From: "Ryan" <***@hotmail.com

In my never ending battle to reverse the ages old trend of misinformation against LSD, please see:

"Twenty minutes after the initial injection of LSD, it was decided that chlorpromazine hydrochloride (Thorazine) should be administered in an attempt to counter the above reaction. 2800 mg of chlorpromazine hydrochloride was injected into his ear over a period of 11 minutes, and only partially relieved the seizures and respiratory distress. An hour later, in a further attempt to assist the elephant, Dr. West injected Tusko with an unspecified quantity of pentobarbital sodium directly into a vein. The elephant died 1 hour and 40 minutes after the LSD had been given. Dr. West's original article on the experiment can be found at: HofLSD1069. Several newspapers covered the story, one of which is available as HofLSD1069a. A german-language editorial mentions it at Hofmann Collection LSD1069b."

See also:

"Another piece of data which seems to make it less likely that LSD was the cause of the death is an experiment conducted by Ron Siegel in which he reports repeating the experiment. Unfortunately we have been unable to find the original paper, but the abstract can be viewed here. In a conversation described by Rick Doblin of MAPS:

'[Ron Siegel and I] had an excellent and wide ranging discussion today (Sun, 2/20/00)' He said that he did indeed administer the same amount of LSD in mg/kg to another elephant. He had to sign an agreement that he was willing to replace the elephant if it should die. The elephant did not die. This study was reported in: Siegel R. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1984 Vol 22#1 page 53-56. (View Abstract) There is an article in the same issue, pages 49-52, about Siegel's administration of alcohol to an elephant.

According to Ron, he had done pilot studies and wasn't worried that the elephant would die from the LSD and that he would actually need to pay the costs of obtaining another one."

Both of the accounts above were found at http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_history4.shtml.

Thank you for your diligence in the struggle to educate people on these important chemicals.

Ryan