When I say huge, I mean HUGE! Like a thumbprint, something in the mg range. Anyway, my question is this.
I hear everywhere that on huge doses of acid, you trip for days. Now, I never believe it, I always think they're making it up, because as we all know, acid is out of your body in ~4 hours, and you trip for a max of 12. I recently read something that might bring some light to the subject, metabolism.
No.
LSD stops working at a certain point. You are far better off taking the least amount of LSD to accomplish the level you are trying to get to rather than just taking large amounts all of the time. All you get from taking larger than required doses is a massive tolerance that does not dissipates more and more slowly over time.
There is absolutely no advantage in taking "thumbprints" versus known doses other than it's just more convenient than having to work out the trouble of mixing the crystal into a solution, doing some math and calculating the doses when applied to blotter or some other means of uniformly dosing.
I've had the exact LSD from a sheet and taking 25 hits of the same batch a month later after not using anything was no different than taking 10. Carbon Jesus 1997 and Mad Hatter 1998. These were two experiments about a year apart that I partook with a friend who simply wouldn't believe that there was no difference after a certain point.
I was proven right and I got mine for free
As well, you cannot just keep consuming more LSD after X amount of hours and continue tripping. By 12 hours, the hallucinogenic properties will be gone and it will simply act as a stimulant (although you will probably continue to have hallucinations simply because of exhaustion.
And you are not going to "boost" your trip by taking the same amount after the initial consumption. You have to at least double the dose every time to keep it going, but after about 6 hours, it's rather useless.
I have found it's best to take what I believe will get me to the desired state at once, and if I'm not there in two hours, I will dose higher, but that's it. Because after that, it's basically useless without taking massively larger doses.
Pretty much, a huge dose of acid like that supposedly takes a LONG time to fully metabolize, so that's why people trip for days on a dose of that scale. Is that true?
No. This is completely false. You're not going to trip for more than 12-14 hours AT MOST on LSD at any dose.
I've known people that have continued to take LSD for 24 hour periods, but the only reason they continued to hallucinate was sleep deprivation and stimulation with the added effect of marijuana, which has hallucinogenic properties on it's own, ESPECIALLY when sleep deprived. And it was really a waste of quarter sheets or more.
However, psychedelic amphetamines such as DOM, which can be carried in gel tabs or DOC, of which a dose is small enough to impregnate a 1/4 x 1/4 square inch can continue for days either with a massive dose or re-dosing.