How is LSD taken?
LSD is usually taken orally. This drug may come in the form of a liquid solution which is odorless, colourless and somewhat bitter to the taste, and is sold in small vials. It was previously distributed largely in pill form (frequently called microdots), but the most common form of LSD is now blotting paper which comprises a sheet of blotting paper impregnated with the liquid drug solution, dried, and perforated like a sheet of stamps into small squares measuring a quarter of an inch square called ‘tabs’ or ‘hits’ which are currently sold individually at a street cost in the UK of approximately £1 to £5. The ‘tabs’ of paper are then swallowed or placed on the tongue to absorb the drug. These sheets of squares often bear a psychedelic print or ‘blotter art’ with various illustrations on them such as strawberries, cartoons, aliens, geometric patterns, angels, Alice in Wonderland, depictions of the Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hofmann (who first created LSD in 1938).
