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TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.

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