Other art work is dubbed "Vanity Blotter Art." This is art as a collectible and has never been dipped. Some iconic original print images have been circulating since the 70's (Eg: Hofmann's, Eye of Horus, Knights of Malta). There are distinctions within Blotter Art. No trademark was ever bigger than BEL's Orange Sunshine, which has been recently commemorated in blotters and posters. This imagery originally served as an identifier of different batches of LSD, a form of "trademark". There is also a distinct sub-category of satirical Blotter Art, including images such as "Gorby" and "FBI". Occult and religious symbols have also been widely used. Images have typically been psychedelic in nature, or relied heavily on cartoon images. Over the years Blotter Art has developed as a field in its own right, with images ranging from multiple repeats (so each trip has a complete image), to complex images spanning a whole sheet. Secondly: There were many high profile busts in the late 60's and early 70's, during which pill presses were seized, LSD blotter was therefore more convenient for many to make. The move to lightweight LSD blotter therefore reduced sentences. If someone had LSD on a sugar cube weighing 1g then the sentence was the same as for an individual caught with 1g of crystal LSD (representing approx 10,000 LSD doses rather than just 1). Sentences were determined by the weight of the substance with which offenders were caught. There are likely two main reasons for this: Firstly, after LSD was made illegal in the US (in 1967) mandatory minimum sentencing was introduced. From the mid 1970's blotter has been the most available form of LSD.
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