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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Acid consumption
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.011517.11344@galois.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
- References: <1992Nov16.184740.24033@bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:15:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.184740.24033@bnr.ca> saumure@bnr.ca (Roch Saumure) writes:
- >
- >I know a FOAF who has taken appr. 60 LSD tablets in a period
- >of 3 years. I'd like to tap the wisdom of this newsgroup and
- >ask the following:
- >
- >(1) In comparaison with other LSD users, is this FOAF drug usage
- > above normal? Can we say he is abusing the drug? What is the
- > average acid consumption for a user from your experience?
-
- Since most people don't take LSD at all, and (I imagine) most of those
- who do take it only a few times (??????), his consumption is in some
- sense "above normal". But whether this usage constitutes abuse has much
- more to do with how he is using it and what he is experiencing than the
- consumption level.
-
- >(2) His peak consumption dates to about 5 years ago. Since then,
- > he only took a couple (5 or so). He did not experience any
- > flashbacks at all. Should he expect secondary effects (flashbacks,
- > schizophrenia,...) in the years to come due to past LSD usage?
-
- No.
-