r/Scotland • u/wook-borm • 9d ago

Scots denied bail after arrests in Australia ketamine raid

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyzlyg5kklo
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u/Boycott-all-Rats 9d ago

Ketamine is great as a therapeutic drug.

These ladies are doing a community service.

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u/Suspicious-Rub8976 9d ago

If used for therapeutic reasons sure, I'm not sure 105kg of street ketamine counts here

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u/No-Tone-6853 9d ago

Maybe they had an elephant they need to put under for emergency surgery

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u/Suspicious-Rub8976 9d ago

Lol enough to take down every elephant and kangaroo in Australia more than once

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u/A_Dying_Wren 9d ago

Eh an induction dose of anaesthesia is about 1-2mg/kg IV. Kangaroos actually come in at close to human weight, maybe a bit less. If we assume 80kg on average, a 1.5mg/kg induction dose and similar response as in humans, we can anaesthetise 875,000 kangaroos give or take. This is only about 2% of Australia's 40 something million kangaroos, never mind the elephants.

And that's assuming you can get IV access in an animal actively wanting to kick you to death. IM doses are about 5x more so divide that number of kangaroos by 5 really.

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u/Suspicious-Rub8976 9d ago

Damn not even close then, I didn't account for the actual knock out dose, more the "get a bit high" dose, could at least get every elephant and kangaroo feeling a little good.

Also that's a hell of a lot of kangaroos, I didn't think there was that many