The Legalization of LSD

So, what is LSD? First off the acronym LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. It is a semi-synthesized hallucinogen derived from the ergot plant. It produces a wide variety of effects from vivid visual hallucinations to amplified moods and an intense feeling of unity. Tests were conducted when the drug was first brought to the public to determine the safety of using this drug and they found it to be extremely hard to overdose on and it had almost no lasting effect on your body. LSD should be legal because it has very few effects on the individuals body, it doesn't pose much threat to others around the user, and it is non-addictive. Have you ever heard of a Acid addict? No? That's because it ISN'T addictive. As of 2007 more than 22.7 million persons aged 12 or older reported they had used LSD in their lifetime (9.1 percent); however, fewer than 620,000 had used the drug in the past year. There was no change between 2006 and 2007 in the number of past-year initiates of LSD. [1] These statistics suggest that most who had tried the drug did not get addicted. It is pretty safe to assume that the 620,000 that still use, have been recently introduced to the drugs psychedelic qualities. LSD is safer than any current legal drug. There is only one incident resulting in overdose on record. In 1972 in San Francisco eight people snorted milligrams of the drug which depending on the dose (which is currently unknown) but is most likely over 20 times the recommended dose. However it is hard to say whether they were truly overdosing or not since they all left the hospital and were completely fine 12 hours later. [2] It is also important to note that thousands participated in testing in the 60s and all of them came out unscathed. [3] Not only that but a series of notable celebrities have done LSD including: Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Chris Farley, Fat Boy Slim, Doc Ellis, Jerry Garcia, Bill Hicks, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, John Belushi, Kevin Smith, Eminem, Jack Nicholson, Cary Grant, Matt Groening, Angelina Jolie, Jim Morrison, Francis Crick, Aldous Huxley, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. [4] Now, I know that some of those examples weren't super impressive, but I would like to highlight a few. Ray Charles was a blind musician, LSD influenced his music in a way no other drug could. For all we know his music wouldn't have been the same without it. Steve Jobs & Bill Gates! Are you serious?! Two of the most influential people in IT! Francis Crick, he discovered the double helix (a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, especially that in the structure of the DNA molecule). I know what you're gonna say. "LSD poses a risk to those around the users because the user may go and drive!" Yes, that may happen. But it already happens on an equally debilitating drug: Alcohol. How do we know that any more or less people will be driving intoxicated than the current amount? Also LSD has medical uses. It can be used to treat cluster headaches, alcoholism, end of death anxiety and drug addiction. [5] So, bring it on! :P 1: http://drugabuse.gov... 2: http://www.erowid.org... 3: http://en.wikipedia.org... 4: http://coed.com... 5: http://www.qualityhealth.com... && http://www.huffingtonpost.com... && http://en.wikipedia.org...