LSD effects Quotes

Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.