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To: SeeSharp
"LSD is a synthetically re-produced organic chemical. It occurs naturally, along with about 25 other psychoactive chemicals, in the ergot fungus."

Actually, no. Ergotamine, shown below, is the naturally occurring substance in the fungus from which LSD was first synthesized.

But LSD is semi-synthetic in that the ergotamine was busted in half and the two ethyls added to make the diethyl amide.

33 posted on 03/07/2014 7:15:01 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Oh, well done.
For $25 can you name the fungus?
C?P?
Grows on rye.
Was found on the Agrarian Plain
and used in the cult of Demeter
at Eleusis...


36 posted on 03/07/2014 7:31:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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