Talk:Dimethyl sulfoxide

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Contents 1 Trivia 2 LSD 3 Medical 4 Popular Culture

[edit] Trivia

Not sure if its appropriate for this article, but the Dead Kennedys have a song called DMSO

[edit] LSD

My Organic Chemistry teacher told us that they would mix LSD with DMSO and put it in water pistols. Could this quote be involved in the article somehow: "The Pranksters will smear all the doors, railings, walls, chairs, the heating system, the water fountain, with DMSO... laced with LSD... Dig?... DMSO is close to being an old alchmical ideal, the universal solvent. Put a drop of DMSO on your fingertip and thirty seconds later you can taste it in your mouth. It goes right through your skin and through your system that fast. DMSO with LSD... What a vision! The following night the entire Democratic Party of California will get turned on, zonked out of their apples." - Wolfe, Tom (1968). The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, pp. 381. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-038064-8

Jhum101 21:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Interesting, though I thought it was pretty easy to absorb LSD already. raptor 13:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medical

What about the medical uses?

[edit] Popular Culture

60 minutes did a segment on DMSO as having several possible healthful effects. It turned out to be a fad (I can remember buying a bottle from the local chemist/pharmacist!) That might be interesting color for the article.