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0.015 milligrams of LSD. I'm not an expert, but I believe that's enough to intoxicate the entire world's population of elephants.

pwmanagerdied 17y ago
0.015 mg = 15 μg. According to erowid.org, the threshold dosage for LSD averages around 20 μg. It sounds like this isn't enough to significantly effect a human, let alone elephants. Am I missing something?
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- mynameishere 17y ago
  Am I missing something? You are missing 0.015 mg of a sense of humor.
  - pwmanagerdied 17y ago
    A reference, perhaps?
    - mynameishere 17y ago
      ??? Clue #1: My comment was a joke. Clue #2: Jokes aren't necessarily funny. Clue #3: Even if a joke isn't funny, it is still a joke. Clue #4: Jokes, whatever the degree of funnyness, are not appropriately responded-to by "How did you come about such-and-such a miscalculation? I demand citations." My calculations were deliberately fallacious; see Clue #1. This website is sometimes like a frickin' Aspergers asylum.
      - startingup 17y ago
        "frickin Aspergers asylum ... " - you had me in splits on that one! Upvoted.
      - pwmanagerdied 17y ago
        This entertaining little conversation was probably helped along by my being influenced by one of the substances in the title. It's cool.
      - jrockway 17y ago
        Yeah, damn those Aspergers fuckers, trying to assume you were being intelligent instead of a moron who thinks the site is Reddit! I hate people like that, always being nice and using their brains.....
        mynameishere 17y ago
        I've never seen such an asshole comment get upmodded so much. It'll all fade anyway.
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nimbix 17y ago
Tusko, the elephant from the famous LSD experiment, was injected with 297 milligrams. 0.015 milligrams, on the other hand, is only about 1/10 of the usual dose one would take for a "trip". I suspect this might be a typo since 0.15mg is the about the amount of LSD you can usually expect to find in a single tab of blotter or a drop of liquid LSD.
Timothee 17y ago
Chances are that said elephants would be pink. They might also fly. Depends on your trip…
magoghm 17y ago
The original draft for the law had higher amounts for all the drugs. For LSD it was 0.025 milligrams (which would be the smallest possible dose). When the law was vetoed, congress reduced the doses and voted again on it. That's the way they came up with that 0.015 milligrams.

pwmanagerdied 17y ago

0.015 mg = 15 μg. According to erowid.org, the threshold dosage for LSD averages around 20 μg. It sounds like this isn't enough to significantly effect a human, let alone elephants. Am I missing something?

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mynameishere 17y ago
Am I missing something? You are missing 0.015 mg of a sense of humor.
- pwmanagerdied 17y ago
  A reference, perhaps?
  - mynameishere 17y ago
    ??? Clue #1: My comment was a joke. Clue #2: Jokes aren't necessarily funny. Clue #3: Even if a joke isn't funny, it is still a joke. Clue #4: Jokes, whatever the degree of funnyness, are not appropriately responded-to by "How did you come about such-and-such a miscalculation? I demand citations." My calculations were deliberately fallacious; see Clue #1. This website is sometimes like a frickin' Aspergers asylum.
    - startingup 17y ago
      "frickin Aspergers asylum ... " - you had me in splits on that one! Upvoted.
    - pwmanagerdied 17y ago
      This entertaining little conversation was probably helped along by my being influenced by one of the substances in the title. It's cool.
    - jrockway 17y ago
      Yeah, damn those Aspergers fuckers, trying to assume you were being intelligent instead of a moron who thinks the site is Reddit! I hate people like that, always being nice and using their brains.....
      - mynameishere 17y ago
        I've never seen such an asshole comment get upmodded so much. It'll all fade anyway.
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nimbix 17y ago

Tusko, the elephant from the famous LSD experiment, was injected with 297 milligrams. 0.015 milligrams, on the other hand, is only about 1/10 of the usual dose one would take for a "trip". I suspect this might be a typo since 0.15mg is the about the amount of LSD you can usually expect to find in a single tab of blotter or a drop of liquid LSD.

Timothee 17y ago

Chances are that said elephants would be pink. They might also fly. Depends on your trip…

magoghm 17y ago

The original draft for the law had higher amounts for all the drugs. For LSD it was 0.025 milligrams (which would be the smallest possible dose). When the law was vetoed, congress reduced the doses and voted again on it. That's the way they came up with that 0.015 milligrams.