Creator of LSD Turns 100

[Jeunemaitre]

Oh, forgot to mention. We barely even fully understand what LSD does to the body as a whole. Just look at the changes it can cause on the optic nerves and the changes to how the eye sees.

Definately some potential, but not for everybody.
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One of the things that LSD does in the body is affect the routing center of the brain. A single structure in the brain traffics impulses from one end to the other. The optic processing center is in the back, at the opposite side from the eyes, and the speach processing is in the back as well, while the rest of auditory processing is distributed in the sides, near the olfactory centers. LSD can intervene in this distribution center and send shipments to different centers, which gives the experience of "seeing music" (auditory impulse send to optic processing), or "smelling the color yellow" (optic impulse sent to olfactory processing).

We also know that the body is not great at removing it from circulation. As Doc mentioned, it can be storred in a couple different places, and sometimes the effect never disipates entirely because the chemical remains intact and in contact with the brains receptors (like jamming a penny into an old school fusebox) resulting in something like a permanant low-grade trip.

I'm not sure what else to add. It's been several years since my 3 credits in Drugs and Human Behavior, but I think I've gotten most everything right. I think the drug itself could be used responsibly in certain circumstances if it could be modifies to be a bit more controllable (greater receptor specificity, in order to improve predictability of response), but as it is, it doesn't seem like a good idea to administer to folks who already have mental conditions.

Edit: not sure where I was really going. Not trying to kill the conversation, just presenting my opinion. Never tried it myself, but then again, never done much of anything like it. Too many bad experiences with idiot who experimented irresbonsibly.