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The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972

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Re: The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972

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Post by stemlord »

kens wrote: post #10

I find that article to be almost unreadable. I recommend the original scientific paper instead, which surprisingly doesn't have a paywall: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/pdf/wes... Summary: 8 people snorted lines of pure LSD by mistake, resulting in coma, respiratory arrest, blood clotting problems, and other life-threatening symptoms. All were normal after 12 hours and discharged from the hospi…

Thanks. Extremely obnoxiously written article-- the excessive use of emojis and gratuitous jokes to describe what must have been a nightmare for the victims is icing on the trashy cake.

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Post by fallingfrog »

iancmceachern wrote: post #11

Chubby Emu should do an episode on this getting down voted for no good reason so I will explain. Chubby Emu is a youtube channel from a doctor who explains in medical detail cases like this, weird overdoses and such.

He did an episode where some teenager ate 500 melatonin gummies, that one was pretty entertaining. Not something you should try though.

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Post by oasisaimlessly »

kens wrote: post #10

I find that article to be almost unreadable. I recommend the original scientific paper instead, which surprisingly doesn't have a paywall: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/pdf/wes... Summary: 8 people snorted lines of pure LSD by mistake, resulting in coma, respiratory arrest, blood clotting problems, and other life-threatening symptoms. All were normal after 12 hours and discharged from the hospi…

> [...] wasting maybe $100,000 worth of LSD.

You're high by roughly an order of magnitude. LSD is only $1-2 per 100ug (one "tab"/"hit").

Eight people * 1000 tabs/person * $1.5/tab = $12,000 over everyone; $1,500 per person.

Re: The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972

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Post by luxuryballs »

Solo on a tropical island LSD could potentially be the one catalyst for survival for the average first worlder, just the ability to reset the mind and enter “the now” would be huge for adapting to what it would take to survive.

It sounds like a documentary waiting to happen. Imagine spear fishing in paradise on a few hits of sunshine, in the sunshine? I’d go.

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Post by tmtvl »

WinnieRallycar wrote: post #12

The story was mildly entertaining, but the authors style is intolerable. I feel like I received some obscene *psychic* damage reading this.

You failed your idea roll and took 1d10 sanity damage. Good thing you didn't succeed the roll, you'd have gone temporarily insane.

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Post by foolfoolz »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #5

Funny how this story has entered the folk lore around LSD. I remember hearing some version of it in the early 2000s in New Zealand. The other one was the story of a guy who had taken so much LSD he thought he'd turned into a glass of orange juice. Couldn't lie down or he'd spill, couldn't go outside or he would evaporate. I wonder if it has any basis from a real story.

this is a common folk story around the world. other variations are that he thought he was an orange. or he put a sheet of lsd under his clothes and absorbed them by sweating while running from police

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Post by MaxfordAndSons »

oasisaimlessly wrote: post #23
kens wrote: post #10

I find that article to be almost unreadable. I recommend the original scientific paper instead, which surprisingly doesn't have a paywall: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/pdf/wes... Summary: 8 people snorted lines of pure LSD by mistake, resulting in coma, respiratory arrest, blood clotting problems, and other life-threatening symptoms. All were normal after 12 hours and discharged from the hospi…

> [...] wasting maybe $100,000 worth of LSD. You're high by roughly an order of magnitude. LSD is only $1-2 per 100ug (one "tab"/"hit"). Eight people * 1000 tabs/person * $1.5/tab = $12,000 over everyone; $1,500 per person.

Maybe that was the going rate at the time, but GP's estimate is roughly accurate for contemporary retail prices.

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Post by flir »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #5

Funny how this story has entered the folk lore around LSD. I remember hearing some version of it in the early 2000s in New Zealand. The other one was the story of a guy who had taken so much LSD he thought he'd turned into a glass of orange juice. Couldn't lie down or he'd spill, couldn't go outside or he would evaporate. I wonder if it has any basis from a real story.

> I wonder if it has any basis from a real story.

There's something of the glass delusion about it (eg my legs are made of glass and will shatter if I move, or I swallowed a glass piano as a child and if it shatters it will puncture my organs). The similarities in the thought processes suggest it could be real.

Re: The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

brainbag wrote: post #3
zanethomas wrote: post #2

I knew a woman who in 1970 was pulled over by the police in Altadena CA. They were particularly aggressive when it came to "hippies" and so she swallowed her entire cargo of LSD, which was, iirc, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hits. She was out of commission for roughly 72 hours and months later still not back to normal, according to what she told me.

One of my favorite early blog stories is from stilldrinking.org, where he accidentally ingested way too much and ended up institutionalized. It's great writing about the entire experience going there and back. http://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1

I first read this a few years ago, it's great. Haven't seen it since and had no idea how to find it, thanks for posting!
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