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

Answer 1

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 leaving your naturally made ones 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.

Answer 2

Where do you get that it isn't addictive? From someone who is sooo far out there they don't see reality?
Anything that can change the way you feel is addictive whether it is eating,drugs,shopping,alcohol and yes LSD.
You haven't developed a tolerance,the monkey on your back is use to the doseage you are feeding it and is at this moment content but eventually that monkey will convince you that you can take more.
This is true of alcohol and drugs and this is what fuels DENIAL in addiction. . . thinking we have developed a tolerance.
Yeah I developed a tolerance for beer and then I moved on to harder drinks and more often drinking until that monkey couldn't be satisfied. . . One drink was one tooo many and 1000 not enough.
Using LSD is not normal so how can you develop a tolerance to something that isn't normal. You haven't,your monkey just hasn't reached his RAGE stage yet.
Get help from NA before he does.
Do you know how to tell when you are through romancing that monkey? You aren't through til that monkey says you're done until you stop messing with that monkey altogether.

Answer 3

Something doesn't have to be addictive for you to develop a tolerance for it.

You can learn to tolerate spicy foods without being addicted to them.

Answer 4

well don't know where your from but all illegal drugs are addictive. Especially LSD but it also comes in different forms also. But to ahve a talerence you need to be clean first.

Answer 5

Your body gets used to it. It is just like drinking. At first one drink and your drunk but later it takes more. The bad thing though is that the more you use the greater the chance of a bad trip, and there aint no coming home.

Answer 6

I was not aware that you did develop a tolerance for it
though it would not surprise me....