How does LSD affect people?

LSD can make:

• • • slow down or speed up one’s sense of time
    • change the way people think of their identity
    • see colors and objects that aren’t real or changes in the size and shapes of objects
    • experience changes in sounds or movement
    • make people feel happiness
    • have delusions, which means believing things that aren’t true^[1]

What does LSD look like?

In its pure state, LSD is a white, odorless liquid with a slightly bitter taste, although it is rarely sold in this form. It’s more common that drops of LSD are dried on blotting paper. The blotting paper is divided into small squares and decorated with designs such as a smiley face. It can also be sold in tablets or capsules.^[2] LSD may also be dissolved into liquid sold as small breath-freshener droppers or applied to various products including gum, candy, cookies and sugar cubes.

On the streets and in popular culture, LSD is known as acid but also as tabs, microdots, dots, window panes or mellow yellow.^[3]