In the summer of 1972, someone at a dinner party in San Francisco made a terrible error. They mixed up their cocaine with their LSD and accidentally served lines of powdered acid, two apiece, to seven of their friends.
A drop of acid can send someone into an eight-hour hallucinogenic trip. Snorting milligrams of the chemical’s powdered form is unthinkable. These people had just inadvertently consumed a massive dose. Within five minutes, they were vomiting. After 10 minutes, five of the people were comatose, according to a case report in the Western Journal of Medicine. These people appeared to be on their way to sudden death.
But no one died. Within 12 hours, every single patient was conscious. After a year of follow-up exams, there were “no apparent psychologic or physical ill effects” in any of the eight individuals, according to the case report.
