Synth Repairman Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left on Vintage Synth - Sensationalist Headlines

Repair Of Iconic ’60s Era Synthesizer Turns Into Long, Strange T.. For years, an urban legend circulated online and in documentaries purporting how part of a groundbreaking musical instrument — versions which are stored at a Bay Area university and other institutions — was dipped in LSD. Online chatter detailed how musicians who used the instrument would wet their finger, touch the device, and then lick their finger to get a little bit of mind-expanding inspiration. Now this supposed myth may turn out to be a reality. — At the helm of KPIX Television, Broadcast Operations Manager Eliot Curtis tackles all sorts of technical problems to keep Channel 5 on the air. Recently however, a strange electrical transmission threw him for a loop. It happened inside his brain. “It was … felt like I was tripping on LSD,” remarked Curtis. It turns out that Curtis was indeed tripping on the infamous psychedelic drug known as lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD for short. He got dosed by accident at home in his workshop — in front of his wife.

Given the extremely low standard dosages for LSD (measured in micrograms), he either microdosed or got fucked up.

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Dipping someone's stuff in acid and putting it back seems like a cruel way to fuck with someone. Are there any pictures of this thing? One would imagine there would need to be a comical amount of LSD in order to be able to 'dip' something into it.

LSD can remain potent for decades if kept in a cool, dark place. Ok that's fucking cool

One of my old friends had a great but tragic story about how his old friend from High School got a bunch of tabs of acid, well turns out his little brother got into his stash (who was in elementary school at the time) and took a BUNCH of them. Enough to fuck several people up. His parents were out to dinner and the younger brother was going INSANE, the little brother ended up having a perma trip from it and has to be heavily medicated, not sure if hes still around but its a really sad story. LSD is no joke and like what Geel said its active in Micrograms, which is such a small amount. Amazing how its lasted this long and for someone to still get royally messed up off of just TOUCHING some.

Glad to know the tabs that sat forgotten in my dresser for two years are still good.

That's exactly why the CIA loved it so much, just brush a bit on here, drop a bit in a drink there, and bam, your target is loosing his mind.

How fuck is this a great story?

i think you just dissolve the crystal in something like alcohol or water and you'll have a pool of liquid you can dip anything into, the stuff is crazy potent.

You underestimate LSD-25. One drop the size of a pencil eraser would be enough to dose out for at the very least 100 people. As for dipping, all you would need to do is secrete it on the surface, and when someone wants a hit, they'd just put some form of hard likker on their fingers and do what they usually do. It's the same with most narcotics.

Adding to this, LSD has logarithmic potency- 300ug wouldn't just be the effects of 150ug x 2. It's seriously insane how such a small amount of something can have such crazy effects.

Worked out pretty well for Albert Hoffman though, didnt it?

That's true, I've always wondered if he knew what he was getting himself into when he was experimenting with that stuff. One of my friends accidentally drank an unlabelled bottle of water with a single tab of LSD in it (for microdosing purposes or something) and tripped unexpectedly. Acid doesn't have a taste (remember, kids: if it's bitter, it's a spitter) so he had no idea until he started to feel the come up happen. Thankfully he wasn't the only one tripping that day and he had a good experience once we figured out what happened, but it was definitely alarming and could have gone south quickly if someone unexperienced had drank it.

I've always heard anecdotes about how LSD degrades and breaks down over time but lasts longest stored in a cool dark place, better if it's sealed from the outside world. If this is true I'm amazed the compound lasted that long.

Interesting, most research points to HPPD just being anxiety and seeing hallucinations occasionally. What was more likely to happen is that the LSD triggered a mental illness his little brother was predisposed to. LSD is relatively harmless if its actually LSD and not meth or some nBIOME derivative.

It is not harmless. I've done plenty of methamphetamine, ketamine, and other psychosis-inducing drugs and never entered psychosis, but I did with too high a dose of LSD. I also panic easily on LSD, a little on shrooms. I have done NBOME's as well, and while they feel quite different the same applies. I have a clinically diagnosed anxiety disorder, so perhaps that has something to do with it, but I do know that psychedelics at too high of a dose are dangerous for me, while I've done assloads of stimulants and disassociatives and they don't put me anywhere close. I think the "harmless psychedelics compared to hard drugs" stereotype is a bit of a myth.

I think you're missing the fact that an experience like that would be extremely traumatic for a child. It'd be a miracle if he made it out of there without severe PTSD, and that probably accounts for most, if not all of the symptoms that would appear to others to be them permanently tripping. Permanent LSD side effects are almost unheard of, HPPD being the closest I'm aware of, though it's not necessarily permanent, it's largely blown out of proportion and it seems to mostly just be anxiety. That's not to say it couldn't have awoken some kind of latent mental illness, but it seems more likely that it'd just be extremely traumatizing. Not to mention whatever effects an overdose of LSD has on a young, developing brain. It's not, no drug is, but LSD is largely physically benign and incredibly difficult to fatally overdose on despite its immense potency. It can however, cause intense experiences which can be traumatic or could put the user in danger if it's used in a dangerous environment or otherwise used carelessly.