Spirits (was RE: [extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.)

[Acy Stapp]

Many years ago I worked with an old hippie (odd fellow, had over three
hundred college hours but never got around to graduating, smart guy
but dyslexic) who had manufactured LSD in his college years.
Apparently if your lab technique is not *perfect* you *will*
accidently dose yourself strongly, making it somewhat difficult to
continue the synthesis. If it is something you are doing regularly,
tolerance develops rapidly (over the course of a few days). See LSD:
My Problem Child by Albert Hoffman on his discovery of LSD.

http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/

On 12/1/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: Spirits (was RE: [extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.)
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> On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:39 PM, spike wrote:
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> The danger I had in mind is accidental overdose...
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> Please refrain from writing on this subject until you get some basic
> education in this area.
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> - samantha
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> I tried that, but found the results most puzzling.  There
> is much contradictory information.  Janis Joplin did not
> die of LSD overdose, it was heroin.  Jim Morrison's death
> certificate claims he perished of heart failure.  (Well,
> the old geezer *was* pushing 28.)  Jimi Hendrix drowned
> in barf after devouring nine sleeping pills.  So I
> was misinformed that all these were LSD corpses.
>
> In any case, Amara is right, I should stay with
> the medical research.  There is clearly plenty of
> conflicting info, so much of it must be wrong.  A
> credible looking site described animal studies
> which showed 12 milligrams slew 50% of the test
> animals that received that dose.
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> A suicide site claims LSD overdose isn't the way to
> take oneself out of this world, for it would take a
> few hundred normal doses to do the deed, an amount
> one simply would not have on hand.  (Unless one is
> far too rich to be contemplating suicide.)
>
> So after this googlefest, I had a notion.  Before the
> internet I would have had not the foggiest notion on
> how to cook up a batch of LSD or where to find out.  This
> evening I googled "make LSD" and a recipe popped up in
> a fraction of a second.  Reading over the chemistry,
> it doesn't look as difficult as rebuilding an old
> motorcycle.
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> So I now sadly speculate that fatal LSD overdoses
> will become much more common.  Reasoning: if it requires
> 120 normal doses to reach 50% chance of perishing,
> ordinarily one would not have that much.  But if the
> masses are able to google and cook the stuff themselves,
> one could have that much.  Twelve milligrams could be
> accidentally ingested I would think.  This has all been most
> educational.
>
> spike
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