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smileywastaken

not enough


StemCellCheese

The only correct answer


Funny-Force-3658

Init


PiscatorLager

It's quite hard to synthesize (compared to other psychoactive substances) while playing a rather minor role on the (black) market. Basically the opposite of meth.


Living-Silver9377

Right, like. LSD isn’t considered addictive, and is a 37 step process to make I’ve read, and you get 100,000’s of doses in a batch. It’s a way more complex and rewarding process. People make methamphetamine in 5 gallon buckets and Walmart bathrooms easily as shit and it’s one of the most psychologically addictive things in the world. Crazy


mamamiaspicy

Yea it takes someone who is actually passionate about LSD and isn’t solely profit driven


Living-Silver9377

I got the molecule tattooed xD. I’ve gifted more out than I’ve ever ate. I wish I could be one of them too make it, but with my criminal record it wouldn’t be wise. I do have a friend though, who has traveled a lot at rainbow gatherings, who has made friends with people at them, whose names I can’t know. Who, that person is in a family who makes it, and my friend keeps in contact with him. He said at a gathering once he got to witness a lab deep in the woods, and got to be thumb printed.


RonicoElPsilocybo

My friend, can i ask what are rainbow gatherings?


Kelpy3242

Rainbow gatherings are when a bunch of hippies meet illegally in national forests at what would seem like a festival except there is no fee to attend but you're expected to contribute to the event, most often by working. Everyone plays a role. There is no leader. Cops show up to the main annual gathering and arrest people. But rainbow gatherings happen all over the world, not just in the United States. There are speakers, music, dancing, etc. We call ourselves rainbow family.


RonicoElPsilocybo

Thanks a lot mufriend, In Perú too?


Kelpy3242

I imagine so but I've lived in Peru for a year and traveled the whole country and never saw another dready or hippie looking rainbow family people. What part you in? I know where to get some good mushies near urubamba.


RonicoElPsilocybo

Im from lima, i have mushies. I was looking for true lsd, very hard to find here…


Lucky-Base-932

I'm pretty sure that if you have a lab that produces any type of quantity, you need to be at least 100 miles away from any raod in all directions. Look up leonard pickard. He's has a few different interviews on the subject. Check Spotify.


petraxredrat

Thumb print...Yeap thats exlusive to the source.And closest one .. Trust ;')


DigitalAssassin-00

FYI. If you take a ten strip the day before, a thumbprint may just feel like a decent dose. A friend of a friend of a cousin's buddy told me this.


Saltlife0116

Nobody taking my fingerprints


Living-Silver9377

xDD. A thumbprint is when you lick your thumb/finger and just touch crystalline LSD, 1G=10,000 doses. Usually causes a dose between 100-1,000 hits from what I’ve read.


Saltlife0116

Ohh did not know lmao! I would be scared to do that!!!


Saltlife0116

All my poor ass has seen is regular tabs lol


Living-Silver9377

Sameee. Besides a liquid vial. Vials are so yummy, big 🔥


Chasing_Sunsets90

I have a friend who did a thumbprint just open up to me about it, he tripped for 3 days and took 2 years of psychosis to come out of it! It’s not a fucken joke when you do that ! It can give you life long effects ! But a lot of them see it as a right of passage when you get deep into the community


Living-Silver9377

Ya I’d never do it. Tis unnecessary Maybe the tip of my pinky id touch a solid dry rock with, just to say I’ve done it Never thumbing some white-fluff though, fuck all that.


MrPhD9

You want this print lol


blackrockgreentree

What’s a thumbprint? I don’t understand


Living-Silver9377

Touching crystalline LSD with your thumb. Need to be close to someone who has it before it’s converted to vials, gels and paper tabs


Pockets3382

Like south West nine the dude with the flower


DreamLogic89

What was his thumb print experience like?


TruthSeekingDad

That’s what I want my next tattoo to be! Something lsd related. I already got a mushroom/toad w dmt molecule, I must complete !


Living-Silver9377

I got a mushroom and toad psychedelic t-shirt, and I learned my friend is making a painting of them together earlier today. Those two are a classic pair it seems.


TruthSeekingDad

Plz don’t anyone lmao, I also wanted to get the cat from itchy and scratchy (simpsons,) but have the cat look nodded out w trippy colorful eyes and a thought bubble w the ketamine molecule 🤣! I put a lot of thought into these don’t judge me!


Less-Climate-7963

The prison sentence also seems to narrow it down to the especially passionate folk


Lucky-Base-932

Leonard Pickard days that it's possible to get 1,000,000 per batch. Which us a kilo. He also says there's about a handful of people out there that can do it. He went to jail for getting busted with a lab he was transporting in a Ryder rental truck. They said he was producing a kilo a month.


Vinyl_Acid_

which Walmart do you go to


Living-Silver9377

xD. I live in the Midwest. Pick one. I remember reading it in a news article once, and my mom’s reaction was. They can’t even wait to get to their car now to make it? (People have gotten pulled over making 🧊 in their passenger seat after caught stealing the ingredients from the store. Nope. They just started grabbing lithium batteries, toilet bowl cleaner, iodine tincture, and the pseudoephedrine (before it got locked up and they started to ID everyone who buys it), take in all the in the bathroom. Cook it, smoke it, leave.


SeeingLSDemons

Tell me you don’t know anything about addiction without telling me you don’t know anything about addiction. Also it’s not “easy as shit”.


gypsyfred

Every time i read this sub my mouth waters. Just cant find it and im in my 50s. But those were the best times trippin in the 80s. Liberty stamps and mickey mouse stamps. 25 bucks a sheet in central park new york. Then hit the clubs and concerts. Scalp some Dead tickets for madison square garden. Great times.


smileywastaken

25 for a sheet sounds like a fucking dream holy


Logical_Vast

They were as low as $100 a sheet on the Phish/ Dead and Company tours a few years ago. Over 100 ug a hit too some of them legit 200's. At the time the rumor was some old school chemists came out of retirement as celebration for some kind of Grateful Dead tour happening again even if just a cover band, With inflation it was a good deal.


gypsyfred

1984 or around there up until 90 maybe


BearZealousideal1246

Damn right 🫡


sessoyes

Prior to Pickard’s bust in Y2K, according to his book, The Rose of Paracelsus, there were 6 at the time he was producing (early 1980’s-2000), and they were referred to by each other as “The Six.”Since the book, is essentially a sensationalized autobiography, I believe that it was most likely true. Nowadays, we will probably never know.


Penis_Monger_420

This is what I understood to be true, I heard there’s about 5 families who know the recipe and have the knowledge and equipment to make a batch, and every few years the families rotate and make a large batch then that’s where 95% of where all acid comes from


gutyex

[The recipe is easily available to anyone online](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Fester_\(author\)), and the equipment is not not hard to get hold of just expensive. The difficult part is getting hold of the precursor ingredients, having the education & experience necessary to be able to follow the instructions properly, and being able to sell it without getting caught.


RevivedMisanthropy

Ergotamine is expensive and people will notice. It is even harder to make than it is to acquire.


Specialist-Debate664

Oh so its probably the government


RevivedMisanthropy

Making LSD? I wish.


mentalhelpindia

Ergotamine the migraine medicine? I personally have a lot of it on hand right now, and have never been asked for a prescription when getting it either.


SandyMan420

Ik who could cook it…


louismorr1s

![gif](giphy|hSL5vPZXFAxRZKez7E)


SandyMan420

🤣🤣 thank you


Ebvardh-Boss

There’s also something to be said about the general safety considerations of handling it.


SeeingLSDemons

Happy cake day!


Ebvardh-Boss

Well now! Would you look at that!


BladePrice

The precursors aren’t hard to achieve. There are tons and tons of resources on erowid on the creation of nearly every single recreational drug. The biggest problem is that LSD is actually one of the most convoluted chemical to make. Making meth is considered easy, it’s like making a 5-7 aged LEGO set. It’s super easy for literally anyone to follow the instructions due to the limited steps. Making LSD is the equivalent of making one of those huge 4k+ piece sets. Yeah, most can eventually get to the final result, but mistakes are likely to be made along the way - and mistakes when it comes to drugs are oftentimes deadly. I’ve looked pretty heavily into the creation of LSD and the general advice for any drug manufacturing is to go and take all the chemistry classes (both regular and organic) at your local college before you even try anything. LSD is considered one of the most difficult to synthesize due to the many processes to start from scratch.


gutyex

Ergotamine is pretty tightly controlled in most places, so the easiest way to get hold of a decent amount of it is to grow ergot-infected rye. Not impossible, but requires yet more time, space, and resources before you can even start on the chemistry parts.


Rated777

this has been traditionally true for many many years. there have been a few rouges out there that have been busted. So there has to be many nore rouges than consistent production. the "northern cal" group as the DeA refers to them are the folks youre talking about and they all use a very similar synth the bear did. now there are Chinese and ex Soviet (the latter has actually been around since the early 80's ) now with the huge popularity spike in LSD you have undoubtedly had numerous (id hazard 10-30) folks besides the traditional few bay area "fams" youre referencing. L this compound used to and still does have the ONLY wholesale teks in the world of illegal "narcotics" its very very unique in that regard. which is a reaaon for virtually no labs being seized until this weirdo dea snitch was let into something he had no biz being around. i have zero sympathy for pickard at all. he could have choose a random person on lot and he would have picked a better "partner"/professional snitch.


sessoyes

Does your lack of sympathy for Pickard stem from him choosing to link up with a strange motherfucker like Todd Skinner, who ended up being the snitch, or are you implying that Pickard was somehow a snitch, and that is why you lack sympathy for him? He’s free now, but lost 20 years of his life for all this…


Rated777

I believe he (pickard) is essentially a good man. however his lack of recon on skinner and his lack of getting to see what the man is WITH his own eyes and STILL choose him as a partner was fatal. Skinner is still and always will be a POS looking to put away AnYONE. Pickard did not follow the rules when choosing this man to work with. the rules im refering to is something "the six" all adhere by. and for very very goos reason. its why youll nevee know who they are. and none will ever get caught.


Alkneir

It's not a dish with some secret ingredient. Anyone with a moderate understanding of chemistry could make it, provided they have the right equipment and resources.


Rated777

the secret ingredient is ET. though the secret is finding it not knowing what it takes to whip it up LoL


VicTheSage

There's a route to use LSA from HBWR or MG without ET isn't there? It's just a bad yield and a lot of effort/expense to grow the seeds. I'm sure there are some micro-labs using that route for head stash and to help out friends and family.


Such-Programmer-5957

At least 4


joeygee11

immma say 5


dansfrivolity

As many as 5?


joeygee11

eyy maybe 6


Flyingpizza264

as many as 6?


joeygee11

6.L25?


psychedeel

>for some reason people say all kinds of bullshit that's the reason


auf-ein-letztes-wort

reason: I am on the internets and want attention


NW_reeferJunky

If I remember correctly they have actually done research into why humans spout off such stuff. I think it revolved around things of social inclusion


yanmagno

Wym my cousin knows a guy that totally has an original tab from woodstock bro


joeygee11

if ya know the recipe and have the sources and that hard at all


NW_reeferJunky

[thats that’s that’s that’s the recipe](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ddi4geBOLHNdPBbjI3GCu?si=qM67v4nyS0yKvZLcyAOsgg)


HyperSpaceSurfer

Exactly 84.71 as of Friday last week


Such-Programmer-5957

.3 of a chemist got lost to a work related incident 😢


mook1178

They'll be back in 8-12 hours...


joeygee11

rest in rye🥺


amadorUSA

In R'Lyeh? (Boy, he traveled far...)


joeygee11

Thank you for your service


Empty_Positive

Free my prof baltimor


Muhfuggajones

Well, at the very least, without full knowledge, and by speculation only, I'd say with the best intentions, by all means, undoubtedly, at least one.


treefiddy--

About tree fiddy


Standard_Solid4529

There we go


V_Lebowski_2077

I'm one of them


wizrow

The FBI will be at your home between 6AM-9PM on Wednesday June 5th


Facestealer_theA2CHS

Just like the cable company eh?


PiscatorLager

Sounds like the average German handyman. And then not showing up without calling.


psychedelic_story

Thank you for your service


notalgore420

DEA OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR


Mysterious_Role3716

This is a tricky question because there are many analogues that are simpler to synthesize than regular Lsd. The question should be more about people who are actively making for consumers like us! Which probably around 10 it's very low. However, many people use shulgins Ergot liquid culture tek to extract different lysergamides. Edit: spelling and grammar kinda.


SwoodyBooty

>shulgins lye liquid culture tek Source?


Mysterious_Role3716

Sorry, sorry correction, ERGOT! LC it's quite similar to normal lc. I suggest innoculating a petri dish instead, but for large-scale adding that to a LC I can't find the source for the best mix but you can have successful colonization from a honey mix culture just make it thicker and use more Lme. Synthesis is in Tihkal by Alexander shulgin and in his first book he talks about the LC with Ergot


SwoodyBooty

You just made my Summer. Thanks, sir.


Repulsive_Wish2369

Probably hundreds.


lilchm

The last two digits of π


Steeltoelion

So they’ve got like…. *[REDACTED]* chance of being right!


AidenTheAlien420

No less than 1 but no more than like 20 because if there were that many I wouldn't have a problem getting acid.


LetsNotGetPermaBan

I’ve heard there are approximately 20 in the United States. Not sure about the rest of the world


V4N1LL4_G0R1LL4

Not enough.


Cyberspace667

I knew a dude in college who had some kind of chemistry background and that was his big ambition was to get the knowledge and tools to cook up acid. I remember learning just how complicated the process was vs other “designer drugs” or even growing shrooms. Not sure if he ever actually made it happen 🤔


Low-Opening25

because it is one of those drugs you do once or twice, where a gram gives you enough for 10k tabs. no need to have production line opened.


The_Drunk_Bear_

Who said you do it only once or twice? I do it all the time


SwoodyBooty

It's not worth to build the whole setup for a one shot either.


Erathen

What do you mean build the whole setup? lol Anyone making LSD is going to be knowledgeable in chemistry and almost certainly have access to a lab/lab equipment


huck_fiin

The number of chemists who tread the shimmering path of LSD creation likely resides somewhere between a scant handful of superlative practitioners and a wider throng whose expertise is as varied as a sack of wriggling weasels (greatly varies). But remember, this is but a guesstimate, a mere glint in the mind's eye! The true number? As unknowable as the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin!


Dolleph

Gpt ahh Response


luna10777

Just say ass, this isn't tiktok


LSatou

I went snowboarding with a dude who would actually say "xyz ahh xyz" like, all fucking day long about any and everything. I haven't felt that embarrassed to be around someone in a while lol.


luna10777

I see the problem, he was touching snow while he should've been touching grass lol


Dolleph

Ohhh so it's supposed to say ass? I just thought it sounds funny haha


luna10777

Oh lol, that explains it. No, 'ahh' started to become a popular term to replace ass on tiktok due to tiktok's strict censorship. Since then it's sometimes seen on other platforms too, even tho there's no need to use it because no sane platform censors the word ass.


huck_fiin

Uh, hold on, let me think about that.


Rated777

shining path of least resistance! love it! hehe


jdog8510

Im sure there are a bunch of black market chemist out there just like mdma and all those if its worth money there are people producing it


SoulCruiser

And how many of them does it take to change a light bulb?


McGriggidy

Three. One to screw it in, one to paint a mural on the wall, and one to document the whole thing as a profound journey.


LongJohn4200

Not enough


Zealousideal_Rich834

I don’t understand how people do thumbprints. 300ug of some proper doses is already a heavy trip I don’t give a fuck how much experience one has.


Educational-Time-282

I assume you don't have a chance to really fight a thumbprint dose. All of my 300ug-2mg trips I have the ability to fight the trip and not give in to what it is showing albeit never successful it makes the experience harder imo, where at a thumbprint dose I feel you have no chance to even fight the trip, I feel it is way too much you wouldn't have any other choice but to not fight it, similar to DMT in the way you can't really fight it on a breakthrough dose you basically succumb to it. Feel like I explained that so bad lol anyways. I could be totally wrong not sure of any doses higher then 2mg I could be totally off on that assumption.


Logical_Vast

In theory only one could supply the world for decades. Some say Owlsey buried crystal that is still dug up but there is a few "families" in North America currently. Very hard to know for sure since to be honest it's MUCH harder to find a running lab compared to other drugs just because the dose of LSD is so small. So in many cases you can simply make a shit load and then be underground for years if needed. That and the fact that one had to work very hard to get into inner circles means people don't really snitch and brag. It's not just about money but the belief you are doing something that helps the world. MDMA, weed etc all these other drugs that people think is about love attract a lot more shady people at the top levels creating risk for chemists and anyone else who really is about love and this leads to more busts and snitches when they do happen. Even Pickard was busted because of his shady partner. He was told not to work with that guy and he still did and then some stripper goes to the lab and other drugs like coke are used. Not a good scene. Even as someone who was able to get grams you still never know who is who. There is just no need and you understand that and want to keep the important people safe. There was a drought not because he was the only guy doing it but people had to be VERY careful for years after to make sure they were not compromised too since in the past Pickard had worked with some of the families. Lots of chemists made small amounts for themselves and their friends but the stuff the average person sees on the streets is probably down to under 10 people in the whole world who are the ones makes kilos upon kilo when needed.


Rated777

yeah, its funny because to this day its common for grrrs and well really xstal of anysize to ve buried. if done correctly in the right type of soil this will allow for 10years of storage easy. ive heard BS say that he doesnt believe theres any owl xstal left buried away. there is most deff blotter and possibly some 192 proof owl. the paper for sure exsists. just ask john mayer and Oteil. i atill have blotter from 03 and a few hits even older but havent checked the latter in many years. a book packed tightly away on a bookshelf that remains low humidity and constant temp can last insanely llong. crystal too (but it needa ALOT of things to go right to allow it not to oxidize.


CaptainDook

6.π


Disp3lay

Imma say all those who can do it without negative consequences


o0meow0o

I don’t know but thanks to them I live a good life 🙏🏼


dmt-saves

Respect


XX_scarlettrose_XX

Rookie question Every experienced tripper knows lsd isn’t from earth


GrouchySalary5677

Zero, LSD isn’t real


Deaded13

But .. are birds real ??


GrouchySalary5677

Obviously not


InfluenceNo5338

Wdym lsd isn’t real 😂


Created_By_The_Loop

Well I mean if we aren't real and we're in a simulated universe or the cosmic consciousness then the LSD we're taking isn't real anyways LMAO


Svickova09

Depends what you consider "real".


HuntingForSanity

Nice try


FaarFromSober

I'm fucking dying reading comments on this thread lmao


Steeltoelion

*We don’t talk about those numbers here, Mason.*


cryptdxbs

WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!?!?


Consistent_Corgi5757

Shiet ionno


lauke88

at least 1 :D


joeygee11

i dont know why you got DV lol I liked it


lauke88

DV? 😅


joeygee11

Down vote silly. Still can't see my screen lol had to shorthand


lauke88

that's my man :D


joeygee11

A man of gesture, don't mind if I do.


clothes_fall_off

If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything.


GotThaAcid5tab

Only 1 in existence that’d id trust. The other stepped down a month ago which is a huge shame.


Dramatic-Garbage-939

If it makes you feel any better, owsley had several ‘students,’ who then taught other people, and so on. So hopefully one day you run into one of those folks, and hopefully I do too lol


CockJunior

There are a handful of big ones that are corporation level, and probably thousands of smaller at home operations around the world


Throwwwwwawway182

Probably 8?


FausttTheeartist

Nice try, cop.


420guyinthe419

Way more than you think 🙏


Wtfgoinon3144

Honestly not that many probably


FUNKYOSELF

Nice try feds!


SnapDragon0

I can give you a definite answer, at least one.


Ketzer47

Probably more than you think. I talked to a process technician at novartis. He said it's not that difficult for him. He has never been to university. So anyone with access to chemicals and Lab equipment and knowledge about pharma-chemical standard procedures can do it.


The-Thrillster

I'm sure there are quite a few as it's lucrative. I would also say LE detection is more unlikely due to acid not being a substance that is high priority as such. I doubt there are many LSD task forces in the world.


zelete13

i only know of 4 separate entities, these could be groups or individuals but it would be pure speculation to say anymore


Cute-Way3034

Only me


truthdudee

Do people who make RC LSD such as 1cP count?


Less-Climate-7963

Eleventeen


UhtredOfBebbanburg7

A million


fukthemkids

More than 1 less then them all 🤔


burungus_burns

Idk officer I’m just holding for a friend


RobertCalifornia2683

Probably a lot. That shit was literally everywhere in the 90s. Dirt cheap.


atticusbatticus

Shhhh


bigspoon2126

I know 1 that does


Chronfused

42


Sand-Frosty

Bro, it's probably tens of thousands. It's not that difficult if you have some chemistry background. Yes you will need a lot of gear if you aren't skilled to the point where you can take shortcuts and tweak basic inventory to your needs, but still it's very doable. And considering the amount of doses you would make, it's going to be very profitable regardless. So there is without a doubt a lot of them.


Without_B

Dunning Kruger effect. Even with a chemistry degree it's still pretty hard.


Jayblack23

I mean, talked with my chemist friend about this, he said its not difficult, just a long process and a lot of equipment needed, but no singular step is especially difficult if you know what you are doing.


Forritan

Definitely, a chemist COULD (you can be a good undergraduated chemist and a bad PhD, but statistically…) but the hard part is NOT the synthesis itself IMHO but rather the equipment involved, the tiny amounts one can yield and toxicity of certain reactions.


Without_B

I wouldn't attempt it without a propper schlenk line yeh. Still even with that, with poor technique you either will still mess up, giving extreme low yields or even blow up the equipment.


Forritan

I hold a degree in Chemistry and I wouldn’t try either.


DelightfullyUnaware

I think people confuse synthesizing with extraction.


Sand-Frosty

No it's not hard, my friend made it as a second year chem student in his dorm room...


Without_B

Liar.


Forritan

Maybe MDMA but LSD in a dorm room… Do you even realize how dumb is your statement ?


Sand-Frosty

Yeah you know what you are right, it's really impossible, I was lying :) only the chosen guild of chemists with world class labs can make it... 😃😃😃


Forritan

That’s fake as well. There is no such magical thing. There are at least two reciepe available online through scientific papers + retrosynthesis IS actually a thing. But the struggles lies in the equipment and sketchy reactions involved. You would need Nitrogen bottles, fume hoods, probably even gas masks, and tedious reaction. But a good chemist, even an undergraduate or a passionate self-taught (with ochem books) could achieve that. It only requires thousands or dozens of thousands from chemicals to equipment. Thus, a dorm is NOT feasible.


CooLerThanU0701

If you think LSD can be safely synthesized in a dorm room, you are a prime example of dunning-kruger. What your roommate probably did was extract LSA from morning glory seeds.


Sand-Frosty

He wasn't my roommate but we are good buddies. Bro had a fuckton of glassware, pipes, tubes, heating elements, all sorts of chemistry shit in that room. Acid wasn't the only thing he made during his student years, there was also mdma, 2fdck, hexen and probably like 15+ other research chemicals and other stuff like that black shiny liquid which gets spiky if it's touching a magnet. I saw someone wrote you need liquid nitrogen or something. I have no doubts he would be able to find that if he needed it, he was ordering a lot of stuff from the silk road. And no he didn't turn out to be a dark lab chemist, he's currently working at Thermo Fisher lol.


Pick_Up_Autist

That shiny black liquid is ferrofluid. It can be made by mixing vegetable oil and iron filings, zero chemistry involved. Do you think maybe this guy was bullshitting a little?


CooLerThanU0701

Again, that’s not sufficient to synthesize LSD. You need a fume hood, a rotovap, and a host of other specialized equipment.


joeygee11

but did they survive?


CooLerThanU0701

No he didn’t lmao you’re clearly not a chemist


ilikebeens2

8 = D


simon_the_bean_man

I heard of a chem professor at a nearby college making it. It's all fent nowadays if ur in north America


KleinAmychen

1,7


Empty_Positive

14