Improving LSD's self life

[Toltec]

Since LSD is so fragile and that it degrades very fast, if not stored properly! Why isn't there a method that can preserve it for years, or is there? Wouldn't pill form work better then paper or windowpane, and if this pill had some sort of UV buffer and a antioxidant keeping the light and air out.

Id figure by now that a chemist would have fugued it out already.
Thanks

 

[BilZ0r]

^ Thanks for those really interesting images, I'd never seen any of them before.

I agree with you're point about the pills... Especially if you made one small pill i.e. microdot, and then incased it in a dumby pill coating. However, the reasons why you wouldn't do that:

• It's hard enough making LSD, now you're expecting them to get a pill press?
• Blotters and windowpanes allow for sublingual administration

 

[Limpet_Chicken]

Storage in a capped dark vial, under argon gas in an argon filled film canister, in a jam jar full of argon, then sealed and stored in a fridge would extend life massively.

Excessive, I know, but an argon cylinder can be had easily, or even pierceable canisters of the ilk used for blowtorch butane gas cans are cheap online.

 

[fishinabottle]

The tartrate of LSD or another salt are pretty stable compounds which don´t decompose so easily when kept cool and dark, the latter most important, cool saying below 50°C.
These salts are the LSD of trade.

Blotters wrapped in Al-foil forgotten and found again after ten or more years have worked perfectly.

 

[Jamshyd]

"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;"

...*cough* err, sorry, couldn't resist .

Mr. Purfrock, your suggestions about TLC sound very intreguing. Do you suppose you can possibly explain the method to non-chemists in a simplified manner for purposes of harm reduction, if an adaption as such is at all possible?