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Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by jafaku on Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:50PM (#8940505)
I'd say the first point is kind of important, considering it's a synthetic drug and not a plant. I have no anecdotes for LSD, but a few people died in my city after only a normal dose of ecstasy (no alcohol).
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by hajile on Saturday January 24, 2015 @04:44PM (#8941137)
Ecstacy is known to cause the body temperature to rise. People write it off as just being the club, alcohol, etc. For some people, the temperature becomes high enough to cause death.

This doesn't have anything to do with drug purity and has everything to do with the effects of the drug itself.

Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by kirsebaer on Saturday January 24, 2015 @06:26PM (#8941451)
Millions of people take MDMA every weekend. Deaths from pure MDMA have happened, but they are extremely rare. It's important to think about risk from a statistical point of view. Everything has risks.
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by pyre on Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:54PM (#8940527)
To be fair, I think that you are more likely to get a bad batch of a "party drug" like ecstacy than LSD. Though I can't really talk from experience here, it would seem (to me) that party drugs are more popular and would attract more people to cut corners to turn a quick buck.
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by naturalrecursin on Saturday January 24, 2015 @03:29PM (#8940882)
Pure mdma would not kill anyone at a normal dose. Test your pills everyone!
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by jafaku on Saturday January 24, 2015 @07:20PM (#8941589)
Test your pills? How? Anyone can do it?
Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by morninj on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:00PM (#8941923)
In fact, yes: there are nonprofits that distribute testing kits for recreational drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_testing).