[kens]

I find that article to be almost unreadable. I recommend the original scientific paper instead, which surprisingly doesn't have a paywall: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/pdf/wes...

Summary: 8 people snorted lines of pure LSD by mistake, resulting in coma, respiratory arrest, blood clotting problems, and other life-threatening symptoms. All were normal after 12 hours and discharged from the hospital after 48 hours. Followup over a year showed no residual problems.

It's pretty surprising that one can take thousands of doses of LSD without lasting effect. Most drugs would kill you long before a 1000x overdose. I'm also a bit surprised that they didn't get shot or something for wasting maybe $100,000 worth of LSD.

[oasisaimlessly]

> [...] wasting maybe $100,000 worth of LSD.

You're high by roughly an order of magnitude. LSD is only $1-2 per 100ug (one "tab"/"hit").

Eight people * 1000 tabs/person * $1.5/tab = $12,000 over everyone; $1,500 per person.

[MaxfordAndSons]

Maybe that was the going rate at the time, but GP's estimate is roughly accurate for contemporary retail prices.

[stemlord]

Thanks. Extremely obnoxiously written article-- the excessive use of emojis and gratuitous jokes to describe what must have been a nightmare for the victims is icing on the trashy cake.