Why your LSD has that "electric" taste

[dragonrider]

I think the 'electric taste' could not be taste-related at all. I know what you mean with 'electric taste', but i personally find that it's more an electric sort of feeling somewhere in the mouth and throat area.

Maybe LSD has some kind of effect on the thyroïd.

 

[entheogenic-gnosis]

Repeated recrystallizations [of LSD] from methanol produced a product that became progressively less soluble, and eventually virtually insoluble, as the purity increased. As a totally pure salt, when dry and when shaken in the dark, will emit small flashes of white light. -shulgin ; TIHKAL

Pure salts of LSD are triboluminescent, a phenomena which is thought to be related to electricity...

Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated through the breaking of chemical bonds in a material when it is pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology). The phenomenon is not fully understood, but appears to be caused by the separation and reunification of electrical charges.

Again, I always assumed that this is where the whole "electric" thing originated, but I could be wrong...

-eg

 

[entheogenic-gnosis]

He said, "Oh."

-eg

Famous last words of a chemist that licks his equipment

The recent blottered LADs (AL-LAD, 1P-LSD, 1P-ETH-LAD) came in plastic baggies and I never tasted anything (~10 trips?). The MSDS claimed a 99.5% purity and a hemitartrate form. Also no metallic taste occurred during the trips. Never got LSD with a MSDS, so no data points here.

For me and 2 other people that I did 1-P with it never had any taste.
Not even the slightest taste at all. Even the paper was tasteless. I did it 3 times already with 2 blotters once.

I have always enjoyed that story....

-eg