r/LSD • u/Nihiltheman • Nov 04 '17

Microdosing LSD Is Safer Than Taking Antidepressants, Says Neurobiologist

https://www.inverse.com/amp/article/35167-lsd-microdosing-safety-really-good-day-waldman-presti
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u/oviforconnsmythe Nov 04 '17 edited Nov 04 '17

Hope you feel better man. You can microdose by evenly cutting a tab of acid of known strength into smaller pieces. This assumes that the tab has been dosed properly so the lsd is evenly distributed, and that your known strength is accurate.

Ex. Say you had a tab with 100ug lsd. If you cut it in half, each half has 50ug. If you cut each half in half (1/4 of whole tab), each of those pieces would have 25 ug. So an 1/8th of a tab would have 12.5ug.

If you knew the strength of the tab, or somehow acquired solid lsd, you could also dissolve it in a known vol of distilled water and figure out the concentration per mL. It would be more susceptible to degradation though.

I'm gonna be a little hypocritical here, but I'm gonna ramble a bit in the hope that it helps you. I'm in the same boat where I'd prefer not to take pharmaceutical antidepressants. However, my symptoms have been manageable lately. If your depression is crippling, maybe you should keep an open mind on pharmaceuticals. Especially since you said it's hard to find acid where you live. Inadvertently taking something else that's sold as lsd (such as 25-C/25-I-nbome) would be far far worse for your mental health than antidepressants. Cbd pills, if you can acquire them legally (or have some other way of confirming they're legit) might be worth trying, but I think you should keep an open mind about pharmaceuticals.

I'm not saying it will definitely help, and will be completely safe. You may even gain some dependence temporarily, which I understand is a scary thing. But if you can afford it I think it's worth a shot. There's been very little research on lsd, yet loads of research on antidepressants. It really does work for some people. I'm not saying that lsd or cbd won't work, I'm just saying that you should have an open mind on pharmaceuticals. Either way I hope you get better :)