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- From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
- Subject: Re: Life (death) imitates usenet - man dies from LSD abuse.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.124415.24952@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <1992Dec18.111413.16804@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec18.205224.3243@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 12:44:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.205224.3243@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
- [LSD fatality story deleted.]
- >
- >Nope. All it means is that the person took some LSD. He also may have had a
- >few grams of salt shortly before hand, with a meal. Are we to say that, in
- >his case X grams of salt were fatal? Of course not, that would be stupid.
- >
- The man was _legally_ declared as having died from the effects of the LSD
- in a Coroner's court, by a consultant toxicologist from what many consider
- to be the best teaching hospital in the UK if not the world.
-
- >I suspect that the LSD had nothing to do with the death, and that he died
- >of acute alcohol poisoning.
- >
- I'd be *very* surprised if a consultant toxicologist overlooked this
- possibility, Bill. I'd go with Dr. Toseland on this one.
-
- >Bill
-
- Tony "Just say YES!" Sweeney.
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