Hiking Newlyweds Who Took LSD Rescued After Wife Has Bad Reaction

Fox News ^ | 08/19/09

[dayglored]

> If newly weds need drugs, they probably shouldn’t have gotten married....

If they "needed" the drugs, you're right, of course.

But my guess is simply that they had been screwing already for long enough that their honeymoon held little suspense in that department, and so they dropped acid to add that extra element of surprise and randomness.

[crazydad]

Bet the blair witch movie kept going through her head! Woods alone on acid-NOT A GOOD IDEA!

[Manic_Episode]

One time my buddy Richard ran down the aisles of a Tom Thumb store with both arms out sweeping everything off the shelves as he ran screaming "TOTAL GLOBAL THERMAL NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION!"

Now that was a bad reaction to LSD.

[crazydad]

You are right. If it was real LSD and not cut with Speed or some other chem then it would not cause siezures. OTH she could have just had a bad bad trip and panicked!

[shibumi]

I'm confused and terrified by the things that my brain conjures up without help.

Stay away from the red rope licorice!

[crazydad]

Had a good friend. Jump through a pane glass window... Just what I want to do.. Get doped up and go through a window.. Now I know why I didn’t do it when I was younger.

[Loud Mime]

OK. You’re right. At Woodstock the announcement was made about the brown acid. In National Lampoon’s spoof, Lemmings, John Belushi gave the joke I referred to.

[dayglored]

> ...you don’t get physically sick from actual LSD but you can sure as beans freak the eff out if you are already sorta fragile...”back in my day when the mikes were way excessive...

A clinically dangerous dose of LSD is so large that your brain would have long since melted down into slag.

A reasonably fit and stable person can drop a dozen hits and come back down just fine... or an unstable person can drop half a hit and lose their sh!t entirely.

Yeah, uh-huh, it's the drug's fault. Right.

I sure wish people were raised to take personal responsibility for their actions. Blaming "the drug" is just a load of irresponsible crap.

[trumandogz]

A buddy of mine took some acid and went to the airport and attempted hijack a plane to Jamaica so he could get some good ganja.

The lame attempt at air piracy was not a problem.

The sheet of blotter acid in his back pocket was a problem.

[ansel12]

Was that in the mid 1980s? Maybe 1983 or 1984?

[trumandogz]

A reasonably fit and stable person can drop a dozen hits and come back down just fine... or an unstable person can drop half a hit and lose their sh!t entirely.

[ansel12]

A buddy of mine took some acid and went to the airport and attempted hijack a plane to Jamaica so he could get some good ganja.

My stepbrother and I took three girls on a wild ride all over the airstrips at Houston Intercontinental Airport with a mass of law enforcement from what looked like a dozen agencies chasing us and I think that we were only liquored up, maybe a little more.

[dayglored]

> OTH she could have just had a bad bad trip and panicked!

Yes, that's probably what happened. But that said,....

Many years decades ago I was around a lot of people who dropped a lot of acid. I saw a few "bad" trips in there, though none that resulted in permanent injury or death, just a little time in the local ER, waiting to sober up.

Every single one of those "bad" trips was caused by over-reaction to external circumstances that were entirely preventable. I have never witnessed LSD itself create a bad trip, nor do I believe it does. Sick people, and bad circumstances, yes, no doubt.

Personal responsibility, and responsibility for the safety of one's friends and family, can prevent bad trips. Staying away from bad (i.e. contaminated) acid is, of course, a good idea too.

[CanaGuy]

I note that aging hippies are still trying to make LSD out to be a harmless recreational pastime. When the truth is that excessive alcohol and binge drinking can trigger seizures, as can street drugs, even in those people who do not have epilepsy or such symtoms. It is not uncommon to have patients in the emergency room with seizures after exposure to a wide variety of street drugs. Visit an ER sometime and watch them arrive unconscious and without their tongues.

[Manic_Episode]

My old roommate was tripping and decided to hitch hike to Mexico and start a religion and the guy next to him said he would go with and be his disciple and they took off right then and there in the middle of the night.

When they got to Iowa the acid wore off and they decided this was a really bad idea and they started for home. They got stuck under an overpass in the rain and when they finally got back home the next day they looked really disheveled and tired.

[dayglored]

> The sheet of blotter acid in his back pocket was a problem.

I don't suppose the cops let him keep it?

Dang, didn't think so...

[Manic_Episode]

Yeah, in Wayzata. 81 or 82

[TigersEye]

Really ? So there's a way to react well to it ?

There sure is. Don't freak out.

[ansel12]

I’ve heard that an almost stable person could drink a fifth of whiskey in the night, drop a hit of acid in the early morning and still pull off his second day of parachuting during the final week of army jump school.

The rumor is that he swore never to do that again because of his slowed reaction time, but then the rumor is that he did a National Guard helicopter parachute jump many years later in the 1980s fully drunk on Margaritas from the Cadillac Bar in Houston and having been driven to the drop zone just in time to jump with his unit, he again swore that it was insane and vowed to never do that one again either.

[ansel12]

In 1983 “Wargames” came out and it had that wonderful phrase.