LSD first time

[Solipsis]

What is the point of taking half a hit? He'd be lucky to get a decent body high off that. I'm not a hard-head. I tend to encourage low doses and moderation, but I don't see the point is splitting tabs at all.

Most who would say that are those who never encountered really potent acid, it depends per region what the standards are. In most regions they are such that 1 hit should get you a moderate trip, in others you on average need at least several to get anywhere.
I'm not trying to be elitist but as it happens the social circles Ive been in here in The Netherlands keep quite good standards that on average suggest that half is enough for a beginner.

If you never heard about other regions with other standards it's easy to think that it's the same everywhere else. So I'm not saying: half a hit should always be enough, I am only saying that there is a possibility it is if the dose on your batch is a relatively high one. If you assume that the dose is low, you might have a difficult experience if it turns out differently.

And you normally can ask your friends to get an indication of the standards.

 

[artic]

I don't know. I haven't seen much good acid where I am now, but 90% of the acid I've seen was white on white that came out of the bay area. I was always told that they were extremely potent, but people always say that. One was always enough to feel full effects, but to trip hard 2 was recommended. I never took more than 4 of those. I don't think that you would feel full effects with colorful visuals on just half a hit, though. I guess I have seen one person lose their shit on one hit, but he got through it just fine (one person out of hundreds of people I've tripped with). I've only had the odd hit whenever it was offered to me over the last couple years, but unless tabs have gotten much more potent I think "one hit" is about the lowest dose you can take and still KNOW acid, not just feel kinda weird. My understanding is that most tabs are about 100ug, and Erowid says that threshold dose is 20ug, so maybe half a hit would be enough for a light trip.

 

[Solipsis]

That's reasonable, but it's a personal decision if you want your first time to be without a doubt visual and moderately intense, even if you risk it being difficult. That is how some people feel, with a romantic sense of losing your virginity: you can only do it once so make it count.
I think that is unnecessary, there is no need to create those high expectations and then dose relatively high to at the very least avoid it being underwhelming. You can get a mild experience the first time and then still be totally blown away the second time, but with the advantage that steadily increasing the intensity will help you integrate and deal with it better.
On the other hand if you get yourself into something you don't even have an idea of before, then it could get you off to a rough start and feel insecure about it the second time. Seems like a bad start of a relationship you may build with psychedelics and that's a shame.