Who said anything about tap water?
Aha! Sniffed it out!
"After tablets came "computer acid" or "blotter paper LSD", typically made by dipping a preprinted sheet of
blotting paper into an LSD/water/alcohol solution."
"It is stable for indefinite time if stored as a solid salt or dissolved in water, at low temperature and protected from air and light exposure."
Alcohol does the job too it looks like, learn something everyday
And I also saw this part and I think its relevant to this topic in an awesome way.
"The hallucinogenic experience is so striking that many subsequent disturbances may be attributed to it without further justification. The highly suggestible or hysterical individual would tend to focus on his LSD experience to explain subsequent illness. Patients have complained to Abramson that their LSD exposure produced migraine headaches and attacks of influenza up to a year later. One Chinese girl became paraplegic and ascribed that catastrophe to LSD. It so happened that these people were all in the control group and had received nothing but tap water."
Pretty much sums up a lot of stuff people are saying about poor old LSD. To me LSD is just like how they say "cannabis causes schitzophrenia" but has a higher chance in comparison. I think because LSD fucks some people up mentally from step1 and also some peoples "brain chemistry" from step1 and there are plenty of abusers going a bit bonkers taking it too much too, like famous musicians and such it got its reputation that way. Also the damn mass killers with sick minds fuelled on LSD too...
All this to say a strong mind altering substance should be illegal. Its good at altering the mind, full stop!
And in my opinion, when someone takes LSD and mentally can`t handle it they would rather blame the drug than there mind! I`m sure take any situation where 100 blotters are distributed to the street, at least some amount of people would say "there are bad acid" to the same blotters!
And gotta love this table
Ooops, looks like LSD beat Nicotine, Marijuana and Caffeine
Its on average people but still...