I have a very close friend who took both LSD and psilocybin, as well as cannabis during her pregnancy and her daughter is now 5, and quite intelligent for her age. If there are risks, they do not seem to have effected her.

The Effects of Hallucinogen Use During Pregnancy
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)

Most animal studies on LSD have not shown adverse effects on pregnancy, other than fetal loss at high doses (Alexander et al, 1970). However, central nervous system and ocular defects were associated with fetal LSD exposure in studies involving mice and hamsters (Auerbach et al, 1967; Geber et al, 1967). Sally Long (1972) examined the reports of 162 children of parents who took LSD before or during pregnancy. Of these children, seven were thought to have defects that could potentially be attributed to LSD intake. These included mostly cases of limb defects and one case of megacolon. Another series of cases reported by Jacobson et al (1972) included reports of sacral myelomeningocele, heart defects, including tetrology of Fallot and an AV malformation, various limb defects and hydrocephalus. It was also speculated at the time that LSD could directly alter DNA and result in cellular abnormalities. Apple et al (1974) observed an exposed fetus with extensive ocular malformations (including marked cortical degeneration of the left eye lens and partial opaqueness of the cornea) and anencephaly.

However, there is no solid epidemiological evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between LSD use and congenital anomalies (McGlothlin et al, 1970). The greatest drawback to the aforementioned studies on LSD and hallucinogens in general is that people who use LSD as a recreational drug during pregnancy are more likely to use other drugs as well (e.g., cannabis, alcohol, tobacco), more likely than someone in the average population to have infectious diseases such as gonorrhea and hepatitis, and more likely to be exposed to additional risk factors that could also have an adverse effect on pregnancy. Since the 1970s, there have been few studies done on the teratogenic effects of LSD.

http://fetal-exposure.or...en-use-during-pregnancy/

You cannot state that jamie. You do not know how she would have been if her mother had not taken any entheogen since there is no control group.

Also a study with a sample-size of one is not enough data to make any conclusion.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

I think we all know exactly what I meant, actually. We could argue over little semantic distractions all day, or not.

who is "we"?

Apparently, it's Chan & I.

We don't subscribe to the idea of dosing any being that does not, or cannot, consciously consent to it.

I think psychedelics during pregnancy are probably not a problem, but why risk it? Until we know for sure, I can't think of a situation where someone would need to use psychedelics so badly that they could justify possibly jeopardizing the health of their child.

..or am I not allowed to relate a personal story here?

In other words the control group being other children in the world as a comparison to what caused Jamie to state that she seems unaffected.

I have a simple axiom that I totally believe in. If you are pregnant, or if you might be pregnant, do not use any drugs. No drugs at all. Not just during the first trimester but in all three trimesters. Do not use LSD, do not use caffeine, do not even use special diets. Eat and behave normally. No behavioral extremes or even any climbs to the top of Mount Everest. In a year you will be back to your own self, and you can push your personal limits again just a little bit. But for that magical nine months cool it, and stay on a healthy, simple diet. Let your doctor advise you and keep watch over you and your developing baby.

http://www.cognitivelibe...rchive/lsd_pregnancy.htm

He wasn't a pediatrician, but when asked, Dr. Shulgin had an interesting answer regarding this topic:

Thank you for the reality check and voice of reason.

Any advice to the contrary doled out by non-physicians in here (as well as thinly veiled anecdotal stories of friends whose babies didn't end up with twelve toes as a result of using psychedelics during pregnancy) is flippantly irresponsible and has no place in this forum.

My point of view is this: If you can't curtail your drug use, skydiving, bull fighting, racecar driving, cigarette smoking or whatever for all of nine months during pregnancy, you really don't have any business making and taking care of a child.

Anyway... forewarned is forearmed - I'm gonna start swingin' the ban hammer if the nonsense continues...

Not wanting to detour on her journey for this new one exclusively

My point of view is this: If you can't curtail your drug use, skydiving, bull fighting, racecar driving, cigarette smoking or whatever for all of nine months during pregnancy, you really don't have any business making and taking care of a child.

Anyway... forewarned is forearmed - I'm gonna start swingin' the ban hammer if the nonsense continues...

...If you can't curtail your drug use, skydiving, bull fighting, racecar driving, cigarette smoking or whatever for all of nine months during pregnancy, you really don't have any business making and taking care of a child...