30 ‘poisoned’ at drugs conference

Authorities say emergency workers called to a alternative medicines conference in northern Germany found some 30 people staggering and suffering from cramps, apparently as a result of LSD-like poisoning.

The local government said 15 ambulances and a helicopter were sent to the scene in the small town of Handeloh, south of Hamburg, the dpa news agency rep orted.

Fire service spokesman Matthias Koehlbrandt told broadcaster NDR the group was aged between 25 and 55. NDR reported they were alternative and homeopathic practitioners, and that they were taken to the hospital.