A friend and I were discussing this the other day, so i dunno really, it just seems kinda weird. Ive heard from some credible sources that LSD leaves the body through the skin, and urine. (I cant imagine a dog being able to see colors for the first time... i know id go bananas). And im pretty darn sure this is correct however ive never actually heard of anyone trying to dose anyone or anything from their skin. Does this apply to mushrooms as well? My theory is that its possible that it doesnt actually happen... and things just look weird while youre under the influence... including a cat/dog/bird that you think is on drugs. I dunno. Just trying to confirm or deny what ive been hearing all along. Thanks folks.

i have no actual proof, but i think that's not true. i mean how many times have you been tripping, and touched a friend who wasn't? and did they start tripping, even just a little tiny bit? nope. i know a dog is smaller than a person, but i think that's beside the point - we're talking about microgram doses of a substance here.

andy

yeah thats what im not understand... you have one drop of that stuff in your body.... and about a gazillion pores... im still pretty sure that it comes out of your skin.... but i dunno if it has the ability to blitz the person/animal... i was just trying to organize this... just seems kinda odd figured id ask

there is some stuff called DSOM (something similar to that, i can't remember)... it is a chemical that allows other chemicals to be absorbed throught the skin. you could mix that with the acid or whatever you wanted and ingest that way, though i'm pretty sure it is far less efficient than other methods.

there are also those rumors i'm sure some of you have heard.... someone gets pulled over and detained and sticks a sheet in their sock, then gets nervous and sweaty. a few hours later they find themselves tripping balls.... things of that nature.

i'm thinking SLC Punk. =)

-soydeedo

That's what I thought of too. But in the movie it all soaks into his skin from direct contact. Not to mention it was accentuated by water. I'm not sure that once your body has absorbed it, that it will release through your pours. Going in is one thing - but coming out is another. Unless sweat is potent enough to give a minor effect. *shrugs*

I'll confirm it. I don't know of one chemical, (ie. a narcotic, food, etc) that doens't leave through your skin.

In one case, someone I know was doing shrooms on a regular basis. He told me how he broke out all over. When methamphetamine leaves your body, it scars your skin and causes it to look worn and cracked with small craters in it. Usually when you eat greasy low grade foods, your skin shows it.

In a specific situation with mushrooms, I dog kept licking my hands and wouldn't leave me alone. I would say about 30 minutes later it was tripping. It freaked out a little bit. Another time a girl on mushrooms rubbed the sweat of her hands all over mine. A little bit later I was feeling it. I wasn't feeling the full effects but it was enough to know it was there.

i went to eeyores birthday 2 years ago and went completely sober, smoked a few joints with some tripping doods.

it was so crowded and packed that i was rubbing up against someone everytime i took a step.

plus it was close to a 100 degrees that day, people were sweating like pigs.

Colin and I left at like 5pm and about 30 minutes later i was like shit im fucking seeing mad tracers and shadows were becoming more detailed. I would call that a weak trip.

just my expeiernce.

Everything you injest leaves (in various amounts) through your skin, urine, tears, sweat.....

Its the poisons and wastes and metabolites your body has used being expelled.... so sure, an infinitesimally small amount of the substance you injested COULD leave through your skin...

however...it was probably used and converted to an inactive metabolite in the process of it 'getting you high or altered'...and i would suspect pretty much anything that leaves your body would be harmless (or at least not still active and in enough quanitity to make another person 'trip' just from contact)....

LSD for example...doses are around 100-200MICROgrams..... so dilute that in all the fluid of your body (your body is over 80% water, correct?)...... sooooo your concentration RAPIDLY gets EXTREEEEEEMELY small....AND it gets used up mostly anyhow....

..... i wouldnt worry about touching your dog. I think that idea mostly arises from the warped thoughts and paranoia one expereiences while on a psychedelic voyage of any kind......

Sure you sweat it all out, but by that time it's not LSD anymore.

You can actually trip by merely touching LSD, but you'd have to touch a lot of it. (a lot of it being relative)
That's how Dr. Hoffmann "discovered" the properties of LSD in the first place.

a drop on skin is like a drop on the tongue... it may take a lil bit longer for it to kick in... and if it doesnt dry up... LSD finds away into your blood...

From what I understand, it will leave your body through urine as well, just like everything you ingest. However, LSD and mushrooms are not detectable with current hair tests or 5 panel urinalysis drug tests.

actually, depending on the screening process (and most tests include lsd), lsd is dectectable. depending on the amount consumed it is actually dectectable from 1-10 days. while a normal drug screen tests a urine sample for 50 ng/ml of thc, it tests for .5 ng/ml of lsd. so a minute amount of lsd is still tested for, and is incriminating.

The five panel urinalysis test (NIDA 5) that is the standard drug test for most employment and the most frequently used test, is called so because of the five things it stands for - marijuana, opiates, PCP, crack/cocaine, and amphetamines. It will NOT detect the presence of LSD or psilocybin. Although there are tests which can do this, it is unlikely that the average person would ever have to take one.

Here is a link that explains all this in more detail:
http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/tes ... nfo1.shtml