A Wonderful Introduction to a World of ALD-52 February 10, 2018 Β 125ug ALD-52, swallowed with full glass of water. Set/setting Β with a trusted close friend (also dosed 125ug) in an unfamiliar house Saturday afternoon I had plans with a close friend (letΒs call her Claire) to trip in a house she was watching for some...
ALD-52
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- 6 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 30 combo interactions documented
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki)
- classified Tentative
- classified Research-chemical
Encyclopedic
Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 6 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 30 combo interactions documented
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki)
- classified Tentative
- classified Research-chemical
Aliases: 1a-lsd, 1a-lad, 1-acetyl-lsd, Orange sunshine, ald52, 1alsd
Summary
1-Acetyl-N,N-diethyllysergamide (also known as ALD-52, 1-Acetyl-LSD, 1A-LSD, 1A-LAD, and mistakenly as Orange Sunshine) is a lesser-known psychedelic substance of the lysergamide class that produces LSD-like psychedelic effects when administered. It's structurally related to psychedelic lysergamides like LSD and 1P-LSD and is reported to produce largely indistinguishable effects. ALD-52 was originally discovered by Albert Hofmann in his study of LSD analogs, but it did not enter mainstream awareness until the 1960s through Western youth counterculture.
Perspectives
“As expected this is somewhat similar to LSD with respect to the headspace. It diverges in terms of having a heavier bodyload, less visuals, and a sort of darker more neutral headspace, lacking the giddiness that LSD can sometimes impart.”
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 25-75Β΅g | 75-150Β΅g | 150-300Β΅g | 300Β΅g+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Sources
Oral
Dose ladder — TripSitOnset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 19-40 min | 30-60 min | 3-5 hrs | 3-5 hrs | 8-14 hrs |
Effect Profile
18 reportsScores (0–10) curated from multiple sources:
- Effect keyword matching from PsychonautWiki catalog
- Weighted by importance: core (×3), major (×2), minor (×1)
Psychedelic
9.5
Extreme
10/10
Strong visuals, headspace, and auditory effects with mild body load
Visual Intensity
×3
10
visual geometry
colour enhancement
drifting
synaesthesia
tracers
pattern recognition enhancement
+6 more
Headspace Depth
×3
10
conceptual thinking
multiple thought streams
personality regression
a sense of childlike wonder
simultaneous emotions
personal bias suppression
+2 more
Auditory Effects
×1
10
auditory distortion
auditory hallucination
synaesthesia
Body Load / Somatic Effects
×1
4
nausea
increased heart rate
Based on reports from:
Tolerance
Build-up
develops rapidly after a single use
Reset
7β14 days for baseline
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
1h
Half tolerance
10d
Baseline
~14d
Effects
Aggregated from 13 single-substance Erowid and 5 Bluelight experience reports; 18 Erowid reports where another drug was taken too are left out
Each bar shows the share of analyzed reports whose text mentions that effect — a mention is not always a first-hand experience (fear of an effect or something witnessed can count). Mentions saying the effect did not happen are left out; that check reads keywords, so it can miss some. The shaded band on a bar, and the small range after its number, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind. Fewer reports, wider band. Tap or hover any number for details. The second value is the Bluelight extractor's per-effect confidence; a dash means the row is Erowid-derived, which has no confidence measurement.
Too few reports for bars: these effects come from 13 single-substance Erowid and 5 Bluelight reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?
Effect glossary — · full glossary
Positive Effects 20
10 of 13
–
8 of 13
–
11 of 18
85%
7 of 13
–
6 of 13
–
2 of 5
88%
5 of 13
–
6 of 18
80%
4 of 13
–
3 of 13
–
4 of 18
85%
1 of 5
85%
1 of 5
80%
1 of 5
80%
1 of 5
85%
1 of 5
75%
1 of 5
80%
1 of 5
75%
1 of 5
75%
1 of 5
70%
Adverse Effects 18
11 of 18
92%
8 of 18
80%
2 of 5
88%
2 of 5
75%
6 of 18
95%
Auditory Effects
5 of 18
95%
3 of 13
–
1 of 5
85%
1 of 5
85%
1 of 5
75%
1 of 5
90%
1 of 5
85%
1 of 5
90%
1 of 5
90%
1 of 5
95%
1 of 5
80%
1 of 5
75%
1 of 5
85%
Also reported in combinations. In the 18 ALD-52 reports where another drug was taken too, 4 mention hospital, emergency services or an overdose, 0 a seizure and 1 psychosis (too few reports for percentages). In the 13 single-substance reports: 4, 0 and 1. These are not in the figures above: they cannot be put down to ALD-52 alone, and a mention is not always something that happened to the writer.
Combinations
Cross-Check ALD-52 with another substanceCommunity Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, Bluelight, and Dose.wiki. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance. Tags summarise each author's own verdict — how reports are classified.
Erowid 8 reports 4 positive 2 neutral 2 cautionary visit
[Erowid Note: The term "acid" has been used as a common name for d-LSD since the 1960s. Although confusion associated with newer psychoactive substances has lead some people to use the term "acid" to refer to anything LSD-like or anything psychedelic on blotter or sold in drops, we believe this represents an error and...
On a gray, overcast day in late summer I decided to test out a recently acquired batch of ALD-52. My experience with psychedelics up until that point had been fairly limited, mostly confined to various haphazard experiments in my teens (also including ketamine and other dissociatives).
[Erowid Note: The term "acid" has been used as a common name for d-LSD since the 1960s. Although confusion associated with newer psychoactive substances has lead some people to use the term "acid" to refer to anything LSD-like or anything psychedelic on blotter or sold in drops, we believe this represents an error and...
An Excellent Experience 10, 28, 2016 - 620pm, dropped appx 1/2 tab 100mcg ALD-52. It's not bitter, which is a good sign. I'm taking such a low dose to just get a feel for it. Its supposed to be a 12hr experience plus afterglow.
SET & SETTING: I've been looking forward and preparing myself for this trip for almost two weeks. I'm feeling really excited and a bit anxious. I'm not going into the experience with a recreational intent, but with the intention of exploring my psyche.
A legitimate online vendor recently started stocking ALD-52 blotter tabs, apparently making it readily available for the first time in forty or so years. Not one to pass up an opportunity, I immediately ordered five tabs of 100ug each. The night I took them ended with blacking out and hospitalization.
Psychonaut for over 20 years: countless lsd experiences on heroic doses, many psilocybin adventures, 1p lsd (was on wellbutrin at the time and that had an extremely disappointing effect), salvia, 2cb, doc, nbomes (regret ever trying), dxm, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, ketamine, meth, etc.
Bluelight 3 threads 1 positive 1 neutral 1 cautionary visit
My girlfriend has always been curious about tripping. She's taken mushrooms a few times, once with me over a year prior to this experience, but she's never broken through a threshold sort of effect.
By far the worst night of my life. I didnβt follow the rules about inexperienced use while alone and I got punished with 10 straight hours of constant suffering mentally and physically.
I've been paralyzed for one year now and every time I trip I have intense muscle spasms. I have them regularly because my injury is fresh but they're spontaneous. When I'm tripping they're consistent. Think about when your leg is tapping for so long it becomes involuntary.
Dose.wiki 1 report 1 neutral visit
As expected this is somewhat similar to LSD with respect to the headspace. It diverges in terms of having a heavier bodyload, less visuals, and a sort of darker more neutral headspace, lacking the giddiness that LSD can sometimes impart. This may be due toβ¦
Bluelight Reference Guide
Lysergamides The Big & Dandy ALD-52 Thread - Part 2 "Aciityl Aciiiid"
ALD-52 or 1-acetyl-LSD iupac = (6aR,9R)-4-acetyl-N,N-diethyl-7-methyl-4,6,6a,7,8,9-hexahydroindolo[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide - David Nichols supposedly said that 1-substituted LSD analogues like these have no activity at 5-HT2A themselves - But, it does get broken down to LSD in the body, ALD-52 most likely more r...
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