The Drugs - Acid - Sid

I will be looking into the effects of LSD Acid in this section. The use of LSD became popular during the 70s because of its phsycadellic qualities and was enjoyed by most as it did not tend to alter your decision making or general personality like other hard drugs can. Acid simply 'enhanced' how you viewed the day.

However everyone has heard to horror stories about jumping out of windows and the like. What most people do not realise is that LSD was not the cause of the people jumping out windows it was that they genuinely did want to jump out of a window.

I have spoken to a few people who have take LSD in the past and each person says 'It is a powerful and amazing drug, when used correctly and sensibly. Its not a party drug like pills its a gateway to your own mind'.

When researching the negative side effects of Acid I found that there where no major ill affects as with other hard drugs. The worst effect I could find was a 'condition' known as flashbacks, where an object or location could trigger a flashback to when you last took LSD bringing back all the same feelings as well.

However because it is such a powerful hallucinogenic bad trips can occur, though these are just manifestations of your own thoughts perceived visually.

I will attempt to show the affects of acid via photography.

For the first photograph I will attempt to show a good trip possibly through the Acid heads eyes showing his friends.

For the second photograph I will either show a bad trip or what I think might be better and more interesting is to show an Acid Flashback.

For example showing the same person during his regular day though being followed by haunting thoughts.