What Happens When You Take 550 Doses of LSD at Once
vice.comVery interesting stories - such massive doses of psychedelics can be dangerous for a number of reasons and you really shouldn't ingest anywhere near such dosages without medical care on standby.
In general though, anecdotes of psychedelics curing a number of mental illnesses are starting to become well supported by the scientific literature. The wide variety of benefits from psychedelics - particularly psilocybin - are being actively investigated in quite a few clinical trials. We're talking about safe and long-term cures for depression, anxiety, addiction - while also promoting neurogenesis and neuroplasticity [1][2][3].
I believe we're on the brink of a modern psychedelic revolution in medicine, one that has been long overdue since these effects were documented and investigated over 70 years ago - and known to ancient indigenous cultures for thousands of years.
[1] Antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive effects of ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): a systematic review of clinical trials published in the last 25 years https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/204512531663800...
[2] Effects of psilocybin on hippocampal neurogenesis and extinction of trace fear conditioning http://www.psilosophy.info/resources/Effects%20of%20psilocyb...
[3] Psychedelics as a Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.0003...
>... there’s never been a recorded death from LSD directly...
but earlier in the article:
>Three patients stopped breathing and needed to be put on ventilation machines.
Sounds like it was pretty touch and go there for at least those three people.
I don't really have a notion of how widespread LSD usage has been throughout history (thousand of users? millions of users? ) so the toxicity anecdote is interesting, especially since acid has a reputation for being such a heavy drug.
You max out, so I’ve heard.
No mention of prison time for the parents that allowed a 15-year-old to take a megadose of LSD, curiously.
What exactly is sending parents who allow their kids to go to the wrong party to prison supposed to fix? What other mistakes teens make should be reason to imprison the parents?