I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.
Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
Do they still sell the Pipetting silly straws somewhere? I was in a Bio lab last week and they didn't have any (but still told everyone to NOT pipette the E.Coli with their mouths) so I really want to try that now
31 Comments
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca · 110 pts · 1y
Chemists from 1925 in 1960.... I don't remember always having this much cancer... Or reduced lung function.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 1y
All chemists from 1925 are dead.
10_0@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 1y
hanke@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 1y
Correlation, not causation
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y
Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn't even use gloves and lived to 102.
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 41 pts · 1y
Started to feel bad at work and then drove home on the worlds first acid trip.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 1y
Didn't he (famously) ride his bike home?
GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org · 22 pts · 1y
That was when he took LSD for the first time intentionally. There was one time before that when he absorbed it accidentally.
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
It was 1943 and even in Switzerland fuel was not to be had. Incidentally, it was the same day that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began.
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
at least he went about it scientifically rather than going "yo bruh try somma this shit, it's fire trust me"
Rooskie91@discuss.online · 56 pts · 1y
As someone who worked in nuclear power you should definitely NOT pipette by mouth.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 1y
As someone who worked with radioactive materials: I dropped my screwdriver :(
Rooskie91@discuss.online · 18 pts · 1y
RIP, Science 0 Demon core: what like 3 now?
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y
I don't known why people malign the poor core so much. It killed way less people than it was designed to do.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y
Chasing the dragon again eh
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
Hey, at least you are not a smoothskin anymore!
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
How else will you get that gorgeous metallic flavor that portends your teeth falling out?
janus2@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 1y
I've gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second
underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn't be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(
draughtcyclist@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
I'm all fairness, nobody should be using fuming nitric acid unless absolutely necessary.
At least you didn't catch on fire. It likes to do that too.
oleorun@real.lemmy.fan · 27 pts · 1y
"Hmm, new compound, eh? Let's taste it."
azi@mander.xyz · 26 pts · 1y
My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had "no mouth pipetting" signs up in the late 90s.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org · 23 pts · 1y
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4593645
chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
We call it three stooges syndrome
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y
Curie, Death,
Be "alpha" in the grave 😎😎 supaaa
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Nah the alpha is fine, it’s the beta and gamma radiation that got her
EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
You got me,
Except if this going inside the corps 😅🤗
python@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
Do they still sell the Pipetting silly straws somewhere? I was in a Bio lab last week and they didn't have any (but still told everyone to NOT pipette the E.Coli with their mouths) so I really want to try that now
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I'll never get the vague vinegar stains out of my hand
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
Vague Vinegar is 100% something you'd make in slime rancher
Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Don't look in my lab please.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 1y
Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That's less than 10 years ago.