Part I — The Molecule
What came before LSD, how the discovery was retold, and why a very small amount produces a very large experience.
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The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas
Volume II · LSD
The second volume of Richard L. Pope's nine-volume audit turns to LSD. It asks the same question of every claim: what has actually been demonstrated? Thirty-six chapters across eight parts, from the first research era to the low-dose question and the harms that trials struggle to count.
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The governing principle
Evidence belongs first to the thing actually studied
A laboratory dose is not a street dose. A selected trial population does not automatically speak for everyone. A receptor does not automatically become an experience. Where a claim moves between containers, the move is stated rather than assumed.
Volume II structure
How the LSD volume is built
Eight parts, thirty-six chapters, and a closing account of the claims that survived.
Part II — The First Research Era
LSD in psychiatry, the alcoholism experiments, and the therapy built around the molecule.
Part III — The Movement
State experiments, the open laboratory door, the counterculture, and how a research field became restricted.
Part IV — The LSD Experience
Why there is no single experience: time, pattern, self, meaning, suggestibility, and the person who returns.
Part V — The Return to the Clinic
What came back and what did not: anxiety, depression, dependency, blinding, and the product that is more than a molecule.
Part VI — The Low-Dose Question
The microdosing claim machine, what actually entered the low-dose experiments, and whether small doses mean small risk.
Part VII — What Can Go Wrong?
Safety for whom, acute harms, the harms trials struggle to count, and persistent perceptual and psychiatric outcomes.
Part VIII — What Survives?
The experiments worth doing, and the claims that survived the audit.
The author
Richard L. Pope
Author of The Fungal Evidence Atlas and The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas, published by The Spore Patch Ltd. No academic affiliations, qualifications, awards or endorsements are claimed, and none should be inferred.
The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas, Volume II: LSD. First edition, 2026. Published by The Spore Patch Ltd as a reflowable EPUB 3 ebook. Text copyright Richard L. Pope.
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- Title
- The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas — Volume II: LSD
- Publisher
- The Spore Patch Ltd
- Edition
- First edition, 2026
- Format
- Reflowable EPUB 3 ebook
- Price
- £7.99
- File size
- Approximately 2 MB
- Source edition
- 420-page publication master
- Contents
- Thirty-six chapters across eight parts, with glossary and references
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This volume is an evidence audit. It is not medical, psychological or legal advice, and nothing in it encourages the obtaining, possession or use of any controlled substance.