why is lsd illegal
Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, who promoted LSD and other mind-bending psychiatric drugs, was arrested and imprisoned for drug-related crimes. Because of its similarity to a chemical present in the brain and its similarity in effects to certain aspects of psychosis, LSD was used in experiments by psychiatrists through the 1940s, â50s and â60s.
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a. synthetic (man-made) drug that has. been abused for its hallucinogenic. properties since the 1960s. If con-. sumed in a sufficiently large dose, LSD produces delusions and visual. hallucinations that distort the userâs. sense of time and identity. LSD typically is sold as a liquid. (often packaged in small bottles. designed to hold breath freshening. drops) or applied to blotter paper, sugar cubes, gelatin squares, and.