Word: jasinski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extreme Dosage. Last week, at a Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated...
Soon he was playing in neighborhood pickup games. "There were the five Yastrzemskis," he recalls, "the Skoniecznys-my mother's brothers-and my mother's cousins, the Jasinskis. Can you imagine a double play going from Skonieczny to Jasinski to Yastrzemski...