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>> We now know that 297mg of LSD will kill an elephant. The facepalm I'm having at the moment would make Patrick Stewart jealous. I misread that as μg and had
by lostgame 6y ago
>> We now know that 297mg of LSD will kill an elephant.
The facepalm I'm having at the moment would make Patrick Stewart jealous.
I misread that as μg and had to do a double-take.
That's...that's like several entire music festival's worth of LSD.
- cstross 6y agoYep. When I called the CIA researchers "quacks" I did so for a reason: when tox testing, it is customary to start with a minimal dose then increase it progressively until it exhibits a measurable effect, not start with a huge overdose! 297mg is one thousand times the typical dose sold for black market acid in the mid-1960s, per wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Dosage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Dos... (As an elephant weighs on the order of 20-50 times as much as a human, administering a thousand times a typical human dose was ... inadvisable to say the least.)