Jogro
Well-Known Member
That was a pretty rambling presentation by that woman, but I think she's essentially correct.
In a nutshell, the reason why LSD is scarce (though not entirely gone) now is because there have never been very many people making it for commercial sale, and the biggest single manufacturer, the one who had been for many years making the bulk of the world's supply, got busted about ten years ago and has never been replaced. Few people are making it, and therefore supplies are limited.
To expand on this a bit more, LSD contrary to popular belief, is quite a technically demanding chemical to synthesize, and on top of it, the raw ergot-derived ingredients that serve as the precursor base for synthesis aren't all that easy to come by, requiring smuggling from foreign countries and a bunch of "creative paperwork".
Though there are any number of chemists in the world that possess the technical skill to do the synthesis (or at least to learn how to do it), the number of them *willing* to do it is pretty small, and the number willing to turn themselves into professional drug dealers to create a consistent commercial supply is vanishingly small.
In a nutshell, the reason why LSD is scarce (though not entirely gone) now is because there have never been very many people making it for commercial sale, and the biggest single manufacturer, the one who had been for many years making the bulk of the world's supply, got busted about ten years ago and has never been replaced. Few people are making it, and therefore supplies are limited.
To expand on this a bit more, LSD contrary to popular belief, is quite a technically demanding chemical to synthesize, and on top of it, the raw ergot-derived ingredients that serve as the precursor base for synthesis aren't all that easy to come by, requiring smuggling from foreign countries and a bunch of "creative paperwork".
Though there are any number of chemists in the world that possess the technical skill to do the synthesis (or at least to learn how to do it), the number of them *willing* to do it is pretty small, and the number willing to turn themselves into professional drug dealers to create a consistent commercial supply is vanishingly small.
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