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How LSD Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The Hero of the Acid Trip

Alber Hoffman took 250 micrograms of LSD at four twenty p.m. on April 18, 1943. After 40 minutes after that initial dose he wrote down his journal 1700 hours beginning dizziness feeling of anxiety visual distortions symptoms of paralysis desire to laugh full stop and then following that closely i was able to write the last words only with great effort. The lady next door whom i scarcely recognized brought me milk oh yeah she was no longer Mrs. R but rather a malevolent insidious witch with a colored maskYeah so people think now he was fearful going into this experiment  that's what you know we'll talk about set and setting and your mindset going in has a lot to do with

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