Capital drug users switch to LSD

Hallucinogenic drug LSD is making a comeback on the Wellington drug scene, a leading doctor says.

A record amount of the drug was seized by police last year.

Wellington Hospital emergency medical specialist Paul Quigley said LSD had crept into the ecstasy market because users were more sure of a high.

"If you're going to buy an illegal drug, you might as well get the hit you want ... That is literally the feeling behind it."

There had been at least six LSD-related hospital admissions since January, compared with eight for methamphetamine.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4225739/Capital-drug-users-switch-to-LSD

"In March, two unresponsive men in their early twenties were taken to the hospital's emergency department from Kilbirnie by police. One was standing in a shop front staring at the mannequins and the other was wandering aimlessly around a park."

Sounds like they were having fun. Why all the fuss?

^ Because having fun is not a government approved activity.

Sounds like they just wanted to ruin the trip tbh, but I guess it could be seen as concern

Sounds like a positive thing for me, for people to be taken to the hospital not because they need to but because they are forced to by police while having fun, as apposed to complications from a dose of methamphetamine which could EASILY cause a death.

Not that police forcing people having fun to go to the hospital is a good thing, and not that tripping in public like that is smart to begin with. But weigh the consequences...

LSD hospital admissions aren't nearly as serious as the methamphetamine ones are


someone starts having a bad trip "omg call the ambulance",

agreed with the posts above, this is a good thing. Much safer as long as it's used by relatively smart people who know how to use it.

The way the article talks about it, it seems like LSD is almost as dangerous as meth.

Personally, I would rather take LSD a hundred times than take meth once.
(Actually, I would love to take LSD a hundred times, if only I could find some...
And I have no interest in taking meth.)

I absolutely HATE how the media all treat LSD like we're eating HCl for fuck sakes! LSD is just one damn fun night. Doses are too small to be cut with anything life threatening i thought, not to mention LSD build tolerance so fast that a vicious addiction to LSD would be quite hard to get.