'Getting High: A History of LSD' Video

Don't know if any of you guys have seen this, I apologize if it's old hat! My friend sent this to me, kind of along download as the video is 15minutes + long.

Really cool History channel thing on the history of LSD from Hoffman's synthesis to historical affects and it's role in cultural revolution. It's good watch it!

I like Grace Slick trying to dose Nixon with 600mics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89S_o7fOwpA&search=history of acid

 

Yeah I saw that a while ago. An interesting video that I enjoyed. I think anyone on these forums who hasn't seen it should.

 

Just watched it. Definitely some interesting stuff in there. Worth a viewing.

 

that's a dumb title though; lsd doesn't get you 'high'

 

I've heard people referring to it as being high. I would say that you get high first before you actually start to trip out. In fact, my first experience with acid produced extremely mild visuals, and it was more of an extreme high than anything else really.

 

Groovy.

 

really? no way.

depersonalization is first aspect of the trip. LSD isn't a high, per se, because it's not exactly a euphoriant. a "psychedelic experience" (usually more than just 1 or 2 hits) is just that...an experience.
that's not to say you can't get a euphoric "high", but that's more of a latent mental reaction to the experience, a side effect

Getting High sounds like more of a pot reference, imo.

 

i had never heard of anyone calling it getting high until i heard jerry gracia refer to it that way.. maybe it was a 60s deal, where getting high not only meant pot, but any other drug at all

 

ahh, that makes sense.

 

many, if not most, people in the late 60's referred to dropping acid as "getting high [on acid]" or "stoned [on LSD]." Jerry Garcia, for example, used these phrases all the time with friends and in interviews throughout his entire life.

 

Yeah, the people I've heard use it are older people. The guy whom I had in mind, a guy who posts or used to post at shroomery, was talking about thumbprints, and his experience with giving them as well. On one occasion, a guy had tagged along with his friend and was going to do a print. He said something to the effect of "we had been laying sheets for a couple of hours, so we were all very high..."

Maybe the LSD I had my first time had changed into an analogue or perhaps it was something else altogether - the strip was long enough to it to have been like 5 or 6 hits of some other shit I had that I'm sure was LSD. Whatever it was, I definitely felt "high" (in the sense of being stoned on grass) for the first bit of come up (after I got past the anxiety). That was when I started cheesin out, lookin at my friends poster, and then very soon after that the electric buzz set in.

Maybe it's how I react to weed that I felt the way I did, cuz what I describe is a heady feeling and an ever so slight change in vision, like you're just slightly inside your head. What I would compare this to, at least for me, were the few times I smoked before I had to walk to work (about an hours walk) and I'd leave with what I called a headchange. There were a few times I was walkin down the road feeling like I was in a movie, other times I'd marvel at how everything GOES and GOES and never stops - continuous motion is trippy.

Man, nostalgia...I miss those days.

It was a cool video though, I enjoyed it. I might even use it as a source for an essay I'm writing.

 

about to watch

 

The video is pretty sweet. Interesting. The history channel can put out some pretty neat stuff.

 

naa hadn't ever seen that one but it was pretty kool - another one that's good is "LSD: the beyond within" which I got from...kazaa/limewire, etc.