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by wizzwizz4 461 days ago
If a thumbprint can do damage, why can't a lower dose? What's the mechanism?
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It's similar to one aspirin vs 10000. Also, people do thumbprints and live normal lives after, I just threw that out as an extreme. LSD is very safe if you're doing normal doses. Most people don't take 10000 doses so I can't really speak to that.
Water will kill you if you consume too much of it - almost universally, the poison is in the dose not the substance.
The mechanism for water toxicity is physically displacing ions in the brain, causing osmotic damage. (This also explains why lower amounts of water are safe.) A thumbprint dose of LSD is nowhere near high enough to do something like that.