lol...i'm talking like sheets... guess i need to be more clear on the herculean doses....even Owsley scared the shit outta himself.
imagine this happening to you.... this is how acid would fuck up someone for life.... read,
The biggest dose of
LSD ever medically documented as taken by
human beings occurred on the 29th of July,
1972 in San Francisco. It is documented
here on
The Lycaeum.
In this fascinating misadventure, eight people, four women and four men, ages 19 to 39 (to me these numbers just shout "sleazy old guys and young girls"), came across a white powder which they assumed to be
cocaine, and snorted two lines each. It was in fact LSD, 80%-90% pure. The amount ingested is unknown, but was estimated to be several milligrams, each milligram being 10 times the usual dose of 100 micrograms. Within 5 minutes they realised their mistake.
When they arrived at San Francisco general hospital around 15 minutes after snorting the LSD, five of them were
comatose. The medical problems that they experienced are various and sound dangerous, including "
respiratory arrest" for three of them and "
aspiration" for the two others. It's a fair guess that these people would have have died without medical help. However "Recovery was rapid and complete by 12 hours, but included a stage of hyperactivity and
severe visual and auditory hallucinations." No kidding. All left the hospital within 48 hours.
The abstract of the original doctors' report can be found by searching PubMed (or just
Google) for "Klock JC, Boerner U, Becker CE: Coma, hyperthermia, and bleeding associated with massive LSD overdose: A report of eight cases. Clin Toxicol 8:191,
1975".
Erowid has the full text of this report
here.
lol j/k
