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>Is 30mg really a moderate does?

No, it's not. It's far from unheard of to start getting hallucinations on 30mg of amphetamine.

In the 30's and 40's Benzedrine was generally prescribed in 5 or 10 milligram tablets.

Well someone should tell my Psychiatrist that as it's the dose she started me at (actually 2x 30mg, once in the morning and once in the afternoon). The side effects were quite severe so I only took that dose once.

Thats Crazy! I was started at 5 IIRC.

I think her reasons were 1) my weight and 2) It took a lot of Ritalin before I showed any theraputic response.

30mg in a single dose is fairly high. It's not so bad if you split that into two doses over the course of a day, but still kind of high for the average person.

30 is huge if you don't have a tolerance. I find 5 mg very buzzy on no tolerance.