LSD Use in the Ranks Prompts Testing at USMC Base

The Washington Times ^ | Mike Glenn

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After 2 hours post-ingestion, only 1% to 10% of LSD will have remained unchanged in urine, the rest will consist of inactive, water-soluble metabolites (e.g. 2-oxo-3-hydroxy LSD). Though LSD is rapidly metabolized and processed, it is thought to remain in the blood, brain, and other organs in varying amounts for up to 8 hours.

Unless you are a Scientologist, then you believe "micro crystals" of LSD can lodge in capillaries and break loose at random and unexpected times years and years later, causing flashbacks and making the person a risk to those around him.

Needless to say they have a way to get rid of these micro crystals, involving nutrition, sweating in a sauna and lots and lots of running, and massive donations to the church to supervise the program, of course...

[Drew68]

Random drug testing should be mandatory for all military personnel........

It is.

[Jonny7797]

I figured LSD was gone

[S.O.S121.500]

Fiction

[Hot Tabasco]

Well that’s good to hear then

[Trailerpark Badass]

I dunno, I thought it was pretty fun. Though I’m pretty sure the stuff I had was nowhere near as strong as the stuff in the 60’s.

[TokarevM57]

....is the military still issuing dishonarble discharges...? I thought that they pretty much did away with those, issuing instead a general discharge or at worst, a BCD (Bad Conduct Discharge)...wern’t some DDs issued during the Southeast Asia War Games back in the 1960s and -70s downgraded to BCD’s later on....?? jus’ askin’ .......

[ifinnegan]

I have idea. I’m just making a point.

[mylife]

Dude, don’t take the brown acid...

[cgbg]

Taking LSD while making bike deliveries—omg... :-)

That is one of the problem with illegal drugs—they don’t have instruction manuals.

[mylife]

President Carter would know what to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0

[TokarevM57]

...you bet it is....!! even though they pick personnel at random, I cannot recall how many p**s tests I had to take during my career...my USAF Man Number (oppps, sorry...”Person Number...”?? came up and I had to take the test; I understand if you are “chosen” and you refuse, it could result in an Article 15...

[Veggie Todd]

Better living through chemistry.

[Midwesterner53]

Navy and Marine enlisted go to Portsmouth, NH, officers to Kansas.

[PROCON]

Mandatory drug testing was happening 45 years ago when I served.

If I was pulling staff NCO duties, each morning division or battalion would send 2 random numbers for testing; all soldiers who had those 2 numbers as the last 2 of their SSN were woken up or summoned in early and I'd watch them as they'd piss in a bottle, fun duty.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

[rlmorel]

I don’t even have to look...I did love that sketch!

[Drew68]

Historical article from the late 60’s to early 70’s?

I'm actually surprised to read that people are still using LSD. I thought it was going gone.

LSD was significantly distributed into America by a network of dealers that followed the Grateful Dead. When the Dead came to town, so did LSD, where it was purchased from smaller dealers and sold throughout college towns.

LSD, real LSD, remained popular through the 80s and early 90s and then Jerry Garcia died and and that whole carnival ended. The distribution network largely dried up. Of course, most of the people that actually knew how to make LSD, real LSD, were boomers, and they're leaving us as well.

The stuff today? Where is it coming from? Who's cooking it up? Is it anything like the real deal that hippies, deadheads, and college students consumed for nearly 30 years?

[familyop]

That’s ate up.

[rlmorel]

Not anymore. I think they all go to Kansas, now.

They closed up Portsmouth, NH some years back, IIRC