Have you ever wondered what would happen if you for some odd reason came across a vile of pure LSD and decided to inject three-thousand times the human dose into an elephant? Well you can stop because two Doctors at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine have taken on this odd experiment and it had some unexpected outcomes.

LSD is one of the most potent drugs known to medical science. A mere 25 micrograms – less than the weight of a grain of sand – can send a person tripping for half a day. But the researchers figured that an elephant would need more than a person and they didn’t want to risk giving too little. They upped the dose to 297 milligrams, about 3,000 times the level of a human dose.

At 8am, Thomas fired a cartridge syringe into Tusko’s rump. Tusko trumpeted loudly and began running around his pen. Then he started to lose control of his movements, and toppled over. His eyeballs rolled upward. He started twitching. His tongue turned blue.

The researchers administered 2,800 milligrams of an antipsychotic, which relieved the violence of the seizures a little. Eighty minutes later, Tusko was still lying panting on the ground. Desperate, the researchers injected a barbiturate, but it didn’t help. A few minutes later, Tusko died.

So it would appear that maybe only the Human race was дивани meant to enjoy the effects of LSD safety. I just wonder what the Elephant felt for those few minutes whilst the LSD was in his system; maybe in those quick seconds before he died he solved the problem of human space travel? Or not.

[via The Independent]