How do you stay safe when using the drug LSD?

Answer 1

It's dangerous to take it without a sitter if it's your first time doing so, it is also dangerous doing it in an unfamiliar place if it's your first time. It's dangerous to take it if you're sad, depressed or have a family history of mental illness. It's dangerous to take if you're going to be driving or operating heavy machinery.

LSD is a fairly safe drug as it is non-toxic(meaning you can't overdose on it and it won't cause any damage to bodily organs) and non-addictive. It can cause latent mental illness(that is an illness you already have but is under control) to become exacerbated. It does not however cause mental illness in healthy individuals, it can cause traumatic experiences. Though if all precautions are taken these 'bad trips' occur in about 1/3000 trips.

If you compare 1000 LSD users to 1000 people who abstain from all drugs the rate of schizophrenia is exactly the same. 6/1000 for both groups. LSD is probably one of the safest recreational drugs there is, possibly even safer than marijuana.

Answer 2

I don't believe that you can stay safe using LSD. Even if you are in a very safe place, have used LSD in the past without real problems, the chemical is unpredictable in its effect each time it's used. People who have jumped off of buildings or driven their cars at high speed into abutments were not on their first 'trip', some of these horrific effects happen days or weeks after the drug is ingested. Taking LSD is playing Russian roulette with your life or your mind.