@Jill That's a very fair point - thanks for following up. Animal physiology is important to keep in mind when it comes to chemical response as with dogs and chocolate etc. I realize I sound like an idiot saying "Derp the elephants can eat teh acid derp and they r fine lol" (which is more or less what I said), but I was making a more external observation of the wording that didn't distinguish the one from the other on a human scale.

On my end, I should also clarify: LSD potentially could be lethal, in the sense that ingesting terrific quantities of table salt or water are lethal. In the hyperbolic, practically everything is lethal (puppies, hugs, friends, you name it) and I took that for granted. Cheerio.

You cannot die from ingesting LSD. Full stop. Don't propagate government scare mythos about a drug that has already been persecuted in unreasonably draconian ways. Giving an elephant massive antipsychotic dose as well as (presumably massive) barbituate dose would lead to cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, coma and sudden death. Lab grade LSD is about as harmful to your system as tap water, although the immense stress that an unprepared dosee could be elevated to the point of a perceived medical emergency. My only point is that by saying "gosh, no one knows if it was the [completely nonlethal substance] LSD, or the [known to be lethal in high doses] antipsychotics and barbituates that killed the elephant" is effectively towing a backwards thinking government line that results in things like, say, pharmaceutical monopolies and the criminalization of marijuana. So don't do that please. Thanks.