Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People are more terrified of LSD than of anything else in the world This terror is a phenomenon which social scientists would do well to study. Meanwhile, we who would be told about LSD must rely on books written by terrified people. The most apolitical and therefore potent threat waved before would-be acidheads is chromosome breakage. An experiment run a long time ago in a leaky warehouse in Buffalo found that one rat in ten got broken chromosomes after swimming in LSD, but it was later discovered that the microscopes used in the experiment were warped. Nonetheless, the authorities...
...truth is about to emerge. Dr. Andrew T. Weil '64, whom we trust because he went to Harvard Medical School and is one of the few physicians in the country doing research on marijuana, recently spoke on drugs at Harvard and told his audience that three studies showing that LSD causes no chromosome damage will not be coming out in current medical journals. (He further informed the audience that a University of Washington study comparing the effects of marijuana and alcohol on driving and showing that stoned drivers were indistinguishable from sober drivers was refused publication by the Journal...
...second threat is that individuals undergo extensive "personality changes" after taking LSD--they drop out. Undoubtedly some people who drop out have taken LSD, but the very logical sequences the authorities use in determining scales of value and the causes of events preclude saying such major decisions about what to do with one's life came from any one factor, especially an experience with such low remember-ability as an LSD trip. One of the main complaints by people who have taken LSD and disliked it is that none of the "revelations" from the trip can be remembered subsequently. What...
...LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug, edited by David Solomon (G. P. Putnam's-Berkeley Medallion Edition, paperback, 1967, 248 pp.). This collection of essays and articles pro and con has a slim amount of factual information, and some interesting speculations about LSD. Included are reports of LSD experiments with terminal cancer patients, alcoholics, and the "mentally ill," as well as articles by Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Leary, and other journalists of psychedelia...
Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, by R. E. L. Masters and Jean Houston (Delta paperback by Dell, 326 pp.). This over-long account of experiments with LSD rests on the dubious premise that trips can be translated into verbal terms. The results are sometimes ludicrous. Does it help us to know that 88.01 per cent of subjects describe their experience as "religious...