What You Can Learn From Snorting Two Lines of LSD

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From https://www.thestranger.com/features/2019/09/25/41488360/how-to-do-psychedelics-without-killing-yourself

What You Can Learn From Snorting Two Lines of LSD

Some ways of doing psychedelics are safer than others.

by Lester Black



Psychedelics, with their mind-expanding quality, fit naturally at universities. JAMES OLSTEIN

In the summer of 1972, someone at a dinner party in San Francisco made a terrible error. They mixed up their cocaine with their LSD and accidentally served lines of powdered acid, two apiece, to seven of their friends.

A drop of acid can send someone into an eight-hour hallucinogenic trip. Snorting milligrams of the chemical's powdered form is unthinkable. These people had just inadvertently consumed a massive dose. Within five minutes, they were vomiting. After 10 minutes, five of the people were comatose, according to a case report in the Western Journal of Medicine. These people appeared to be on their way to sudden death.

But no one died. Within 12 hours, every single patient was conscious. After a year of follow-up exams, there were "no apparent psychologic or physical ill effects" in any of the eight individuals, according to the case report.

There's a high probability that you, now that you're in college, will come across psychedelics at least once during your higher education. Every drug has its milieu, its natural social environment. Just like meth wallows in misery and trailer parks, and cocaine mingles with mistakes and nightclubs, psychedelics (with their mind-expanding quality) fit naturally at universities where young people are regularly encouraged to challenge their usual way of thinking. So what lesson should you take from the story of the San Francisco dinner party?

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More at link.

Also, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/

Coma, Hyperthermia and Bleeding Associated with Massive LSD Overdose
A Report of Eight Cases

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Abstract

Eight patients were seen within 15 minutes of intranasal self-administration of large amounts of pure D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) tartrate powder. Emesis and collapse occurred along with signs of sympathetic overactivity, hyperthermia, coma and respiratory arrest. Mild generalized bleeding occurred in several patients and evidence of platelet dysfunction was present in all. Serum and gastric concentrations of LSD tartrate ranged from 2.1 to 26 nanograms per ml and 1,000 to 7,000 ?g per 100 ml, respectively. With supportive care, all patients recovered. Massive LSD overdose in man is life-threatening and produces striking and distinctive manifestations.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. You shouldn't confuse LSD with coke?

[tazkcmo]

2. That's my takeaway.

So I have labeled them both inconspicuous letters in different colors. I've also put them in distinctly different containers.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. '...striking and distinctive manifestations.'

That may well qualify as Understatement of the Millennium.

[dewsgirl]

4. I have never even heard of snorting LSD.

[Marcuse]

5. Super Stupid bought a nickel bag. Thought it was coke, but it was skag.

Super Stupid did a one and one;
Then his eyes begin to water and his nose begin to run

[walkingman]

7. Eddie Hazel - one of the great guitarist. Funkadelics.....amazing band, amazing times.

[Marcuse]

11. True dat.

[Nitram]

21. Maggot Brain!

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Does anyone recall people putting liquid LSD into their eyes?

Possibly apocryphal tales.

[lark]

9. Yes, and people were killed by doing that.

Hendrix injected LSD into his temples and died almost immediately when I was a teenager, so we learned quickly that this was a terrible thing to do. We wouldn't snort it for that reason, too risky.

[SCantiGOP]

13. Uh, no

Hendrix died from ingesting his own vomit when he passed out following a large dose of heroin. This is in the coroner’s report.

[lark]

15. Funny, both people who responded had different answers, so lots of misinformation.

The LDS story is what I heard on the radio when I was living in Rhode Island in 1971, I think it was. Janis and Bond Scott died from ingesting their own vomit and Keith Moon too, but I always thought Hendrix injected acid into his temple based on the radio report.

[Moral Compass]

14. Where did you hear this one?

Jimi Hendrix died of a barbiturate overdose. Not from injecting LSD into his temples.

[lark]

16. See reply #13, replied to both threads with 1 answer

[Nitram]

20. Lark, you are misinformed. First of all, no one injects LSD into their head.

Secondly, Hendrix was trying to get to sleep and overdosed on barbiturates, choking on his own vomit.

[lark]

25. Yes, I was obviously misinformed close to 50 years ago.

I never read about it after I heard the radio report because it made me sad. Well, better to learn things later than never at all.

[Nitram]

28. These urban legend have great power.

[lark]

8. Don't be idiots!

LSD is powerful, NEVER snort or inject it - those were rules we lived by during our hallucinogenic days and we made it through unscathed. Only did LSD occasionally for a few years before switching to magic shrroms and peyote/mescaline - those were much more mellow, but by the time I was in my mid-30's and pregnant it was time to stop them as well. Some of the trips I had were so awesome and I cherish them to this day, but when it got to to too much, I knew this time of my life was ended.

[LakeArenal]

10. Everything in moderation!!!

We tripped often and regularly. Never once experienced any bad effects.
But it all changes when people are unaware they have taken something.

As for the “8 hour hallucinogenic trip”,
Right on. That’s what we’re here for.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Voyage 34

[Blue_Tires]

17. What's that weirdness?

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. Great music from a great band

Nothing weird 'bout it

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Snorting?

It's been decades but when I did acid it was on a small bit of paper which one put in their mouth. I think they called it blotter acid.

[Nitram]

19. No one has ever died of an overdose of LSD. It also develops tolerance so rapidly that a large dose

the day after a large dose will have very little effect.

[MicaelS]

23. Does LSD work against severe depression? n/t

[wackadoo wabbit]

24. Apparently, yes

According to a review of the current literature:

. . . LSD consistently produced immediate and significant anti-depressant and anxiolytic effects that were endured for several months.

Here's a link to the abstract: [link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382100|]

[Nitram]

29. I wouldn't recommend it. It is very unpredictable. It can definitely exacerbate an existing

mental illness.

[Mr.Bill]

26. I ingested LSD probably

several hundred times, mostly in the early 70s. It was always an enlightening experience. I seemed to need it back then, I don't feel a need for it now. It's easily the most non addictive drug I ever used. At some point I just didn't seem to need it any more, and that was that.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

27. Lived on hallucinogens for a while in the 70's...

Still waiting for the “flashbacks” they promised.


Or...maybe that’s how to explain trump.....naw never had a bad experience.

[Nitram]

30. I had a full-blown LSD experience after smoking pot once in the 70's. Kind of disconcerting

when you are not expecting it. But there was no mistaking the difference between a marijuana high and tripping on LSD.

[uriel1972]

31. interesting and thought provoking...

"Don't try this at home kids!"