A recent rash of what appear to be bad acid trips has caught the attention of the Arcata Police Department, which is warning people who may use the drug.
It started on April 18, when officers responded to a residence to help Arcata-Mad River Ambulance personnel with a 31-year-old man who had just castrated himself. Medics and officers couldn't find the man's testicles and he later told police that he'd flushed them down the toilet because they contained “monsters.”
Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman said the department has not recovered any samples of acid in relation to the incidents, and could not say whether the recent events are due to contaminated LSD or a sharply increased usage of the drug.
”I hate to call it a bad trip,” Chapman said, “but they're having a bad trip.” Chapman said people using the drug can become a danger to themselves and others, and that its use can trigger a mental health “break” in someone with underlying mental health issues.
2 comments:
"Contaminated LSD" is unlikely, since the amounts of LSD required for a trip are so small (a tiny drop of liquid soaked into a piece of paper), and the drug is relatively cheap. It just wouldn't make sense to "cut" it, and it's unlikely that any contaminant would be there in sufficient quantity to cause such severe effects. More likely, but less titillating, are the possibiity that this guy had a history of mental illness, or was mixing LSD with other drugs/medication, or took an absurd quantity of the drug.
It's just as well. Do we really want someone like that reproducing?
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