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nickfftoday at 8:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

As the saying goes: “the dose makes the poison”. Many (perhaps most) drugs cause harm at the wrong dosage.


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quchentoday at 9:02 PM

Depending on your definition of poison of course, but at least for LSD and magic mushrooms, all that's known is a lower bound for their biological toxicity. For LSD IIRC it's somewhere in the 30mg (!) range, for mushrooms it's more than can comfortably fit a stomach. I'm afraid I don't have sources handy though.

That said, the state of mind must be so wild that "is it poisonous in this specific/usual sense" is probably not the right thing to discuss.

embedding-shapetoday at 8:41 PM

> Many (perhaps most) drugs cause harm at the wrong dosage.

Not only drugs, almost everything is bad at the wrong dosage. Case in point: water.

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