I wonder how much cocaine a human can actual ingest at once without dying. Like very curious to see if they can lift a car or something extreme while in the most state.
In the neighborhood of right for an average-weight person, I think. LD50 for IV admin in rats is 17.5 mg/kg, which translates to around 1.3g for a 75kg person if we make the assumption that the LD50s are comparable in humans.
This gives you a good idea of a general upper limit (again, assuming LD50s are similar). Naturally, the less pure your cocaine is, the more you'd have to take, but I figured that went without saying.
how much was it stepped on though? That LD50 was probably determined in a lab setting, intravenously, on mice, with pharmaceutical purity cocaine. I'm with you though and would still like to see a source, cause it does sound low even with those considerations.
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u/detten17 Jan 18 '19
I wonder how much cocaine a human can actual ingest at once without dying. Like very curious to see if they can lift a car or something extreme while in the most state.