My husband told me this today. Not because we’re doing acid, but because there was a rather trippy Sunny Delight commercial on, which elicited a comment from him about Sunny D, orange juice and acid. Specifically, that if you drink orange juice when tripping on LSD (more specifically, when coming down off the trip), the trip is extended. He claims it has to do with the citric acid in the orange juice. I’m betting that acidheads got a little too creative and excited over the word acid and the whole thing’s bunk.
But, not being an acid user myself, I really don’t know.
Snopes didn’t reveal any answers (though there’s an amusing, false, urban legend about a boy who thought he *became *orange juice on LSD), so I turn to the Dopers.
Considering how suggestible people are when tripping the belief that orange juice will bring one down always seemed a handy one to have – if having bad trip add orange juice and either it will really work or the belief that it works will have the same effect. Not that I’d know of course.
I was told this more times than I can count. I was also told the same for taking E, that OJ would prolong the effect. After much experimentation I can report that I never noticed a longer or stronger trip after taking drugs and drinking orange juice.
LSD, even though it’s called “acid,” is somewhat basic because it’s an amide. Some basic drugs are eliminated faster from the body if you acidify the urine, but I’m afraid I don’t know whether LSD is one of them or whether orange juice really acidifies the urine enough to matter. So it’s possible that orange juice would actually shorten an acid trip, but probably not as much as watching C-SPAN. Same goes for ecstasy, AFAIK. If you ever need a guinea pig to probe this question, give me a holler.
For Historical contrast purposes, the UL the circulated in my day (late 80’s) was that Vitamin C would make the visual hallucinations sharper and more pronounced during an acid trip, and that Niacin was the thing to short circuit a bad trip.