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1947 W. A. Stoll in Schweizer Arch. f. Neurol. u. Psychiatrie LX. 279 Dieser Stoff ist das Lysergsäure-diäthylamid (LSD).]

1950 Diseases Nervous Syst. XI. 243/1 We believe that L.S.D. 25 is a drug which induces a controllable toxic state within the nervous system, that re-activates anxiety and fear with apparently just enough euphoria to permit recall of the provoking experiences.

1950 Diseases Nervous Syst. XI. 243 Supplies of L.S.D. 25 for this study were made available by the manufacturer, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, New York City.

1955 Sci. News Let. 26 Feb. 135/1 LSD has been used by psychiatrists recently to bring on a mental disease state in healthy persons in the hope of learning more about how to treat or prevent real mental sickness.

1958 A. Huxley Let. 11 Jan. (1969) 843 A session with an RC psychiatrist, who had reluctantly submitted to taking LSD25.

1962 Observer 15 July 1/5 The American Medical Association has given a warning that use of the drug known as LSD-25, or lysergic acid, can lead to suicide, and that LSD-25 has joined the ranks of black-market drugs like marijuana and heroin.

1964 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 9/3 The tablets are believed to be a solid form of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide. They can be obtained in certain clubs and public houses in London and other big cities.

1964 D. F. Downing in M. Gordon Psychopharmacol. Agents I. xiii. 569 The effective oral dose in man amounts to 0·02–0·05 mg and (+)-LSD-25 is therefore 10⁴ times as active as mescaline in causing a psychotomimetic effect and the most powerful psychotomimetic substance known.

1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 225/1 Bizarre though the symptomatology may seem, the intensive research which has taken place in the 23 years since LSD 25 was discovered has failed to reveal any seriously deleterious effect which the drug may have on brain chemistry or biophysics.

1966 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 25 New York County Medical Society has called for severe penalties against the illicit manufacture, distribution and sale of the hallucination-producing drug known as LSD. It has described the drug as ‘far more dangerous than heroin’.

1968 A. Hofmann in A. Burger Drugs affecting Cent. Nervous Syst. II. v. 205 In the case of a very intensive reaction to LSD, the normal feeling of the identity with the own self is weakened (depersonalization). The test person at the same time appears to himself as a stranger watching him and judging his actions coolly and critically.

1968 A. Hofmann in A. Burger Drugs affecting Cent. Nervous Syst. II. v. 205 LSD produces a state of hypersuggestibility, which is characterized by an enormous sensitiveness to the influence of sensory and cognitive stimuli and which is of decisive importance for the use of LSD as an adjuvant in psychotherapy.

1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 162 Not many of us smoked as much pot as before. And L.S.D. almost disappeared from our circle.