Zk | Therapeutic indecies (note to self, but it's interesting)

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Drugs! *snp*(Ratio of LD50 [the lethal dose for 50% of the population] to the 'standard dose') Tobacco - 2*** Heroin (street, IV) - ~4.5* (see below) Alcohol - 5 Diacetylmorphine HCl (IV) - 8* Methylamphetamine (IV) - ~8* GHB - 10** Coffee (caffeine) - 125 Absinthe (thujone) - 1,200 Marijuana (Δ9-THC) - 40,000 Salvia (salvinorin A) - Uh... * Best I can figure. ** This is based of the 'poisoning' dosage - there is risk of death at lower dosages, but the most common effect is a 5-hour coma, death resulting from choking on vomit or other such things (as with alcohol). ***I'm not really sure where this came from, actually o.o There's a chance that it's right for nicotine, but I'm not sure. The problem with TIs for tobacco is the method of ingestion (1 cigarette is a normal dose, and the only dose there is, really) as well as the excedingly long (1,000+) ingredient list for a standard cigarette. Not to mention that's not the only method of ingestion. Sources: Erowid.org, Dale Pendell - Pharmako/poeia and Pharmako/dynamis