LSDlysergic acid diethylamide

By: Demi Haar and Justin Morrison

Definition

• Lysergic acid diethylamide, an hallucinogen. LSD is an abbreviation of the German term Lysergsaure-Diathylamid for lysergic acid diethylamide.

What is it?

• LSD is a hallucinogenic drug

• Street/Other Names

• Tripping

• Blotter

How’s it used?

• LSD is licked or swallowed off of paper• Capsules and liquids are also swallowed• LSD users drew these

What does it do to me?

• When you use LSD your senses of space, distance, and time become altered.

• People say they hear colors or see sounds.

• Effects are unpredictable though.• Some experience dilated pupils, increased

heart rate, blood pressure, muscle twitches, shaking, sweating, sleeplessness, and loss of appetite.

O.R.I.

• Once you’re on an “acid trip”, you can’t get off till the drug’s done with you – in about twelve hours

• LSD can cause “bad trips”, users experience panic, confusion, sadness, and scary images, which later cause flashbacks of “bad trips.”

What it’s made of

• LSD is a colorless, odorless drug with a bitter taste.

• It is made from ergot, a brown, toxic (poisonous) mold that grows on rye, and other grains.

• The chemical formula for LSD is C20H25N3O