lysergic acid diethylamide

NOUN
  1. a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
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  • One of the most widely known artificial hallucinogens is LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
  • If LSD changes the way the brain works and also blocks the action of serotonin, and if serotonin, which is chemically related to LSD, is present in the brain, then it is possible, Gaddum wrote in 1954, “that the mental effects of lysergic acid diethylamide are due to interference with the normal action of this HT.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • Gradually he became despondent and pretty much stayed in his room for eight weeks, busy discovering the wonders of opiates, hashish, and lysergic acid diethylamide. Full Frontal Nudity
  • As in the Netherlands for many years, attendees at the conference took for granted a sharp distinction between hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, which are clearly destructive, and relatively non-addictive and visionary substances such as psilocybin, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide, and ayahuasca, as well as marijuana and MDMA (or Ecstasy). Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
  • Others began experimenting with drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). 1965-66
  • None of these discoveries would be of much interest outside the lab were it not for some chance observations made in the early 1950s—that, for instance, an antitubercular drug that had induced an unexpected (although not unwelcome) euphoria inhibited an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, or that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), already famous for its profound effects on consciousness, has a chemical structure similar to serotonin. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. Craig K. Comstock: Guided Psychedelic Sessions
  • This class includes LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), mescaline and peyote.
  • Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. Craig K. Comstock: Guided Psychedelic Sessions
  • This was brought home sharply in 1954 when it was discovered (accidentally) that a drug called lysergic acid diethylamide could be used to produce hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. The Human Brain
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