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 johnm214
 
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 Is LSD making a comeback? 
#7760977 - 12/15/07 07:16 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Is LSD making a comeback?
12:31 AM CST on Saturday, December 15, 2007
By Brad Woodard / 11 News
http://www.khou.com/news/state/stories/khou071214_ac_lsd.16125720.html
It is a place where young people go to expand their minds and explore new horizons, but authorities say for one University of Houston student, that didn’t necessarily involve textbooks or lectures.
“It’s sad,” defense attorney Candelario Elizondo said. “It’s sad that he’s in jail, because no matter what happens now, even if he’s completely exonerated on this offense, he’s still going to have straight F’s for this semester because he couldn’t take his final exams.”
He is first-year chemical engineering student Clarke Denton, and he’s currently in the Harris County jail in lieu of $1.5 million bond. Police said $1.5 million is the street value of the LSD he sold an HPD operative last week on campus.
“I’ve been in narcotics for 15 years, and I’ve only run across it two or three times,” HPD Narcotics Officer Mark Boyle said.
Officer Boyle works in HPD’S undercover unit. He said it makes him wonder if there’s a resurgence of the drug.
“It definitely brings us back kind of retro,” Harris County Assistant District Attorney Marcy McCorvey said. “It’s something we have not seen in this area of late.”
KHOU-TV
HPD said the droplets would then be put on Altoids or Sweet Tarts.
The mere mention of LSD conjures a flashback, if you will, to the times of former Harvard professor turned drug guru, Timothy Leary.
“In the future, it’s not going to be what book you read, but which chemical you use to open your mind to accelerate learning,” Leary once said.
In its heyday back in the ‘60s, LSD was often distributed on blotter paper and divided into small squares decorated with cartoon characters. But Denton was allegedly selling it in liquid form – 155,000 doses of it.
“I’ve been a prosecutor for 16 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever had an LSD case this large,” McCovey said.
That many doses may sound like a truckload of LSD, but in reality it can be contained in a few Visine bottles, like the ones police said they took from Denton. Droplets from those bottles would then be placed on Altoids or Sweet Tarts and sold for $10 a piece, police said.
“You could have it in your pocket without people really noticing,” Dr. Edward Poa said. Dr. Poa is a psychiatrist with Baylor’s Menninger Clinic. He said despite HPD’s bust, LSD use is on the decline.
“The last study is from 2007,” he said. “About 3 to 4 percent of young adults coming out of high school have tried it, so it’s been cut down to about a fourth of what it was just in the last few years.”
“The ones using it now are the kids: 16, 17 years old; college kids, gothic kids, Officer Boyle said. “I’m told by my informant they’re starting to use it at clubs.”
“As the rates of use have gone down in the last 10 or 15 years, the one piece of data that is concerning, the public perception of the dangers of LSD has gone down in the last 10 years,” Dr. Poa said.
As for Denton, police said he wasn’t involved in the making of the drug and that he was the middleman for an out-of-town supplier.
The reason he started selling, according to police: He wanted to be able to buy a laptop computer.
“An extremely intelligent kid — chemical engineering student,” Officer Boyle said. “Once I interviewed him, he was just a normal kid.”
A normal kid facing a minimum of 20 years in prison if convicted
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Ego Death
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: johnm214]
#7761052 - 12/15/07 09:19 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, gothic kids all use acid 
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: Ego Death]
#7761073 - 12/15/07 09:39 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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But Denton was allegedly selling it in liquid form – 155,000 doses of it.
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That many doses may sound like a truckload of LSD, but in reality it can be contained in a few Visine bottles, like the ones police said they took from Denton. Droplets from those bottles would then be placed on Altoids or Sweet Tarts and sold for $10 a piece, police said.
First of all, no, this is not even possible. 155,000 doses is 15.5 GRAMS of crystal LSD. That is not the equivalent of a few visine bottles, even if they were super-super-fucking concentrated. That is a vial or two of pure crystal, which would likely be made into about 15,000 vials like the type the kid had. Just think about it. The kid had two visine bottles (~100-200 drops). If there was really 155,000 doses in those two bottles, each drop would be equivalent to about 4 sheets. I really doubt he's selling 4 sheets worth of acid on a fucking sweet tart for $10 a pop.
How can cops even say stuff like this? Is somebody holding 155,000 doses really gonna be selling single hits for $10 a piece? No. Someone with access to that much weigh is going to be selling grams of crystal, or tenpacks at the LEAST. And they sure as hell aren't going to be doing it so they can "save up for a laptop." I mean honestly, the cops claim this kid managed to acquire half a million dollars worth of LSD but he couldn't scrape together $1000 to buy a laptop?
Obviously this kid is just getting fucked. They probably weighed the solution and assumed it was pure LSD (even though obviously it was very dilute, like all liquid meant for consumption must be) and based the quantity of hits on that weight. Makes me never want to fuck with liquid again. I'll stick to the blotter paper where at least it's obvious how many doses I have...
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: skroomadoom]
#7761150 - 12/15/07 10:27 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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LSD is definitely making a comeback, I plan on dosing sometime during my winter vacation to Colorado. I brought 3 with me and have a beautiful mountain/sky to scintillate my mind  See you on the hill!
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: outhere4]
#7761183 - 12/15/07 10:54 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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its baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack 
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: johnm214]
#7761213 - 12/15/07 11:08 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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It never really seemed to 'go away' in my town. Maybe I just have good hook ups, but I usually have no trouble getting LSD when I want it. Thank god for that! 
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: LSDaytripper]
#7761276 - 12/15/07 11:45 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Im envious of you daytripper. Ive managed to grab it once.. and it was weak 
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: skroomadoom]
#7761364 - 12/15/07 12:36 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Beat me to it, I knew that the fabricated this story when I read it on bluelight. No one is moving that much acid on liquid, in a college. At that level you are selling grams, or maybe even books, but not selling drops out to random people at your school. Cops are really fucking stupid.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: fapjack]
#7761390 - 12/15/07 12:48 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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dipshit shouldnt have sold it to someone HE DOESNT KNOW!! especially that much. that kids an idiot.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: ultimo101]
#7761391 - 12/15/07 12:48 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Gothic kids? Really? I'm mean really and truely? Are all the kids with dyed black hair and matching hoodies really going:
"I'm so non conformist, I drop acid"
No their not. The media doing what it does best; Sensationalisssssm.
Lets also not forget, why would this kid sell 155,000 doses to a stranger, on campus? Taking a page from Skroomadoom, if this kid knew how to aquire 1.5 million dollars worth of Cid, odds are he also knew how to sell it. But no, he had all those hits and was carrying them with him, with the intent of staying out on that corner till all 155,000 doses were sold damnit.
Did they mention that the tip off was that he had 10,000 rolls of sweet tarts on him?
This happened down in my hometown too. And no no no, it most definatly is not "on the decline" as some Clinc Doctor clearly stated.... Come on he's a doctor! Of course he's right guys.
Please
Does anyone actually remember that fucking quiz they gave us at the end of high school... That "Have you done this drug" "How often" "How easy was it to get"
I filled that thing out stoned outta my eyeballs, and was all paranoid they'd trace the check marks back to my handwritting somehow. So I hadn't ever done any drugs, no sir. My parents gave me a glass of Champagne one new years, but I didn't like it, no sir.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: ZeroBoyWD]
#7761401 - 12/15/07 12:58 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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most readily availible drug in my area 
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: johnm214]
#7761429 - 12/15/07 01:07 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't think its ever gone away. It just went underground. Yeah, that kid is an Idiot. He will probably snitch on his supplier.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: marz13]
#7761456 - 12/15/07 01:15 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hahahahahahaha. Gothic kids? Hahaha. Wow.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: Syntaxerror]
#7761792 - 12/15/07 03:22 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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for being a narcotics officer of 15 years he sure isnt to smart to think all them doses could be in a couple visine bottles...
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: tical41689]
#7761821 - 12/15/07 03:35 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Is there some way to write in evidence to the kids attorney so he can present that in the trial?
Or is it one of those situations where you'll get 20 years no matter how much acid you have?
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: ApJunkie]
#7761836 - 12/15/07 03:40 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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wow 20 years,,,, here in canada one of my old acquaintances got 5-15 for hacking someone up with a machete
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: benrules92]
#7761944 - 12/15/07 04:14 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I stopped doing it years ago right when the availability went down. prolly 2002ish
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: johnm214]
#7762044 - 12/15/07 04:40 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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The police are giving sentences for jail time. Not a judge or jury.
Thank god they don't.
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Re: Is LSD making a comeback? [Re: skroomadoom]
#7762085 - 12/15/07 04:53 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Don't fuck with blotter either, they count the weight of the paper as the weight of the LSD too. The safest way is actually to sell pure crystal, as that's the only time you'll get the right amount of time for your dose
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Buy however many your eating then
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