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> In fact he tried 1000 micrograms of it, one of the biggest doses I’ve ever heard of someone taking. If this is at the threshold of your knowledge in this are
by chillingeffect 9y ago
> In fact he tried 1000 micrograms of it, one of the biggest doses I’ve ever heard of someone taking.
If this is at the threshold of your knowledge in this area, there's a heck of a lot more to learn. This whole article, with some interesting facts about a few cherry-picked researchers, emanates naivete.
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- dokem 9y agoIt's also funny that the author mentions Ram Dass who tells the tale of tripping on LSD for several weeks at a time in his book 'Be Here Now. In his biography 1000ug is painted as child's play for some of the early explorers.
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- sunkencity 9y ago1000 ug aka "Heroic Dose".
- krrishd 9y agoTo be fair, the post does start with > [Epistemic status: very speculative, asserted with only ~30% confidence. On the other hand, even though psychiatrists don’t really talk about this it’s possible other groups know this all already]
- Sniffnoy 9y agoAnd? Would you care to tell us more? It's not very helpful to just say "you're wrong" without providing any sort of correction.
- Alex3917 9y agoI mean just google it, there is no lack of personal experience writeups from people who have done thumbprints or even higher doses.
- dwringer 9y agoFor one thing we have no way of confirming what exact chemical compound such experimenters actually took, not to mention anything about the precise dosage. In many cases, the subjects don't either.
- Alex3917 9y ago> For one thing we have no way of confirming what exact chemical compound such experimenters actually took OK, but that's no different than any of the people in the Star Slate Codex article. If anything the people doing thumbprints are much more likely to have taken actual LSD than the people getting it indirectly from Sandoz since they were making it themselves.
- colecut 9y agothe purity of "actual LSD" can vary a lot, and is more important than the purity of most other substances. I would expect it more likely to be as close to pure as possible by scientists at Sandoz than someone doing thumbprints at home. But Owsley apparently did a great job from what I hear =p
- dokem 9y agoI think GP is making the point that Kary Mullis isn't really a notable psychedelic explorer - just some scientist that took a large dose LSD. If you read into some of the notable figures of the psychedelic movement you will learn that many of them dove very, very deep.
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