Question for Old Hippies @ Acid

Owsley Stanley distributed his famous LSD from around '66 to '68. Estimates put his lifetime production at around 5 million hits. As with any "legendary" dope, there will be a rash of imitators for years. If you took acid after 1968, the chances are it wasn't authentic Owsley.

Now days, Owsley lives in Queensland Australia and is a proponent of the carnivorous diet. He eats only meat, apparently, and says he's never felt better.

 

Someone posted this on HF a week or so ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4XK8lkzEM"]YouTube- A positive story about LSD- Augustus Owsley Stanley

 

I dont know about a 4 day acid trip? however I clearly remember doing purple micro dot,red dragon,window pane and other assorted things one time we even got some acid that was the shape of a pyramid. I could agree with somebody saying lsd was a 2 or three day afair. But now what with being 50 something I honestly dont need to take heavy drugs. just give me my wife my life and that is all I need to trip on anymore he he he

 

Yeah - I'm the same way - but I wonder - is it maturity or fear of losing what sanity I have left. Why do I remember those days so fondly and fear the consequences so much now?

 

Well that's a really good question. You've got me thinking now. Maybe it's just a natural consequence of getting older- really what you are fearing is change? Change seems harder to deal with the older you get.

But I think remembering those days fondly is a LOT more than just nostalgia. The world more than changed then; it was freaking jolted off it's AXIS. What happened from 1965 - 1975 (roughly) was in large part due to the use of the consciousness expanding drugs. The ripple effects of the psychedelic shit that happened in that decade affected EVERYTHING that came afterward. Do you remember the Ozzie and Harriet world that existed BEFORE 1965? That false world was almost completely ripped away, and it had a LOT to do with psychedelics. Of course we have a new set of facades now that are in need of a good shredding, maybe it's time for a resurgence?

I guess the lesson learned is to never underestimate the power of nature to undo anything that we think is unchangeable.

 

i'm not an old hippie, but i think there were a couple of myths in this thread.

i don't believe that strychnine is or was ever an ingredient in LSD. seriously.

and 2) i don't think acid today is semi synthetic or inferior to LSD of the past. isn't all acid semi-synthetic? it's all about purity of the crystal to start with, and potency of the blotter, both of which i agree could be lower today
i hope it's just low dose though, and still reasonable purity

 

i used to trip almost everyday. i remeber back early 90's seeing the dead in chapel hill some bro from tour went to drop me a drop of liquid and the vial broke and i had a puddle in the palm of my hand. i loved trippin so much even though how wide i saw his eyes get after he did it i just sucked it up right out of my palm. i had the best time and i was there by myself at one point i remember dancing and all of a sudden stopping and grabbing my drum and sandals picking them up and being like oh man i got to to get out of here and started walking to leave the show and then i said to myself what are you doing Jerry's on and i turnned around and went back to my spot and danced i think i did this like four or five times in about 15 min lol and there was a short time i forgot who i was but that passesd. the air was like all grids and patterns so colorful with the music. thats one trip ill never forget. i had a good tolerance back then i even used to put a window pain in my gallon of water in the fridge and drink it normal because i lived with 8 people and it was the only way to get people not to eat or drink my stuff lol.

 

^^^wow.

 

I had some green Owsley in 1968, and it kept me high for about 14 hours. In 1969, in the Haight, windowpane was pretty popular, and was quite potent, only one hit to do it. But at the Altamont Speedway concert in the fall of '68, Jefferson Airplane took the stage and started throwing out bags of Orange Sunshine. Being one who always overindulged, I took a HANDFUL out of a bag and downed them all! Within 30 minutes I couldn't even speak! Stayed that way for the entire day, and when I saw all the SH_T that went down around me, I was even more freaked out than if I'd done TWO handfuls! Never tried that again!

 

Owsley's first mass produced LSD was "White Lightening" tabs that weighed in at 270ug-300ugs.
Orange Sunshine was in the 250ug-270ug range and was actually produced by Tim Scully.

After about 1968, the strength of doses steadily dropped in large part because 200-250ugs is a pretty hefty dose, especially for those not familiar with it's effects. To avoid freak-outs and maintain customers, dosages were dropped to around 150-200ugs in the early-mid seventies. By the end of the 90's the strength of of LSD was between 50ugs and 150gs with about 80ugs being average.

Strychnine has never actually been found in ANY LSD that has been tested. Even if it were, it would not be possible to deliver enough strychnine to have any effect given the small size/weight of almost all street forms of LSD delivery. The normal physiological effects or "body load" of LSD are often attributed to adulterants such as methamphetamine or strychnine, but such adulteration very rarely occurs and it is usually in the form of other psychedelic drugs, or impurities in the LSD itself.

My first journey was on three hits of purple microdot at about 190ugs per hit, 1977.

 

Correction: the Altamont Concert was in the fall of '69. Sorry, I hit the wrong key and then entered it before I knew what I'd done wrong. Really, it's not all the acid I used to do.............REALYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY>....................

 

All the acid I took I only do one hit because thats all i never needed I don't do it because I wanna get high I do it because I like the trips and i've learned a few things from it. I love the pictures I can come up with in my head. I took three once but that wasn't suppose to happen. I asked for one and they dropped three in my mouth so i didn't have a choice because i mean even if it hit my lips i was screwed.

 

First trip, 4 hits of blotter, "Man will those little dots really get you high?" - a little while later I was in a serious conversation with a tree.

 

my friend took three hits and he was totally fucked. his friend licked a whole sheet and he was tripping hard for 3 days

 

The lsd popular in southern cal in the early-mid 70's were purple pyramid, orange barrel, purple micro dot, all kinds of blotter and of course both brown and clear windowpane.

My first trip was age 15 on blotter. I took it alone meaning I didn't tell my friends because I wanted to see if they could tell. I ended up telling them and of course they had a great time making me laugh and tripping me out. Back then we took acid to have fun and not some profound experience. It was fun but occassionaly you did have a bad trip if you stated dwelling on things. The main thing that would ruin a trip for me was thinking I would get busted and go to jail, which would be a horror on acid.

The strongest trips were always window pane. I never took more than one hit, and a few brave people I knew took two. Taking 5 or 6 hits of acid was unthinkable, just not something you needed to do. WHen I first started reading this forum I thought maybe we were wimps back then or the acid was weaker. I never had complete hallucinations on acid like a break completely from reality, but saw many warping stuff, colors and tracers. Mainly acid was a headtrip about how I precieved the world and others around me. It become and "us vs them" sort of mentality when you were tripping.

When hanging out with friends we would become very bonded while tripping. Also a small aspect of a person's personality would become very inhanced. Like if someone was a dork that dorkage would be hugely amplified. Also music sounded good and sometimes colors went with it. Oh yea and patterns, forgot about those, especially were the walls met the ceiling (sort of like colorful spider webs).

The best trip I ever had was on mesculine. It was like acid but with no speed and very mellow, beautiful and you could have sex while on it. If I could get that drug again I would take it today, not so sure I could do acid again though I want to.

The worse trip I had was on pure PCP. Completely dissociated for at least 5 hours in an alternate reality, and then the after effects lasted till the next day. It was terrible and very frightening. When I think back on it I can't believe I survived such a strong drug.

I did just about every drug back then including heroin but in my 20's started to feel weird even smoking pot. Now I just take was the doc orders.

 

I remember taking the orange sunshine back in the 70's .We only took one tab at a time .I don't remember anyone i knew taking more .You didn't need to .We had just epic times .We would have keggers with several bands playing .It was a magicsl time .I still hang with most of them people now . Even after all these years it still brings a smile to my face thinking of all the hijinks we pulled off .We laughed our asses off and were a Ky version of the Merry Pranksters .Them were damn good times

 

A buddy and I dropped some Windowpane in 69. Usually it took an hour or so to start getting off. This stuff hit us in approx. 8 minutes!
The Windowpane turned out to be x hits stuck together, and we didn't know.
I was fine, but my buddy had a bad trip and we ended up taking him to hospital, but...That's another story

 

I had that same experience. Floating above the table my friends and I were trippin'. Orange barell and purple microdot were popular around Indy in the early 80's and Black star blotter. Haven't had any for 15 years I'd do a hit if I had the chance. Did lots of acid in the 80's on Dead tours. Any one do album covers?