Simply curious. 
Sure, the USA.
Sima-Aldrich sells it for $69.20 a milligram.
It’s listed as a controlled substance in the US, Britain, France and Germany.
Does that mean it’s purely illegal elsewhere or that they only sell it in those countries?
Well, if you log in as being in India, LSD comes up but you get “Pricing & availability information is currently not available for this product.”
The company probably ships mostly to US, Britain, France and Germany, so you need to do some digging to find out what the deal is elsewhere.
I’d take that to mean it’s uncontrolled or there is no data on its legal status.
Certain countries, like the United States, put their drugs in schedules where a drug is pretty much entirely banned without having a bill explicitly banning it --like in cases of medical research. Sorry, can’t help you figure out how to score good medicinal acid.
Well theres something you don’t see every day. Who is allowed to order from that company?
Generally, chemists order from Sigma Aldrich, but your average chemist won’t be able to order that. You will certainly need a license to order LSD (or any of the obvious precursors), which means you’ll need to a be a heavily monitored lab. Probably only a foresics lab will be allowed to order it.
Why would a forensics lab need acid?
“OK, guys, we’re all going to take this acid, and then if we stare at the dead bodies long enough, they will reveal to us who the killers were!”
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Possibly for a standard. I don’t know, it was only a guess I suppose a biology lab doing research on the effects of LSD might need it, but I don’t know if that research is being done anymore.
Here’s a project that was recently approved in Switzerland to “investigate LSD-assisted psychotherapy in 12 subjects suffering from anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.”
As it says there, LSD research involving humans is rare now but I’m sure many labs still test its results on animals for various reasons.
“My body keeps saying Goody Simmons is a witch. Oh, hi, grandpa! Where does the butter extrude through your gills after so long at sea? No, my opals are greeting lustrously.”
In the late 80’s, a friend of mine worked in a lab where they gave various drugs to rats to see what they would do. LSD was one of them. They had a few jars full of LSD in a solution as well as THC and methamphetamine which they would inject into the rats. The rats would run around in this box for a while and they’d record what the rats did. After a day in the box, the rats would be killed. What a life.
$69.20 a mg may seem expensive but that ends up being about $3.46 for one human sized dose. Rats probably get a lot less apiece.
CSI: Timothy Leary “Tune in, turn on, and find the bad guy out!”
I think that the government has backed off their prohibition of researching it, since many of the SSRIs are closely related to the drug. There were plans to give returning vets with PTSD Ecstacy as a way to help with their condition.
The DEA can get it for you wholesale at $1 a dose in Miami.
Back to the OP. If the country is a member of the United Nations then most probably they have outlawed it because of the UN convention.
Well, you know when you watch CSI and they “enhance” grainy photos or video, suddenly able to read the time off a guy’s watch from a 7-11 security camera across the street…?
Acute and Chronic Effects of LSD on Pigeons Performing Under a Progressive-Ratio Schedule Tom Byrne, Kimberly Jarema, Amy Bajema, Amy Jackson & Alan Poling, BAAM 1998 Convention Agenda http://www.baam.emich.edu/BAAMSchedules/BAAM1998schedule.html
I realize this was said in jest, but it does bring up some misconceptions that people may have about forensics due to the latest CSI derivation. In fact, forensic scientists are rarely interested in the latest string of hookers turning up in dumpsters. Not that they aren’t interested, but it does not really encompass their job.
A good portion of forensic science is based on analytical chemistry. One thing a forensic scientist might want to do is detect the presence of illicit substances such as LSD. Especially in the case of LSD, where the effective dosage concentrations are extremely low, it is extremely important to make sure that your methods are standardized. That is that with respect to a known sample, your results are confirmed to be accurate. In many cases, this requires a sample of the actual substance you intend to test. If your only goal is to test for the presence of LSD, then no standard is needed, but if you want to know the actual concentration then you need to compare it to something.
Given the hazards of dealing with pure LSD, it would not surprise me if methods have been developed to circumvent this necessity in general laboratory settings. Nevertheless, no matter what the test is, at some point the test has to be done on the actual substance in question. For most analytical techniques, the test has to be done with some regularity.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable to expect that an analytical laboratory that tests for LSD, would have a sample of the actual substance.
To put a point on it. There is no question that some forensic research laboratory in the United States, has a sample of LSD.