{"id":2071,"date":"2006-01-19T02:32:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/19\/alas-no-more-lsd\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T02:32:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T09:32:58","slug":"alas-no-more-lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"L.S.D., R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

It saddens me that – apart from a few lucky areas with local producers – the drug LSD has ceased to exist<\/a>. The one time the war on drugs actually succeeds in wiping a drug out, why must it be a drug I like? (They could have wiped out Meth instead. That would have been just fine <\/em>with me).<\/p>\n

Yes, some folks (me included) have very frightening or unpleasant experiences with LSD. But LSD, at best, creates an absolute conviction in the user that they’ve moved beyond the mind’s ever-present limitations of thought and perception, and that’s a stunning and worthwhile experience. The better LSD trips I had are probably the closest I’ll ever come to life-altering religious ecstasy.<\/p>\n

(Admittedly, trying to talk about the experiences to folks who have never had them tends to make LSD users sound like our brains are made of slugs and we’ve had salt poured in our ears, but the near-impossibility of describing the experience is part of what makes it valuable.)<\/p>\n

I don’t feel a strong desire to drop acid again. But I find it difficult to comprehend that my generation may have been the last generation (give or take) ever to have our minds blown into fractal patterns and endless connection-generating by LSD. That seems very unfair to the post-LSD generations – as if my generation had used up all the endless summer afternoons with perfect babbling brooks, or something, and no generation will ever get that feeling again.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Actually, what it reminds me of – and this analogy will probably get me in trouble – is September 11th, listening to the newscasters say that the World Trade Center was gone. Gone? Gone? How can it be gone?<\/p>\n

I wasn’t reacting to the death toll – I was reacting to the idea that part of the skyline was gone. I used to spend my lunch breaks at the top of the WTC, looking over Manhattan while munching on a brown-bag sandwich. Surely the newscasters must be wrong. They must mean the buildings have been damaged. The towers are too big <\/em>to ever be gone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until later in the broadcasts – when they had footage of the buildings seemingly turning into powder and disintegrating, over and over – that I finally believed something that big and solid, could actually be gone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the loss of life at the WTC makes that by far the more important loss. Nonetheless, in much the same way I found it hard to comprehend that the WTC could just be gone, I’m finding it hard to beleive that LSD is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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