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Originally Posted by odrorir The story about the kids staring at the sun was made up by an optotrician that wanted to discourage "drug abuse". Erowid's drug myths has a lot more details on how it spread without anything resembling facts contained within. Great article, Thanks |
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it did happen. Allen Ginsberg jumped out of a window while under the influence, and, though nobody likes to admit it, and it's rare, people have died on it (not from its pharmacology or OD, just from doing stupid shit).
If I could see a date on that abstract it might show whether it was true or not . . . the legend started in 1968, so anything published after that is probably fake.
We can't click the links, you have to sign up; if you could copy->paste I'd be much obliged
Edit: Actually I do see something that suggests that article is nothing more than a rehash of the old legend . . . it says there it was "one 23 year old", but other newspaper articles said there were four college kids. Or it could've been that the articles innacurately copied the journal reference. Or that there were two cases of it. I won't know until I get a date on that