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Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F?
    #5952260 - 08/10/06 10:27 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I was at the library today restocking my bookshelf, and I was paging through the new Timothy Leary biography. I'm not a big Leary fan myself, he was pretty much a pig, but it did have alot of interesting information about the Harvard Divinity School experiments, and stuff about Kerouac and Ginsberg that was enlightening.

At one point, the author (Not Leary) was talking about Humphrey Osmond, the british researcher who had alot to do with early psychedelic research. I think he may have even coined the term, depending on who you listen too.

But it offhandedly mentions that Osmond had once consumed 400 *grams* of mescaline. I double-check this twice. This has got to be a misprint, no? 400grams is ALOT of powder to take, and that trip would send you halfway to the next galaxy. But, people were crazy back then, and it could almost be plausible.

Anyone have any thoughts? Have you heard this story?


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5952351 - 08/10/06 10:48 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

maybe 400 grams of actual cactus?


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: weathereporter88]
    #5952355 - 08/10/06 10:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Well, none of them were really eating cactus at the time.

They were eating Sandoz extracts. Tim Leary only at Mushrooms a few times, then switched to synthetic Psilocybin almost immediately.

It was alot easier to have Sandoz Labs whip up a few hundred grams of mescaline than juice some cactus you can only find in the SW US...


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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5952365 - 08/10/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

i'm quite certain that dosage taken all at one time would be very lethal, if in fact it were 400 grams of extracted/synthesized mesc. i would guess it's a typo..who knows


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5952377 - 08/10/06 10:58 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

should definately be a typo. 400mg sounds reasonable but not something to brag about. Also I think the lethal dose is some where around 10 grams if I'm not mistaking.


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: SuperD]
    #5952402 - 08/10/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah, looking through things, I see him ingesting 400 mg in a controlled experiment.

What a bad misprint. Heh. I should be a proofreader, I catch shit like that ALL the time...


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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5952522 - 08/10/06 11:27 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Thats almost a pound of mescaline. JESUS. A freaking pound... definetly a typo ha ha


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: SuperD]
    #5952532 - 08/10/06 11:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

SuperD said:
i'm quite certain that dosage taken all at one time would be very lethal, if in fact it were 400 grams of extracted/synthesized mesc. i would guess it's a typo..who knows




Yeah, that's gotta be a misprint.


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Le_Canard]
    #5952683 - 08/11/06 12:10 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Humphrey Osmond did indeed coin the term "psychedelic", and I believe he did do experiments with mescaline.
I remember one experiment in particular in which he gave Christopher Mayhew (a BBC host) 400mg of mescaline to ingest so they could record the experience for the BBC show "Panorama" in the mid 50's.
The video never made it to television for the obvious reasons (ruining reputations while tripping, etc.), and the footage is near impossible to find (unfortunately), but there are transcripts of the experiment with snap-shots of the footage on the internet (Google "Christopher Mayhew mescaline experiment").


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: Lysergic_Milkman]
    #5954486 - 08/11/06 05:06 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I didn't think there was an LD50 for mescaline...whoever said it was 10g. I don't think that's accurate.


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Re: Humphrey Osmond Eats 400 *grams* of Mescaline T/F? [Re: HeadTripVertigo]
    #5954710 - 08/11/06 06:46 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

There is. Now LSD25 and Psilocybin, the LD50 is so high its pretty much unattainable.


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