Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33937557-20180603171940/@comment-33937557-20180604225715

DrBobSmith wrote: SoDaftPotato, I had always assumed that two or three of those candies was enough to be lethal. The intravenous LD50 for Desomorphine in mice is 27 mg/kg. Even if you triple that for oral it's going to be about 75 mg/kg for 50% lethality. So, Jimmy was like 10? That's an average weight of about 30 kg - mine were a lot skinnier though. Call it oh 27 kg or a bit over 60 lbs for a small 10 year-old kid. So that's about two grams of the stuff to be lethal or about half a teaspoon. Divide that half teaspoon up among four candies or half a gram in each. Picture a quarter of a half a teaspoon, melted into a sugar candy. Medical grade Desomorphine is tasteless and could easily be disguised in a candy.

The next question is how many of the candies Jimmy ate. Maybe Mr. Creepy sold him a bag with a couple of dozen for a dime. That's what I was going for, yes.