Erik Davis, the author of a new book titled Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, tells the story of the first known use of paper as a LSD medium in the United States.

Sometimes when the drug is manufactured by impregnating sheets of blotter paper with dots of liquid LSD, the paper is first printed with cartoon characters. This illustrated blotter acid, ...

Each blotter paper can have several “tabs.” One tab is usually enough to induce a trip. You may begin to feel the effects of one “tab” of acid within 20 to 90 minutes of ingesting the drug.

But he also introduces a cavalcade of lesser-known LSD producers and blotter acid makers as he traces the evolution of LSD and psychedelic culture from the 1960s to the present. He has interesting ...

LSD often comes on blotter paper, divided into small squares, with each square representing a dose. Some people also sell it in saturated sugar cubes or a liquid form.

Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, by Erik Davis.Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. Most art is meant to be seen, not eaten, and our immersion in visual imagery usually ends at the ...

Each perforated, dyed tab of paper tells a story. One pulpy print pays tribute to the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, the “Father of LSD,” who chanced upon the drug in 1938. Another, covered in ...

Weight of the blotter paper, which is a carrier of psychotropic substance such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), is also required to be taken into consideration for weighing the quantity of the ...

The 10 LSD strips seized would amount to a small quantity because each strip contains blotting paper of 30 to 50 micro grams, he argued. The court said blotter paper is a carrier material for ...