Step into the California house whose walls are lined with tabs of LSD. I'm Colton from Ripley's.com and this is your Weird Minute. Mark McLeod's San Francisco home is filled with tens of thousands of LSD tabs known as blotters.
Blotters are sheets of paper that have either been soaked in LSD or had the psychedelic dripped onto them. With the banning of LSD across America in 1988, the possession of acid became illegal. Despite multiple raids by the DEA, McLeod has managed to stay out of jail for one reason.
the acid on his tabs is expired. LSD breaks down quickly in the presence of light and heat, and McCloud's tabs are too old to give anyone ingesting them a trip. Instead, he keeps the tabs for their artwork. McCloud began collecting early on, but found that he kept eating them.
Eventually, he framed the sheets stating that it kept him from eating them. Today, he has over 33,000 blotters in his collection. Despite regular visits by the DEA, he runs his house as a museum, opening his doors for people to come in and learn more about the short history of LSD.
McLeod says his local community has been fantastic. His neighbors don't seem to mind having a blotter-filled house next door, and he even trades visitors with the museum across the street. To see some of McLeod's collection, visit Ripley's.com, rate The Weird Minute if you haven't already, and tune in tomorrow for another Minute of Odd.