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That sounds terrifying, I'm sorry you (and they) had to go through that. I definitely think there is too much downplaying of the harmful effects hallucinogens can have in drug culture nowadays, and people are too quick to recommend their use therapeutically outside of controlled settings- their physical toxicity may be negligible, but any kind of psychoactive drug use can have horrible effects on a person's mental state even if they do not have any apparent underlying issues, it's definitely something people should tread lightly around.

There's also the issue that a lot of drugs really aren't what people say they are. Depending on the time period your anecdote took place in, it's highly possible that what they took wasn't really LSD, but one of the many psychedelic analogs and designer drugs that have been prolific in the last 2 decades sold as LSD but much more dangerous.

I remember in the mid 2000s (maybe early 2010s?) there was a huge amount of people buying 25X-NBOMES (gray area "legal" to order cheaply on the clearnet at the time) and selling them as LSD on blotters to people who weren't testing what they had or had never taken LSD and didn't know any better. And unlike LSD these are actually physically dangerous in quantities not much higher than the ones you'd take for a recreational dose and could trigger all kinds of mental breakdowns and persisting physical problems due to their toxicity (ranging from psychosis and aggression to seizures and death)

So I wonder if in your case, this contributed to the situation- them being unknowing recipients of a dangerous analog sold to them as LSD, and their taking 4x the dose triggering that outcome.