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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: LSD
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 09:08:29 GMT
- Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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- rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
- >umcormi5@ccu.umanitoba.ca (John Cormier) writes:
- >>I was wondering what LSD stood for again. I believe it is a type of acid
- >>(hence the nickname). Also since I was child I've learned it was easy
- >>to make in a high school laboratory. I think it was the Hardy Boys that
- >>discovered someone making LSD or something. Just for kicks, does anyone
- >>have any recipes. I assure you that I am not a drug dealer or a drug user
- >>myself. I have always been interested in the morality of drug use but this
- >>is probably not the proper group for those kind of discussions. Anyhow,
- >>if anybody has any concontions post them or mail them to me if you don't
- >>feel confortable about posting them. Happy New Year to you all.
- >
- >>John Cormier
- >
- > Your post is an obvious joke. ha ha ha.
- >
- > LSD stands in english for d-lysergic dythalide or something.
- >The "S" stands for the german word for "acid", since it was originally
- >named there. LSD is very difficult to synthesize without much money
- >and equipment and knowledge. It is probably even more difficult to
- >synthesize into accurate doses. I have neither the knowledge nor the
- >inclination to do either so you might ask somebody with more know-how
- >and a better sense of humor than me.
-
- From Merck:
-
- 5507. Lysergide. 9,10-Didehydro-N,N-diethyl-6-meth-
- ylergoline-8beta-carboxamide; N,N-diethyl-D-lysergamide; D-
- lysergic acid diethylamide; LSD; LSD-25; Lysergsaure Di-
- ethylamid. C20H25N3O; mol wt 323.42. C 74.27%, H 7.79%,
- N 12.99%, O 4.95%.
-
- [...]
-
- / C2H5
- H. CON
- '. / \ C2H5
- / \
- / \
- || |
- || N
- /\\ /\ / \
- / \\ / \ / CH3
- || | | \
- || | | H
- \ // \ /
- \// \/
- | ||
- | ||
- HN-------
-
- [...]
-
- D-Tartrate, C46H64N6O10, solvated, elongated prisoms from
- methanol, mp 198-200deg. [alpha](D)(20) + 30 deg. Soluble in water.
- Caution: This is a controlled substance (hallucinogen)
- listed in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21 Part
- 1308.11 (1987).
- USE: In biochemical research as an antagonist to serotonin.
- Has been used experimentally as adjunct in study and treat-
- ment of mental disorders.
-
- -----
-
- The LysergSaure Diethylamide is where you get the LSD abbreviation
- from. And its going to take probably 2-3 years of chemistry in order to be
- able to make LSD. Its not something that is going to be able to be
- whipped up in your average laboratory. And if you'd like to see the
- syntheses, check out the Merck or the book Psychedelic Chemistry (but
- check the references on _Psych Chem_, I've found dangerous typoes in it) --
- plan on not having a clue on how to decipher the synths since they're
- written for chemists to be able to understand.
-
- I don't know if LSD is an acid or not, but because it forms a salt with
- tartric or maelic acid, I doubt any acidity could be very high...
-
- anthony? jeremy?
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
-