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>Meaning if it were legal and had a process in place to assure the correct chemical composition, if that would still happen.

It will. I'll stake my life-savings on it too.

>Thinking about this further - have bad trips been observed in clinical studies where the the LSD was created in a controlled, ideal lab setting?

Yes, actually, the results here are the ones usually criticized by psychonauts for causing bad trips due to "bad settings" or "poor preparation". There's a bit of truth to that, but the bad trips are always going to happen.