--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > LSD still comes in tabs? > > How would you know that? > Perhaps you read about it on MSLSD. > > (disclaimer for the NSA snoops: I don't know nothin' bout nothin')
Actually, speaking not from experience but from a fascinating article I once read on the subject, LSD these days comes on tiny bits of paper, about a quarter the size of your little fingernail. And the reason why is ironic. It's to skirt Federal laws in the United States. In their crazed zeal to fight the "war against drugs," the US government voted in some really, really dumb mandatory sentencing laws centering on the *quantity* of drugs found on a person. Thus if you have more than a certain amount of a banned substance, they can consider you a "dealer" and the mandatory sentencing laws come into effect. With LSD, one of the most potent psychotropic chemicals ever invented, of which 125 *micrograms* of pure stuff would give you a good trip, they decided to measure the "dealer amount" of the drug by weight. As a result, if you were caught today with *one sugar cube* of LSD from back in the 60s (essentially one dose), you would be sent to prison for a federally mandated twenty years. So the dealers just made the doses lighter. They put a tiny microdot of LSD onto a tiny piece of paper, and voila -- they can carry around literally thousands of doses in their pockets without ever going over the "dealer amount" of the drug that would invoke the mandatory sentencing laws. Go figure.
