Stamps And Lsd

Does anyone know if there are documented cases of LSD being placed and sold on postage stamps?

P.S. Maybe the better question is, Does anyone remember?!

I've never heard of LSD being placed on a stamp. I can't point to documented cases, but I've heard of it being placed under a stamp and then mailed to someone in jail or prison. LSD is among the most potent drugs known to man (one gram is about 10-20,000 doses) and it is typically consumed on small (~5mm square) bits of blotter paper that would easily fit underneath a stamp. One would just need to be careful to only moisten the edges of the stamp (water activated gum, of course) and it would be pretty easy to hide under a stamp.

That's fascinating, Art. (Or do you prefer TAH?)

I ask for a variety of reasons, I suppose. I recently stumbled upon blotter paper art displays and it struck me how much these things were like stamps. I could see a "turned on" stamp collector dropping the LSD onto stamps. Also, I wonder if there are federal penalties for something like this.

Yes, that would be "Trafficking".

A felony.

Regards,
Stampalotapus

For the majority of stamps, I don't think the paper they're printed on would be porous enough to act as a medium. Blotter paper is used precisely because it's porous and readily absorbs liquids, which then penetrates the fibers. Most stamp paper isn't that porous and the drug probably wouldn't adhere to it that well. And yes, Stampalotapus is right, the penalty would be posession and/or delivery of a controlled substance; the fact that it's on a stamp rather than something else probably wouldn't come into play.

Edited to add that it would take more than just a "turned on" stamp collector to do this - it would take someone who actually knows how to make the stuff as it's not sold on the street in liquid form. And there aren't many of those people around (or so I've read). It's not like where you hear of clandestine labs that make other drugs - LSD is harder to make and it's in lower demand, volume-wise, as a kilogram is probably close to a year's supply for the entire country. Therefore there probably aren't more than a small handful of people at any given time making the stuff and the odds that any of them would be stamp collectors would be pretty small.

I was really thinking of the Sixties and Seventies in my wondering. I have a US "Stop Drug Abuse" stamp from 1968 or thereabouts and I can imagine some 'clever' stoner using it for sales.

The old money system in the UK was pounds, shillings and pence. The pound sign looks like an L, and pennies used to be abbreviated with a d (because of an old Roman term for coins). So, pounds, shillings and pence were abbreviated to LSD - long before Albert Hofmann created the chemical. So yeah, there were LSD stamps.

Well, even back then, there probably weren't too many people making the stuff, and there would probably be too many issues with the paper, as I mentoned earlier. If a stamp of that size were printed on the appropriate paper, it would probably be big enough to hold a couple dozen doses or more, so it would still need to be re-perforated to the appropriate size to be split up for sale and consumption. I wouldn't be surprised if doing such a thing crossed someone's mind, but at the end of the day, there was no need to reinvent the wheel when they already had something that worked.

I don't know for sure, or forget; but, wasn't there something about LSD having residual effects on people?

It caused people to suddenly become confused while in the midst of doing things like writing; and resulted in unintelligible messages.

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Yes I remember. I often heard of it as a rumor, but don't know of any substantiated case of it actually happening. LSD and other drugs were "happening things" while I was in college so I think I would have heard of it if it really happened. Personally, I doubt that it happened except as isolated cases or experiments.

Crystal Amphetamines or Ice rules the dark side to much here in OZ.

It is just totally evil. Most additive drug ever made they tell me.

After about 6 months of use a 20 something year old person looks like they are in their 50's.

Bone density is destroyed. Their teeth fall out.Total loss of concentration. Their families are destroyed.

Heard one person say I am talking to a drug and not my son.

In Aussie it is the number two most preferred drug under alcohol being number 1 choice.

The sadness I see as we try to work with these people.....they can not concentrate enough to have a meaningful conversation to be helped.

I better stop or I will start talking about my Sunday job that lasts all week. It is the only type of help...........

You might want to put that question to the CIA, NSA or KGB. :)

Hal, the question came from the KGB!

Peter

All craziness aside, I don't think very much of this question; what is it good fo?
I don't know of anything illegal that has ever been done with stamps other then what the underground did in WWII. They used to write messages on the back of the stamps before mailing! That was probably illegal in the eyes of the occupier?

Peter

Prisoners have done the same thing to try to get their messages past censors.

I have a mid 30's Polish postal card from a female to a male. It had an an additional stamp that has been removed. On the back of the card is a P.S. to check underneath the stamp. What was there? A secret message? A locket of hair?