A rough guide to drugs
Legal Status Class A: LSD carries penalties for possession of up to seven years imprisonment and an unlimited fine. Supply/trafficking can carry penalties of up to life imprisonment and an unlimited fine. |
...is an hallucinogenic drug. It’s a white powder, but when prepared as a street drug it’s in a liquid form; either on its own or absorbed into small paper squares. These paper squares almost always have pictures or designs on them. Sometimes LSD is dropped onto sugar cubes or formed into tablets or small capsules.
Effects & Risks
An LSD ‘trip’ can take from about 20 minutes to one hour to take effect, and can last for up to 12 hours.
• A trip can give the impression that time is speeding up or slowing down.
• Users can experience visual effects such as intensified colours, distorted shapes and sizes and movement in stationary objects.
• Distortion of sound and changes in the sense of time and place are common.
• Trips can intensify the mood you are in, whether good or bad. A bad trip can be terrifying, and people have been known to harm themselves when they are experiencing one.
• A user may become panicky and suffer paranoia, particularly in unfamiliar, intense or chaotic environments.
• Some users experience flashbacks, this is when a trip is reexperienced sometime afterwards.
Overdose
There’s no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to the body or long-term psychological damage. However, if you have mental health issues, LSD can make them worse.
Addiction
Not addictive. However, some people use LSD so often that they can become out of touch with the real world.
