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Sidhekin:
Others have asked the same question: Is acid considered a hard or soft drug? - Yahoo! Answers
Carl-E:
I trust Yahoo! Answers about as far as I can throw them.
I don't know how to classify LSD, though. Certainly in experimentally large doses (like those used by psy-ops in the late 50's) it can be quite damaging. I took some recreationally in the late 80's, and still have occasional visual effects when tired or stressed. It is non-addictive and non-toxic, and the only deaths are from poor decisions and/or psychotic/paranoid behaviours while tripping.
However, the DEA consideers it schedule 1 because;
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---the Drug Enforcement Administration holds that LSD meets the following three criteria: it is deemed to have a high potential for abuse; it has no legitimate medical use in treatment; and there is a lack of accepted safety for its use under medical supervision.
--- End quote ---
So not hard, per se (non addictive and non toxic), but not legal, either.
Sidhekin:
Trust? Don't. But this is more of a semantic question – a question of what the "classes" mean. And Yahoo! Answers is in effect another forum, where this question has been raised before.
Like you, I don't think the DEA schedule 1 says much. It is not a classification along the lines people tend to think of as "hard" vs "soft".
The UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 seems to have it as a class A drug, though, and my impression is that that is more a "hardness" thing.
And if I'm not much mistaken, the Dutch have it in the "Opiumwet, lijst I", which in the Netherlands is popularly known as the "harddrugs" list.
Note: No drug is placed in a more "severe" class by any of these three legislations. Ah, but how well do those "severities" map to what people consider "hardness"? You'd have to ask people.
On or off Yahoo!
bhtooefr:
Also, IIRC, LSD is being experimented with for treatment of alcoholism, depression, and schizophrenia.
(Then again, marijuana is schedule 1 for the same claimed reason, and it has a crapton of recognized legitimate medical uses.)
Bluesummers:
I think "Hard" and "Soft aren't really accurate terms to use...there's addiction potential, or lack thereof, and there's lethality. Those are the variables most folks look at when comparing recreational drugs.
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