From: edd709psft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: LSD The facts!
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:37:55 GMT

Evidently there is a freaked out raver wandering around Melbourne who has
fried his brains from too much drug use (Love Doctor I THINK his name is!)
and has produced a three page document detailing the hazards of LSD usage.
He has been going around to all the raves distributing the letter on ravers
car windscreens.
Below I have included a few extracts from the document:


"Provided in these pages is detailed information on LSD usage and its effects
so as to provide the user with an understanding of the drug and facts about
it. Please read it carefully as it will provide information for you safety.
NoteL  This has not been written by some government organisation or the 
drug offensive (BIG ANTI DRUG DEAL IN AUSTRALIA), but I am one of you (close
to the scene) who has finally realised the gravity of such drug use and my 
realisation and concern has lead me to research which has uncovered facts
that may make you think...

    - usual doses of LSD in humans are approx. 1-2 micrograms per kg,
      to produce a mental and emotional experience, even though most
      trips contain 15-90 micrograms of acid; thus making it one of the 
      most potent pharmacological agents known to mankind.

    - LSD causes distortions in thinking and feeling and its chemical 
      structure causes hallucinations and delusions and changes, permanently
      the chemistry of the brain.

    - it produces a series of somatic, perceptual and psychic effects that
      overlap each other

    - dizziness, weaknesses, tremors, nausea and parathesis are prominent
      bodily symptoms

    - bluring of vision, distortions of perspective, organised visual 
      illusions, less discriminent hearing and a change in the sense of time
      are common abnormalities

    - LSD produces central stimulation, dilated pupils, increased heart beat,
      mild elevation of blood pressures and alertness

    - psychological aspects include paranoia, irreversible personality
      changes, depression after and during use can bring on suicidal thoughts
      to escape traumatic feelings and emotions

    - physical damages include depletion of brain cells thus brain damage,
      chromosomal mutations and damages to the nervous system

    - LSD is used in experimentation to produce a state of hyper arousal
      of the central nervous system. It is used to induce psychotic 
      reactions and other such feelings akin to psychosis and madness

    - LSD is tastless, odourless and invisible thus you can never tell if
      it actually is a trip you are getting, or something stronger like PCP

    - PCP (Angel Dust) produces a form of sensory isolation that is stronger
      than LSD; disorientation, distortion of body image, complete numbness,
      sweating, rapid heart rate and hyper tension. A slight overdose can 
      shut down the central nervous system and lead to death.

...I have tried to research and put onto paper facts about LSD usage and 
related hallucinogenic drugs. I have provided you with only medical facts
excluding medical opinion, thoughts and personal experiences; if I was to
include this, the information would be long, detailed and complex as the 
drug acts differently with different personalities.
But I will say this, you are dealing with one of the most powerful drugs in
the world, and it is being taken as 'if it was candy'.
Once you reach your ultimate experience, your personality will change 
dramatically and there is nothing you can do to change what you encountered.
You will go through serious difficulties adjusting and returning to the 
'real world' because your experience is so real that people will think that
you are going crazy. It is called a mind altering drug because the experience
alters the entire personality and it is irreversible, the experience cannot
be changed or reversed ever.
You will never know what you are buying, it may be labelled a trip but you
don't know what it really is, where it comes from, who made it or what is in
it. Finally, you think its or 'just a trip', be careful this is the biggest
distortion of the drug. Ask anyone outside the drug culture, perhaps a G.P.
he will advise you to stay away from those drugs, not because he is
exaggerating, but because they know the facts, their views about the drug
aren't distorted."



Well that was about half of the document. If anyone wishes the full version
please mail me and I s'pose I can type all of it out for you. 

Even though a lot of you out there may know most of these facts I thought
I'd post it anyway. I'd appreciate any comments because I think it's 
important for the ravers of the world to atleast come to terms with what
they are doing. (LSD and Ecstacy taking ravers that is - some people just
like the music!)

neXus.
(aka Jason Watson - edd709p@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au OR
                    edd709psft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au)

"If it's not +8...it's just not FAST enough!"






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