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HAMFIST says...

As a general aside, I personally think classifying any video which graphically depicts a human death as snuff is not a suitable rule of thumb. Though I admit that my personal standards for feeling offended are perhaps more relaxed than the average persons, I think 'snuff' is more urban legend than deviant pornography tearing our moral fabric apart at the seems.

So without considering the tact with which a video was made, what technically constitutes snuff or otherwise prohibited submissions due to violent content? Does http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7331 pass your criteria and, if so, is there some value to the content beyond the simple fact that it captures the moment of death?

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HAMFIST says...

As my 'alternative-reality-portal' is currently in the shop, perhaps you could tell me what it means if drugs were legalized.

Also, I'm not sure where you got your information but LSD is arguably the safest illicit drug. While most drugs are measured in grams or milligrams, the average dosage of LSD is measured in micrograms and the LSD molecule is the smallest of known psychoactive chemicals. This is why LSD can be distributed on blotter paper and why I would argue the relative safety point. Even if the paper is infused with some other, more dangerous drug, it could occur in amounts no larger than a couple hundred micrograms -- far below the amount required to trigger even a threshold effect.

On the other hand, a typical LSD dose is 50 - 150 ug and the LD50 of LSD (the amount at which 50% of test animals died as a result of ingestion) is 12,000 ug (reference: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_dose.shtml) Inferring from that one can assume that taking 80 to 240 average units of acid will lead to a 50% chance of death. While there are not yet any documented cases of LSD poisoning, an overdose is within the realm of possibility provided sufficient brazen ignorance or sheer stupidity -- of which both circumstances, I should add, have an LD50 much higher than that of LSD.

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