Word: acidizing
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...Grateful Dead fans who'll show withdrawal symptoms if they're kept from their Dead albums for more than twenty-four hours. The Dead have always been associated with drugs and with drug use. But their music, once a primary source of San Franicsco's out-pouring of acid-rock, has moved beyond that stage, and their message, their intensity, and their meaning, don't depend on-or even necessarily suggest-a drug enhanced consciousness...
...Uptown Jug Band. In 1964, with two of the jug-band members and two others, he formed the Warlocks, a loud rock-and-roll band that soon became the Grateful Dead. They played at many of the first large rock dances in the Bay Area; they played the Acid Test, high-power blowouts set up by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters; and they played the Trips Festival, a three-day benefit managed by Bill Graham that signaled the big rush of San Francisco rock concerts. With the financial backing and electrical genius of Owsley the acid chemist, they developed...
...help heroin addicts through the withdrawal period and satisfy their chemical needs. But the most dramatic technique is the "shoot-up" where the more serious addicts inject themselves or each other with a nausea-producing liquid. The shooting-up takes place in a crash pad of pulsating lights, acid-rock stereo, Day-Glo and even antiwar posters. The patients first smoke joints that taste like marijuana but are not, then inject themselves with needles. After the pleasant rush, they vomit into plastic bags for up to four hours. "It ain't worth it, goddam, it ain't worth...
...gets around. There is a girl who stages a whole strip show in her home for his benefit; when this and an extended attempt at oral stimulation fail to get him going, she tries talking about politics to excite him. There is a rich girl tripped out on acid. And a married girl from Grosse Pointe who was "thrown out of high school for giving blow jobs in the cafeteria" and now wouldn't mind being raped, with her husband for an audience...
Besides the various amino acids, Ponnamperuma's team detected a greater proportion of carbon 13 than would be present in earthly organic matter. It also found a mixture of hydrocarbons curiously like that produced in experiments simulating the conditions of a primitive planetary atmosphere. The most compelling evidence was the nature of the amino acids themselves. Ever since Louis Pasteur's day, chemists have known that the atoms of organic compounds like amino acids can be assembled in two ways-one a mirror image of the other. Yet except for those made artificially, most amino-acid molecules found...