but one hit of lousy acid can.

Mug, WTF is that in your avatar, am I tripping now?

I had a friend who used to trip regularly (did drop out, no ska though). His wife got pregnant after this study was released and he swore that if it came out with more than the expected number of limbs, he'd name it Zaphod.

I guess the kid got lucky, but I still think Zaphod would have been a cool name.

Luck had nothing to do with it.

Hmmm...so, following this logic would rule out a large percentage of daily human activity. Ever ride in or drive a car?

And a tip for mountain bikers: mescaline. Seriously.

Songs I used to hear during my heavy E phase still stir up the endorphin pot up in my head, is this just memory, or residue, you think?

i enjoy weed. cant say ive ever smoked LSD before.

Jeebus! I don't even want to think about rock gardens/drops on anything but pure adrenaline.

I never did things like LSD because I was always horrified by the stories of kids who did it and saw a dragon and gouged their eyes out. Yum. I don't know it never attracted me. The thought of an altered perception was honestly never a draw because I felt I could achieve it in other states. I think the drink was more alluring to me anyway.

The goofball horror stories about LSD are no where as cool as the actual trip, and it's always different for each person. Contrary to what I was told by friends before I did it, I never really experienced enhanced or oversaturated colors, tracers off the lights or enhanced hearing. I did become much more aware of how my brain can associate different things as being similar ("Hey, that couple looks like that hippo and worm from the Richard Scarry books") and how quickly it recalls things from my memory for comparison.

Though that particular Richard Scarry example is actually from a couple months ago, I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if I would have had the same thoughts while tripping. It's not that I would have actually believed they had morphed into those two characters, but I would have been pretty amused that that's what they resembled. For me, LSD just cranked up that sort of brain activity.

The only thing that ever freaked me out were "thought circles" -- if do this, this will happen, but if I don't that will happen -- follow those thoughts for what seems like 3-4 hours, but lo and behold, its only been 20 miniutes.

The best is when you do it a bunch with the same folks, so you are all of a like mind, and then "take the show on the road." Some of my best memories of going to parties in HS and just fucking with people so hard they were afraid.

Dude, we used to roll around like the suburban Merry Pranksters in like weird thrift store clothes and shit. So much fun. Also living in a town with 100+ miles of golf cart paths winding through the woods=AWESOME.

Seems like most have done in the past, but don't anymore, so I have a question:
Songs I used to hear during my heavy E phase still stir up the endorphin pot up in my head, is this just memory, or residue, you think?