The majority of the LSD I took was back in the mid 80's to the mid 90's. In the mid 80's, it was easy to find, and many, many music events were places we could get tabs or hits very easily. For the most part, the LSD we got was outstanding, with some intermittent exceptions. I have seen so many different prints it's not even funny. We were very lucky in the the was around, and if not the Dead, Jerry and company were touring at times, so here in the Northeast, the LSD seemed to always be circulating on and off, with minor exceptions for quite a while. In addition, there was a band, Max Creek, who was a local legend and a rather good jam-band, who, when they played, had many of the same folks selling LSD at the shows that were directly connected to the Dead "people". I used to go to the shows JUST to get my sheets, or at least a 1/4 sheet or so, and leave. It was the way a bunch of us kept a regular supply of LSD on hand. All I can say is that we often got really, really good LSD. But I will say, that SOME of the very best we ever got tends to a) be laid on thicker paper that broke off easily in the perforations, b) was White on White, was what appeared to be THE SAME or SIMILAR paper but had prints of, say, blue stars or gold stars on it. These three variations, while others were good as well, and we RARELY got bunk LSD, just slightly weaker ug's per dose, were the very best that we, in particular, got our hands on over time. There were LOTS of other prints that were awesome, and overall, I am grateful for the high quality of LSD that we got, and to be honest, I miss it, even at my age when I just like to trip once in a while. I am a busy person with lots of responsibilities, a family, so on. Back then, we were into heroic doses, and going to the "sacred space" was something we did regularly, and it was transcendant, beautiful, sometimes frightening as hell.
I have tremendous respect of LSD, and only got in trouble when I didn't respect it's power as a compound. I almost lost myself to it for a period of heavy use, and almost put myself in a psychiatric inpatient setting for a time back then when I just couldn't stop using it and it was fucking me up pretty good.
Anyway, back when we acquired our LSD, things were not "branded" like they are now. Now, even when you buy weed from someone, you get a fucking soliloquy regarding the strain, often with people spouting bullshit and who don't even have a real knowledge of the difference between indica, sativa, and hybridization, or what the "name brand" really means. People often sound ridiculous telling you the parroted, "brand name" of the "boutique" quality marijuana. I want to punch them sometimes...
Anyway, regardless of manufacturing techniques, synth processes, whatever, almost no one could tell you anything other than "it's REALLY good", or "it's really clean", or "start with one or two so you don't go to the moon". There were no Nbomes, thank god, and there was no online, and there was just someone who wanted to sell it and someone who wanted to buy it. Generally, you could by a sheet for 100 bucks and it was literally a buck a tab. If you bought 25 someone would give them to you for 20 bucks. I mourned the days when it became less available, and now, I am out of the "circle", so that even if I wanted to get it, I'd have to get it online, and I don't trust anyone because of the Nbome "problem" and unscrupulous assholes that will sell anything to make a buck. I was kind of honored to be around when LSD was readily available, and I do miss it. I have compounds like AL-LAD and LSZ which are a nice "replacement", but to me, nothing will ever beat the king of all kings of psychedelics: LSD. It has no taste, other than what happened chemically a while after ingestion where you typically got that "metallic" taste or sensation, and that peculiar taste, almost like you had a fucking strange "coin" in your mouth, would be there for the entire length of a given trip, and was very obvious, and one way you KNEW you had LSD. I recall one of the interesting parts of taking it was that you could TELL that there was (or wasn't) LSD on the paper as this taste phenomenon occurred (it came one within a few minutes and was obvious within an hour), and we'd all look at each other, beginning to feel the effects within a short time, that we had, once again, gotten some good LSD. If you gave me some paper right now, and I put it in my mouth, I'd know in short order if it was LSD, without a doubt. Anyway, all I know is the only thing that mattered to me was that it WORKED, and when we got really good LSD, and knew you had MORE once you tested it, you were in heaven for as long as that paper lasted. I remember that feeling of buying a sheet, testing it among friends, and we'd be like, "Damn...we are GOOD to go for a while", and hopefully wouldn't have to go looking again any time soon. Rinse, repeat.
That's my experience with what used to be a great LSD scene, and one that made it easy...you got what you paid for, and the seller did, too. Nice business model. Then, everything else happened; Jerry died, Pickard got busted, that "scene" went away, the advent of the internet, the synthing of new chemical, and the rest of the recipe for acquiring LSD from one person to another, diminished. I know it's out there, but I am no longer in a place where I could go be part of the scene and not be thought to be a cop at my age, aside from the fact that even at that, there are assholes out there who don't know what's on the paper they are selling, and just because it's psychoactive, it gets passed off. And to tell you the truth, I've never hated anything as much as Nbomes because it ruined the LSD scene as it was once known , as did the assholes who try to pass it off as such.