HW: Isle of White 1970 - Huw freaked on acid

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> 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


No, so far as I know there is no LD50 dose with LSD.  It's not possible to
really suffer physical harm, just psychological harm....
Your friendly neighborhood clinical pharmacist,
John Majka