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Boston's celebrated "marijuana trial" ended yesterday in failure for those who advocate legalization of the leafy hallucinogen...
...first marijuana law in the U.S. was passed by Congress in 1937. Use of the hallucinogen was then centered in New Orleans, and little was known about it. Scare stories about marijuana leading to a crime wave prompted Congress to provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic...
...dedicated to "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...
...moon. "This would be very expensive" Sagan replied. "Even if there are lots of diamonds on the moon, it might not pay to bring them back. If anything were mined on the moon, it would have to be something not found anywhere on earth -- perhaps some terrific hallucinogen...
Outpatient use of psilocybin, in particular, has been pointed out as potentially hazardous because of the "suicidal ideation, excited states, and impaired judgement" it can produce. (S. Malitz, et al., "Some Observations on Psilocybin, a New Hallucinogen, in Volunteer Subjects," Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1960, 1, 8-17.) Assurances of a "psychological screening," with no information about the criteria of screening, are distressingly vague, and here Leary and his associates have failed to provide the University with proper evidence of the safety of their work. The fact that the University has not held up a ruined volunteer as an example...