How come LSD is no longer as widely available like it was in the 90s?

because it’s illegal

Supposedly a lab supplying 90 percent of the U.S. acid was busted in the early 2000’s. The lab was in an empty silo in Kansas. Here is a link to the “story.”: http://slate.msn.com/id/2114793/

@SpatzieLover It was illegal in the 1990’s too.

Because the world is cruel :(

also what buster said

@Likeradar I understand that, and had school friends that did it. Illegal substance labs are sought out by the authorities and shut down…just as substance “do-ers” are suspended from school and questioned as to who sold them the goods

Also the precursor chemicals necessary to make lsd are watched by the DEA. You got to be a pretty good chemist and have good equipment to make lsd. Its a little more complicated to make than Jim Bob’s crank lab in the trailer park.

@SpatzieLover Yeah, I know drug labs are closed down. I just don’t see how “it’s illegal” is an answer to why it’s more scarce now than ten years ago, when other illegal substances are still as easy to find.

@buster thats why you make LSA ;)

My guess would be that ecstasy fulfills the same mind expansion capabilities minus the likelihood of the more extreme hallucination causing people to walk off the edge of multi-story buildings or similar.

Fascinating article @buster

@Buttonstc thats bullshit. Ive been taking LSD for a long time and ive never thought i could fly or any of that other shit people claim it makes you believe. You still know whats real and whats not, it just gives you another way of looking at things. I will agree though in the fact that MDMA has taken away a lot from the LSD scene as its more of a party drug than LSD is.

You’re just not looking hard enough. I just saw some in the dollar bin at Target.

I read once that the death of Jerry Garcia and the disbanding of the Grateful Deaf wreaked serious havoc on LSD distribution channels in the US. I don’t know how much I believe this, but Jerry died in 1995, so the timeline fits and it always sounded plausible to me.

Its still pretty easy allow though of course illegal to score doses in Widespread Panic parking lot scenes.

@Mamradpivo and @buster have the keys to the puzzle.

Jerry Garcia’s death did deal a tremendous blow to the distribution channels. At this point, the internet was just beginning to become commonly used, it was only a few years into the World Wide Web, but it wasn’t something that most Deadheads used. Although a contingent of Deadheads were the among the first ever to use the internet, with the Whole Earth Lectronic Link.

And then a few years after Jerry died, Leonard P. got busted, and his 10 million hits of acid got seized. And apparently, that was pretty much all the LSD in the nation. By now, the Web was firmly in place, and the distribution channels could have easily been rebirthed. But Leonard P.‘s imprisonment has prevented all that.

Almost a whole generation has gone by without curious souls being able to look within.
At least with this route.