LSD - it's shelf life

Just a brief note about storing LSD blotters; I shied away from LSD for many years but had bought some trips. So I decided to keep them safe for when I was ready to use them. I put them in small zip lock baggies (protect from air), put them in aluminium foil (protect from light), and then in a brown sealed jar in a refrigerator. It is standard practice to place labile chemicals in brown glass containers and LSD is very labile.

Many years later - about 3 - I got them out of storage and tried them; they did not work. I have no idea about the degredation of LSD - and would like to know what it becomes; if it simply isomerizes at the carbonyl C-C bond then why not 50% potency? I am also unaware as to why elemental chlorine degrades LSD and what role light plays. I have found no satisfactory studies. Anyway, the lesson is if you aren't going to take the trips straight away - my cousin ruined some trips of mine by putting them in her wallet for a few days - then it will be very hard to keep them potent. Buy then eat.

In the Sigma Aldrich catalog it states that LSD tartrate must be stored -18 degrees centigrade and protected from light. Shulgin suggests that an open vial will last 4 days in the fridge. I was taking my info from a website which now no longer exists which said they would last a presidential term (4 years) stored as I had - they were wrong.

LSD is much superior to Shrooms and psylocibin so this is a shame as only shrooms are legal - in some European countries. Odd the dutch call LSD a hard drug, but you can buy shrooms? Another bit of bs from the drug prohibitionists. I suspect the French - who put a lot of pressure on the Dutch were responsible for this. Oh, while I remember - never buy anything from anyone on the red light canal - you WILL be ripped off; yes, it happened to me.