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by InvertedRhodium 460 days ago
Water will kill you if you consume too much of it - almost universally, the poison is in the dose not the substance.
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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.