The safe stack dose for taking ephedrine is 20 mg with 200 mg of caffeine, and 80 mg of aspirin. You can also safely take an ephedrine HCL dosage of 8mg every 4 to 6 hours. I wouldn't take anymore than that nor should you grind it up and to make it any purer. i've read a lot of interesting articles about how to overuse or what happens when you use it improperly. Men really need to be careful because it mess with your prostrate and even cause erectile dysfunction because it could suppress the nitric oxide in your body. Again, this is not necessarily the case when you use it correctly and safely, but I would avoid taking too much of it.