Arcadia said:
People around here dilute the LSD with water.
95% alcohol is a far safer bet, if you use water it MUST be distilled, the chlorine in tap or even bottle water will instantly destroy LSD.
polytrip said:
LSD is never pure. It just never is and never was: the chemical degrades quickly. Beside that, the proces of making it is also very complex. And because it´s so instable, it is also hard to purify without speeding up the proces of degradation. The impurity´s present will affect your experience in some way. So bad LSD definately does exist.
Back in the day of Sandoz the product was purified far better then most chemists do today. Then again it was a pharmaceutical and not produced in clandestine labs. They would get close to 98-99% purity. Today chemists have to worry about the DEA busting down their labs, keeping their synth as short as possible is desirable. And then you have just pure greed, you lose significant product by purification, similar to doing DMT re-x, you will lose some product each time.
But LSD degrading quickly is drastically overstated. In the older synthesis procedures the last stages required heating to quite high temperatures, which makes the reactions with Oxygen and UV light become extreme. Which is why its so important to have an inert environment and controlled light wavelengths. In the final product, at normal temperatures the is actually relatively stable.
There have been sealed amber vials stored for many tens of years at room temperature with nearly no degradation. There's also a study about the degradation in a solution (urine) for urinalysis and at room temperature it was stable for much longer then you'd ever suspect.
I've had blotters between pages of a book I forgot about, they were still good almost 10 years later. Maybe minimal loss of potency. Although i'm sure there are some lumi-LSD floating around in there though. If only I had the foresight to save more of the old stuff for a rainy day.
