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Published: 02:58 BST, 23 May 2019 | Updated: 02:58 BST, 23 May 2019
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A Broadcast Operations Manager for a local California CBS News station tripped out after touching LSD left on a synthesizer from the 1960s.
Eliot Curtis - who works for KPIX Channel 5 – was repairing the device that had been abandoned in a cold, dark closet at San Francisco's Cal State University East Bay.
Curtis said after he removed a module and sprayed underneath a knob to clean 'a crust or a crystalline residue' he'd spotted, the dissolved matter started to have an effect.
'It was … felt like I was tripping on LSD,' told KPIX Television about his 'weird tingling sensation' 45 minutes later.
Eliot Curtis was repairing Cal State East Bay's Buchla Model 100 synthesizer when he got high
The 1960s device had been abandoned for decades at the San Francisco, California school
Curtis removed a knob to clean a 'crust or a crystalline residue' underneath and after 45 minutes felt a 'weird tingling sensation'
LSD cannot be ingested when skin is dry.
Late Swiss scientist Albert Hofman – the first person to make LSD - believes he accidentally ingested the drug through his skin.
It is often ingested orally on blotting paper where a liquid form of the drug is absorbed.
Studies suggest LSD can be stored for an indefinite amount of time as long as it is kept in a cool, dark and preferably air-tight space.
Li, McNally, Wang & Salamone (1998) found that UV light made lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) decompose by 10 percent in just one hour and the same would take a week in fluorescent light.
Amber glass helps protect LSD from light damage but transparent containers could keep it potent as long as it is made of polypropylene.
The optimal temperature for storage is -4 degrees Fahrenheit, roughly the same as
