HW: Isle of White 1970 - Huw freaked on acid

[M Holmes]

Melvyn Vincent writes:

> During the gig that HW were doing on a makeshift stage outside the
> gates to the Isle of White Pop Festival.....Some person handed a
> bottle of 'apple juice' to the band for 'refreshment'.  Huw Lloyd
> Langton gulped back a few mouthfuls not knowing that it had been
> spiked with something like 5 shots of liquid acid/LSD.  No laughing
> matter....as it very nearly killed the guy.  Huw was hospitalised and
> did actually 'die' at one point.  The dose he got was so high that it
> took him a period of 6 months to 'come down' from the effects.  One
> does wonder what long term affects such an overdose could have on a
> person.

I thought it was impossible to overdose on LSD in the sense of actually
causing physical harm? Does it really have an LD50 dose?

> melvyn

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