Is it still around anymore? (acid that is)

Hello Old Hippies,

I'm living near San Francisco, and supposedly SF is the acid capitol of the country (or used to be), but I just don't see it as prevalent as other terribly hard drugs, or the mellow pot. There's just not that many "real" hippies left in SF to ask, most people out there now are crack heads or on meth. Is LSD still around in SF? What about mushrooms? I know pot is everywhere, espeically in Height Ashbury, but what about the "hippie" drugs they tried to eradicate in the 60's?

 

sounds like a sketchy question to be asking.. 0_o

 

Not sketchy... it's a general question about supply/trends. Found an article online that says LSD is on the rise in Lebanon as of 2008, just wondering about SF in general. Most internet searches talk about LSD in the 60's in SF, but it's hard to find updated 2008 information.

 

Yes it is still around. But no where near the number of people use it today that used to. So you have to look around more than before. However I would tell you to leave it be. If you must trip look for mescaline. It is easier on you.

Peace

 

I don't want to touch mescaline or any other drugs, I'm just curious about how prevalent the "hippie" movement still is in SF, becuase right now most people seem to be into crack and meth. Pot's obviously readily available, but you just don't hear much about LSD or shroms lately, although it was prevalent 50 years ago in SF. So i'm just wondering how prevalent it is nowadays, and if SF is still the LSD epicenter it used to be, that's all. Like, is it still available in Height Ashbury, or has that place changed too, you know?

 

Mushrooms make a goooood trip. I suggest you do mushrooms. Since I have started with pot and mushrooms, I've only ever come across acid once, and the stuff really sucked and made me keep throwing up, there wasn't even a high. But I've done mushrooms plenty of times and I think that mushrooms are the new drug of choice for the New Age Hippies. Forget acid, do mushrooms man, and you'll have a good trip.

 

no, dont forget about acid. mushrooms are awesome and all but acid is amazing in its own right. i have done mushrooms at least 20 times, and i have only done acid once, and i can say i am still debating which i like better, because they each have so much to offer. dont forget about acid!!!! dont forget about mescaline either, it too is psychedelic and can be equally as enlightening as shrooms or acid, just lasts longer.

 

Sorry man, I'm just saying, from my bad experience, I'd say don't do it. If you have had a good acid experience, then you are lucky.

 

set and setting. thats all it is. a poor environment cultivates a poor trip. the wrong mindset can almost guarantee a bad trip. psychedelics throw all your innate troubles right in your face, and if you arent ready for that then you will undoubtedly have a bad trip. for example, if you just had a bad breakup, if your dog just died, if you failed a major test, all these factors could result in a bad trip because your mind just loops these thoughts endlessly until it gets so overwhelming your mind just overloads.

 

That's highly unusual, even more so than a good trip. I wonder if what you got was actually acid. Either way, you said it was only once; sometimes once is all it takes, some come out raving about the unpleasantness, others come out of it wanting to spread nothing but love to others.

Whether or not you'll have a good trip is not a matter of luck. I'm wondering why none of the boomer-hippies have stated that when the 60's movement was in its infancy, there was no such thing as a bad acid trip. It was when it became big that people started doing it without understanding it and having all sorts of bad trips. Then they started dialing down the dosages to accomodate bad trips .

To the OP: it all depends on the crowd you hang out with. there are the circles you spoke of that prefer hard drugs, but there are other circles that have access to the psychs. It's out there and rumor has it it's making a comeback so be of good cheer.

WHen trancedance said it sounded sketchy, he didn't mean that there is anything inherently wrong with acid, just that it happens to be illegal and your questions about which areas of SF might have acid aren't good to post publicly because everyone can read it, including police, who can go to that area to stake it out.

 

I'm a boomer hippy and I can tell you that YES back then there was such a thing as a bad trip. It does not have to start out bad. Peaking on acid can be very intense and it can take your head in many different directions. You have to keep tellin yourself it is just the drug hold on. But with mescaline you can control it better if it goes bad. I have only had two bad trips and both were on acid. Blotter type, one was brown dot the other was blotter. I think it was called Mr. natural ( that is the pic on the piece of paper it was on). You don't need acid.

Peace

 

it just bugs me when people tell others they "dont need" acid or whatever drug simply because THEY had a bad trip once or twice. the psychedelic experience is subjective, and the biggest determining factor in a good or bad trip is SET and SETTING. just because you had a bad experience with acid doesnt mean you should tell people they shouldnt do it, your bad trip was likely due to your specific situation.

 

what I meant by no such thing as a bad trip was when lsd was still relatively obscure, not yet very popular. like between '63-'64 when only a handful of people were taking it, generally accompanied with psychedelic literature and treating is a religious experience. I don't know how long it lasted, but once the consensus on lsd became more liberal and recreational attitude, "bad" trips started occuring, and later the typical dose was scaled down in anticipation of bad trips. I wish I could provide links; I don't mean to sound presumptuous, it's just what I remember from articles and documentaries. and obviously one boomer-hippie is going to have different recollections of the times than another, since the experiences varied for everyone; I don't expect all the original hippies to have the same take on what went down.

 

The real trip is in your mind. Go there my friend.