For a modest down payment I know a guy that launches small objects into space using the world's largest trebuchet.
If we want to keep the maximum acceleration beneath 4g's or so, so that it's uncomfortable in the roller-coaster-thrill-ride sense, not in the 'crap I'm going to die' sense, we'd still need a trebuchet of radius 50,000 m. Even the LHC isn't that long across. :P
I mean, you can in principle get those sorts of speeds, but don't expect a human to easily survive it.