If LSD is not addictive how do you develop tolerance for it?

Answer 1

FIRST:
You need to check your facts Ms. Bomullock. There is still LSD in the world today, there are still illegal manufacturers of LSD, and there are still people in the United States who use it recreationally. Sure it isn't as popular as it was in the 1960's, but it's still a drug that commands a share of the illicit drug black market. I have found it as recently as last summer in remote areas such as Idaho and in larger amounts (usually sheets of 100 hits) in more populated areas such as Portland, Oregon and Southern California. It's the same chemical it was 70 years ago when it was formally discovered and dealers stupid enough to sell poison (despite the fact that amounts necessary to kill cannot fit on a single blotter hit of lsd) to users would probably be getting their doors knocked down by very pissed off family members and /or friends of said users and the insuing clash would no doubt be making headlines in newspapers.

SECOND:
To Mr. Soccer Dork:

You are correct in that there is no physical addiction with LSD. A psychological addiction can occur, but people can become psychologically addicted to anything.

What happens when you take any psychoactive drug (from aspirin and caffiene to heroin and meth) is that the drug mimics neurotransmitters that already exist in your brain. Your brain has receptors to bond with these neurotransmitters and, when the drug takes effect, it bonds with the receptors blocking your naturally made ones and leaving them in the dust. But the brain responds quickly by making more receptors, to balance your body out. This is known as tolerance.

Depending on the drug, that can take anywhere from 5 minutes to several hours. Regardless you will have to take more of the drug to continue receiving its effects. Once you stop taking the drug, the normal flow of neurotransmitters slowly returns and your brain reduces the amount of receptors again, lowering your tolerance. Again the time it takes to return to normal tolerance levels depends on the drug.

For LSD the tolerance is built very quickly, within the first 24 hours, so that if you wanted to do it again the next day, you would have to take more than you did the first time. Waiting about 3-5 days will return your tolerance back to normal and it's possible to take the same amount of LSD every weekend without physical ill effect. I say "physical" because enough research has been done to show that in most people, no harm to the body or brain is done even over a long period of time (years).

Remember:

An idiot who takes drug is just an idiot on drugs.


KNOW YOUR MIND, KNOW YOUR BODY, AND KNOW YOUR DRUGS.

(I know I'm repeating my answer, but you repeated the question.)

Answer 2

First of all, there is no longer any LSD; pure and undiluted LSD.

For the pure "drug" there was no physical addiction, but there was the chance of a powerful emotional addiction. Also, for pure LSD, there is no tolerance level that decreases its effects.

For decades, what is called LSD is a mixture of incomplete, adulterated LSD plus added chemicals and drugs and other substances.

People thinking they are taking pure LSD are actually taking a "drug" that could contain more than ten or twenty other substances; probably even more. Many of the additives can be very harmful. It is common for the "LSD" to be "spiked" with various animal tranquilizers. Others may be experimental drugs with unknown side-effects.

Today's "LSD" will give people a trip. but it is nothing like the pure LSD of the past. You will go somewhere, but you will not know where you'll go or what is in what you've ingested. Don't ever trust anyone who says, "This is the pure thing." They either don't know or they are lying. The days of purity have long passed.

By the way, the same is true of "imported" marijuana, which has long been "sprayed" with narcotics to give it an extra "kick" or a "relax-reaction." Like supermarket vegetables, it is far from being chemical-free.

So make your choices. Realise that nothing is harmless; even water - in certain quantities- can kill. If you're going to play the dangerous game of drugs, be aware that you are playing Russian Roulette.

Be careful and don't take anything to impress anyone else or to be cool. If you want to experiment, you will. No one can stop anyone whose mind is made up. But if you do, do it with your eyes open. It's illegal and you can get busted. Do it with your eyes open; it isn't harmless. Do it with your eyes open.

LSD and other psychedelics, etc, will not change your life for the better. You won't be a better artist, a smarter lawyer, a more successful business leader. It's not a magic cure-all. It doesn't bring enlightenment. It will get you high, no doubt. But there's always the real chance it will get you "low." Keep your eyes open; make your own choice.

Answer 3

With any drug that is taken too much you develop a tolerence to it so you try to feel the same high as the first time you did it. Addiction happens when you crave the drug and LSD does not have the addictive qualities such as coke or heroin because it is a psychedelic and not amphetimine or an opiate. Its just a different type of drug. Not all drugs are addictive, but most are.