AH: LSD makes a comeback

Mako-Chan

Suppose LSD makes a comeback starting in 1996, for whatever reasons. It's use suddenly begins to skyrocket and it's use reaches levels that Ecstasy or Methamphatamines have acheived today. What might American Culture Politics, Pop Culture, etc. be like today?
 
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The Man

Stalin Malone said:
Suppose LSD makes a comeback starting in 1996, for whatever reasons. It's use suddenly begins to skyrocket and it's use reaches levels that Ecstasy or Methamphatamines have acheived today. What might American Culture Politics, Pop Culture, etc. be like today?
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I think we'd see a quick turn towards the left and the rebirth of the hippies. By 1998 midterms, both parties, including bill, turn left, but only the Dems are seen as authentic enough.
 

NapoleonXIV

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Very little real effect. Fantasy RPGs would get lots more colorful and er....fantastic. Raves would get bigger and brighter with more color. Rap music would become less popular as the overt menace and competitiveness of the gangsta culture is not at all pleasant on LSD.

AFAIK ecstasy and LSD are so very similar that there's not a lot of difference in overall effect.
 

HueyLong

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Yes, ecstasy is basically the same in effects and cheaper to produce, cheaper to consume and cheaper to transport. It would be pretty hard to replace E with LSD.

And if it did, I don't see any big political changes- LSD is simply targetted as a vice on the level of meth or E.

The idea that "drugs=LIBERALISM!" annoys me......
 

HueyLong

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But nor are they an American liberal thing.

They are mainly a politically apathetic or libertarian thing.

Edit: Kidblast beat me to it.
 

HueyLong

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For the hard drugs, its pretty much bipartisan in hating them. Some of the most vociferous drug opponents I've heard are liberals. Only on pot do you hear compromise, and even then, thats not mainstream, and is more prevalent among libertarian circles.

In a state like Indiana, where meth is huge, both parties take a hard anti-drug stance. The Democrats try to focus on it as their crime and welfare issue. Clean up the streets, help the poor, repair families and lives. That type of stuff
 

PaleHorseRiding

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LMAO your lack of drug knowledge is Hilarious at best.


The reason LSD dropped of was because the makers of it were thrown in jail for 20 to life it will be getting more popular now because the makers from the 60 and early 70s are now getting out of jail.

E does not have the same effect as LSD. E is a very happy upper if u are halucinating its because its cut badly or good depends on who u are.

I know as I have done both

Druggies vote more than u know alot are conservative as well they tend to be very extreme right wing or extreme left wing.

Also rap culture would not have become less violent as most rap artist do not do either E or LSD thiers is crack coke and weed. Since most hoppers have nothing to do with rave culture it would not have affected it
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HueyLong

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While they may not be exactly the same in effect, they fill the same niche- a party drug, designed to heighten the experiences with the environment.
 

NapoleonXIV

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PaleHorseRiding said:
LMAO your lack of drug knowledge is Hilarious at best.


The reason LSD dropped of was because the makers of it were thrown in jail for 20 to life it will be getting more popular now because the makers from the 60 and early 70s are now getting out of jail.

E does not have the same effect as LSD. E is a very happy upper if u are halucinating its because its cut badly or good depends on who u are.

I know as I have done both

Druggies vote more than u know alot are conservative as well they tend to be very extreme right wing or extreme left wing.

Also rap culture would not have become less violent as most rap artist do not do either E or LSD thiers is crack coke and weed. Since most hoppers have nothing to do with rave culture it would not have affected it
either
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So the knowledge of how to make LSD was confined totally to those who were jailed in the 60's/70's and was also impossible somehow for these people to transmit to others, either before or after they were imprisoned, and is ,further, now a closely guarded government secret, not widely available in any good text on pharmaceuticals (which it remains, called Delysid, I believe).

A strange drug indeed:rolleyes:

The effect of any drug depends almost totally on the user's expectations. Alcohol, if injected intranvenously and not informed of, is a mild sedative, with no euphoric effects. The original Sandoz experiments with LSD often struggled with subjects who reported no changes whatsoever, even with increasingly higher dosages to the point where toxicity cut them off.
 
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