I have also never heard of using LSA as an analogue for the synthesis of LSD. I'm not going to sit here and check my brain on paper, but I'm reviewing it in my mind, and I don't think that it can be done without wasting a retared amount of energy in the process. If it could, then people would be doing it. Stick about 14 baby hawaiian woodrose seeds in your butt. You will like the trip just as much for 1000's of times less effort.
What Peach said about Ergotamine Tartrate bing hard to culture with any kind of consistency is absolutely true. I have synthesized LSD-25 several times. Both in a well equipped lab, directed by a "real" chemist, and several attempts myself in a moderately equipped lab. We always cultured the precursor ourselves. Almost every time, we failed chromo because there just was not enough ET in our culture to react. We ended up with very small measures of success only after we did 4 separate cultures in 100 petri dishes each. It was very time consuming, and not in any way worth it. Besides that, who among us has 400+ culture dishes in their private lab with the space and atmosphere to store it?
Wow, surprised that someone working with chemist would try that much culture work in petri dishes. I've read and I believe that larger containers, up to as many gallons as you want work with sterile air exchange. I'm going to keep my eyes open for infected grasses. It's the reagents that are pretty much impossible for me to get and dangerous to synth. A Chromotagraphy column is easy enough, but the making or finding of reagants is not.
I checked out that LSD international, thought at first that was just some very expensive blotter prints. Then I read what they put on it, and well; I thought that is still darn expensive. $140 for a ten strip, wow......sheets cost lest than that when I first ran into some.
I've eat'n some about two years ago, no that was a year ago. Same stuff, I think it comes from a University area. It's always white blotter, if it comes through one dude it sucks.......he seems to think he needs to play with it and carry it around just thinking about it and fingering it all up before gifting it.......but a girl in that cirlce took really nice care of a strip that she gave me...........but nothing other than that.
I think if people put their heads together much more would be possible. Educated chemist are not always practicle and well people that can reason well don't always understand the principles involved.