This is what I always say to people who make claims such as "all mushrooms are the same" and "mushrooms are the same as synthetic 4-HO-DMT" and "4-AcO-XXX is the same as 4-HO-XXX because it's a prodrug", or "All the 4-HO-tryptamines are basically the same thing, any differences are due to the variability of experiences". Sure, if you've taken each one of them once, you can't form an opinion about their differences. But if you've gathered dozens of experiences with each, over time you can determine the qualities of each. Each experience is unique, but they contain many similarities as well, and when you notice things in each trial with one substance that you don't notice in any trials with another, you can say with reasonable conviction that the two substances have different effects.
exactly.
and when you are dealing with LSD... and often communities of people who are taking LSD (such as certain party scenes).... each person can correlate the effects of different batches when they are taking that batch multiple times... (no, nothing as stoopid as, "ah, the blue was really mellow dude and the green one gave me the jitters"!)
For one thing, duration is often longer or shorter depending on the batch, and that is often pretty much standardised, so you can get this batch of 6 hour LSD, which goes to that point and just stops. Or batches that are more like 12-14 hours and then keep kicking along.
And then, there is material which is much more obviously visual for more people than other material... and there is material that can cause unusual reactions in people...
For the most part, a lot of the LSD that goes around is shit and the "real thing" is too confronting for most people... I have seen people given "the real thing" at parties and really got through it or have life changing experiences, and that is only at what is said to be 100mcg or so...
A friend of mine, many years ago, said they tested a lot of the street acid they were using at parties and it only came up at 30mcg or so... so you could say, maybe a lot of these variables are to do with different strengths.
But I can say from personal experience, as an example, this one batch of well known acid, made me feel that my socks and shoes were wet(!)
The visuals had a certain kind of quality to them... like I was watching an old colour TV from the 60's or something.
But there was a certain signature there with it...
It is interesting to remember that the Good acid made in the 60's by owsley and co was put on blotter at 250mcg...
Julian.