Candy flipping
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Candy flipping is a colloquial term which refers to the psychoactive experience of combining LSD and MDMA (or MDA, a related substance). These two chemicals have been used separately in past psychoanalytical and psychotheraputic experiments and even treatment. Together, these substances are alleged to allow the user to reach a psychological state in which they feel able to freely and critically analyse their emotions, personal belief systems, relationships (especially with any others who may be present) et cetera. Though often candy flipping tends to be a purely recreational event for many people.
The two drugs are reputed to complement each other, giving a "layered" aspect to the experience, resulting in the user feeling more empathetic and "in touch" with their subconscious and their emotions, as well as being extremely interested and excited by ordinary sensory stimulation. However, specific details about the effects are hard to list as they depend on the ratio and strength of both dosages and even then they vary from user to user and rarely produce the same kind of "experience" in a repeat user. Plus, according to personal preference, users tend to take one drug long before the other, in order to "ride the high" created by the first drug, with this naturally being at a different point in time each time done. With both drugs having relatively long-lasting effects, the intense and often euphoric experience of candy flipping can last for hours.
Both substances involved are classified as Schedule I by the US Department of Justice (under the 1967 Controlled Substances Act) and as a Class A drug by the British Home Office (under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act) and thus those caught with either, let alone both, faces a potentially long jail sentence. Legal restrictions on an international scale are governed by the United Nations' Convention on Psychotropic Substances (also 1971).
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy without the guidance of a trained counsellor of some description can be especially jeopardous under these sort of conditions, as the user is always likely to touch upon a subject which is not easily handled in an intoxicated mindset. Mood swings are also an issue, as are other side-effects, including panic attacks and depersonalisation. In the long-term, overuse of them can result in depression or minor mental health problems, although a large number of users tend to try it purely for novelty. To date, there have been no clinical trials which have investigated the effects of combining LSD and MDMA, with all information about candy flipping coming from anecdotal evidence from users, none of which has ever been published in any mainstream journal or such.
The use of the phrase candy flipping has led to the term “flipping” being adopted in conjunction with another word to mean mixing a narcotic or an activity with the drug ecstasy. For example, honey flipping is a reference to mixing sexual activity or, more specifically, the sexual fluids ("honey"), of a partner, with ecstasy. There are also other common polydrug combinations: hippie flipping refers to pairing psychedelic mushrooms, (a drug popularly associated with the hippie subculture), with ecstasy; kitty flipping is ketamine and ecstasy combined; whilst candy flipping on a string involves the addition of cocaine into the usual combination of LSD and MDMA. Finally, home-made capsules which contain both acid and ecstasy are known as candy flips.
