Word: lsd
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Once the large-scale Trans-American Drug War quickly became a massive and deadly lesson of supply and demand, the DEA learned to seek greener public relations pastures. And they found them, in the minute and colorful world of LSD...
Acid, more properly 9-d-Iysergic acid, is dropped by 2.8 million Americans every year. This pales in comparison to the 40 million estimated pot smokers and the 25 million citizens that have used cocaine. LSD has no known adverse effects, except in cases of extremely heavy use--and then the ramifications are usually psychological, not physical. In the 30 years since its introduction to the American drug world, there has never been a reported overdose due to acid...
...LSD induces visual and auditory hallucinations, stronger negative and positive emotions and the feeling that things are more profound that they would be otherwise--i.e. that the number of green thingies on your living room rug is the pivotal question of our time. The drug lasts 8-12 hours and leaves the user incapable to do anything but walk around slowly, track their hands, or watch Sesame Street and feel for Big Bird's inability to convince anyone of Snuffy's existence...
Realistically, LSD ranks down near the annual Jerry Lewis Telethon on the national threat list; it is perpetually strange, sometimes frightening, no one is exactly emptying their pockets over it, and almost nobody feels compelled to do it more than a couple times. Those who do end up like, well, like Jerry Lewis...
After a decade of decline, drug use among young people is on the way back up, according to a survey. The percentage using marijuana in 1992 was 27.7%, compared with 26.5% in 1991, and LSD users went from 5.1% to 5.7%. The 1981 figures were 51.2% and 6%, respectively...