Sky Motion wrote:Yeah I'm going to have to agree with others and say that the chart posted does not look official or documented or true in any way. Who would refer to MDMA as ecstacy? We're not talking about pressed pills here for raves, I'm talking pure shards.
Totally. But ironically, it seems that the point its trying to make could be made even better if the substances had correct ed50/ld50 ratios. If that's even possible, I'm sure they don't have values for humans for many of those substances, and are going off of math based on rats and other lower mammals. LD50 is impossible to calculate in man, being that people are not being lethally dosed with these substances in a clinically controlled environment.
To include anecdotal doses that caused death however, still does not help much as everyone's different biochem, the purity of said substance, and the health of whoever took it all come in to play. So charts like that, that claim ed50/ld50 ratios should be considered theoretical at best, and even then always check the sources of the research and exactly how they went about getting those numbers. You'd think NORML would have their shit in order, but mabey not.
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