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After a month of contradictions the Food and Drug Administration last week announced the chemical nature of STP, the latest jet-speed psychedelic. Says FDA: it is technically called 4-methyl 2.5 dimethoxy alpha methyl phenethylamine, but is known simply as DOM to the Dow Chemical Co., its discoverers. It is related to mescaline and amphetamine. Dow insists that none of its samples have leaked into illegal drug channels; the formula for making it must have been stolen. But pharmacologists believe that several different mind-shaking concoctions are being distributed to hippies under the magic initials STP, now translated...
...turning the whole world on," and not necessarily by acid alone; he is a patron of the Grateful Dead, a San Francisco acid-rock group second only to the Jefferson Airplane in national popularity. Owsley's next product, says the grapevine, will be a super-hallucinogen called FDA in honor of the Food and Drug Administration...
Proof of Delivery. Mostly, the investigators rely on legwork. While Margaret Kreig was working with the FDA, she became an observer and at times a disguised participant in lurid whodunits, and a target of death threats. In an unmarked car filled with walkie-talkie radio equipment and a spaghetti tangle of wires for tape recorders, she waited outside Macy's in Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called...
...marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
Margaret Kreig quotes a racketeer who was persuading a petty crook to move over to fake drugs from the numbers game, which had earned him many convictions: "There are no problems. It's not like junk [narcotics]. FDA has a helluva time making any kinda case. And when they get you-if they get you-it's only a misdemeanor for misbranding, or some such. So you hafta pay a couple hundred dollars' fine. You can make it back in a couple of hours...