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