> In my personal experience (not a lot, from my early 20s) the opposite can also be true.
Such is the nature of street drugs. The odds of what you took actually being 100% pure real LSD is approximately zero, unless it was directly handed to you by a trained chemist. Much more likely an obscure cocktail of designer tryptamines.
Can you provide a source for this? This has not been my experience, nor have I heard this anywhere before, and I am quite involved in the psychedelic community.
Sometimes people pass off research chemicals as LSD but the only real reason to do this is cost. It's not like LSD is wildly expensive. People might sell you bunk or under dosed tabs though
I mean, I had LSD from a handful of different sources, as well as psilocibin, and the essential dimension to any of the psychedelics effects I experienced were very similar, and it was only in that one instance that it led to lasting feelings of anxiety.
I do not believe it was the drug itself that messed me up. It was the insights that the drug revealed to me that were the source of my anxieties.
I worked through that stuff, and maybe in the long run I'm better off for it. It's hard to say for certain. One way or the other, life goes on.
LSD is a uniquely potent psychedelic. Especially in the pre-research-chemicals-from-china era, you could be pretty damn confident you took LSD if you were tripping balls on less than a milligram.
Such is the nature of street drugs. The odds of what you took actually being 100% pure real LSD is approximately zero, unless it was directly handed to you by a trained chemist. Much more likely an obscure cocktail of designer tryptamines.