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by ever1337 891 days ago
Virtually all LSD that is sold is pure. The synthesis is well known and it's so cheap there is virtually no incentive for adulterants. Obviously some level of regulation would be better. But it is not at all difficult to acquire such a thing.
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Yeah, and the Ehrlich test agent is hyper-specific, so very easy to test if it's legit or a potentially harmful analog.
Reagents only test if what you are looking for is there. They don't tell you anything about what you are not specifically looking for. For example if you have both LSD and a NBOMe (a generally undesired analog), it won't tell you anything about the NBOMe. Furthermore, it is not that specific (it reacts to indoles). So it is possible for someone to mix an chemical that reacts with the Ehrlich test with, say, a NBOMe for effect and pass it off as LSD.

I don't know if it happens in the wild, but it is a possibility. By using more reagents, you may be more certain, but unless you take it to a lab with good enough equipment (such as GC/MS), you never know.

This might happen with random sellers at raves or festivals but it almost never happens outside of that specific low quality high volume sales environment. Nobody is peddling NBOMes.

There are plenty of 4-aco synthetics out there though but those are all mostly very safe and are usually sold as mushroom/psilocybin equivalents not LSD.

Maybe in the USA. Where I live I got some LSD once in my life. A guy sold me some n-bome as LSD. By the time I felt the acid on my tongue, it was too late. I saw Fenrir the Wolf eating the moon. I saw the bricks of a wall propeller outside, like in a film about dreams. But that was all. Nothing even close.
Where are you located? I thought LSD was fairly widespread in most places and relatively easily accessible.