On: Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip?

[pygy]

Sporadic LSD use will never cause chronic, permanent liver damage.

[runinit]

Are you serious?

I would say if he took Tylenol in his life he would be more likely to get liver damage from that. I can't even find one study showing ANY relationship between liver damage and LSD.

[profquail → runinit]

LSD is also supposedly the most powerful migraine cure ever discovered. A single (sub-psychedelic) dose was found to cure some individuals for MONTHS.

Tylenol won't do that for you.

References: http://www.clusterbusters.com/lsd.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methysergide

[shorely → profquail]

LSA/LSD has been shown quite effective at breaking up cluster headaches at "below threshhold doses"

(lsa is effectively quite similar at about a 1/10th the potency)

[runinit → profquail]

I never knew that. Thanks!

[yan]

Given that LSD is such a powerful hallucinogen, the usual amounts ingested don't even show up as far as your liver is concerned.

[anigbrowl]

None whatsoever. I think this myth might originate with the fact that some mushrooms deliver results similar to LSD, but others can be seriously poisonous.

[shorely → anigbrowl]

Mushrooms are qualitatively MUCH different than LSD. But they are in the same family: tryptamines.

[jonknee]

No relationship.