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#22206201 - 09/08/15 08:45 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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THE INDEPENDENT
German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs Almost 30 delegates were rushed to hospital with hallucinations in Germany
A homeopathy conference has ended in chaos in Germany after dozens of delegates took a LSD-like drug and started suffering from hallucinations.
Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and women “staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps”.
The group was discovered at the hotel where they held their conference in the town of Handeloh, south of Hamburg, on Friday.
More than 150 medical staff, ambulances and police descended on the scene and took the raving delegates to hospital.
The patients, aged between 24 and 56, were found suffering from delusions, breathing problems, racing hearts and cramps, with some in a serious condition, Deutsche Welle reported.
Tests on their blood and urine revealed they had all taken hallucinogenic drug 2C-E, which is known as Aquarust in Germany and has been illegal there since the end of last year.
No one recovered sufficiently to be interviewed by police until Monday, a spokesperson said.
Torsten Passie, a member of the German government’s expert commission for narcotics, told NDR: “It must have been a multiple overdose. That does not support the view that the people concerned took the hallucinogen knowingly.
“One has to assume that people were not told about the substance, its effects and risks before taking it.”
Police are reportedly looking into possibilities including the drug being taken as a joint experiment, or it being furtively given to conference participants as a prank.
No arrests have yet been made as the investigation continues into a possible violation of Germany’s Narcotics Act.
The drug's effects have been likened to LSD The Association of German Healing Practitioners (VDH), which represents homeopaths, quickly distanced itself from the embarrassment.
In a statement, it said none of its representatives took hallucinogens during the “incident” in Handeloh.
“The organisers of this obscure conference are unknown to us and such events will not be tolerated by our Association,” a spokesperson said.
“Unfortunately, the conference in Handeloh has severely damaged the image of the homeopathy profession…and we have clarified that such acts are not in the spirit of natural therapy, and contradict our values both morally and legally.
“The Association of German Healing Practitioners detests such misdemeanours.”
Health news: in pictures The British Government’s drug advisory service, Frank, describes 2C-E as a psychedelic and hallucinogenic stimulant that has effects “somewhere between ecstasy and LSD”.
Anyone taking it experiences a buzz and feeling of being “alive and in tune with their surroundings”, their colours and smells.
It can also cause hallucinations, sexual arousal, hypersensitivity and other effects that become “more intense and uncontrollable” with higher doses.
The drug is classed as relatively new by Frank and not widely available in the UK, but is illegal as part of the phenethylamine family as a class A drug.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: drr]
#22207288 - 09/08/15 01:28 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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No comments yet? This is hilarious. Gonna try and find some video footage, someone must have got their phone out and filmed these guys flipping out.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: egodeathflux] 1
#22207349 - 09/08/15 01:39 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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egodeathflux said: No comments yet? This is hilarious. Gonna try and find some video footage, someone must have got their phone out and filmed these guys flipping out.
You think 29 people getting unknowingly dosed with powerful psychedelic research chemicals is funny?
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Shroomopotamus]
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Yup, they were all fine, and they were homeopaths... Finding out that some things DO actually cause a reaction in the human body must have come as quite a shock.
No one died, no one was injured, I see no reason not to have a chuckle at the idea of 30 people staring at the walls and rolling around in meadows in a state of bliss, I bet a lot of them enjoyed it.
Go find someone else to hassle, nothing to see here.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: egodeathflux]
#22207789 - 09/08/15 02:59 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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“One has to assume that people were not told about the substance, its effects and risks before taking it.”
Police are reportedly looking into possibilities including the drug being taken as a joint experiment, or it being furtively given to conference participants as a prank.
I don't get it....
So were they handed a capsule of the stuff and not told what it was? I don't understand how all these people were unknowingly dosed, or willingly took something that they had no idea what it was?
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#22207871 - 09/08/15 03:15 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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egodeathflux said: No comments yet? This is hilarious. Gonna try and find some video footage, someone must have got their phone out and filmed these guys flipping out.
You think 29 people getting unknowingly dosed with powerful psychedelic research chemicals is funny?

I see how someone would think it is funny but what is funny about 29 people having their human rights violated?
Some of them could have had terrible experiences or permanent mental changes depending on how heavily they were dosed and their body chem etc.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: musiclover420] 1
#22207938 - 09/08/15 03:26 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh calm down and appreciate the irony
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: musiclover420] 1
#22208296 - 09/08/15 05:08 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's not funny, like, 'that would be a funny prank to play on a bunch of innocent people, I am going to do that.' But it is funny, in the way that it already happened, it's on the other side of the world (from where I'm sitting), and the idea of a bunch of homeopaths accidentally overdosing on psychedelics at their homeopathy convention is too perfect. Hope they're all OK, and shame on whoever dosed them all. But yes I did chuckle when I read the article!
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: drr] 1
#22208706 - 09/08/15 06:39 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I agree. We can't change the event that happened. Nor would most of us intentionally dose people as a prank. Humour is a good way to make light of a situation. I guess they just forgot to dilute the stuff to the point of uselessness.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: jellyfish]
#22208755 - 09/08/15 06:48 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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There is definitely some irony to that story.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: drr]
#22209504 - 09/08/15 09:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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My guess......an attack.......and probably from a department within government.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#22210191 - 09/08/15 11:38 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shroomopotamus said:
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egodeathflux said: No comments yet? This is hilarious. Gonna try and find some video footage, someone must have got their phone out and filmed these guys flipping out.
You think 29 people getting unknowingly dosed with powerful psychedelic research chemicals is funny?

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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: openmind]
#22210456 - 09/09/15 12:53 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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“One has to assume that people were not told about the substance, its effects and risks before taking it.”
Police are reportedly looking into possibilities including the drug being taken as a joint experiment, or it being furtively given to conference participants as a prank.
I don't get it....
So were they handed a capsule of the stuff and not told what it was? I don't understand how all these people were unknowingly dosed, or willingly took something that they had no idea what it was?
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Well, the 2ce dosage is quite small, and could be added in food or blended in drinks. I bet they were fed or drank something given to everyone at the conference, or they knowingly took the drug.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: bigbitch]
#22210474 - 09/09/15 01:00 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I bet one or two of the people really loves 2ce or something and thought it would be a great idea
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: drr]
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#22211327 - 09/09/15 09:21 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shroomopotamus said:
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egodeathflux said: No comments yet? This is hilarious. Gonna try and find some video footage, someone must have got their phone out and filmed these guys flipping out.
You think 29 people getting unknowingly dosed with powerful psychedelic research chemicals is funny?

Somehow, a single person to a few people isn't funny to me, but 29? That's kinda funny
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Learyfan] 1
#22211390 - 09/09/15 09:43 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lol, sorry man, was posted from my phone
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: drr] 2
#22212195 - 09/09/15 01:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The number of people here saying this is funny is slightly disturbing.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: elgatogordo]
#22212219 - 09/09/15 01:14 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's a hindsight sorta thing. Not a big deal dude.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: elgatogordo]
#22212848 - 09/09/15 03:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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elgatogordo said: The number of people here saying this is funny is slightly disturbing.
I find the lack of a sense of irony and humor more disturbing, than laughing at an article where nobody died or was even injured. Again not condoning dosing people at all.
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: elgatogordo] 1
#22214044 - 09/09/15 07:59 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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elgatogordo said: The number of people here saying this is funny is slightly disturbing.
never set down your drink at a shroomery gathering
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Salomon]
#22228912 - 09/12/15 08:38 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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What I find ironc is they got dosed on a chemical at a homeopathic confrence
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Re: German homeopaths go to conference, accidentally get high on drugs [Re: Salomon]
#22244781 - 09/16/15 08:18 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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elgatogordo said: The number of people here saying this is funny is slightly disturbing.
never set down your drink at a shroomery gathering 
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