Tawl Ross was unavailable after experiencing either a bad LSD trip or a speed overdose, while Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel quit due to financial concerns.

Against this, there have been no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose.

One particularly notable episode is " The Price ," in which a boy buys a drug called " spin ," a hallucinogen similar to LSD, becomes addicted to it, and dies from an overdose.

Love's parents divorced in 1969 and she was placed in the custody of her mother after it was alleged that her father had fed her LSD.

For a number of years Brood was in jail ( for dealing LSD ), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements ( with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse ).

During Lemmy's time with Hawkwind, he developed an appetite for amphetamines and LSD and was to become renowned for his use of amphetamines.

" Rainbow Chaser " was one of the few Nirvana recordings that had any connection with " psychedelic " music, although " Orange and Blue " ( 1970 ) was acknowledged to have been written under the influence of LSD according to the liner notes of the eponymous album.

The terms psychedelic rock and acid rock are often used interchangeably, but some commentators have distinguished the former, which generally evoked the effects of psychedelic drugs, and acid rock, which can be seen as a more extreme sub-genre that focused more directly on LSD, was often louder, made greater use of distortion and often consisted of long, improvised jams.

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

This was particularly true in San Francisco, due in part to the first major underground LSD factory, established there by Owsley Stanley.

Yes there was LSD.

In one case LSD was administered to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days.

LSD was also administered to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions.

Since he realized there was a difference in testing the drug in a laboratory and using it in clandestine operations, he initiated a series of experiments where LSD was given to people in " normal " settings without warning.

The experiments continued even after Dr. Frank Olson, an army scientist who had not taken LSD before, went into deep depression after a surprise trip and later fell from a thirteenth story window ( it is unclear whether he committed suicide or was murdered before being thrown out of the window ).

LSD was eventually dismissed by MKUltra's researchers as too unpredictable in its results.

They had given up on the notion that LSD was " the secret that was going to unlock the universe " but it still had a place in the cloak-and-dagger arsenal.

Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November, 1953, as part of a CIA experiment and died under suspicious circumstances a week later.

The report further suggested that Gottlieb was nonetheless due a reprimand, as he had failed to take into account Olson's already-diagnosed suicidal tendencies, which might have been exacerbated by the LSD.

They maintain that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs, many of which he had direct personal knowledge.

: LSD was one of the materials tested in the MKUltra program.

While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U. S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2007.

The author Ken Kesey was a willing participant in the LSD experiments.

Some people suggested that the Krofft brothers were influenced by marijuana and LSD, although they have always denied these claims.

The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species. Grof conceives of the use of hallucinogenic drugs to be one method to overcome the West's peculiar aversion to holotropic consciousness: In one of my early books I suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology or the telescope has for astronomy.

The FBI suggested in now declassified documents that the Grateful Dead were responsible for introducing LSD to the U. S. The tradition of psychedelic music carried over into the mid seventies when groups like Jefferson Starship recorded songs such as Fading Lady Light that were obviously about LSD trips.

A first pass suggested the presence of LSD.

" For Steven J. Novak, The Doors Of Perception ( and Heaven and Hell ) redefined taking mescaline ( and LSD, although Huxley had not taken it until after he had written both books ) as a mystical experience with possible psychotherapeutic benefits, where physicians had previously thought of the drug in terms of mimicking a psychotic episode, known as psychotomimetic.

Following World War II, the United States military investigated a wide range of possible nonlethal, psychoactive incapacitating agents including psychedelic drugs such as LSD and THC, dissociative drugs such as ketamine and phencyclidine, potent opioids such as fentanyl, as well as several glycolate anticholinergics.

Albarelli says he has found a top secret report issued in 1949 by the research director of the Edgewood Arsenal, where many US government LSD experiments were carried out, which states that the army should do everything possible to launch " field experiments " using the drug.

The second and more radical group, typified by Alpert and Leary, felt that LSD had the power to revolutionize society and that it should be spread as widely as possible and be available to all.

It is possible ALD-52 was the active chemical in the Orange Sunshine variety of LSD that was widely available in California through 1968 and 1969.

Ergometrine is listed as Table I precursors under the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, as possible precursor compound for LSD.

Other drugs, such as atropine, LSD, MDMA, mescaline, psilocybin mushrooms, cocaine and amphetamines may cause pupil dilation.

Various psychoactive drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms ( magic mushrooms ), and marijuana can cause the user to hallucinate and experience macropsia.

While positraction units can be of varying strength, some of them with high enough friction to cause an inside tire to spin or outside tire to drag in turns like a spooled differential, the LSD will remain open unless enough torque is applied to cause one wheel to lose traction and spin, at which point it will engage.

Pompe disease was the first disease to be identified as an LSD in 1963, with L. Hers reporting the cause as a deficiency of α-glucosidase.

Attempting to prove that the LSD alone had not been the cause of death, Ronald K. Siegel of UCLA repeated a variant of West's experiment on two elephants ; he administered to two elephants equivalent doses ( in milligrams per kilogram ) to that which had been given to Tusko, mixing the LSD in their drinking water rather than directly injecting it as had been done with Tusko.

Drugs such as amphetamines ( including methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethylamphetamine ( MDMA )), cocaine, cathinone, hallucinogens ( such as LSD, psilocin, and mescaline ), cannabis ( tetrahydrocannabinol ) do not cause physical dependency / physical addiction, but range from extremely psychologically addictive ( cocaine and methamphetamine ) to mildly psychologically addictive ( MDMA ).

When Gwar's former drummer Nippleus Erectus sadly dissolved after bathing in copius amounts of hydrochloric acid ( in the hope that it would work like LSD, and cause hallucinogenic effects ), Gwar decided to thaw Jizmak to replace Nippleus ( actually, to replace Nippleus ' replacement, Lee Beato, who was only present for a very short time ; his end came with his total conversion to a wisp ).

It is believed that the LSD was the cause of his death, although some speculate that the drugs the researchers used in an attempt to revive him may have contributed to his death.