Heresy

[John Carvill]

Interesting debate.

One or two points on the old 'acid isn't as strong as it used to be thing':

1. Additional acid doses, taken together, have a cumulative effect;
2. Magic mushrooms (various kinds) have, surely, not declined in
potency since the 60s?

I took LSD in the late 1980s, and the strength varied widely. Seemed
plenty potent to me at the time, that's for sure.

Thinking about what;s been said here, and re-considering my earlier
statement that the LSD experience cannot be known until tried, I am
willing to consider other points of view, of course, but still reckon
there is an unbridgeable gap between having experienced LSD and not
having done so.

Whatever drug-free, self-induced 'trips' are possible - and I don't
doubt they are - they differ from LSD in at least the respect of being
self-induced and therefore, I assume, self-controlled. Take a tab of
LSD and you give up a lot of control of your mind, sometimes with
frightening results, sometimes leading to revelations, visions,
epiphanies, etc. Sometimes just a really strong, semi-hallucinatory
buzz.

Love that Hold Steady lyric, by the way, from 'Multitude of Casulties':

"We were hoping for a vision quest
We opened up three buttons
But all we saw was desert trash"