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75 is a fairly mild dose, and people can placebo themselves into some pretty extreme states

I disagree about 75 being a fairly mild dose. For a 200lbs male maybe. For a 100lbs female definitely not.

LSD doesn't scale with bodyweight, you take the same amount no matter if you're 100 or 300lbs. Apart from that, 70mcg is a mild dose on context of a regular recreational dose of 150-250mcg, but I agree that 70mcg by itself will absolutely significantly impair an inexperienced user and there is a zero percent chance you would conflate 70mcg with placebo.

in what world is 250ug of lsd considered a “regular recreational” dose? The standard 100-125 that you get on most paper tabs is plenty to have a strong trip for the vast majority of people and 200-250ug is going to be way too strong for everyone except for the most experienced people

I think most people get over-sold blotters. Every now and then there's a study checking how much LSD is actually on sold-as-200ug blotters, and it's typically 60-80. This also leads to heavy overdoses when getting your hands on actual 200ug blotters...

FWIW I once got super high from a bottler. So high that I suspected it was either over dosed or even not LSD. I sent a similar one for analysis. Turned out it was pure LSD and about 125mg as advertised.

125mg is quite strong indeed yes. (Sorry, could not resist) ;-)

I remember that story about Jim Morrison going missing (before a gig or recording or something?) - he was eventually found under a bed, and all he could say was "ten thousand mics!"

Nah definitely not, maybe you haven't had good/accurately dosed acid yet.

75 is the usual dose that is marketed as 100ug tabs (averagely roughly 80% of the marketed dose).

It's definitely noticable, even for unexperienced (I even recommend a lower dose to begin with).

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