LSD on the rise

Maybe it's just me, but I find the rise in LDS membership more alarming than a rise in LSD usage.

Please don't waste your time spewing BS to gullible, uninformed people on the net when you have no clue what you're talking about. Anyone who has tried to access LSD over the last few years has probably had a harder time consistently finding the drug then at any other period in time for the last forty years. Even in known lsd meccas such as the SF Bay area the drug is very, very, very hard to find even for the most well connected drug dealers/users. This is fact. Oh, and here is some of what wikipedia has to say: American LSD usage declined in the 1970s and 1980s, then experienced a mild resurgence in popularity in the 1990s. Although there were many distribution channels during this decade, the U.S. DEA identified continued tours by the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead and the then-burgeoning rave scene as primary venues for LSD trafficking and consumption. American LSD usage fell sharply circa 2000, following a single major DEA operation. Because of the huge drop in LSD availability, combined with the simultaneous increased availability of Research Chemicals, much of what has been, and is currently sold as LSD since 2000, is in fact, not LSD but other hallucinogens like DOI, DOB, or 5-MeO-AMT [62]. These other drugs are sold by unscrupulous dealers because they are hallucinogenic and are potent enough that a single dose can fit on one or more blotter tabs and thus achieving the same appearance as typical blotter acid would.

The decline in prevalence of LSD is correlated with (but not necessarily caused by) the arrest of two chemists, William Leonard Pickard, a Harvard-educated organic chemist, and Clyde Apperson. According to DEA reports, black market LSD availability dropped by 95% after the two were arrested in 2000. These arrests were a result of one of the largest LSD manufacturing raids in DEA history.[63]
Pickard was an alleged member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love group that produced and sold LSD in California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is believed he had links to other "cooks" associated with this group — an original source of the drug back in the 1960s — and his arrest may have forced other operations to cease production, leading to the large decline in street availability.

The wikipedia article i referenced, if you look it up, has over sixty different and very renown and reliable and well known people/ references to back up the information it provides to the public. Go take a look--you obviously didn't read the article i was quoting from or you would have seen the footnotes sourcing all the info. It is nice that you know a JFK quote about conformity but that quote is not relevant at all to this discussion and in my mind goes to simply prove your poor education and lack of cross cultural awareness and the bigger picture. A lot of what you say makes me think you are a high schooler in a bubble who has not significantly experienced the diversity of the real world yet. I mean, you seem to like to speculate on things that you know very little about and come to conclusions relevant to society as a whole all based on a couple select experiences of yours recently. With as the years go by and with the help of wisdom and experience people tend to stop doing this so much.
The HUGE drop in street lsd is well recorded over the last few years. I have studied and taken classes on drugs and specifically lsd recently at the University graduate level in the Bay area (which has always been the 'Mecca' of lsd). I have also lived for years as a well connected recreational drug user in the Bay area and I have seen the drop first hand. I have also discussed the drop with many of my professors who carry phds and study, research, write, and publish about illegal drugs for a living. 99% of dealers the a few years ago could access lsd easily can't even get real lsd anymore, ever since Pickard and Apperson’s bust. Everything I said in my first post is fact and well supported by 100s of reknown lsd experts (and yes, lots of people are still seriously studying many aspects of the drug and its history all over the country) and thousands of recreational users. Obviously you aren't a recreational lsd user or dealer so you have nothing to inform your opinions about this subject except speculation based on a few isolated incidents in your place of residence.
Yes you are allowed to voice your opinion, but that doesn't mean your opinion is true and factual and not completely uneducated and bs. You have the right to say what you want and not conform to what others think, but everyone that says what they want and is progressive and disagrees with others points of view is not by any means factually correct. So don't act like you couldn't be wrong because you are a nonconformist and that just because you are entitled to an opinion that your opinion is noteworthy. And don't think that when you post your opinions on the net for the world to see that they won't be read and critiqued, especially if they are misinforming to the general public.
Oh, and by the way, as someone possessing a ba in history and a ma in history from two of the best schools in the nation I’ll give you some really solid advice: find something more original then the cliché "history repeats itself". That is a signal that you are still thinking on a high school or lower level and it drives real history teachers nuts to hear students/people use that cliché. If you are ever asked about what you've learned from history, don't every answer that it repeats itself. Trust me. Try writing that on the advanced placement history exam in high school for example and see how far it gets you score wise. By the way, this was not an attack. This is the Socratic Method at its finest. Get used to defending your point of view against another person if you ever plan to go to attend graduate/ law school or even any of the better undergrad programs out there. That is how many of our best teachers teach. Everyone is not always right because they have an opinion.
With Aloha,
Knamel

A college freshman....i guess you aren't in high school then. But i was very close in terms of age. Do Eckerd Profs use the Socratic method? Didn't check your profile until after i wrote that last response....