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- With the interest recently in the drug ALD-52 on this group I
- thought the following extract from 'The Brotherhood of Eternal Love'
- by Stewart Tendler & David May, Panther Books, England 1984 might
- be useful:
-
- 'Windsor [US lab] was not producing lSD but ALD-52, similar but
- not illegal, or so [Tim] Scully believed. Scully found the ALD
- formula among scientific papers and books in the specialist
- library at Berkeley. It was a compound [Albert] Hoffmann had tested
- years before. At the University of California Medical Center(sic),
- Scully uncovered the scientific paper Hofmann and a colleague had
- published on the drug. From the US Patent Office he drew patent
- number 2,810,723, lodged by Sandoz with production details. In The
- Hallucinogens co-authored by Osmond and Hofmann, Scully discovered
- a table comparing the effects of ALD and other drugs in the same
- family.
-
- The table suggested that ALD might actually have advantages over
- LSD, reducing any side effects but achieving a stronger trip.
- Measurements of brain waves while people were taking the two drugs
- showed that while LSD produced brain waves associated with intense
- concentration and anxiety, ALD produced brain waves showing a more
- relaxed mental state.
-
- There was one snag. Hofmann's formula meant making LSD first, then
- converting it into ALD. Although the finished product might be legal
- , at a crucial stage in its production it was illegal. The solution
- was a simple reversal in the order of production so that at no time
- was the drug illegal. Neither Hitchcock nor the Brothers were told
- of ALD. Hitchcock had been badly burned financially when STP had
- picked up a bad name on the streets. It was thought he would oppose
- ALD as yet another innovation that would prove difficult to sell.
- The drug was simply labelled 'acid', and he and the Brotherhood
- were none the wiser.'
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-
- ALD-52: N-Acetyl-LSD.
-
- According to the _Psychedelics Encyclopedia_, ALD-52 is rather commonly
- found on the street sold as LSD-25. However, it also claims that ALD-52
- is actually a smoother trip than LSD. Either way, ALD-52 tends to
- decompose into LSD-25 rather quickly, so I really doubt the quality is
- changed that much.
-
- And medium level dealers get whatever the hell the chemist makes. They're
- just as confused as you are as to the content.
-