LSD is a powerful psychedelic, which are substances that can alter the way people experience the world. It can impact one’s mood, senses and attention. LSD can be created in a lab but also grows naturally in ergot, a fungus that infects rye.
LSD is considered a classic hallucinogen, along with psilocybin, ayahuasca and mescaline. These psychoactive or mind-altering substances are believed to work mostly by affecting the way serotonin in the brain functions. Serotonin is a chemical in the brain directly linked to our feelings of satisfaction, happiness and optimism. Many modern medications to treat depression act by increasing the amount of serotonin available to brain cells.
LSD can make:
- slow down or speed up one’s sense of time
- change the way people think of their identity
- see colors and objects that aren’t real or changes in the size and shapes of objects
- experience changes in sounds or movement
- make people feel happiness
- have delusions, which means believing things that aren’t true[1]
In its pure state, LSD is a white, odorless liquid with a slightly bitter taste, although it is rarely sold in this form. It’s more common that drops of LSD are dried on blotting paper. The blotting paper is divided into small squares and decorated with designs such as a smiley face. It can also be sold in tablets or capsules.[2] LSD may also be dissolved into liquid sold as small breath-freshener droppers or applied to various products including gum, candy, cookies and sugar cubes.
On the streets and in popular culture, LSD is known as acid but also as tabs, microdots, dots, window panes or mellow yellow.
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