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Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams
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First he LOL'd, then he serioused....

Researchers Louis Jolyon West, Chester M. Pierce, and warren Thomas wanted to know what would happen to an elephant that was on acid. They shot a cartridge-syringe of 297 milligrams, 3000 times more than any human would take, of the stuff into the hind quarters of an elephant and proceeded to record the event.

They claimed that the experiment was being conducted to find out whether the drug would induce aggressiveness that male elephants where they will secrete a sticky type of fluid from their temporal glands. This elephant acted like he was shot by a gun and died. He walked around his pen a few times wailing. The researchers tried their best to revive him using anti-psychotic drugs, but to no avail. When they went public and faced scrutiny they claimed that the elephant must have been sensitive to the drug.

Jeez, they were trying to make it horny

One of the more unusual incidents of West's career came in August 1962, when he and two co-workers attempted to investigate the phenomenon of musth by dosing Tusko, a bull elephant at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, with LSD. They expected that the drug would trigger a state similar to musth; instead, the animal began to have seizures 5 minutes after LSD administration. Beginning twenty minutes after the LSD, West and his colleagues decided to administer the antipsychotic promazine hydrochloride and a total of 2800 mg was injected over 11 minutes. This large promazine dose was not effective and may even have contributed to the animal's death, which occurred an hour and 40 minutes after the LSD was given.



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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: stedenko]
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is this for real? link plz


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: Doctor_Dick]
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nobody would shoot an elephant with that much lsd

link brah post it

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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: stedenko]
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I remember reading about that, the massive dose of thorazine caused cardiac arrest as I recall.


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: RandomHero]
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West Louis Jolyon, Pierce Chester M, Thomas Warren D. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its Effects on a Male Asiatic Elephant. Science. 1962 Dec 7;138(3545):1100–1103

So much for scholastic integrity. Morons.

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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: koraks]
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yeah it is real. i read that shit before. the elephant died.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_history4.shtml


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: shroomiin]
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Attempting to prove that the LSD alone had not been the cause of death, Ronald K. Siegel of UCLA repeated a variant of West's experiment on two elephants; he administered to two elephants equivalent doses (in milligrams per kilogram) to that which had been given to Tusko, mixing the LSD in their drinking water rather than directly injecting it as had been done with Tusko. Neither elephant expired or exhibited any great distress, although both behaved strangely for a number of hours.

* Siegel RK. "LSD-induced effects in elephants: Comparisons with musth behavior." Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 1984;22(1):53-56.


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: citricacidx]
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The mode of administration is altogether different, that's a pity. In addition, the numbers we're talking about are extremely low (n=3 in total), so either way, this doesn't tell us that much. LD50 tests with rodents have provided much more dependable results.

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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: stedenko]
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What a bunch on assholes.


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: Kada]
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Kada said:
What a bunch on assholes.


and to go further; I'm hindu.


I hope karma swipes em out.


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Re: Elephant dosed with 300 Milligrams [Re: Neuron]
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/top/experiments/

i was reading abou this last night

Link = 20 craziest experiments..

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