How do you know it was that high of a dose of LSD at 800-1,200ug?
At very high doses like this you are not able to really function, move, see very clearly, recognise yourself or an image of yourself, and psychosis and blackouts/memory loss can happen.
Thank you! This is a pet peeve of mine and I think it should be made a sticky and a rule in this forum. People talk a lot about highly specific LSD doses, especially the days. I think it's more common that people do this now due to people buying drugs from the darknet, where putative doses are listed for various tabs.
LSD degrades and more importantly dealers fucking lie, and should always be assumed to be liars. Or perhaps more often, lied to by people higher up the pyramid.
I've taken LSD before and actual known the dose I was taking. Very few people can actually state this with confidence because what I mean is that I had recent purity testing by LC/MS done and knew exactly how much LSD went into solution. IIRC it was about 74% (+)-d-LSD, the balance mostly inactive isomers, laid at 100μg per dose. This was considered very good and strong by all who tried it. The purity and dosing weren't discussed with end users. Honesty and total transparency in that game sometimes will get you nowhere. It probably could have been passed off as more than 100 mics a hit, no problem. To be clear: I'm talking about hits which were 74mcg active isomer.
I don't say this to boast, but just to underscore this: mics are a lot stronger than people think they are and very few people know what mics feel like. Thus, it's easy to claim any old number for your product. And, due to a sort of placebo effect, people will believe that this acid is stronger than the next.
But bottom line is people are attaching numbers of μg's to trip reports that are just plain unrealistic compared to what they describe. I particularly refer, as you do, to how functional the tripper is implied to be. The rest is subjective. But you are absolutely right. LSD saturates 5HT2a at around 1.4mg. That is literally as hard as you can trip as far as serotonin is concerned. Other receptors are still effected (mostly unpleasantly) and the trip is prolonged at higher doses, but my point stands.
A milligram is a metric fuckton, an advanced exercise. Very few ten-strips are actually a milligram, because very few hits are actually 100μg. Let alone more. Claims to the contrary should be treated with the utmost skepticism. People parroting the numbers that retailers tell them is meaningless, and honestly quite annoying. Possibly dangerous, too, if it encourages people to take what might be a much stronger dose than the claimant took, and expecting a similar experience.
People should stop throwing around these numbers and go back to the basics. "I took five strong hits," not "I took half a milligram."
