How to Use LSD in a Sentence

LSD

noun
  • Here, the pair of them trip on LSD while watching the Apollo 12 launch.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
  • My wife said that taking him for a walk in those early days was like tripping on LSD.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
  • The vast majority of the psychedelics taken by this group were something other than LSD.
    Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Supporters described her as a misguided teen under the influence of LSD on the night of the killings.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • The band's success was cut short in part due to Spence overusing LSD and experiencing a breakdown.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • The two reportedly met up twice, and Shepard paid the girl with cash and the hallucinogen LSD, according to police.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • Forgive me, but your ask sounds a bit like a query once posed by a college classmate of mine whose LSD dose was perhaps more potent than anticipated.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2024
  • Cannabis has been classified in the strictest category, alongside drugs like heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Harvard made headlines for firing professors who doled out LSD and psilocybin to students.
    Brendan Borrell, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Hendrix apparently even put acid in his headband, allowing sweat to trickle the LSD into his eyes during gigs.
    Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Investors and scientists have doubled down on the sector in recent years and funneled billions into drugs like psilocybin, ketamine, and LSD.
    Will Stone, NPR, 13 June 2024
  • Goats aside, the island is also known for its local LSD bread, which was outlawed in the 1950s, and is a popular tourist stop for sail boats and volcano aficionados, who can see nearby Stromboli’s constant eruptions.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Oregon is the first and only state to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and more.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 4 July 2021
  • Speed freaks and panhandlers now outnumbered the hippies, and amphetamines had displaced LSD.
    Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Cutler’s death was ruled an accident due to heat exposure and LSD — though that was disputed by experts hired by Cutler’s family, who said heat stroke along with ketamine caused his death.
    Ryan J. Foley, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2024
  • And then the influence of the counterculture and marijuana and LSD was considerable.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024
  • At the vanguard are tech executives and employees who see psychedelics and similar substances, among them psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, as gateways to business breakthroughs.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
  • Another theory is that the dancing mania was a hallucinogenic reaction to ergot, a fungus that sometimes grows on rye (and contains a precursor to LSD).
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Looking for inspiration, business leaders and doctors alike are turning to the same, unexpected source: magic mushrooms, LSD and ketamine.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 27 June 2023
  • Other Schedule 1 drugs include heroin, LSD, ecstasy and peyote.
    Alyssa Feliciano and April Rubin, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Psychedelics companies aren’t living up to the hype, and are starting to consolidate as a flood of money into companies seeking to win regulatory approval of drugs like LSD, psilocybin and ayahuasca dries up.
    Tiffany Kary, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • Polsky peppers the film with Will’s dreams and hallucinations, sequences that resemble nothing so much as the bad LSD trips in drug-centric 1960s exploitation flicks, and are more annoying than illuminating.
    Joe Leydon, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
  • In recent decades, hundreds of new synthetic psychoactive substances have hit the market in such products, including many new phenethylamines and tryptamines, which are chemically related to LSD and psilocybin.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
  • During that search, agents found over 2 grams of methamphetamine, two firearms, marijuana, LSD and psychedelic mushrooms, according to a criminal citation.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But while dispensaries have proliferated across the country, the pot industry faces an obstacle: The federal government still classifies cannabis among the most deadly of narcotics, alongside heroin and LSD.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Coming in a powder or liquid form, ketamine is often categorized with other drugs that have hallucinogenic properties, such as LSD or ecstasy.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Psychedelic therapy: Taking small does of a drug, like LSD, under a therapist's supervision.
    Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The paper previously reported that Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties.
    Virginia Van Natta, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Sign up Dozens of clinical trials are ongoing to test therapies using psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, LSD, and ibogaine, mostly for mental health conditions such as depression.
    science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Many people have noted the remarkable resemblance between these images and hallucinations produced by tripping on LSD, mescaline or psilocybin mushrooms.
    Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2015

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