Yea I guess it could have been something like that, some icky DOx crap.
But when people say "there is nothing psychoactive besides pure LSD that fits on a blotter" that is just wrong, obviously.
And if you are messing around TRYING to synth LSD, you are dabbling in a domain of the TYPE of resultant molecules that COULD have highly potent effects, but be DIFFERENT than LSD. If you made mistakes or errors or have some totally miscellaneous contamination in one of the many solutions, the WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU END UP WITH? Its not like absolutely every single possible offshoot product has been cataloged to an infinite degree and it is known with 1000% certainty that there is not some hitherto UNDISCOVERED or UNCATALOGUED and UNTESTED compound... LSD-XYZ-0572x-iso-whatever in there that we do not even know exists, but that makes you feel like crap in doses of 200mcg.
You are messing around in pathways leading to highly potent molecules that can bind to nerve receptors so it seems to me that some error or slop or contamination or incomplete purification etc COULD lead to unknown things that alter the effect of the result in a negative or even positive manner.
Chaos Theory, you know?!
After all, the list of things that are UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE is basically INFINITE compared to the list of things in our relatively tiny little human-investigated pharmacopoeia. There could be any number of things in there that are active but that no one at this point has the slightest clue what they are, if the synthesis is off by even some tiny totally random and unknowable factor.
Doesn't that make a much more logical assumption considering the vast unknowns and the infinite number of molecular possibilities to assume, as opposed to a hard-core statement that "its impossible for an imperfect synthesis to make something active"??
Imagine a 10' x 10' black piece of cloth. Representing the infinite number of possible molecules. Now lets say you scour every chemistry, medical, and pharmaceutical text ever published. Now go and with the tip of very small brush dipped in white paint you make a tiny white dot representing EVERY molecule whose structure we know and whose human effects have been investigated and cataloged. What percent of the 10x10 "infinite" domain space of all possible molecules do you think will be covered? Well I have no idea, but I am pretty sure from a distance of a few feet you will have trouble seeing anything other than black.